The Radeon RX 5600 XT uses AMD’s cutting-edge Navi GPU to hit PC gaming’s sweet spot - tolmanwruch2000

AMD's stunning Ryzen 4000-series laptop processors might have stolen the record at the company's CES 2020 keynote, opening a new front in the war with Intel, but CPUs didn't steal the entire spotlight. On Mon, AMD's graphics division announced the Radeon RX 5600 Crosstalk, a high-performance 1080p nontextual matter scorecard designed to slot between the 1440p-focused Radeon RX 5700 serial and the more mainstream Radeon RX 5500 XT. Information technology takes a direct shot at Nvidia's lucrative confection-spot art cards, the at $230 GeForce GTX 1660 Super and $280 GTX 1660 Ti.

There wasn't some left to actually give away after abundant leaks from AMD partners spoiled the surprise during the last couple of weeks. Full fleshed-kayoed product pages detailed everything from clock speeds to core counts ahead of the announcement, and with all of AMD's Radeon RX 5500-serial publication art card game enjoying the same underlying "Navi" RDNA architecture features (like PCIe 4.0 support and a cutting-butt display engine), the only real interrogation unexhausted was the card's pricing. It's competitive: $279.

That equals the price of the GeForce GTX 1660 Cordyline terminalis, and supported the early benchmarks revealed by AMD, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should best it. (Infix prerequisite "take all vendor-provided benchmarks with a metric grain of salt until independently verified" here.) Simply the $230-plus GTX 1660 Super is almost as fast as the GTX 1660 Atomic number 2, and spell AMD says information technology beat generation straight-grained heavily overclocked versions of that card, the margin of that claimed victory will piddle a difference in this price-radiosensitive production segment.

But enough toll talk! Onto the graphics batting order itself.

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is essentially a down-clocked version of the $350 Radeon RX 5700 with a reduced memory board configuration. Its 36 cipher units plurality the unvarying 2,304 stream central processor bet, but clocked a good deal lower, at 1375 game and 1560 supercharge clocks. By comparison, the reference Radeon RX 5700 hit 1625MHz game clocks (the typical clock speeds you can expect to see piece gaming).

And while the pricier RX 5700-series unbroken their GPUs fed with 8GB of GDDR6 RAM over a 256-spot memory bus, the new Radeon RX 5600 XT sticks to 6GB of 12Mbps GDDR6 memory over a 192-snatch bus. Don't scoff, though: Moving to faster GDDR6 memory gives the Radeon RX 5600 XT an whole retentiveness bandwidth of 288GBps, piece the older Radeon RX 590's GDDR5 RAM only slay 256GBps overall bandwidth despite using a wider 256-snatch bus and a larger 8GB capacity.

The memory should be fine for 1080p gaming even at maximum graphics settings, in other quarrel, equaling the remembering bandwidth of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. The GeForce GTX 1660 Big hits 336GBps thanks to its faster-clocked 14Mbps GDDR6 memory.

The move to GDDR6 and improvements in the Navi computer architecture help the Radeon RX 5600 XT exist much more power efficient than the add-in it's replacing, too. After years of lagging ALIR behind Nvidia, the Radeon RX 5000-series finally pulled ahead of GeForce GPUs in efficiency, atomic number 3 tested on the 5700 and 5500 GPUs. We expect the Radeon RX 5600 XT to continue the slew.

In a briefing with journalists forwards of its keynote, AMD said its new GPU is faster than Nvidia's GTX 1660 duo by up more than 30 percent dependent on the back, though it admits that IT Crataegus laevigata be closer to middle- to low-lonesome digits in some titles. Different game engines respond differently to Nvidia and AMD's architectures. And compared to the older GeForce GTX 1060, the most touristed nontextual matter add-in in Steam's hardware survey, well, it's a bloodbath.

Expect to see triple-A games hit north of 60 frames per second—well north, in many—and esports games to topmost 120fps on the Radeon RX 5600 Crosstalk, AMD says. And, yes, that's with all visual settings cranked to the goop.

The various software features built into AMD's superb Radeon Software Adrenaline 2020 Edition, like Radeon Rise, Radeon Anti-Lag, and Radeon Effigy Sharpening, can helper improve performance even more. As always, nonetheless, we counsel waiting for independent reviews before plopping down your cash.

The Radeon RX 5600 XT's rollout mirrors that of the Radeon RX 5500 XT. A full array of customized mate models will be getable at plunge, only nary reference design from AMD itself. (The image at the top of this clause is placeholder art provided aside AMD for illustrative purposes.) Meanwhile, a not-XT version of the Radeon RX 5600 will be made available exclusively for OEMs like Horsepower and Dell with four fewer compute units (32 in the RX 5600 versus 36 in the RX 5600 XT). A mobile Radeon RX 5600M will also be forthcoming to duet nicely with those new Ryzen 4000 chips in laptops.