Radeon Pro 5500M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon Pro 5500M is AMD's 2019 professional RDNA card — the workstation sibling of the RX 5500 line, best known as the discrete GPU of Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 4 catalog listings matched to its name.

Where the Radeon Pro 5500M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 45.4 ranks it 140th of 341 — the exact middle of the table. The neighbors: the Quadro T1000 Max-Q (46.2), T1000 (45.9) and Radeon Graphics record (45.9) above; the GTX 1060 Max-Q pair (45.2/44.6) and MX450 (44.7) below. Mid-table company — professional Turing cards, aging Pascal, and the modern thin-GPU class — is precisely where a mid-tier RDNA professional part belongs.

What the chip brings

RDNA 1.0 on 7nm, Navi 14-class silicon: 1536 stream processors, 8GB of GDDR6, an 85W envelope, 4.5 teraflops, Resizable BAR support. Public benchmarks: PassMark 6714, Time Spy 3364, Fire Strike 10399. The professional badge over consumer RDNA silicon brought certified drivers and sustained-clock tuning, not extra hardware.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 130, DOTA 2 at 111, Counter-Strike 2 and Fortnite at 90 each, Battlefield 5 at 76, The Witcher 3 at 68, Forza Horizon 4 at 65, Far Cry 5 at 50, Metro Exodus at 37, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 35. The heavy tier: Cyberpunk 2077 at 30, Forza Horizon 5 at 31. Esports comfortably, modern titles at medium — a coherent mid-table performance profile.

Laptops that carry it — or the name

Four listings, and the scoping is essential: the roster — MSI Bravo 15 (2021) at $590, HP Victus 16 2021-AMD at $590, Alienware m15 R3 (2020) at $750 and m17 R3 (2020) at $1027 — consists of Windows gaming machines that shipped with the consumer RX 5500M-series, not this professional part. The name match spans AMD's pro/consumer split. Pool medians (best-GPU 72.9, gaming index 72.5) describe those consumer-GPU machines — their stronger trims, even — not this chip. The Pro 5500M's own host history lies outside this catalog's Windows-only listings; the table above is the chip's benchmark truth, the roster is a browsing aid, not a census.

Bottom line

The Radeon Pro 5500M is a solid mid-table professional GPU whose catalog roster needs reading with care: the matched machines carry its consumer twin's silicon. Use this page for the chip's benchmark profile — mid-tier RDNA, 8GB, esports-strong — and use each listing's own GPU row to know exactly which card you are buying. The Apple-machine fame and the Windows-gaming roster are two different stories; only the table above belongs to this chip.