FSR 2.0 results on the 22 CU 5.2 tflops 5500xt are very impressive. Thats basically the same GPU thats in the Series S, just clocked higher to hit 5.2tflops.
20% in Quality. 50% in Performance.
Now 20% of 512p is still 560p. They really shouldve at least aimed for a 5.2 tflops RDNA 2.0 GPU. With the IPC gains from Polaris to RDNA, it wouldve been slightly better than the 6 tflops X1 and a dedicated 8GB vram pool wouldve helped negate any memory bandwidth issues.
Literally couldve used the same exact chip, just clocked it higher and the only extra cost wouldve been a better cooling solution which means adding just a couple of extra dollars to the BOM. An extra 2GB of vram to handle CPU only tasks wouldve freed up the 8GB for the GPU. Again, we are looking at a $10-20 BOM increase here. Cost they should have been willing to eat up.