that looks promising that looks very promising
to be clear i'm scoping out the FPS numbers not the protagonist i mean i
play this game for the gameplay compared to old-school lara croft this does look
a lot more promising new year new GPU
according to the latest steam hardware survey the most popular graphics card on
the platform is still the venerable if a
little aging gtx 1060 and that's what we've got set up in our rig right here
and 90 of you are running at 1080p which means that you're actually getting a
pretty decent experience out of that card but
maybe you could use a higher frame rate right you know treat yourself the
problem is that there hasn't been anything worth upgrading to from this
thing because the rtx 2060 came in at a much higher price that is to say
until today meet the Radeon 5600
xt what could very well be the new
budget champ or will it
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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
traditional GPU reviews where we say okay there's this one and there's all
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
still have this GPU and other ones but because so many of you out there are
running this exact graphics card we wanted to take more of a practical
real-world upgrade approach to it so the first thing we're going to do is we're
going to take our GPU test bench which is running a ryzen 3950x which has
pretty honestly pretty similar gaming performance to any Intel high-end CPU
from the last two or three years and then we're going to start with our 1066
gig in here we're going to upgrade to our 5600 xt and we're going to see how
it goes so Anthony actually do you want to jump in and get our suite rolling on
this thing one of the reasons that we have a fully built up system for GPU
testing is that we don't want to give an unfair advantage to open style coolers
like this one and this one and this one
compared to blower coolers we're making these ones suck in their own
recirculated hot air just like they would in your system at home are using
1080 max settings on everything yes okay that makes perfect sense because much to
the disappointment of a lot of the enthusiast community the 5600 xt
is not really targeting your 1440p gamer
and there's a couple of reasons for this number one is that 1080p is still
by far the most popular gaming resolution probably in no small part
thanks to the fact that high refresh rate displays like the really high
refresh rate competitive ones are all still 1080 and also because well if
we're being honest AMD has had a heck of a time building anything other than atp
gaming graphics card over the last few years
with that said this is using the same underlying tech as the 5700 xt so this
is a full fat navi 10 GPU the main
disadvantage here is what just clock speed then uh clock speed power target
and it has a 192 192-bit memory bus and six gigabytes of memory versus 256 and
eight gigabytes for the 5700 so that's where you're saving some money and
that's where you're improving your yields on the gpus but of course
compared to the 5700 which was really a mid-range 1440p gaming card this is a
high-end 1080 low-end 1440. like if you're playing
last gen titles 1440p is going to be fine but we're going to do all of our
testing at 1080 with a nice fast CPU to see what kind of experience we can have
here i'm actually really excited to see the numbers from this because honestly
one of the best indications of how good an upcoming card is going to be
is what the competitors do to react to it before you ever even get a chance to
benchmark the thing and NVIDIA already sent out proactive
just so you know there's some great pricing on what was it 1660 ti yeah i
think it was the ti because we're probably gonna get rid of it soon yeah
but like AMD did that same thing i know with mega
56. NVIDIA's email was this one board partner card an evga ko which
honestly the first time i remember them using ko was back when NVIDIA was trying
to get rid of a whack ton of like
7 800 gpus or something like that the
first time i saw an evga ko and it was basically the last hurrah for that GPU
and then it was gone so that maybe gives us some idea of what the
exit strategy there is but it also gives us some idea of how good we're expecting
this thing to be NVIDIA had to react so that's a great sign because the reality
of it is the order of operations is the first ones with access to the hardware
the manufacturers the next ones are usually their competitors somehow they
always have this information and then it comes to us so usually the the 4d chess
is already happening before we even get to plug it into a system
uh one thing to note is that we're going from a single 6-pin connector to a
single 8-pin connector so that might tell us something about the power
consumption we can expect from the 5600 xt
i mean we already know something because it is based on the same GPU as the
5700 series wait you guys were just waiting for me you didn't run any
benchmarks well they're all done oh oh right
okay right so that's the whole stick here so Anthony already ran the stock
numbers for the 5600 xt but AMD
hinted that there might be quite a bit of overclocking headroom in this card so
let's go ahead and see what we can do what utility do you use for AMD uh just
use Radeon control slopes bring it on subscribe right okay this is their new
software performance there we go tuning advanced control yeah that gives you
control over the frequency and voltage curve cool
okay so where do we want it then so we just want to expand it out as far as
it'll go i guess um
maybe yeah
so they've got a much better looking interface than NVIDIA but it's
effectively the same thing you got you got one you got one button you press the
button well yeah there's also the um
power tuning which is the more impressive of the two well not not
really impressive but useful all right sure that looks pretty good whatever
okay so where's the power control here we go power tuning power limit okay yeah
so this is basically NVIDIA overclocking yep and we also can do the vram as well
max frequency okay and about 110 megahertz sure why not okay
cool so let's apply that and see what happens we can also uh if you go to the fan as
well uh right now i think the max is 39 okay let's give it 80. it's not going to
instantly set it to 80. it's just the maximum that it'll request
play let's see if it just immediately crashes and that was a very haphazard
overclock it's about as much as i did when i was preparing for this so we'll see how this
works of course you don't know what the stock numbers look like oh yeah no i
don't okay so i just get to be that much more impressed
wow what's the pricing of this card it's
this particular card is 289 289
that is a big upgrade so all of a sudden
you're going from 60 FPS
to yeah you can comfortably justify the investment in a 120 hertz display
and you're really going to be getting the most out of it especially with how
affordable it is to get a free sync capable display these days yeah and the
fact that most of them that say g-sync now are also freesync of course it's
easy to look good against your competitor's last gen product so
let's go ahead and level the playing field by bringing in the gtx 1660 super
and the ti now this one is priced a little bit
lower but comes in a little bit lower also performance wise whereas the 1660
ti is clearly the head-to-head competitor here this one is priced
exactly the same has a little bit less raw performance but if you care about
some of NVIDIA's well NVIDIA specific features not rtx mind you this is a gtx
but things like NVIDIA's touring and vent encoder which does offer better
quality even if AMD does have some sort of counter punches like the fact that
theirs supports 16 streams yeah it's
it's a little bit strange considering they're otherwise very focused on gamers
and gaming performance which i mean to me a higher quality
encoder would make more sense than faster encoder but
okay oh hold on guys literally the day
after we shot this video NVIDIA dropped the rtx 2060's price to 299 completely
invalidating our comparison against the gtx 1660 ti
that's a good thing for you guys but it did mean more work for us here's how the rtx 2060
looks next to the rx 5600 xt as you can see AMD is still in the lead
here but NVIDIA's now within striking distance with a price difference of just
20 dollars AMD is slightly undercutting NVIDIA with better performance but
if you're like me you might consider paying the extra twenty dollars and
overclocking the rtx yourself to get that rtx support and the new end bank
encoder regardless that's great news for
everyone because not only is there a new card on the block but at least it's
competitive in this price range bringing other more expensive hardware down in
price so yeah that's great just too bad it couldn't have got here sooner
see ya that's just me not everyone cares about
the encoder that's built into their GPU anyway though not everybody streams on
twitch tv for example so when it comes time to choose your next upgrade the
only thing we really know for sure here is that you probably shouldn't pick up a
gtx 1060 at 289 dollars but either team
red or team green has a legitimate offering especially once you factor in
the generous head room for overclocking on the 5600 xt another interesting point
is that we don't actually know that that's the limit for these things that
was the end of the slider and Anthony was trying to use a soft power play
table in order to increase it but that seems to be locked down now AMD has
hinted that they might unlock more capabilities in the future yeah they
didn't say anything substantial about it they just said that well we'll look at
it when we know more about the reliability figures we just don't want
boards to go up and smoke so that makes sense it does make sense
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