Review: Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB (ASUS STRIX TOP, Sapphire PULSE OC and Gigabyte Gaming OC)

Just out of interest how many RTX games do you play now and how many have you got your heart set on in 2020 ?

It's probably better to argue about 6GB rather than 8GB for games than whether you can do ray tracing at the moment....

 

about time a good 300usd card came out

 

Holy moly, this card is simply incredible. Consumes less power than the RTX 2060 and is some % better, making it better performance per W (and of course perf. per $). And as I predicted, initially it would have been a highly overclockable card, that could be OCd by 12-13% like better NV cards. And it IS the second best performance/W card after the GTX 1650, which is really incredible. Well done!

 

I think if you go to the GPU Shootout page you can get a better idea how this overclocked RT5600XT compares against overclocked RTX 2060's (MSI, Palit and Asus).

Spoiler: GPU Shootout Graph

 

Double post.

 

If i was on your shoes hh i would have flipped the table the test rig sits on !

 

Nope, not one bit. For $180 that I paid for mine, 0 regret even with this coming out. And I was waiting for this gpu,but it took too damn long.

 

They are factory overclocked cards. Many reviews, including Anandtech state the bios update over the reference specifications nullifies their reference status.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15422/the-amd-radeon-rx-5600-xt-review/17

 

They are both 6GB cards..

So you have two cards that are almost identical in price except one has a bunch of features that will all be useful going into the new generations of consoles.

 

Yeah but then I assume same as the 5700 GPU's if the thermals could be maintained with a bit more clock speed on memory and GPU core and a bit more voltage same as how the 5700's could hit or exceed the Radeon VII the 5600's here would then push into the 5700 non-XT at a smaller cost and with the main difference from what I can see being 6 GB VRAM instead of 8 GB.

Once the price normalizes (And the 5700's aren't on one sale or another.) that'd make for a very attractive card compared to the 5700's if you could tune them up to a almost identical performance figure.
(Might already be pretty close for some of the non-reference 5600's from what I am seeing.)


EDIT: Though the 5600's might hit the same thing price wise as the 5700's so there's going to be this wide range for a bunch of cards all performing similarly.

Maybe a bit less extreme for the 5600's instead of 400 up to over 600 Euro for what amounts to basically a custom cooler and a PCB balancing things a bit over the stock.
(Which with a better cooler I'd presume would make custom models kinda difficult to sell heh.)

 

The best thing would be to get a rx5700 and slap a rx5700xt bios on it. Thats a hell of perfromance for 350$.

 

Nvidia Gamescom driver on August 2019 should have increase Nvidia GPU performance in BFV and Strange Brigade, yet the numbers are the same as last year review ?

 

any optimization nvidia can tout in a driver can be offset by changes and additions to the game.

 

Thing is not all 5600XT cards are capable of getting the new 14Gbps memory bump. Are those also considered reference cards, or sub-reference?
Ryan Smith from Anandtech mentioned:

 

There is no reference 5600xt's and every aib cooler is good enough for the new bios.

 

I am going to do the insanely opposite. Get one used RX 580, and wait on it for a few months. The card will be donated to my little brother later on ( he is still on Intel IGP) and by the end of spring maybe things will be more clear.
Spending just 100€ on a graphics card suits me, I'm still on 1080p and Linux support for Polaris is up to snuff.
Hate to be an early adopter and hate to be yanked by manufacturer's whim when released new cards, last minute BIOS updates and overpriced GPUs.

 

Oh boy, I can see trouble lurking ahead due to this. AMD community have a very active flasher base that will jump on this and any 5600xt regardless of brand.