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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Eduardo Franco - Saturday, January 25, 2020 - link
I think what they wanted to say is that for $ 20 more you not only get the gross yield of the RTX 2060 (a little higher than the 5600 XT), but also the RT cores (Raytracing) and Tensor Cores (DLSS). However, few games take advantage of these technologies and, as the owner of a 2080 Super, I must say that I barely use these technologies, so you could perfectly think of buying a 5600 XT before a 2060. Greetings !!!dr.denton - Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - link
Thanks for being the responsible grown up here :)TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Because you can ALSO OC the 2060, did you forget that? OC to OC, the 2060 is about 10% faster, which many would say is worth the $20. Nobody cares about power usage, unless it prevents the chip from running at full speed, which isnt the case here, as the 5600xt is firmware limited, not power limited.jragonsoul - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Lets have some actual tech reviewers that do OC's push the cards. I'm interested in seeing how the respective cards perform but a lot of people don't OC so at the current price point and the current performance AMD is the winner here.schujj07 - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
@RyanSmith was the 2060 used in the review a Founders Edition or vanilla 2060?jragonsoul - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Very important to note the only 2060 at 300 dollars is the EVGA 2060 K.O. which is a cut down 2060. So make of that what you will.Retycint - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
The founder's edition is also cut down to $300, however stock availability is a bit of an issue right now it seemssonny73n - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
The reference RTX 2060 is $299 on nVidia.com right now. The EVGA 2060 KO has the same CUDA cores count which is 1920 but with better boost clock.Please go somewhere else with your bullshits.
Korguz - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
you 1st sonny73nRyan Smith - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Founders edition. Which offers pure reference (vanilla) performance.