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 ESTGrand Theft Auto V
Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come. As an older DX11 title, it provides a glimpse into the graphically intensive games of yesteryear that don't incorporate the latest features. Originally released for consoles in 2013, the PC port came with a slew of graphical enhancements and options. Just as importantly, GTA V includes a rather intensive and informative built-in benchmark, somewhat uncommon in open-world games.
The settings are identical to its previous appearances, which are custom as GTA V does not have presets. To recap, a "Very High" quality is used, where all primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, except 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 rendering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but not increasing the view distance any further.
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GreenReaper - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Maybe you want free and open drivers on Linux - in the kernel. I know it's not a huge market, but for flexibility's sake I have no intention of buying NVIDIA until they follow the same path.extide - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Looks to me like the Sapphire Pulse is $10 cheaper, and also faster than the 2060..Fulljack - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
scratch that DLSS as more feature. Radeon has RIS which is way more better in practice rather than Nvidia AI mumbo jumbo.Spunjji - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
DLSS is pretty poor visually, near-useless below 4K and only available in a few games.Ray tracing is effectively useless at the 2060's performance level, a situation that is only likely to get worse as the card ages and more games supporting RTX come out (assuming they do).
VRS is a very helpful feature, but it's still barely used - if it were playing more of a role then the 2060 would win more benchmarks.
So, I'll flip your question: why would I spend significantly more money (UK resident here) for a sometimes-faster sometimes-slower card that draws more power and has a bunch of features that I can't use or don't want?
Zizy - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
So, a pretty decent although unimpressive base card (same price/performance as other AMD cards), and a surprisingly good factory overclocked one.Koenig168 - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
AMD should extend the MHW:I game bundle promo to the 5600XT.Rudde - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Doesn't it have 32 CUs, not 36?TEAMSWITCHER - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
I like that AMD has three tiers of performance... But, when those tiers are Medium, Low, and Ultra-Low, I just can't get excited about any of it.Korguz - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
" But, when those tiers are Medium, Low, and Ultra-Low " how do you figure? or is this just more of teamswitchers anti amd comments again ??Qasar - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
yea no kidding... its still better then nvidia's semi expensive, expensive and ultra expensive prices....