OcUK RX5600XT review thread

[humbug]

MSI explains why not all Radeon RX 5600 XT can get 14 Gbps memory

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-explains-why-not-all-radeon-rx-5600-xt-can-get-14-gbps-memory

As above this MSI excuse is dubious.

You have a choice to buy the chip ready-made on a reference PCB with the memory, in such case all you need to do is add a cooler and ship it with your own branding.

Or you can just have the chip on its own, you design your own PCB and you source your own memory.

I'm pretty sure you can get the chip on a reference PCB without the memory installed too.

To simply say "oh AMD just send out Chip + Memory bundles and that memory might not be able to do 14Gbps" is not entirely true and its a way to push the blame on to AMD.

If as it looks like MSI are just buying in ready-made reference cards and slapping their own cooler on them then yes you might have a problem, yet others who at least buy in their own memory will not have a problem, the problem is yours MSI.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

https://www.eteknix.com/gigabyte-rx-5600-xt-gaming-oc-review/15/

couldn't see it on the List but Gigabyte 5600XT Gaming OC.

overclocked , beats TUF (manual overclock) whilst being slightly cooler by 2c and bit louder by 3db

https://www.eteknix.com/asus-tuf-gaming-rx-5600-xt-oc-review/15/

 

[nutsnut]

5600XT vs RTX 2060: At worst its 6% slower, at best its 11% faster.

Most interestingly for me, the AMD card was cooler.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

https://www.eteknix.com/gigabyte-rx-5600-xt-gaming-oc-review/15/

couldn't see it on the List but Gigabyte 5600XT Gaming OC.

overclocked , beats TUF (manual overclock) whilst being slightly cooler by 2c and bit louder by 3db

https://www.eteknix.com/asus-tuf-gaming-rx-5600-xt-oc-review/15/

Thanks and added it now. I also added the Digital Foundry review too.

 

[humbug]

Most interestingly for me, the AMD card was cooler.

It is, like the 5700 its not clocked as high as the 5700XT which will reduce the power consumption by quite a bit.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Fail!

 

[humbug]

Fail!

I know, it would have been better for AMD to not bother.

Once you designed a card and you up date it to be faster post launch that's always going to require some user action to unlock that extra performance and may confuse people who can't read numbers.

Next time don't bother, you're not going to be criticized for doing nothing, that unfortunately is the world we live in, you cannot do right.

This is a lot like the AM4 socket debacle, you can keep you Motherboard for 4 generations.... BUT OH NO you have to update the BIOS! You built your own PC and you have to do stuff to avoid buying new motherboards everytime you upgrade the CPU. Shocking....

 

[Harlequin]

Its also means that MSI, ASUS and ASROCK got caught out cheaping out on the spec for the cards

 

[humbug]

Just... Just do what Intel and Nvidia do. That seems to be what makes people happy. No more free performance upgrades because you might need to read and do stuff to unlock it.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah well AMD are doing nice in the CPU market but when it comes to GPUs they have a long way to go, instead of artificially limiting performance release the best you have. AMD are in no position to be playing games against Nvidia. Now with the 2060 price cut who is buying a 5600Xt? AMD priced it too high and made it easy for Nvidia to drop prices by a little.

 

[EastCoastHandle]

 

[Harlequin]

Yeah well AMD are doing nice in the CPU market but when it comes to GPUs they have a long way to go, instead of artificially limiting performance release the best you have. AMD are in no position to be playing games against Nvidia. Now with the 2060 price cut who is buying a 5600Xt? AMD priced it too high and made it easy for Nvidia to drop prices by a little.

You can buy the RX5600XT for less than the cheapest RTX 2060 (non s), and its faster

 

[EastCoastHandle]

Its also means that MSI, ASUS and ASROCK got caught out cheaping out on the spec for the cards

LOL true

 

[Scougar]

More Power Tool... good lord... why has no one tried this yet!

 

[EastCoastHandle]

LOL horrible HU video.
AMD made the card faster and they complain about it. Ok, I get it, HU was inconvenienced re-doing all their testing because AMD decided to release a bios to up the performance, free for consumers. They really need to get over themselves. We got 2 things out of AMD doing this IMO:
1. Consumers win with a card that was always capable of performing much faster then initially reported
2. Some of AMD's hardware partners got caught with their pants down selling inferior cards they knew they were deny RMA's for.

I knew that ‘origional’ typo would come back to haunt me one more time.

People are watching a video criticizing AMD from staffing that didn't take the time to spell check their own comment from the video. Real creditable /s

 

[Poneros]

More Power Tool... good lord... why has no one tried this yet!

Sadly AMD went full Nvidia on this card and locked it down. Igorslab tried PPT and doesn't help much because there's hard limits put in place by AMD.

Like I said at the start of Navi's release, Radeon is dead. AMD is now just producing ******** Geforce cards for a little less. Sad but true.

 

[Panos]

Sadly AMD went full Nvidia on this card and locked it down. Igorslab tried PPT and doesn't help much because there's hard limits put in place by AMD.

Like I said at the start of Navi's release, Radeon is dead. AMD is now just producing ******** Geforce cards for a little less. Sad but true.

Begone troll. You support Nvidia blindly, yet if AMD locks down their card you accuse them of going "full Nvidia"?
AMD has 4 SKUs, 5500XT, 5600XT, 5700, 5700XT.

When was the last time you looked at Nvidia card lineup? 1650 < 1650S < 1660 < 1660S < 1660Ti < 2060 < 2060S/2070 < 2070S < 2080 < 2080S < 2080Ti
12 fricking SKUs, the majority barely having few percent difference between them.
And in between you have card models that crawl at "default" speeds while others (the most expensive models) are factory overclocked, at the GTX16xx range, and no tweaking can help the slow models. No two cards are the same on this lineup to make sense.

5600XT is at same performance, or faster in some games, than the 2060 which is more expensive. So expensive that in some cases the RX5700 is cheaper!
5600XT also is cheaper to 1660Ti in USA and quite a few models in UK, a card far inferior to it. And 1660Ti is faster to 1660S and slower to 2060.

 

[Panos]

More Power Tool... good lord... why has no one tried this yet!

Outrageous.
You talk about overclocking and proper GPU tweaking in this forum? The majority in here find the AMD tuning curve too difficult to use resulting to incompatible 3rd party software (MSI AB) which creates issues with their card (MSI AB still doesn't support adrenaline 2020 drivers) crying that AMD drivers are faulty.

You have really in high regard this forum these days. This forum isn't Overclock.net but WCCFTech and guru3d.

Its also means that MSI, ASUS and ASROCK got caught out cheaping out on the spec for the cards

Nobody should be surprised tbh.

Especially for ASUS AMD cards.

 

[Scougar]

I laughed.. a little lol.

There is meagre technical discussion on here. I want to geek out. I post a lot of opinion and guesses though so I am not helping.

 

[Scougar]

Sadly AMD went full Nvidia on this card and locked it down. Igorslab tried PPT and doesn't help much because there's hard limits put in place by AMD.

You never go full Nvidia!

That genuinely is a shame. Edit, found it... That sucks. Hard locks in driver. LAME.