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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Korguz - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
TheinsanegamerN but the everage user.. wont overclock.. so thats not really valid....haukionkannel - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
There Are test where there Are OC 5600xt and OC 2060 And They were quite near each others!For example Hardware Unboxing did use OC msi cards from both gpu manufacturers.
Spunjji - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
I'm guessing the answer most would give is "because RTX", even though that doesn't become a remotely sensible answer until the 2070 Super.Marketing - it works.
V1tru - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
I would invest the 20 bucks for Raytracing.Same story with my choise, I spent 80 bucks more to get 2070S over 5700 XT for Raytracing and better cooling, so competition here look like balanced
supdawgwtfd - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Raytracing on a 2060 is pointless.It doesn't have enough grunt.
It should be ignored as a feature as it cannot be used without giving up a lot of other arguably more important things (FPS, resolution etc).
MASSAMKULABOX - Monday, January 27, 2020 - link
Yes 2060 ray tracing is all but useless .. altho the 2060 w/o RT is faster than the 1660ti. The 2060KO uses a 2080 chip with some features cut out so is not a directKorguz - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - link
you have a link for this.. i cant seem to find anything on it.. so either its evga just naming the card that, or its as you say...sonny73n - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
So you’re comparing vanilla to overclocked. Irrelevant. Next!schujj07 - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
OC in name only. AMD must have figured that nVidia would drop the price of the 2060 otherwise they wouldn't have had the vBIOS available right after the price drop announcement. My assumption is further confirmed by the chip coming with 14Gbps RAM that had been down clocked to 12Gbps with the original BIOS. Had they not planned on releasing the vBIOS getting 12Gbps RAM instead of 14Gbps would have reduced the cost of the card.flyingpants265 - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
Because $20 is not a large difference at all? And 2060 belongs to a much larger, more reliable brand?