The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Review, Feat. Sapphire Pulse: A New Challenger For Mainstream Gaming
by Ryan Smith on January 21, 2020 9:01 AM ESTThe Test
As is usually the case for launches without reference hardware, we’ve had to dial down our Sapphire cards slightly to meet AMD’s reference specifications. In this case, Sapphire’s secondary (quiet) BIOS offers reference power and memory settings, so for our reference-spec testing, we’re using that BIOS, with the GPU underclocked by 85Mhz to meet AMD’s official specs.
Finally, as the RX 5600 series is focused on 1080p gaming, this is what our benchmark results will focus on. Though I have also tested the card at our 1440p settings to see just how well it might do as a 1440p card – the lack of VRAM admittedly not doing it any big favors there – and these are posted below our 1080p results.
Finally, we’re using the latest drivers from AMD and NVIDIA.
| CPU: | Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.0GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Z390 Taichi |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Phison E12 PCIe NVMe SSD (960GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3600 2 x 16GB (17-18-18-38) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: | AMD Radeon RX 5700 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB AMD Radeon RX 590 AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD Radeon R9 390X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Release 441.87 AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.1 |
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro (1903) |
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Korguz - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
if you say so.. but still should be taken with some salt :-)Spunjji - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
You seem to be confusing "nobody" with "not as many as Nvidia". AMD's market share hovers around about 33% of the add-in board market.If you doubt this, try Google.
vladx - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
Considering the driver issues with RX 5700 XT, one would have to be downright moronic to buy this card over RTX 2060.Korguz - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
care to explain ??? or is this just anti amd comments from vladx ???Spunjji - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
No explanation from vladx, but lots of loud retaliatory nonsense from cmdrmonkey. Sensors detect more sockpuppets.It's almost like the review would mention if AMD had significant driver issues...
cmdrmonkey - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
You'd have to be moronic to buy any AMD video card: bad drivers that rarely get updated, loud, hot, power guzzling. Their cards are junk. I wish they weren't but they are. It's why no one buys them.Korguz - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
yea ok.. and nvidia drivers are better ?? come on.. the BOTH have had driver issues, looks like just another anti amd comment, just this time from cmdmonkey..............cmdrmonkey - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
nvidia drivers are near flawless. i haven't had driver issues with an nvidia card in many years.Korguz - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
then you have been VERY lucky... cause i have had a few issues with them, and had to go back a version or 2...Beaver M. - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
Yet those issues always were fixed quickly. AMD takes ages. if they fix it at all, especially on less known games.Nvidia drivers may lack some basic features (like a pivot function), but bad and long time issues with them only ever turned out to be actually a defective graphics card causing the driver to act up.
So if you have such bad issues, try replacing it.