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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cmdrmonkey - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
Reality has an nVidia biasKorguz - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
at least sarafino posted some proof.. why cant you do the same ?? oh wait.. cause you have none.. its your own opionion.. and because you hate anything made by amd...cmdrmonkey - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
I hate AMD? I bought the original Athlon at launch kid. I've owned tons of ATI and AMD products over the years. I have tough love for AMD. I want them to stop sucking and produce good cards again. Patting them on the back for mediocrity isn't helping them. AMD is like that alcoholic friend who needs to hit rock bottom before they can get their shit together again.Korguz - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
yea ok...Yojimbo - Monday, January 27, 2020 - link
Steam's survey numbers aren't useless. The survey doesn't measure sales and it isn't supposed to. It measures usage. There is also nothing wrong with counting cafes in China. Cafes in China represent both usage and sales. There is however an issue of counting them in a way congruent with how private machines are counted. But what can be said is that when AMD GPUs are barely registering on the survey while competing NVIDIA GPUs show a significant share, then sales of the NVIDIA GPUs are likely much higher among gamers than sales of the AMD GPUs. It's not scientific, but it is very reasonable, unless you have reason to believe there is a massive bias among people who play mostly EA games to very significantly prefer the AMD cards, or you believe that AMD card owners buy their cards but hardly use them compared to NVIDIA owners, as examples.StrangerGuy - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
1660S can be had for $210, $300 for 5700 non-XT.Sorry but what is the point of this card again?
cmdrmonkey - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
It has no point. It's AMD pulling a "me too" in the already very crowded budget 1440p video card segment.Korguz - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
like intel and nvidia do with their products ???sarafino - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
Trying to position your products in a competitive market is "pulling a 'me too'"? Half of Nvidia's current Kafkaesque GPU product line are the prototypical example of "me too". How many different Geforce GPU's does Nvidia currently have on the market now? 14?cmdrmonkey - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
Wow somebody is butthurt. Please explain why with the 1070, 1660 Super, 1660 Ti, vanilla 2060, Vega 56, and RX 5700 we needed another card in this segment?