AMD Releases Radeon Pro 5500M/5300M Graphics Card

After continuing the RX 5700 series, AMD recently launched the second series of 7nm Navi graphics card – Radeon RX 5500M/5300M series, which is for mobile platforms. After Apple released the 16-inch Macbook Pro yesterday, AMD published a new series of 7nm graphics cards – the Radeon Pro 5500M and the Radeon Pro 5300M.

“Today’s high-end creative professionals want the freedom to bring their ideas to life in the office or on the road without technology getting in their way,” said Scott Herkelman, corporate vice president and general manager, Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. “The Radeon™ Pro 5000M series GPUs provide MacBook Pro users with the horsepower and unmatched visual fidelity allowing them to focus on unleashing their creativity and delivering amazing results.”

Specifically, the Radeon Pro 5500M is directly a full version of 24 groups of CU units, 1536 stream processors, up to 1300MHz, with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, 12Gbps, bandwidth 192GB/s, bit width 128bit, TGP power consumption (Total Graphics Power, full card power consumption, not TDP thermal power) 50W, floating-point performance up to 4TFLOPS.

The Radeon Pro 5300M has a slightly lower specification. It is 20 CU units, 1280 stream processors, up to 1250MHz, with 4GB GDDR6 memory, 12Gbps speed, 192GB/s bandwidth, TGP power consumption 50W, and floating-point performance 3.2TFLOPS. However, compared with the RX 5500M graphics card, the Radeon Pro 5500M has more CU units, but the frequency is lower.

The Radeon Pro 5300M is also a little more fascinating than the RX 5300M. The latter is 22 CU units with a frequency of up to 1445MHz, but the maximum 3GB GDDR6 memory, bandwidth is only 168GB/s, and the performance is up to 4.07TFLOPS.

In general, the Radeon Pro 5500M and the Radeon Pro 5300M are basically customized for Apple. The overall goal is to increase the memory capacity, but reduce the core frequency and memory frequency, thus greatly reducing power consumption.