2060 Super or RX 5700 XT

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 13:26

Hey!

I'm looking at upgrading my 1060 6gb to one of these two and wondered if there's any thoughts out there on what is the best to get.

Current pros I can see from both of them:

2060 Super: Get Call of Duty included in the price, a game that I will be buying anyway)
RX 5700 XT: FreeSync Capability for my monitor.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be my best bet? I'd be grateful for any suggestions!

Thanks!

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 15:11

Thanks all - that's helped a lot! Seems pretty one sided! I'll take a look at the 5700 XT in more depth, any aftermarket ones you'd suggest?

In terms of PSU, I've got a Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 16:32

So I should be okay? The PowerColour one seems to be the cheapest - are there any issues with it you know of?

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 16:56

LePhuronn said:
2 year warranty is a sticking point for some people. I think the Sapphire Pulse is only £10 more than the PC Red Dragon.

But then you can save a good chunk o cash getting a reference card and tune it with a proper fan curve and undervolting.

Gibbo said:
Reference card, same as all other reference cards, no difference, just buy the cheapest one.

Cheers both, I'll take a look.
So just to confirm, will 550W be okay for the card? Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular, only a year old

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 18:30

So will I be okay with 550w for the 5700 XT?

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 18:37

Brilliant thank you

Is this still the case if I overclock my CPU? I wouldn't need a new PSU?

I'm really not knowledgeable on voltages haha my apologies!

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 18:44

Wouldn't be overclocking the card, only thinking about the CPU (2700)

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 18:59

Sounds good, thank you that's eased my concerns!

NathanL · 30 Sep 2019 at 19:23

Thanks @Panos

I'll have to do a bit of research into that though - might come back with queries once I've bought it

Cheers!

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:03

@Panos Okay I've received my 5700XT! Happy with it so far, although I had some issues with games crashing (BFV mainly), which I believe was down to a driver issue - I think I've fixed that now..

How would I go about undervolting/underclocking this card? It won't have any negative impacts on FPS will it? I believe you said it actually increased it, which blows my mind

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 10:48

Hey,

Thank you, I'll try this when I get home later! Should I benchmark some games before and after to judge the results and whether or not it's improved?

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 18:42

@Panos , Okay I've done the setting you've suggested. Except on 'Max' where i couldn't choose 1044mV, and had to do 1045mV.

Is there a way of testing it's stability?

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 19:49

@Panos Those settings didn't work. I keep bsod-ing.

Even without those manual settings this seems to be very dodgy on my system, it doesn't remember my second display settings and keeps reverting back to 640x480 resolution. Programmes keep stopping responding too which hasn't happened previously. Battlefield 5 doesn't open at all now which is really annoying. I don't know what's going wrong

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 20:26

Panos said:
I use 1 monitor only getting over 9000 on TimeSpy and is thoroughly tested 2 1/2 months now. I have the AE which is better binned chip. Raise the power to 1.1mv and see how it goes from there by lowering it
Leave at first the VRAM at default speed to eliminate any errors from that.

I may have found the issue. It seems I was using an experimental driver rather than the recommended. I'm going to see if there's any further issues tomorrow then will try again with the undervolting to the method you said.
Is that raising to 1.1mV at 'Max'?

Thanks!

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 21:05

Default was 2.100 ish? If i remember rightly? I'm not able to check right now, will check later

NathanL · 11 Oct 2019 at 22:35

Here's my current settings @Panos

NathanL · 12 Oct 2019 at 14:05

What do ya reckon @Panos?

NathanL · 12 Oct 2019 at 15:56

Thank you @Panos!

So I should try all of these individually? Or in order?

NathanL · 12 Oct 2019 at 19:32

Perfect, thank you! I've set it up how you have suggested, not changing the 'med' information, only the max. Let's see if it works this time with this correct driver

Didn't know TimeSpy was a paid software, so I'll try and find a free one somewhere

NathanL · 12 Oct 2019 at 22:07

Okay, done a few Time Spy tests. Downloaded the basic version for free.

Standard settings got a graphics score of: 8658
"1950Mhz, 1044mv 0% PL stock fan speed is what I use with 890Mhz vram" got a score of: 8902 And a few degrees cooler too.
"2020mhz 1134mv" Got a score of 8700 ish.

When playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint with your settings above though, I had some occasions where there were severe drops in FPS, down to 28 in some cases, so not sure what's going on there
Would you say yours is the best option in your list or are any of the others best to push for?

Appreciate all your guidance in this so far, as always