AMD Radeon 5500 series graphics card
AMD Radeon RX 5500 series graphics card
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AMD unveils Radeon RX 5500 graphics for midrange gaming laptops and desktops

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its Radeon RX 5500 series graphics chips and cards, targeting midrange gaming laptops and desktops with high-efficiency graphics performance.

AMD said the chips use the AMD RDNA gaming architecture and 7-nanometer manufacturing, and they target high-performance 1080p gaming. The Radeon RX 5500 targets graphics in desktops and the Radeon RX 5500M graphics processing unit (GPU) is for gaming laptops.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.