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 ESTCompute
While I’m including compute performance for the sake of completeness here, the compute situation on Navi has not substantially changed since the launch of the Radeon RX 5700 series over 5 months ago. AMD’s Adrenaline 2020 software has improved the state of their OpenCL drivers slightly – there are fewer hard crashes and performance is up in some cases – but their drivers are still dysfunctional and not fit for production use. In particular, Folding@Home and parts of CompuBench are still unable to run (and SETI@Home users will want to stay clear too).
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Korguz - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
in the US.. its $20.. but else where.. its more then that...larger and more reliable ?? barely...
Spunjji - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
The 5600XT price/performance ratio was so competitive that Nvidia had to lower their own prices to counter, which AMD countered with more performance. It literally redefined its price bracket.Funny how you're phrasing that as a failing of AMD.
335 GT - Friday, January 24, 2020 - link
That really broken 2080 die you mean? That die that cant be binned down to a 2070. Lol.headloser - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
You must lived in USA. In Canada, it cost around $400 dollars before tax. And it doesn't even come with free games. No deal sorry.SilthDraeth - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Three weeks into 2019 eh? First sentence.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Some of us are still stuck in the last decade, apparently! (or we're just really tired)Lord of the Bored - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
I hear ya. Some didn't even make it that far. Every day I wake up and ask "is it 1989?"boozed - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Hi! I'm a pedant from the internet...WaltC - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Very good review--to the point, Ryan! Thanks so much for limiting the cards compared to the same basic economic cost strata! That's rare these days. So many think that throwing in $1400 GPUs with sub-$300 GPUs is the thing to do. Ugh. (Last para, "quitter" should be "quieter")eek2121 - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
It is always worth seeing where a card performs in the stack. If I am shopping for a GPU, I typically go for performance per dollar vs. A fixed budget (except in my last build where I said screw I went ham.)Of course, performance per dollar can also be deceptive, since time is also a factor.