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 - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
maroon1 you keep pusing RT as the reason to get the 2060 over the 5600xt.. but do you even realize the performance hit you would suffer for using it ?? face it.. RT on this card.. is not a feature or rt future proof.. according to this review.. seems the 5600xt.. is rhe better cardsonny73n - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Forget ray tracing. RTX2060 is still a better card.Spunjji - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link
"Forget the biggest reason I gave for this card being better... it's better anyway because reasons"-slow claps as the goalposts disappear over the horizon-
Duckferd - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
I think the factory overclocked Sapphire card is a very interesting option. DLSS and VRS have AMD equivalents that work very well (and Sapphire has its Trixx software), meaning the only thing that Nvidia has over it in the RTX 2060 is ray tracing and NVENC- NVENC being more consequential considering the performance loss from ray tracing. This is a very competitive offering.335 GT - Friday, January 31, 2020 - link
DLSS is like smearing vaseline over your lens. Great feature for internet trolls though.Irata - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
Care to elaborate on those features ? Ray tracing I get, although on the 2060 that's mostly a theoretical feature, but the rest...Or in short: What can those features do where the RX 5600 doesn't not have a similar feature under a different name that does the same thing ?
eva02langley - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
It does actually.https://youtu.be/qcAwR49zRCg?t=919
alufan - Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - link
have to be honest I bought a 2080 when they first came out and frankly I should have just gone with a 1080 or the equiv navi 64 etc the whole RTX thing is pointless hardly any games have it and the performance hit makes it something I can live without, maybe in a couple of gens it will work but right now nah I will save money and buy other stuffschujj07 - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
Except for the fact that in 6 of 9 titles the card reviewed here is FASTER than the 2060 while costing less. At Tomshardware they have the 5600XT faster in 8 of 11 at 1080p and 9 of 11 at 1440p. That means that the 2060 has worse performance per dollar than the 5600XT.Spunjji - Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - link
"Hur hur, I like paying too much for graphics cards"Thanks troll