Review: PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT Red Dragon
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Undying
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sykozis
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https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=484&sort=price&page=1
Non OC starts at $280. 5700 also starts at $320.
Eastcoasthandle
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Hypernaut
Welcome to the black screenathon. get ya refunds ready
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Fender178
In my mind because of the VBIOS fiasco that AMD caused themselves I don't think that the 1660 Super and the 1660 Ti are obsolete just yet mainly because not all 5600Xt cards can handle the new VBIOS and the 14Gbps memory speed. If any user is going to get this card and want to use the new VIBOS that AMD released I would treat it as getting a 5700 to flash it as a 5700XT is to get a card that has sufficient cooling like the power color and sapphire cards. Also the 5600XT as well as the 2060 KO are very limited in their OC potential because of the grossly limited power limits for obvious reasons. Also even though it is out of stock right now Nvidia was selling the 2060 FE for $300. The only reason why the 1660 super or 1660 Ti would be because of the 2060 KO when it is in stock. If it were me and wanting to get an AMD card I would save a little extra cash and grab a 5700 with great cooling and flash it to a 5700XT.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/not-all-amd-rx-5600-xt-14-gbps Here is an article about it. Also we don't know if the new 14Gbps memory speed will cause the card to degrade faster because the card was only meant to run at 12Gbps which is the official AMD spec for these cards.
I agree if it weren't for the BIOS bait and switch fiasco it would be a great deal. Also some cards aren't capable of using the new aggressive version of the VBIOS that AMD released. Even MSI during a live stream chastised AMD for doing this and they aren't even bothering applying the VBIOS update because of stability. Some versions of the 5600XT cannot handle the 14 Gbps memory speed. Dribble
Tbh I'd just buy a card that comes certified with the new bios. Not because I can't flash it but because every time a game crashed I'd be thinking "was it the new bios"? It probably wasn't but it might be, and I don't want my game to crash every now and then - so I'd end up leaving on the slower bios just to make sure because in the end stability > a few fps. It's just one more point of failure I could do without having to worry about.
alanm
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https://www.pcgamer.com/powercolor-sheds-light-on-why-memory-speeds-differ-on-the-radeon-rx-5600-xt/