Hi,
I'm looking to upgrade my GPU and I have been looking at the Radeon RX 5600 XT but I have some questions about it. I'm looking at the Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT since it seems to be the best all-round 5600 XT at a low price. Is this a good choice? In most of the comparison videos I've watched, the reviewers seem to be using it as the 5600 XT reference. Also, since most of the 5600 XT cards are getting the BIOS update to unlock faster speed it is also making them require more power. Does that make them run hotter than they did before the update? My room can get quite hot during the hotter months, which have already arrived. It can go up to 34°C. But it's a well enough ventilated room. My current GPU gets to about 70°C while gaming.
As an alternative, is the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC 6GB any good? The Sapphire isn't available anywhere right, I'm guessing due to the lockdown. Of course, I plan to wait and see if it comes back in stock soon after the lockdown is lifted. But in case it doesn't, is the Gigabyte one worth getting. It is pretty much the same price as the Sapphire but I've noticed its website doesn't show the upgraded specs so I'm not sure if it's getting the BIOS update.
I have noticed that the 5600 XT cards are all 192-bit. My current GPU, the Asus GTX760 DC2 OC, has 256-bit so obviously I'm downgrading there. But will that be a problem playing newer games? I mostly want to play in Very High settings, if not Ultra so I'm worried about it clashing with newer games. I'm mostly worried about Red Dead Redemption 2 which is a pretty resource hungry game. It'd be a shame if I don't get experience it in most of its graphical glory if not all.
Also, if anyone wants to wants to make a case for the 1660 Super, I'm listening. I had been planning on going for that at first since I lean towards Nvidia and also since it's much cheaper than the 5600 XT. But I'm willing to break my preference and go for AMD if it's better, which the 5600 XT seems to be. In a benchmarking site, it said that the 1660 super will bottleneck RDR2 with my system whereas the 5600 XT won't. But I am a bit worried about how it'd work. I've heard AMD has driver issues now and then that keep some games from running. Also, since I haven't used AMD before I don't if certain graphical enhancements that work for Nvidia works for AMD too, or if AMD has an alternate setting, such as Physx. By getting AMD, will I be missing out on those enhancements? Or is AMD worth sacrificing those enhancements?
My specs are:-
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Asus B450-E Gaming motherboard
G.Skill Trident Z 3200MHz 2x8GB RAM
DELL IN2020M 20inch monitor
Corsair TX650M 650W PSU
Thanks for reading.
I'm looking to upgrade my GPU and I have been looking at the Radeon RX 5600 XT but I have some questions about it. I'm looking at the Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT since it seems to be the best all-round 5600 XT at a low price. Is this a good choice? In most of the comparison videos I've watched, the reviewers seem to be using it as the 5600 XT reference. Also, since most of the 5600 XT cards are getting the BIOS update to unlock faster speed it is also making them require more power. Does that make them run hotter than they did before the update? My room can get quite hot during the hotter months, which have already arrived. It can go up to 34°C. But it's a well enough ventilated room. My current GPU gets to about 70°C while gaming.
As an alternative, is the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC 6GB any good? The Sapphire isn't available anywhere right, I'm guessing due to the lockdown. Of course, I plan to wait and see if it comes back in stock soon after the lockdown is lifted. But in case it doesn't, is the Gigabyte one worth getting. It is pretty much the same price as the Sapphire but I've noticed its website doesn't show the upgraded specs so I'm not sure if it's getting the BIOS update.
I have noticed that the 5600 XT cards are all 192-bit. My current GPU, the Asus GTX760 DC2 OC, has 256-bit so obviously I'm downgrading there. But will that be a problem playing newer games? I mostly want to play in Very High settings, if not Ultra so I'm worried about it clashing with newer games. I'm mostly worried about Red Dead Redemption 2 which is a pretty resource hungry game. It'd be a shame if I don't get experience it in most of its graphical glory if not all.
Also, if anyone wants to wants to make a case for the 1660 Super, I'm listening. I had been planning on going for that at first since I lean towards Nvidia and also since it's much cheaper than the 5600 XT. But I'm willing to break my preference and go for AMD if it's better, which the 5600 XT seems to be. In a benchmarking site, it said that the 1660 super will bottleneck RDR2 with my system whereas the 5600 XT won't. But I am a bit worried about how it'd work. I've heard AMD has driver issues now and then that keep some games from running. Also, since I haven't used AMD before I don't if certain graphical enhancements that work for Nvidia works for AMD too, or if AMD has an alternate setting, such as Physx. By getting AMD, will I be missing out on those enhancements? Or is AMD worth sacrificing those enhancements?
My specs are:-
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Asus B450-E Gaming motherboard
G.Skill Trident Z 3200MHz 2x8GB RAM
DELL IN2020M 20inch monitor
Corsair TX650M 650W PSU
Thanks for reading.