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PowerColor Outs Final Specs Radeon 5600 XT Include TGP Increase and now GDDR6 at 14 Gbps
Last week has been quite crazy with changes and reconfigurations of the 5600's line up. These cards had 12GBps memory speeds and a more conservative GPU power limit but all that changed last week.
Power Color now outs the final specs, and that indeed includes increased TGP (clocks) and 14 Gbps memory (opposed to 12 Gbps).
TUL Corporation, a leading and innovative manufacturer of AMD graphic cards since 1997, announces the latest addition to its RX 5000 Series lineup, with the launch of the PowerColor Red Dragon and Red Devil RX 5600 XT models based on the latest AMD RDNA gaming architecture giving gamer’s the ultimate higher-tier 1080p gaming experience.
Utilising powerful high-performance high-bandwidth memory at a blazing 14Gpbs, delivering a 16% increase from 288GBps up to 336GBps over the reference specs, provides the PowerColor 5600XT models with additional performance under intense gaming scenarios for out of this world gameplay.
PowerColor previews Radeon RX 5600XT - 01/07/2020 08:57 AM
TUL Corporation, a leading and innovative manufacturer of AMD graphic cards since 1997, will be showing it’s PowerColor Red Dragon and Red Devil models based on the newest Radeon RX 5600 with 6GB GD...
PowerColor Announces its Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon Series - 12/13/2019 06:57 AM
TUL Corporation, parent of the leading and innovative AMD Graphics Card Manufacturing brand, PowerColor, announces their latest cards in their lineup, PowerColor Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8 GB and PowerCo...
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PowerColor reveals its RX 5700 XT Liquid Devil GPU - 11/18/2019 08:30 AM
Powercolor is set to release its Radeon RX 5700XT Liquid Devil, pro-claimed to be the "World's Fastest Navi". As expected the card will use a pre-installed custom water cooling block ...
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#5752356 Posted on: 01/20/2020 10:36 AM
Maybe they should start selling minimum 8GB - then 12Gb and highend 16GB ...
4GB and 6GB should me OEM by now. I understand that 6GB is more then suffice for 1080p ... but maybe in two years this will change .
It won't. We're in 2020 and with 1 GB of vram you can still play fine. 4GB starts to be the minimum, 6 GB is and will be minimum even in the next 2 years, since games will be optimised more for 4GB of vram, so +2 GB will just make it futureproof. Look at Fury X. Still an OP card, and perfect for 1080P (not so much for 1440p+ but meh).
I have 8GB vram but never saw more then 5-6GB used. Considering that next games will use DX12 and Vulkan, with better compression, we won't really need to increase vram in the close future.
Maybe they should start selling minimum 8GB - then 12Gb and highend 16GB ...
4GB and 6GB should me OEM by now. I understand that 6GB is more then suffice for 1080p ... but maybe in two years this will change .
It won't. We're in 2020 and with 1 GB of vram you can still play fine. 4GB starts to be the minimum, 6 GB is and will be minimum even in the next 2 years, since games will be optimised more for 4GB of vram, so +2 GB will just make it futureproof. Look at Fury X. Still an OP card, and perfect for 1080P (not so much for 1440p+ but meh).
I have 8GB vram but never saw more then 5-6GB used. Considering that next games will use DX12 and Vulkan, with better compression, we won't really need to increase vram in the close future.
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#5752382 Posted on: 01/20/2020 12:56 PM
The 14gbps vram will put this pretty close to the 5700, I feel like this product is going to sit in a very weird position. Unless it's a fair chunk cheaper than the the 5700.
The 14gbps vram will put this pretty close to the 5700, I feel like this product is going to sit in a very weird position. Unless it's a fair chunk cheaper than the the 5700.
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#5752392 Posted on: 01/20/2020 01:29 PM
I bought an RX580 4Gb and games rarely use more than 2Gb. I think that for 2020, 6Gb is a safe zone for 1080p.
I bought an RX580 4Gb and games rarely use more than 2Gb. I think that for 2020, 6Gb is a safe zone for 1080p.
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#5752397 Posted on: 01/20/2020 01:43 PM
@Silva, that's only because of your settings. same argument people always make when they have 4-8GB system ram, "my ram usage never goes over x"... yeah... they are enjoying their storage thrashing with pagefile. you're enjoying your low-res textures.
@Silva, that's only because of your settings. same argument people always make when they have 4-8GB system ram, "my ram usage never goes over x"... yeah... they are enjoying their storage thrashing with pagefile. you're enjoying your low-res textures.
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#5752399 Posted on: 01/20/2020 01:48 PM
Games are using what they have available to eat. Tons of games use around 8gb vram at ultra settings.
I bought an RX580 4Gb and games rarely use more than 2Gb. I think that for 2020, 6Gb is a safe zone for 1080p.
Games are using what they have available to eat. Tons of games use around 8gb vram at ultra settings.
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#5752410 Posted on: 01/20/2020 02:21 PM
Wat
@Silva, that's only because of your settings. same argument people always make when they have 4-8GB system ram, "my ram usage never goes over x"... yeah... they are enjoying their storage thrashing with pagefile. you're enjoying your low-res textures.
Wat
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#5752417 Posted on: 01/20/2020 02:42 PM
When you are out of vram system compensate by using more dram. There for stutteting and low texture popin can occur.
Wat
When you are out of vram system compensate by using more dram. There for stutteting and low texture popin can occur.
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#5752431 Posted on: 01/20/2020 03:24 PM
Would you rather have a 6gb 5600xt or an 8gb 5500xt?
When you are out of vram system compensate by using more dram. There for stutteting and low texture popin can occur.
Would you rather have a 6gb 5600xt or an 8gb 5500xt?
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#5752435 Posted on: 01/20/2020 03:30 PM
Faster card ofc but it would bug me going forward.
Would you rather have a 6gb 5600xt or an 8gb 5500xt?
Faster card ofc but it would bug me going forward.
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#5752438 Posted on: 01/20/2020 03:44 PM
VRAM usage of the game looks massive at first with 6–8 GB at the highest settings, but our performance numbers show that even cards with smaller memory amounts will be fine. The only scenario where VRAM size has a significant effect on performance is 4K with the high-res texture pack installed, on cards that have 3–4 GB VRAM. It seems the game engine will load as many textures and models into VRAM as possible, even if those will not be used for rendering any time soon. This behavior is similar to the Call of Duty series, for example.
so for gpu, gpu-maker will decide for target resolution
have extra vram but not enough processing power will get shutter anyway
VRAM usage of the game looks massive at first with 6–8 GB at the highest settings, but our performance numbers show that even cards with smaller memory amounts will be fine. The only scenario where VRAM size has a significant effect on performance is 4K with the high-res texture pack installed, on cards that have 3–4 GB VRAM. It seems the game engine will load as many textures and models into VRAM as possible, even if those will not be used for rendering any time soon. This behavior is similar to the Call of Duty series, for example.
so for gpu, gpu-maker will decide for target resolution
have extra vram but not enough processing power will get shutter anyway
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#5752619 Posted on: 01/21/2020 03:51 AM
This is the banger Navi the market wants. I think this will be largely out of stock soon when available. I understand that tech people are interested in the enthusiast class Navi, but it will most likely be a disappointment. RX 5600 XT is the go to card for the vast majority and it will be nicely balanced between consumption and performance. I'm tad disappointed about the 6 Gb memory, but not if price reflects that. Let's hope we can get this card under 300 € soon enough.
This is the banger Navi the market wants. I think this will be largely out of stock soon when available. I understand that tech people are interested in the enthusiast class Navi, but it will most likely be a disappointment. RX 5600 XT is the go to card for the vast majority and it will be nicely balanced between consumption and performance. I'm tad disappointed about the 6 Gb memory, but not if price reflects that. Let's hope we can get this card under 300 € soon enough.
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#5752697 Posted on: 01/21/2020 10:02 AM
I know that. The post I quoted was nonsensical, though.
When you are out of vram system compensate by using more dram. There for stutteting and low texture popin can occur.
I know that. The post I quoted was nonsensical, though.
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#5752758 Posted on: 01/21/2020 12:53 PM
@longest I'm playing mostly maxed settings on all games. Granted, a bit of tuning AA, and turning off some things I don't even like (bloom, blur, etc), but I assure you Textures are always at High (and don't even come with the argument of VeryHigh/Ultra as I can't see a f*ing difference). I'm playing at 1080p, 1440p would be another story for sure: I'd hit that 4Gb easily. As for RAM, unless its actually full does it really load to the pagefile?
@warlord that's accurate, but wile they're eating what they have doesn't mean they really need it. And I'll say the same thing I said above: most of the time there's no difference between High and Ultra (minus the bragging rights).
@longest I'm playing mostly maxed settings on all games. Granted, a bit of tuning AA, and turning off some things I don't even like (bloom, blur, etc), but I assure you Textures are always at High (and don't even come with the argument of VeryHigh/Ultra as I can't see a f*ing difference). I'm playing at 1080p, 1440p would be another story for sure: I'd hit that 4Gb easily. As for RAM, unless its actually full does it really load to the pagefile?
@warlord that's accurate, but wile they're eating what they have doesn't mean they really need it. And I'll say the same thing I said above: most of the time there's no difference between High and Ultra (minus the bragging rights).
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#5752766 Posted on: 01/21/2020 01:21 PM
@Silva
Yeah, to be honest, it is a psychological thing. Some games have not difference between Xbox One X and mid range PC, but the ability for ultra textures gives me the impression it is better.
More precisely to find differences between image modes you have to search for them, you won't notice on the fly, unless you are a moron who compares low to high and medium to ultra.
@Silva
Yeah, to be honest, it is a psychological thing. Some games have not difference between Xbox One X and mid range PC, but the ability for ultra textures gives me the impression it is better.
More precisely to find differences between image modes you have to search for them, you won't notice on the fly, unless you are a moron who compares low to high and medium to ultra.
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Maybe they should start selling minimum 8GB - then 12Gb and highend 16GB ...
4GB and 6GB should me OEM by now. I understand that 6GB is more then suffice for 1080p ... but maybe in two years this will change .