What's immediately clear from the brace of RX 580s is that the push for higher performance comes at a cost.
Expect to pay more for the higher-end versions like the MSI Gaming 8G and Sapphire Nitro versions we tested. Prices for the Radeon RX 580 begin at £185 for the 4GB version of the card, rising to £220 for the preferred 8GB version of the card. Reference clocks and peak performance are noted below, along with spec boosts from each of our custom RX 580s. Clocks are improved over the 480 and TDP rises as a result, but otherwise it's a similar product. AMD Radeon RX 580 specsīased on the same Polaris 10 graphics core as RX 480, this is a respun version based on a third-gen iteration of the 14nm FinFET product produced by AMD. These are frequencies higher than any Polaris card we've seen before, and 57MHz faster than the MSI's maximum 'out of the box' clocks. The Sapphire sample in particular is fascinating owing to a mammoth, weighty heat sink arrangement and boost clocks that hit a remarkable 1450MHz with no overclocking required. Alongside it, we have two RX 480s - factory-overclocked Sapphire and MSI samples. Pairing your graphics card with one of the best gaming monitors is also important, so check out our latest picks!įor the purposes of this review, AMD sent us three samples - at the lower end, we have the Asus Strix RX 570, its 32 compute units reaching a maximum of 1300MHz. Thinking about upgrading your gaming PC? Take a look at our recommendations for the best graphics cards on the market. Looking over the benchmark data, it seems that AMD's primary aim with the RX 580 is to more closely challenge the GTX 1060 as the performance winner in the mainstream GPU sector, while pushing RX 570 up to and beyond GTX 970 frame-rates, giving both GTX 1050 Ti and the 3GB version of the GTX 1060 a run for their money. That said, AMD gets a lot of heat for what are often palmed off as 'rebrands', but at the end of the day, we all buy new gaming graphics cards because we're looking for a boost to gaming frame-rates, or the ability to run at higher resolutions with richer visual effects in play. And to be frank, that's fine with us - just don't go into a 570/580 purchase thinking you're getting the new AMD Vega technology, because you're not. There's the same complement of 32 and 36 compute units respectively, power efficiency is diminished in the quest for higher frequencies and by extension, the emphasis this time is on increased performance. Actual individual game clock results may vary.AMD call it Polaris refined, but to all intents and purposes, RX 570 and RX 580 are indeed upclocked versions of their predecessors. ‘Game Frequency’ is the expected GPU clock when running typical gaming applications, set to typical TGP (Total Graphics Power).
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