[SOLVED] Sapphire pulse RX 580 8GB vs Sapphire Pulse RX 5500XT 8GB

[KaiserPhantasma]

Going out to town tomorrow to buy a new GPU cause the current one seems to be reaching it's end of life (suddenly no display/sudden black screen but the rest of the rig still runs fine)

And yeah... that's pretty much the only thing I can exchange for now since I'm not buying any new rig soon thanks to my display limitations (1080p 60 fps) so why bother buying a new rig only to be held back by the display (at least in my situation)

These are my currently existing parts

Specs:
Motherboard: MSI Z87 Mpower MAX
Processor: Intel 4670k Processor
Cooler: Noctua NH-D15
Graphics Card: MSI Twin frozr iii 7970 OC/BE
SSD: Samsung SSD 840 PRO drive128gb
HDD: Seagate barracuda 3tb
RAM: Corsair DDR 3 Vengeance 8x2 1600mhz
PSU: Corsair AX 760 (Platinum Rated)
Case: Corsair 300r

 

[madmatt30]

Virtually the same card, the 5500xt is maybe 5% stronger in the odd title.

So my answer would be whichever is cheaper.

 

[jeremyj_83]

Going out to town tomorrow to buy a new GPU cause the current one seems to be reaching it's end of life (suddenly no display/sudden black screen but the rest of the rig still runs fine)

And yeah... that's pretty much the only thing I can exchange for now since I'm not buying any new rig soon thanks to my display limitations (1080p 60 fps) so why bother buying a new rig only to be held back by the display (at least in my situation)

These are my currently existing parts

Specs:
Motherboard: MSI Z87 Mpower MAX
Processor: Intel 4670k Processor
Cooler: Noctua NH-D15
Graphics Card: MSI Twin frozr iii 7970 OC/BE
SSD: Samsung SSD 840 PRO drive128gb
HDD: Seagate barracuda 3tb
RAM: Corsair DDR 3 Vengeance 8x2 1600mhz
PSU: Corsair AX 760 (Platinum Rated)
Case: Corsair 300r

Overall the 5500XT is faster than the 580. https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2577?vs=2524
In regards to the Sapphire cards, the 5500XT is the cheaper of the two as well at $210 vs $219. That said for not much extra money you can get the GTX 1660 Super which is even better at 1080p than the 5500XT. https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2577?vs=2542

 

[KaiserPhantasma]

Thanks for the replies, guess I'll be going out to buy the 5500XT then, hopefully the bottleneck is <10% but I might be looking into overclocking the CPU to squeeze out a bit more juice from it aiding the GPU perform it's best

 

[KaiserPhantasma]

Just to update those the posted/replied here and to have some sense of closure, bought it a few days after 19 and it's working as expected for pure 60 FPS 1080P, quick question though, is it possible it can be "mounted" in wrong and still receive power,output an image and work as intended even though it wasn't mounted properly?

I have another thread dedicated to my said question since it isn't like the card that it replaced where I can see the POST/BIOS screen when booting up, it just shows an image when it's on the windows 10 desktop, here is the link to the said thread https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...-t-with-my-new-5500-xt.3664904/#post-22076110

and these are the new GPU images