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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Korguz - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
maroon1 you keep pusing RT as the reason to get the 2060 over the 5600xt.. but do you even realize the performance hit you would suffer for using it ?? face it.. RT on this card.. is not a feature or rt future proof.. according to this review.. seems the 5600xt.. is rhe better cardsonny73n - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Forget ray tracing. RTX2060 is still a better card.Spunjji - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
"Forget the biggest reason I gave for this card being better... it's better anyway because reasons"-slow claps as the goalposts disappear over the horizon-
Duckferd - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
I think the factory overclocked Sapphire card is a very interesting option. DLSS and VRS have AMD equivalents that work very well (and Sapphire has its Trixx software), meaning the only thing that Nvidia has over it in the RTX 2060 is ray tracing and NVENC- NVENC being more consequential considering the performance loss from ray tracing. This is a very competitive offering.335 GT - Friday, January 31, 2020 - link
DLSS is like smearing vaseline over your lens. Great feature for internet trolls though.Irata - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Care to elaborate on those features ? Ray tracing I get, although on the 2060 that's mostly a theoretical feature, but the rest...Or in short: What can those features do where the RX 5600 doesn't not have a similar feature under a different name that does the same thing ?
eva02langley - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
It does actually.https://youtu.be/qcAwR49zRCg?t=919
alufan - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
have to be honest I bought a 2080 when they first came out and frankly I should have just gone with a 1080 or the equiv navi 64 etc the whole RTX thing is pointless hardly any games have it and the performance hit makes it something I can live without, maybe in a couple of gens it will work but right now nah I will save money and buy other stuffschujj07 - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Except for the fact that in 6 of 9 titles the card reviewed here is FASTER than the 2060 while costing less. At Tomshardware they have the 5600XT faster in 8 of 11 at 1080p and 9 of 11 at 1440p. That means that the 2060 has worse performance per dollar than the 5600XT.Spunjji - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
"Hur hur, I like paying too much for graphics cards"Thanks troll