The author has reviewed several graphics cards, including the RX 580 Strix, and shared their findings with the audience.

The RX 580 Strix performs well on demanding maps like Reserve, with frame rates dropping only slightly when playing at high settings. However, when moving to GTA V, which is a much more resource-intensive game, the frame rate drops significantly, even at high settings that are not "cracked" or optimized.

In contrast, Fortnite struggles to maintain 60 frames per second at Epic settings, but can achieve higher frame rates at High settings. Assassin's Creed also performs well on the RX 580 Strix, with only minor issues when running Ultra-high settings.

The author notes that the temperature of the RX 580 Strix was relatively high, even with a fan speed of only 40%, due to the ambient temperature being around 28°C in the room. However, they also mention that there is still headroom for lower temperatures by increasing the fan speed.

In terms of benchmarks, the RX 580 Strix holds up well, especially at 1080p 60 frames per second gaming, which is a common resolution for budget gamers. However, the author believes that this is no longer sufficient, and that future graphics cards should aim to achieve higher frame rates, potentially in excess of 100 frames per second, even with sub-$200 price tags.

The author concludes by stating that they hope future graphics cards will meet their performance expectations, rather than just incremental upgrades. They believe that high refresh rate 1080p gaming is becoming more affordable and reasonable for budget gamers, and that a significant jump in performance would be a welcome improvement.

Ultimately, the author hopes to see more powerful graphics cards at lower price points, which would enable smoother gaming experiences with high refresh rates, without sacrificing too much in terms of power consumption.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enover the last couple of months we've been seeing a bunch of leaks for things like the rtx 3090 and big navi and the 3080ti and the 42069 and while those are very exciting and i can't wait to see how they're gonna perform the big problem with those is they're going to cost a huge amount of money and that's not where most people buy their graphics cards so i am the most excited to see what sub 200 graphics card is going to come from the next generation because in that price point for the last four years there has been an undisputed predator lurking the rx 480 aka the rx 5a aka the rx5 basically there have been a bunch of them what we're gonna do in today's video is have a look at the massively overbuilt rx 580 i got my hands on basically it was the only one i could get my hands on short notice and it was on sale so it's the same price as the other versions and none of that matters basically we're going to have a look at this quite frankly legendary graphics card and see what kind of 1080p gaming performance we can get from it in 2020 and then after that we're going to have a bit of an opinion based discussion about what we want to see from a future sub 200 polaris killing graphics card now let's have a look at this behemoth of an rx 580 i really love it when graphics card manufacturers do this when they essentially strap the godzilla equivalent of coolers to a more budget-ended graphics card i think this is going to have amazing temperatures but we'll test that a little bit later i mean just look at that dense fin array you got there with the three fans that actually you know you can see there that they're easily removable so if you need to replace these fans after some time that shouldn't be too hard to do on the back of the graphics card you'll see here a there's a really awesome backplate with some rgb illumination over here and there are only six screws holding the cooler on you can see there are the two here by the vrm and then you've got the four around the actual gpu so this is going to be a very easy graphics card to maintain but let's get back to this angle because you can see here is a metal plate that stretches along the pcb which will help with gpu sag and it's actually screwed into the pci express bracket so that's really interesting it actually wraps all the way around the card you can see it over here as well and it actually makes thermal contact with the components so it does help with cooling as well which is so amazing on the front of the graphics card you can see here you've got two pwm fan headers so you can use that if you just want to completely ruin the cable management in your case we've got one eight pin power connector and yeah just such a sexy cooler let's actually end this off by doing a quick peel here oh yeah look at that back plate so with that let's have a look at what kind of performance we're getting from this roid rage version of the rx 580 at 1080p with a mixture of medium and high settings depending on which game we're running now let's have a closer look at the performance of some of these games before we get into the conclusion starting off with escape from tarkov now i never included in the normal benchmarks because the performance of that game meanders all over the place like a drunken elephant and then it murders a tourist and just passes out on your camp you're never going to get a consistent result from that game but at 1080p on customs it runs really well you're getting above 60 frames per second on average and it feels great now i think one of the big saving graces of this graphics card is the fact that there's an eight gig version available because a game like escape from top uses quite a lot of vram and it means that the polaris gpu is pretty future proofed here even on more demanding maps like reserve the frame rate drops a bit but it still runs perfectly fine moving over to gta 5 now this is a 1080p with high settings the settings aren't cracked or anything but you're getting high refresh rate gaming here which is really cool and it's one of the few games that actually pulls that off and it's one of the points that i want to address later on now before we move on to the next game let's just have a look at this amazing underbridge flight that i pulled off here oh yeah look at that you're impressed i can i can tell now moving over to fortnite it doesn't run that well at epic settings you're struggling to average about 60 frames per second but if you drop it to high settings then it runs quite a bit better you're still not getting like over 100 frames per second average which is better for competitive games but it is very playable and you can drop the settings further now finally i just want to have a quick look at a more demanding modern game assassin's creed now assassin's creed again runs very well at high settings at 1080p on this graphics card it only starts really struggling when you throw in like ultra high settings then the frame rates do start to chug a bit but it's holding up very well oh and quickly before we get into the discussion about what i want from the next generation of sub 200 graphics cards i just want to quickly mention the temperatures on the strix version of the rx 580 as you could see from all of the gameplay footage it was actually it was running pretty hot now bear in mind that the ambient temperature was about 28 degrees celsius in the room so that's fairly hot and uh the fan speed was only running at 40 percent fan speed so it was very quiet and if you want lower temperatures you can just crank the fans more yeah there's definitely still headroom in that cooler but i was kind of expecting lower temperatures now as you can see from these benchmarks this geriatric graphics card architecture holds up really well in 2020 especially when it comes to 1080p 60 frames per second gaming which is the resolution that people use on a budget so that may have you thinking darbit why do you want a lot more power for this price range then if the rx 580 already does a great job even with more demanding modern titles at 1080p 60 frames per second well that's the thing i think there's one big difference between the pc hardware landscape today as opposed to four years ago and that's the fact that 1080p high refresh rate gaming monitors are becoming much more affordable even good ips ones don't cost that much money anymore so it becomes reasonable to pair a high refresh rate 1080p display with a sub 200 graphics card and that's why i think we need more power and a 100 plus frame per second gaming beast at 200 dollars is gonna be a pretty big game changer in my opinion for the budget gamer so to summarize what i'm thinking with all of this for the last four years we've been getting roughly the same sub 200 gaming performance so hopefully with the next generation we're not going to get just 20 more for the same cost but we can jump a whole tier in performance going from like 60 plus frames per second at 1080p to like a hundred plus frames per second at 1080p that's a pretty big ask but hopefully we can get high refresh rate 1080p gaming performance with not super low settings for sub 200. let me know in the comment section below if you think that this is a reasonable request i have no information pertaining to whether or not this is actually going to happen and we're probably going to have to wait till next year before we get these budget cards of the next generation but yeah i think that would be pretty exciting so with that thank you very much for watching if you like this video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and follow me on whatever social media you like i'll have it all linked in the description below and until the next video byeover the last couple of months we've been seeing a bunch of leaks for things like the rtx 3090 and big navi and the 3080ti and the 42069 and while those are very exciting and i can't wait to see how they're gonna perform the big problem with those is they're going to cost a huge amount of money and that's not where most people buy their graphics cards so i am the most excited to see what sub 200 graphics card is going to come from the next generation because in that price point for the last four years there has been an undisputed predator lurking the rx 480 aka the rx 5a aka the rx5 basically there have been a bunch of them what we're gonna do in today's video is have a look at the massively overbuilt rx 580 i got my hands on basically it was the only one i could get my hands on short notice and it was on sale so it's the same price as the other versions and none of that matters basically we're going to have a look at this quite frankly legendary graphics card and see what kind of 1080p gaming performance we can get from it in 2020 and then after that we're going to have a bit of an opinion based discussion about what we want to see from a future sub 200 polaris killing graphics card now let's have a look at this behemoth of an rx 580 i really love it when graphics card manufacturers do this when they essentially strap the godzilla equivalent of coolers to a more budget-ended graphics card i think this is going to have amazing temperatures but we'll test that a little bit later i mean just look at that dense fin array you got there with the three fans that actually you know you can see there that they're easily removable so if you need to replace these fans after some time that shouldn't be too hard to do on the back of the graphics card you'll see here a there's a really awesome backplate with some rgb illumination over here and there are only six screws holding the cooler on you can see there are the two here by the vrm and then you've got the four around the actual gpu so this is going to be a very easy graphics card to maintain but let's get back to this angle because you can see here is a metal plate that stretches along the pcb which will help with gpu sag and it's actually screwed into the pci express bracket so that's really interesting it actually wraps all the way around the card you can see it over here as well and it actually makes thermal contact with the components so it does help with cooling as well which is so amazing on the front of the graphics card you can see here you've got two pwm fan headers so you can use that if you just want to completely ruin the cable management in your case we've got one eight pin power connector and yeah just such a sexy cooler let's actually end this off by doing a quick peel here oh yeah look at that back plate so with that let's have a look at what kind of performance we're getting from this roid rage version of the rx 580 at 1080p with a mixture of medium and high settings depending on which game we're running now let's have a closer look at the performance of some of these games before we get into the conclusion starting off with escape from tarkov now i never included in the normal benchmarks because the performance of that game meanders all over the place like a drunken elephant and then it murders a tourist and just passes out on your camp you're never going to get a consistent result from that game but at 1080p on customs it runs really well you're getting above 60 frames per second on average and it feels great now i think one of the big saving graces of this graphics card is the fact that there's an eight gig version available because a game like escape from top uses quite a lot of vram and it means that the polaris gpu is pretty future proofed here even on more demanding maps like reserve the frame rate drops a bit but it still runs perfectly fine moving over to gta 5 now this is a 1080p with high settings the settings aren't cracked or anything but you're getting high refresh rate gaming here which is really cool and it's one of the few games that actually pulls that off and it's one of the points that i want to address later on now before we move on to the next game let's just have a look at this amazing underbridge flight that i pulled off here oh yeah look at that you're impressed i can i can tell now moving over to fortnite it doesn't run that well at epic settings you're struggling to average about 60 frames per second but if you drop it to high settings then it runs quite a bit better you're still not getting like over 100 frames per second average which is better for competitive games but it is very playable and you can drop the settings further now finally i just want to have a quick look at a more demanding modern game assassin's creed now assassin's creed again runs very well at high settings at 1080p on this graphics card it only starts really struggling when you throw in like ultra high settings then the frame rates do start to chug a bit but it's holding up very well oh and quickly before we get into the discussion about what i want from the next generation of sub 200 graphics cards i just want to quickly mention the temperatures on the strix version of the rx 580 as you could see from all of the gameplay footage it was actually it was running pretty hot now bear in mind that the ambient temperature was about 28 degrees celsius in the room so that's fairly hot and uh the fan speed was only running at 40 percent fan speed so it was very quiet and if you want lower temperatures you can just crank the fans more yeah there's definitely still headroom in that cooler but i was kind of expecting lower temperatures now as you can see from these benchmarks this geriatric graphics card architecture holds up really well in 2020 especially when it comes to 1080p 60 frames per second gaming which is the resolution that people use on a budget so that may have you thinking darbit why do you want a lot more power for this price range then if the rx 580 already does a great job even with more demanding modern titles at 1080p 60 frames per second well that's the thing i think there's one big difference between the pc hardware landscape today as opposed to four years ago and that's the fact that 1080p high refresh rate gaming monitors are becoming much more affordable even good ips ones don't cost that much money anymore so it becomes reasonable to pair a high refresh rate 1080p display with a sub 200 graphics card and that's why i think we need more power and a 100 plus frame per second gaming beast at 200 dollars is gonna be a pretty big game changer in my opinion for the budget gamer so to summarize what i'm thinking with all of this for the last four years we've been getting roughly the same sub 200 gaming performance so hopefully with the next generation we're not going to get just 20 more for the same cost but we can jump a whole tier in performance going from like 60 plus frames per second at 1080p to like a hundred plus frames per second at 1080p that's a pretty big ask but hopefully we can get high refresh rate 1080p gaming performance with not super low settings for sub 200. let me know in the comment section below if you think that this is a reasonable request i have no information pertaining to whether or not this is actually going to happen and we're probably going to have to wait till next year before we get these budget cards of the next generation but yeah i think that would be pretty exciting so with that thank you very much for watching if you like this video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and follow me on whatever social media you like i'll have it all linked in the description below and until the next video bye