Sapphire outs its Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card "PULSE RX 5600 XT 6G GDDR6" equipped with a silent cooler called "Dual-X".... Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT 6G Gets Listed
This should be the 5500 we were waiting for, unfortunately it isn't. Prices keeping high sucks for mere mortals, I hope someone makes a groundbreaking advance on how to cut price in half, maintaining the same level of performance.
It is not blurred nor a plastic cap. If you look closely you can see the connector behind the heatpipe. The PCB is a normal height one so the connector is deeper.
Meanwhile on the other side: Finally some competition in this field - but it's a limited time offer...
XFX did something similar, where you could remove and replace the fans on some of their coolers....but the fans were utter garbage.... Hopefully Sapphire used decent quality fans and not the kind of low quality garbage that XFX used... Here's a link to the XFX fans if anyone is interested....lol https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Hard-Swap-Fan-Kit/dp/B01LYMXSBO
Sapphire does this Quick connect fan thing for quite a while now (since 2016 maybe). I think the first cards they made with these fans were Nitro+ ones (RX480 if I'm not wrong). So I think the quality won't be a problem.
It will be rather interesting to test the card with a PCI-E 3.0 motherboard and one with 4.0 and compare the results. I suspect that will be a difference. Same as 5500XT. I hope that I am wrong. Will wait for G3D review.
Hilbert would you kindly re-test your Gears of War 5 benchmarks with the 1660 series and new drivers? Your results are seriously conflicting with so many other sites and personal reviews. .
Gtx 1660ti equals 1070. Unless 2gb are needed and it can be slower as worst case scenario. So I see. In gears 5 they should be closer I think.
This thread has nothing to do with the 1660....but Hilbert does typically retest cards for reviews when new drivers are available that have a large impact on performance.