The AMD Radeon RX 580 & RX 570 Review: A Second Path to Polaris
by Ryan Smith on April 18, 2017 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- AMD
- Radeon
- Polaris
- Radeon RX 500
Grand Theft Auto V
The latest edition of Rockstar’s venerable series of open world action games, Grand Theft Auto V was originally released to the last-gen consoles back in 2013. However thanks to a rather significant facelift for the current-gen consoles and PCs, along with the ability to greatly turn up rendering distances and add other features like MSAA and more realistic shadows, the end result is a game that is still among the most stressful of our benchmarks when all of its features are turned up. Furthermore, in a move rather uncharacteristic of most open world action games, Grand Theft Auto also includes a very comprehensive benchmark mode, giving us a great chance to look into the performance of an open world action game.
On a quick note about settings, as Grand Theft Auto V doesn't have pre-defined settings tiers, I want to quickly note what settings we're using. For "Very High" quality we have all of the primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, with the exception of grass, which is at its own very high setting. Meanwhile 4x MSAA is enabled for direct views and reflections. This setting also involves turning on some of the advanced redering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but it not increasing the view distance any further.
Otherwise for "High" quality we take the same basic settings but turn off all MSAA, which significantly reduces the GPU rendering and VRAM requirements.
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Lord-Bryan - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
That was cold!Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - link
Vega is launching with Vega branding (replacing the Fury branding). AMD obviously knows that the people in the market for such cards are all over review sites, so know the product as Vega already. Why change a good name?Mugur - Thursday, April 20, 2017 - link
Yes, they officially named the product RX Vega at the end of the Capsaicin&Cream event.lordken - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
@hoohoo: exactly, that's what I was thinking right from beginning when they announced this nonsense. This was totally lame move and just irritates ppl like me.I would just have hopped that Ryan nails AMD a little bit more for this stupid move and not using 4x5 names which they had present in RX400 slides as possible revisions names.
@DanNeely: no OEM doesn't need new numbers, that's bullshit story. Or if they does how 485 isn't new number to 480?
OEM wants to sell stuff, and if AMD cant produce good enough product they need to resort to misleading customers and playing stupid "new gen/new number" game.
What I mean by misleading customers? Apart having us for idiots, well I can imagine that some 480 (higher end) will have better perf than some 580 (lower end). Average joe is not gonna compare that his 580 has 20mhz lower clock then 480 OC/whatever edition. Because in honest word it couldn't happen that next gen same tier card have lower perf than previous gen under any circumstances...
tehidiot - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Meet the cards page isn't up :)What are the clocks of the red devil card?
HOOfan 1 - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Well...they did refresh the R9 200 series with the R9 300 series, just before Fury launched....maybe this means Vega will be out soon...Meteor2 - Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - link
Vega is coming before 1 June. Good spot -- it's exactly like the 300 series and Fury, isn't it!FireSnake - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Nice review. Keep up the good work!And nice refresh also :)
jcwagers - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Ryan, the clockspeed chart is showing 1680 mhz for Ashes while all the rest are showing around 1380 mhz. Is that a typo? Just letting you know so you can fix it. Thanks for the article. :)jcwagers - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Oops....it was for the 580 card.