Test Rig
For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X Motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X at default clock speed of 3.6GHz (turbo boost 4.4GHz), as well as 16GB of GEIL Super Luce RGB DDR4-3600 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X (Matisse) @ 3.6GHz / Boost @ 4.4GHz |
| Cooling | Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 PG edition |
| Motherboard | ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X |
| Ram | 16GB of GEIL Super Luce DDR4-3600 |
| XMP profiles | Yes |
| SSD/HDD | Adata XPG SX7000 – 240GB SSD |
| PSU | Cooler Master 850W |
| VGA card | ASRock Radeon RX 5500XT 8G OC (8GB GDDR6) |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest Radeon Adrenalin Software |
| OS | Windows 10 |
ASRock’s Phantom Gaming Tweaker
ASRock has included their Phantom Gaming Tweaker software, which allows you to overclock the card even more. By default the software will boost the GPU to a maximum of 1845 Mhz during full load.
You can also monitor the memory speed, GPU usage, GPU temps and fans speeds too,
AIDA64 GPU Info
As you can seen from screenshot below … the RX 5500 XT is based on AMD’s Navi 14 (RDNA) architecture using the 7nm FinFET process. It uses 8GB of GDDR6 ram on a 128-bit memory bus.
PassMark – Performance Test 9.0 (3D Test)
Test the speed of your 3D video card by selecting from options such as fogging, lighting, alpha blending, wire frame, texturing, resolution, color depth, object rotation and object displacement. Separate tests for DirectX 9,10,11 & 12. With support for 4K resolution.
Load Temperatures
At full load, the card reached a high of 64 degrees Celsius, with the GPU Hotspot at 87 degrees Celsius. The hotspot temperature may seem a little high … but the large heatsink and twin fans does a fabulous job of cooling the graphics card.
