This is probably the year that AMD Radeon will fill us with surprises, since CES 2020 we managed to see the announcement of the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT models, a model that points to Full HD content at its best, it is here that the complete series is seen from Navi to what is mid-range, this in conjunction with the Radeon RX 5500 series models. Today, January 21, AMD officially launches the Radeon RX 5600 XT model, which we have under review below under Sapphire.
This new architecture of Radeon has managed to develop an interesting space in the market, both in the mid-range (very desired by the industry), as well as the highest range, as well as by the rumors of what could be the new “Big Navi “
But let’s see what this RDNA architecture is about which Navi is based on.
Of all this performance gain, 60% corresponds to the increase in operating frequencies, 25% to the gain of using a 7nm process, and only 15% to improvements in design and consumption.
Like all new architecture, as they have done with Zen in the CPUs, AMD has planned the RDNA architecture for several years, and they are already planning their second version for next year, with the improved 7nm process (7nm +).
There are currently 400Millions of Radeon products in the world, now Radeon will be present in 5 business verticals, PCs, Mac (New Mac Pro), Consoles (XBOX “Scarlet” and PS5), Cloud (Google Stadia) and Mobile (thanks to a agreement with Samsung). All of these will be supported by Navi-based GPUs, in some of their variants.
As mentioned, Navi is the name of this family of GPUs, which has as highlights: 7nm manufacturing, use of 14Gbps GDDR6 memories, which grant up to 448GB / s of bandwidth, support for PCie 4.0 increasing the width of band available to the CPU, and finally the use of the new RDNA architecture, with improvements in efficiency and performance.
Among the new things that RDNA includes, we can highlight 3: New Computing unit, Multilevel cache hierarchy, and a new graphic pipeline more orderly and faster. The sum of these 3 characteristics will give RDNA-based GPUs a better performance when performing tasks, which will result in better performance in our games and applications.
NAVI: What’s new that incorporates
Let’s look at other features of these new GPUs.
Along with being based on a new architecture called RDNA, Navi GPUs will have a new and improved Multimedia Engine, in addition to a new Display Engine.
This new Display Engine, supports HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4 HDR, capable of extracting 8K 60Hz video, or 4K 240Hz, all this without the need to use 2 cables. In this way, the use of cables on the desk is optimized, in addition to being able to better manage energy consumption.
The new Multimedia Engine improves the support of the current codecs, in addition to providing HDR / WCG support to the HEVC codec, along with supporting 8K 24FPS.
Finally, a summary of the new RDNA architecture: New computing units, Multilevel cache hierarchy, for low latency, bandwidth and low consumption, and finally a more orderly and efficient Pipeline, capable of providing better performance at high frequencies
With the purpose of sincere information with users, AMD chose to create the so-called Game Clock, this new attribute is more than anything the minimum average frequency, at which the GPU would operate constantly under load, such as a game. This does not mean that it will never reach the Boost Clock frequency, but it is the typical frequency that one will be able to see when playing.
Specification and Hashrate
| specs | AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT | Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT 6GB | AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 590 | AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT | AMD Radeon RX 580 | NVIDIA GTX 1660 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 7 nm | 7 nm | 12 nm | 7 nm | 14 nm | 12 nm |
| GPU | Navi 10 | Navi 10 | Navi 10 | Polaris 30 | Navi 14 | Polaris 20 | TU116 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 64 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 48 |
| Texture Units | 160 | 144 | 144 | 144 | 88 | 144 | 88 |
| Shaders | 2560 | 2304 | 2304 | 2304 | 1408 | 2304 | 1408 |
| Core clock | 1605 MHz | 1420 MHz | 1130 MHz | 1469 MHz | 1717 MHz | 1257 MHz | 1530 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1755 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1560 MHz | 1545 MHz | 1845 MHz | 1340 MHz | 1785 MHz |
| Memory Frequency | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1500 MHz | 2000 MHz | 1750 MHz | 2000 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Memory | 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit | 6GB, GDDR6, 192-bit | 6GB, GDDR6, 192-bit | 8GB, GDDR5, 256-bit | 4GB / 8GB GDDR6, 128-bit | 4 GB / 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit | 6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit |
| Connectors | 1x 8-pin, 1x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| TDP | 225W | 150 W | 150 W | 175 W | 130W | 185 W | 120W |
| Price | $ 399 | $ 279 | $ 180 | 8GB: $ 200 4GB: $ 170 | $ 160 | $ 210 |
First look.
The model aesthetically has nothing to envy of the model we saw in Radeon RX 5700 XT, itself offers a backplate with air outlets and cuts to access the PCIe power connectors and BIOS switch.
It is already very common to see 3x Display Port and 1x HDMI.
1x 8 pin for auxiliary power connector.
As we saw in the rear view, at the edge near the video outputs we find a Dual BIOS switch that will deliver two modes, Performance and silent, which in addition to changing the fan activation curve are also configured differently GPU frequencies
Testing and Methodology Platform.
| Test Platform | |
|---|---|
| Processor | – Intel Core i7 8086K |
| Motherboard | – ASUS ROG Maximus X Apex |
| Memories | – G. Skill TridentZ 2x8GB 3200MHz |
| Refrigeration | – EK-XLC Predator 240 |
| Graphics card | – Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT 6GB |
| Power supply | – Corsair RM1000X |
| Storage | – Corsair MP600 1TB SSD M.2 |
| Monitor | – ASUS MG28UQ |
- Windows 10 Pro x64 operating system [Versión 1903].
- The tests were performed in an environment with a temperature of approximately 25 ° C.
- The platform was used without a cabinet.
- The drivers used for the graphics cards were: Adrenalin Edition 20.1.1 [RX 5600XT]
- The resolutions of the synthetic tests are the default ones for each of the benchmarks.
- The real test resolutions are 1920 × 1080 and 3820 × 2160 with all the maximum available graphics in each game.
Synthetic tests
Real tests
Overclocking.
As has happened with other AMD Radeon releases, the first drivers deliver little or no overclocking potential, decreasing performance despite the fact that the software delivers higher values than the video card brings by default.
We will wait for a more complete driver to do the tests relevant to this section.
Consumption and temperature.
Focusing on consumption, this new Navi model develops 147W at maximum load, this of the 150W of TDP that it has as a design. Achieving develop consumption within the parameters of TDP would give us an excellent relationship between the dissipated temperature with which it is generated, a relationship that is not seen very often in AMD Radeon, where previous models far exceeded what by thermal design could dissipate .
Already passing the temperature of this Radeon RX 5600XT model, at rest the GPU develops 57 ° C, this with the fans completely stopped (0%), while at maximum load it reached 67 ° C with the fans activating at 40 % of its maximum power. At rest, the fan activation curve may be improved, since 57 ° C could be a bit excessive, anything the Adrenaline suite delivers all these tools, not to mention that for a Sapphire model there is additionally the Sapphire TRIXX software.
Conclusion.
As it is always a bit complex to comment on a newly launched AMD Radeon model in the first instance, as we saw earlier in the Radeon RX 5500 XT the controllers are not always polished, so in the user experience it tends to give some minor problems.
The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT is the model that unites two very well defined segments, we talk about the user who is looking for the right and necessary for their platform and the user who aims to have something above the standards we have today. For an experience in 1080p with all ultra settings, this new Navi model is accurate.
Regarding the answer given by Sapphire for this AMD Radeon model, it continues to maintain its standards to what is component quality, the cooling system is very solid (obviously depending on the use of each component), finishes well finished, and cooling elements well above what we usually see on a video card of this TDP (3x heatpipe, robust end-to-end heatsink, memory dissipation), not to mention also that the Pulse series points to the mid-range of his series.
The 6GB of VRAM offered by this Radeon model are very good for 1080p content, when it was taken to a stage in 2160p you can see some drops of FPS in some considerable cases, although as we mentioned the drivers tended to limit the good experience with the video card, so it will be necessary to perform a review again when these drivers are more finished, this applicable for the entire RX 5000 series. In Resident Evil 2 the instability of the drivers was felt more, we will be very attentive in the updates of these to see how this RX 5600 XT should perform.
Price
Undoubtedly this model felt much better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT model, in price issues to be more specific, with a launch price of $ 279 leaving it $ 20 below an updated RTX 2060 model, we must not forget that NVIDIA recently under the price of $ 350 to $ 299 probably for the launch of this model, along with this the performance is quite close in some instances even with not very finished drivers, it is expected that more polished should experience greater gain of performance.
AMD became strong within the component market, its processors that others say that they have achieved great dominance within the market and now begin to open a space with their GPUs, hopefully see a competitive struggle within this market that has been dominated by the side Green for a long time now.
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