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that looks promising that looks very promising

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to be clear i'm scoping out the FPS numbers not the protagonist i mean i

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play this game for the gameplay compared to old-school lara croft this does look

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a lot more promising new year new GPU

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according to the latest steam hardware survey the most popular graphics card on

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the platform is still the venerable if a

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little aging gtx 1060 and that's what we've got set up in our rig right here

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and 90 of you are running at 1080p which means that you're actually getting a

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pretty decent experience out of that card but

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maybe you could use a higher frame rate right you know treat yourself the

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problem is that there hasn't been anything worth upgrading to from this

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thing because the rtx 2060 came in at a much higher price that is to say

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until today meet the Radeon 5600

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xt what could very well be the new

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budget champ or will it

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always there it's always there

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the first thing i want to do is acknowledge that this is going to be a little bit different from our

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traditional GPU reviews where we say okay there's this one and there's all

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these other ones and here's some bar graphs and all that kind of good stuff there will still be bar graphs and we do

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still have this GPU and other ones but because so many of you out there are

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running this exact graphics card we wanted to take more of a practical

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real-world upgrade approach to it so the first thing we're going to do is we're

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going to take our GPU test bench which is running a ryzen 3950x which has

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pretty honestly pretty similar gaming performance to any Intel high-end CPU

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from the last two or three years and then we're going to start with our 1066

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gig in here we're going to upgrade to our 5600 xt and we're going to see how

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it goes so Anthony actually do you want to jump in and get our suite rolling on

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this thing one of the reasons that we have a fully built up system for GPU

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testing is that we don't want to give an unfair advantage to open style coolers

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like this one and this one and this one

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compared to blower coolers we're making these ones suck in their own

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recirculated hot air just like they would in your system at home are using

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1080 max settings on everything yes okay that makes perfect sense because much to

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the disappointment of a lot of the enthusiast community the 5600 xt

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is not really targeting your 1440p gamer

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and there's a couple of reasons for this number one is that 1080p is still

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by far the most popular gaming resolution probably in no small part

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thanks to the fact that high refresh rate displays like the really high

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refresh rate competitive ones are all still 1080 and also because well if

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we're being honest AMD has had a heck of a time building anything other than atp

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gaming graphics card over the last few years

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with that said this is using the same underlying tech as the 5700 xt so this

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is a full fat navi 10 GPU the main

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disadvantage here is what just clock speed then uh clock speed power target

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and it has a 192 192-bit memory bus and six gigabytes of memory versus 256 and

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eight gigabytes for the 5700 so that's where you're saving some money and

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that's where you're improving your yields on the gpus but of course

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compared to the 5700 which was really a mid-range 1440p gaming card this is a

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high-end 1080 low-end 1440. like if you're playing

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last gen titles 1440p is going to be fine but we're going to do all of our

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testing at 1080 with a nice fast CPU to see what kind of experience we can have

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here i'm actually really excited to see the numbers from this because honestly

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one of the best indications of how good an upcoming card is going to be

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is what the competitors do to react to it before you ever even get a chance to

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benchmark the thing and NVIDIA already sent out proactive

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just so you know there's some great pricing on what was it 1660 ti yeah i

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think it was the ti because we're probably gonna get rid of it soon yeah

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but like AMD did that same thing i know with mega

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56. NVIDIA's email was this one board partner card an evga ko which

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honestly the first time i remember them using ko was back when NVIDIA was trying

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to get rid of a whack ton of like

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7 800 gpus or something like that the

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first time i saw an evga ko and it was basically the last hurrah for that GPU

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and then it was gone so that maybe gives us some idea of what the

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exit strategy there is but it also gives us some idea of how good we're expecting

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this thing to be NVIDIA had to react so that's a great sign because the reality

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of it is the order of operations is the first ones with access to the hardware

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the manufacturers the next ones are usually their competitors somehow they

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always have this information and then it comes to us so usually the the 4d chess

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is already happening before we even get to plug it into a system

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uh one thing to note is that we're going from a single 6-pin connector to a

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single 8-pin connector so that might tell us something about the power

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consumption we can expect from the 5600 xt

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i mean we already know something because it is based on the same GPU as the

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5700 series wait you guys were just waiting for me you didn't run any

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benchmarks well they're all done oh oh right

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okay right so that's the whole stick here so Anthony already ran the stock

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numbers for the 5600 xt but AMD

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hinted that there might be quite a bit of overclocking headroom in this card so

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let's go ahead and see what we can do what utility do you use for AMD uh just

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use Radeon control slopes bring it on subscribe right okay this is their new

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software performance there we go tuning advanced control yeah that gives you

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control over the frequency and voltage curve cool

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okay so where do we want it then so we just want to expand it out as far as

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maybe yeah

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so they've got a much better looking interface than NVIDIA but it's

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effectively the same thing you got you got one you got one button you press the

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button well yeah there's also the um

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power tuning which is the more impressive of the two well not not

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really impressive but useful all right sure that looks pretty good whatever

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okay so where's the power control here we go power tuning power limit okay yeah

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so this is basically NVIDIA overclocking yep and we also can do the vram as well

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max frequency okay and about 110 megahertz sure why not okay

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cool so let's apply that and see what happens we can also uh if you go to the fan as

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well uh right now i think the max is 39 okay let's give it 80. it's not going to

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instantly set it to 80. it's just the maximum that it'll request

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play let's see if it just immediately crashes and that was a very haphazard

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overclock it's about as much as i did when i was preparing for this so we'll see how this

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works of course you don't know what the stock numbers look like oh yeah no i

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don't okay so i just get to be that much more impressed

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wow what's the pricing of this card it's

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this particular card is 289 289

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that is a big upgrade so all of a sudden

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you're going from 60 FPS

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to yeah you can comfortably justify the investment in a 120 hertz display

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and you're really going to be getting the most out of it especially with how

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affordable it is to get a free sync capable display these days yeah and the

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fact that most of them that say g-sync now are also freesync of course it's

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easy to look good against your competitor's last gen product so

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let's go ahead and level the playing field by bringing in the gtx 1660 super

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and the ti now this one is priced a little bit

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lower but comes in a little bit lower also performance wise whereas the 1660

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ti is clearly the head-to-head competitor here this one is priced

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exactly the same has a little bit less raw performance but if you care about

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some of NVIDIA's well NVIDIA specific features not rtx mind you this is a gtx

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but things like NVIDIA's touring and vent encoder which does offer better

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quality even if AMD does have some sort of counter punches like the fact that

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theirs supports 16 streams yeah it's

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it's a little bit strange considering they're otherwise very focused on gamers

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and gaming performance which i mean to me a higher quality

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encoder would make more sense than faster encoder but

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okay oh hold on guys literally the day

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after we shot this video NVIDIA dropped the rtx 2060's price to 299 completely

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invalidating our comparison against the gtx 1660 ti

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that's a good thing for you guys but it did mean more work for us here's how the rtx 2060

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looks next to the rx 5600 xt as you can see AMD is still in the lead

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here but NVIDIA's now within striking distance with a price difference of just

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20 dollars AMD is slightly undercutting NVIDIA with better performance but

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if you're like me you might consider paying the extra twenty dollars and

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overclocking the rtx yourself to get that rtx support and the new end bank

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encoder regardless that's great news for

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everyone because not only is there a new card on the block but at least it's

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competitive in this price range bringing other more expensive hardware down in

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price so yeah that's great just too bad it couldn't have got here sooner

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see ya that's just me not everyone cares about

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the encoder that's built into their GPU anyway though not everybody streams on

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twitch tv for example so when it comes time to choose your next upgrade the

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only thing we really know for sure here is that you probably shouldn't pick up a

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gtx 1060 at 289 dollars but either team

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red or team green has a legitimate offering especially once you factor in

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the generous head room for overclocking on the 5600 xt another interesting point

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is that we don't actually know that that's the limit for these things that

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was the end of the slider and Anthony was trying to use a soft power play

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table in order to increase it but that seems to be locked down now AMD has

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hinted that they might unlock more capabilities in the future yeah they

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didn't say anything substantial about it they just said that well we'll look at

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it when we know more about the reliability figures we just don't want

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boards to go up and smoke so that makes sense it does make sense

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