The Power of AMD: A Review of the RX 5600 XT

As we dive into the world of gaming and graphics processing, it's clear that the competition is heating up. Among the latest additions to the market are the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, a powerful GPU designed to take on the best from NVIDIA. In this article, we'll delve into the performance, power consumption, and features of the RX 5600 XT, and explore how it stacks up against its competitors.

Benchmarking Setup

To get started, let's take a look at the benchmarking setup used for this review. The test rig includes the RT X 2016 Founders Edition, ASUS GTX 660ti OC, EVGA GTX 1660 Super Black Gaming, Sapphire ARC's 5700 Pulse Overclocked, and Arctic Cooling MX-8 Extreme (5600 XT) Pulse. This rig is designed to push both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to their limits, providing a fair comparison of performance.

Results - Call of Duty

One of the first games tested was Call of Duty. The results were impressive, with the RX 5600 XT dominating the RT X 2016 Founders Edition and almost coming close to the Arctic Cooling ARC's 5700 in CSGO. However, the Nvidia cards came out on top, especially when it comes to 1% lows. Notably, the AMD GPU was experiencing some CP bottlenecking, despite its overall average performance being higher.

Results - Fortnite

Moving on to Fortnite, the results were less impressive for the RT X 2016 Founders Edition, but the RX 5600 XT performed well, especially in outer worlds. However, the Nvidia cards still delivered a smoother experience, particularly with their lower 1% lows. The Arctic Cooling ARC's 5600 XT did better in this game, delivering a more playable experience without constant suffering.

Results - Jedi: Fallen Order

Jedi: Fallen Order was another game that saw the RX 5600 XT performing well, almost matching the Arctic Cooling ARC's 5700 in some cases. However, the Nvidia cards still came out on top, particularly with their lower 1% lows. The GTX 1660 Super struggled to keep up with the RX 5600 XT.

Results - Overwatch

Overwatch was another game where the Arctic Cooling ARC's 5600 XT took center stage, delivering a more playable experience than expected. However, the RT X 2016 Founders Edition still managed to keep up, thanks in part to its high average frame rates. The Nvidia cards performed well as well, particularly with their lower 1% lows.

Results - Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six Siege was another game where the Arctic Cooling ARC's 5600 XT shone, especially with the HD texture pack enabled. However, the RT X 2016 Founders Edition still managed to keep up, and the Nvidia cards performed well as well.

Results - Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption was a challenging game for both GPUs, but the RT X 2016 Founders Edition struggled to match the Arctic Cooling ARC's 5600 XT. However, overall frame rates were impressive, especially in this demanding game.

Results - Warhammer 2

Warhammer 2 was another tough game for the GPUs, with the Arctic Cooling ARC's 5600 XT struggling to keep up on one percent lows. However, overall frame rates were still impressive, and the Nvidia cards performed well as well.

Power Consumption

Finally, let's take a look at power consumption, an important factor in choosing a GPU. The RX 5600 XT managed to be pretty efficient, especially when compared to the RT X 2016 Founders Edition. However, the extra die space used for ray tracing and AI components had a negative impact on efficiency.

Conclusion

The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT is a beast of a GPU that delivers performance and efficiency in spades. With its impressive benchmark scores and low power consumption, it's clear that this GPU is a winner. While it may have some limitations compared to the Nvidia offerings, the RX 5600 XT is an excellent choice for gamers who can afford it.

Recommendation

If you're in the market for a powerful GPU for 1080p gaming, look no further than the RX 5600 XT. With its impressive performance and low power consumption, it's clear that this GPU is worth considering. While the Nvidia offerings may be more expensive, the RX 5600 XT offers a compelling value proposition.

Final Thoughts

AMD has done it again with the RX 5600 XT, delivering a powerful GPU that competes with the best from NVIDIA. With its impressive benchmark scores and low power consumption, this GPU is an excellent choice for gamers who can afford it. We can't wait to see what AMD has in store for the rest of 2020, but for now, the RX 5600 XT is a winner.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso this is our very first GP review of 2020 and it's gonna be an interesting one you see back at CES AMD announced the RX 5600 XD which is priced at $280 and supposed to sort of slot between the RX 5500 XD 8 gigabyte and the arks 5700 in their lineup they showed some specs and had a few performance slides that showed it beating the nvidia gtx 1660 TI by a pretty convincing margin and that means it could also go toe-to-toe against CRT X 2060 so guess what happened Nvidia decided to lower their price up there our TX 2060 to $300 but good luck actually finding one for that price also things take a little bit of an interesting turnaround for AMD because they pulled a last-minute trigger on everyone who knew the specs would be 5600 XD because last week they rolled out an official bios that increased bore power core frequencies and memory speeds and the effect on performance is pretty drastic so we needed to scramble since our 5600 xt testing was already done and I'm pretty sure Nvidia is scrambling to at the moment since they have nothing that can compete also there's more to that and of course we have to get into the benchmarks but first a quick message from our sponsor the land cool - enclosure by Lian Li is the $89 case to beat that packs a lot of features with user-friendly assembly and high performance functionality in mind like do OTG side panels with separate shower doors for easy access to the included hard drive cage the interior is well equipped for cable management on a ATX motherboards once you flip the cable bar while the back section is covered with panels for best visuals the top is also air flow ready with multi Lane fan installation but this front fan bracket is next level with four positions available to suit your cooling style check out the Lanco to buy lien lee down below alright so let's start things off with the specs since even without the new BIOS the arcs 3600 xt was a pretty interesting card basically it uses the same Navi 10 GPU core which is also found on the arcs 5700 and it even has the same number of stream processors texture units and ro piece the real differences where lower clock speeds and 892 bit memory interface instead of a 256 bit one on the RX 5700 some people thought that pricing was a little bit too high at $280 since even though the 5700 XD officially cost 350 you could pick it up for between 320 and 340 but then the new BIOS happened and what did that do well the power limit was increased by about 10 watts the game clock which is where the GPU will spend most of its time jumped up by almost 200 megahertz the boost clock got a nice bump as well but the biggest surprise was the memory that shot up from 12 gigabits per second to 14 gigabits per second not only that but Amy's board partners like sapphire XFX and power color are taking things even further with their overclocked versions so let's take a look at this for example this is the sapphire pulse 5600 XT it's game clock goes even further to 16 15 megahertz and for those of you keeping track that's to 40 megahertz higher than the arcs 5600 XT was supposed to hit B boosts clock hits up to 17 50 megahertz and those pecs get really really close to these stock rx 5700 there's also a silent BIOS which is pretty pointless since the card is whisper quiet with its performance BIOS setting so how much did this new BIOS actually affect performance let's take a look at the 5600 xD pulse from sapphire because remember this is a pre overclocked GPU but right now it is running at those speeds that I just showed you can actually see that in these games there's a pretty significant boost in frame rates but right across every title we tested the performance increase was somewhere between 12% all the way up to 20% depending on how well the game reacted to those clock speeds that really changed the arcs 5600 XTS outlook however there is one little issue you see the new BIOS was rolled out at the very last moment and so the first batch of shipments to retailers won't have them installed and that's messed up because buyers will have to find a new BIOS and the updating tool from their respective manufacturers website and flashier themselves so if you have an arc 5600 XD it's out of the box performance won't be anywhere closer to what you're gonna be seeing in the benchmarks and that kind of sucks but it's great to see what a BIOS update can do to the performance but this almost feels like a bit of a bait-and-switch by AMD I mean it's great to see or greatest show awesome results and reviews but you guys won't be able to those numbers without jumping through a few hoops first not only that but it's impossible to figure out if a card has an updated bios until you get it home and run amy's update tool this could be a huge mess guys and I'm hoping AMD and their partners make this process very clear speaking of their partners let's quickly take a look at the sapphire pulse 5600 XD basically it looks like all other pulse GPUs and that means it has two large fans and a super compact heatsink it's only ten inches long and takes up two slots so nothing extreme here I love the fact that sapphire doesn't feel like they need the biggest GPU on the block to look cool this thing is clean good-looking and it should fit into most compact cases without any problems there's even a backplate to complete the overall look and cut into that is a small bio switch that I talked about before for those of you wondering the position closest to the i/o connectors has the performance BIOS which is what we use for testing while the position towards the power input holds a silent profile that one has lower clock speeds reduced fan speeds and runs at minimal power envelope ask for power input there's an 8-pin connector and that's about it but anyways let's move on to the results for this test I'll be using the RT X 2016 founders Edition the asus gtx 660ti OC EVGA gtx 1660 super black gaming a sapphire ARC's 5700 pulse overclocked or OC and finally the arcs 5600 XD pulse meanwhile this is the rest of benchmarking setup asked for the results let's get me soft with call of duty and right away the RX 5600 xt is absolutely dominating the RT x 2060 and almost comes close to the arcs 3702 in csgo the Nvidia cards do come out on top especially with their 1% lows but it should be noted we were experiencing some CP bottlenecking here even though the AMD GPUs have better overall averages I'd actually choose an Nvidia card for fortnight's since they deliver a much smoother experience Jedi Order shows what's really amazing about the 5600 XD it's almost able to match the arcs 5700 in many cases outer worlds really seems to favor Nvidia cards when it comes to averages but the arcs 5600 XT delivers a much more playable experience without constant suffering especially when compared to the GTX 1660 cards in overwatch were back again to arks 5600 xD domination where it clearly beats the Arctic's 2060 and leaves the GTX 1660 super in the dust Rainbow six siege is one game that actually benefits from the arts fifty-seven hundred eight gigabytes of memory especially with the HD texture pack but the Ark's 5600 xt is still super competitive against the RT x 2060 the fact we got Red Dead Redemption running at all his a miracle guys but here the 5600 XT is right where we would expect it to be as for Tomb Raider yeah the Ark's 5600 xt is leading the r-tx 2016 again but moving on to Warhammer 2 and it's pretty evident that this is a tough game on any system V 5600 XT really struggles to compete on one percent lows but overall frame rates are pretty good and guess what we're back at with our charts guys that's right witcher 3 and it's here mostly as a reminder to check out the awesome series and to go back and enjoy this amazing game now you can also be confident that the RX 5600 xt is more than good enough to play the game as well and finally we're on to power consumption and i have to admit even with the higher clock speeds the 5600 xt manages to be pretty efficient GPA when compared to the r TX 2060 the problem with that card is all the extra die space used for ray tracing and AI components that ends up having a negative impact on efficiency but honestly it looks like we might have a low leakage core on our 5600 xt but we'll only be able to confirm that with more samples either way I think this is a huge win for AMD since they've struggled to compete with in a video from a performance per watt standpoint but now they won big in almost every way well guys AMD did it again with the 5600 XT now sure the last-minute change didn't allow us to run all the benchmarks that we wanted to and I'm sure it's gonna run or cause a lot of issues for buyers who'd have to go through the process of updating the BIOS to get expected performance but I have to say that a $290 this GPU is really really good because even at the performance setting it runs super quiet super efficient and it offers tons of performance at 1080p now NVIDIA did try to compete by lowering the price of the r-tx 2060 to $300 but he mine the dents the founders edition and it suspiciously sold out so even if you were to find one at that price point it's really difficult for me to recommend that GPU over something like this so here's a deal plain and simple if you want an awesome car for 1080p gaming and you can afford it the rx 5600 xt is a massive improvement over the gtx 1660 super in some cases it almost hits rx 5700 performance levels although that causes some problems for the 5700 but that cards extra memory can come in handy for some games sure they took a while to release this thing but right now I feel like they did a really good job for gamers who can actually buy this thing at a really affordable price point and I can't wait to see what they have planned out for the rest of 2020 so that's it for me thank you so much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here subscribe hit that notification bell and I'll talk to you guys in the next oneso this is our very first GP review of 2020 and it's gonna be an interesting one you see back at CES AMD announced the RX 5600 XD which is priced at $280 and supposed to sort of slot between the RX 5500 XD 8 gigabyte and the arks 5700 in their lineup they showed some specs and had a few performance slides that showed it beating the nvidia gtx 1660 TI by a pretty convincing margin and that means it could also go toe-to-toe against CRT X 2060 so guess what happened Nvidia decided to lower their price up there our TX 2060 to $300 but good luck actually finding one for that price also things take a little bit of an interesting turnaround for AMD because they pulled a last-minute trigger on everyone who knew the specs would be 5600 XD because last week they rolled out an official bios that increased bore power core frequencies and memory speeds and the effect on performance is pretty drastic so we needed to scramble since our 5600 xt testing was already done and I'm pretty sure Nvidia is scrambling to at the moment since they have nothing that can compete also there's more to that and of course we have to get into the benchmarks but first a quick message from our sponsor the land cool - enclosure by Lian Li is the $89 case to beat that packs a lot of features with user-friendly assembly and high performance functionality in mind like do OTG side panels with separate shower doors for easy access to the included hard drive cage the interior is well equipped for cable management on a ATX motherboards once you flip the cable bar while the back section is covered with panels for best visuals the top is also air flow ready with multi Lane fan installation but this front fan bracket is next level with four positions available to suit your cooling style check out the Lanco to buy lien lee down below alright so let's start things off with the specs since even without the new BIOS the arcs 3600 xt was a pretty interesting card basically it uses the same Navi 10 GPU core which is also found on the arcs 5700 and it even has the same number of stream processors texture units and ro piece the real differences where lower clock speeds and 892 bit memory interface instead of a 256 bit one on the RX 5700 some people thought that pricing was a little bit too high at $280 since even though the 5700 XD officially cost 350 you could pick it up for between 320 and 340 but then the new BIOS happened and what did that do well the power limit was increased by about 10 watts the game clock which is where the GPU will spend most of its time jumped up by almost 200 megahertz the boost clock got a nice bump as well but the biggest surprise was the memory that shot up from 12 gigabits per second to 14 gigabits per second not only that but Amy's board partners like sapphire XFX and power color are taking things even further with their overclocked versions so let's take a look at this for example this is the sapphire pulse 5600 XT it's game clock goes even further to 16 15 megahertz and for those of you keeping track that's to 40 megahertz higher than the arcs 5600 XT was supposed to hit B boosts clock hits up to 17 50 megahertz and those pecs get really really close to these stock rx 5700 there's also a silent BIOS which is pretty pointless since the card is whisper quiet with its performance BIOS setting so how much did this new BIOS actually affect performance let's take a look at the 5600 xD pulse from sapphire because remember this is a pre overclocked GPU but right now it is running at those speeds that I just showed you can actually see that in these games there's a pretty significant boost in frame rates but right across every title we tested the performance increase was somewhere between 12% all the way up to 20% depending on how well the game reacted to those clock speeds that really changed the arcs 5600 XTS outlook however there is one little issue you see the new BIOS was rolled out at the very last moment and so the first batch of shipments to retailers won't have them installed and that's messed up because buyers will have to find a new BIOS and the updating tool from their respective manufacturers website and flashier themselves so if you have an arc 5600 XD it's out of the box performance won't be anywhere closer to what you're gonna be seeing in the benchmarks and that kind of sucks but it's great to see what a BIOS update can do to the performance but this almost feels like a bit of a bait-and-switch by AMD I mean it's great to see or greatest show awesome results and reviews but you guys won't be able to those numbers without jumping through a few hoops first not only that but it's impossible to figure out if a card has an updated bios until you get it home and run amy's update tool this could be a huge mess guys and I'm hoping AMD and their partners make this process very clear speaking of their partners let's quickly take a look at the sapphire pulse 5600 XD basically it looks like all other pulse GPUs and that means it has two large fans and a super compact heatsink it's only ten inches long and takes up two slots so nothing extreme here I love the fact that sapphire doesn't feel like they need the biggest GPU on the block to look cool this thing is clean good-looking and it should fit into most compact cases without any problems there's even a backplate to complete the overall look and cut into that is a small bio switch that I talked about before for those of you wondering the position closest to the i/o connectors has the performance BIOS which is what we use for testing while the position towards the power input holds a silent profile that one has lower clock speeds reduced fan speeds and runs at minimal power envelope ask for power input there's an 8-pin connector and that's about it but anyways let's move on to the results for this test I'll be using the RT X 2016 founders Edition the asus gtx 660ti OC EVGA gtx 1660 super black gaming a sapphire ARC's 5700 pulse overclocked or OC and finally the arcs 5600 XD pulse meanwhile this is the rest of benchmarking setup asked for the results let's get me soft with call of duty and right away the RX 5600 xt is absolutely dominating the RT x 2060 and almost comes close to the arcs 3702 in csgo the Nvidia cards do come out on top especially with their 1% lows but it should be noted we were experiencing some CP bottlenecking here even though the AMD GPUs have better overall averages I'd actually choose an Nvidia card for fortnight's since they deliver a much smoother experience Jedi Order shows what's really amazing about the 5600 XD it's almost able to match the arcs 5700 in many cases outer worlds really seems to favor Nvidia cards when it comes to averages but the arcs 5600 XT delivers a much more playable experience without constant suffering especially when compared to the GTX 1660 cards in overwatch were back again to arks 5600 xD domination where it clearly beats the Arctic's 2060 and leaves the GTX 1660 super in the dust Rainbow six siege is one game that actually benefits from the arts fifty-seven hundred eight gigabytes of memory especially with the HD texture pack but the Ark's 5600 xt is still super competitive against the RT x 2060 the fact we got Red Dead Redemption running at all his a miracle guys but here the 5600 XT is right where we would expect it to be as for Tomb Raider yeah the Ark's 5600 xt is leading the r-tx 2016 again but moving on to Warhammer 2 and it's pretty evident that this is a tough game on any system V 5600 XT really struggles to compete on one percent lows but overall frame rates are pretty good and guess what we're back at with our charts guys that's right witcher 3 and it's here mostly as a reminder to check out the awesome series and to go back and enjoy this amazing game now you can also be confident that the RX 5600 xt is more than good enough to play the game as well and finally we're on to power consumption and i have to admit even with the higher clock speeds the 5600 xt manages to be pretty efficient GPA when compared to the r TX 2060 the problem with that card is all the extra die space used for ray tracing and AI components that ends up having a negative impact on efficiency but honestly it looks like we might have a low leakage core on our 5600 xt but we'll only be able to confirm that with more samples either way I think this is a huge win for AMD since they've struggled to compete with in a video from a performance per watt standpoint but now they won big in almost every way well guys AMD did it again with the 5600 XT now sure the last-minute change didn't allow us to run all the benchmarks that we wanted to and I'm sure it's gonna run or cause a lot of issues for buyers who'd have to go through the process of updating the BIOS to get expected performance but I have to say that a $290 this GPU is really really good because even at the performance setting it runs super quiet super efficient and it offers tons of performance at 1080p now NVIDIA did try to compete by lowering the price of the r-tx 2060 to $300 but he mine the dents the founders edition and it suspiciously sold out so even if you were to find one at that price point it's really difficult for me to recommend that GPU over something like this so here's a deal plain and simple if you want an awesome car for 1080p gaming and you can afford it the rx 5600 xt is a massive improvement over the gtx 1660 super in some cases it almost hits rx 5700 performance levels although that causes some problems for the 5700 but that cards extra memory can come in handy for some games sure they took a while to release this thing but right now I feel like they did a really good job for gamers who can actually buy this thing at a really affordable price point and I can't wait to see what they have planned out for the rest of 2020 so that's it for me thank you so much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here subscribe hit that notification bell and I'll talk to you guys in the next one\n"