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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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.