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all right power color right red red devil uh-huh Radeon rx 580 hey look it's a new video card from AMD it just launched today if you're watching this at the time of upload how exciting alright so in particular we're gonna be talking about the rx 580 today however it does fall within the rx 500 series there are two other cards I believe that launched today as well the RX 570 and rx 550 and this is very exciting stuff now for those of you who are unaware the rx 500 series is essentially a polaris refresh so this is using the same GPU as we saw in the RX 4 80 for example however there have been some minor improvements to make it a bit more appealing now this is in no way something that you should upgrade to if you have an Rx for 80 currently I've already run about five games comparing this to an Rx for 80 Strix from Asus and there's only about a one to three percent performance bump with the Red Devil here so this is really targeted or aimed at consumers or users who have had their graphics card for meetings maybe two plus years who are looking to upgrade would maybe be starting to feel the sluggish woes of their video card or their whole system and who may potentially want to jump into the foray of 1440p gaming but are on a relatively tight budget and can't spend more than 250 bucks or so MSRP of this card in particular is very attractive at 230 dollars u.s. at the time of filming that's that's very competitive and it also positions it right in line with the gtx 1066 hereby variant from good ol Nvidia so which one should you get I don't know we're not going to answer that in this video but I will give you my opinions and feedback on the RX 580 after I've used it for a bit by the end of all of this so very exciting stuff here actually why am i filling the box the cards right here you guys thought the card was in the Box the whole time didn't you yeah I'm sneaky but here here's the card very nice card actually it's not too long I like it so she said it's about seven or eight inches long so it can still fit into some tight spaces oh man I'm gonna roll today basically what you need to know about the 500 series is that it's it's rocking a newer generation of FinFET 14 so it's gonna lead to some better performance per watt it's definitely a bit more power efficient than the RX 4 80 was and you've also got some higher clock speeds and AMD is kind of dialed in some higher clock speeds out of the box here I believe this one in particular it will since its factory overclocked that's also a bit higher as well so I think 13 and 80 megahertz on the core clock is what we're rocking here with this particular variant that's about three percent higher than the reference clock speed of thirteen hundred and forty megahertz so a nice little boost there thanks to power color but the other things I wanted to say about the 500 series they do support these various technologies including the direct 12 hour Direct X 12 and Vulcan ap is now know how much you guys have heard about Radeon chill but just to touch on it really quickly if your character is not moving in game or standing really still chill will pick up on that and actually drop your FPS because you don't really need it all that much let's say you're camping or something and and that basically saves a lot of power or it saves power and it can save a lot depending on the game that you're playing but that in turn can also lower your temperature is quite a bit so the only downside is that there's only a few games right now that are whitelisted for this technology with hopefully more games to be supported in the near future we've also got free sync to now how awesome is free sync to I mean not only are you attacking as lower frame rates that you weren't able to get with free sync one but it's just a much cheaper technology to actually get in your house I mean I've seen free sync panels go as low as like a hundred and something dollars but you don't see that with a GC supported display it just doesn't happen so especially if you're targeting a card like this for around two hundred and thirty bucks you're probably not gonna most want to spend an arm and a leg on a monitor so I mean hey this is a really great option for budget gamers who still want that adaptive refresh rate the other thing that's nice about the rx 580 over the gtx 1066 gigabyte variant is that it's got eight gigs of gddr5 so especially if you're playing at 1440p it's nice to have that additional frame buffer man it does come in handy believe it or not and it can really drop your frame rate or your frame times if you don't have enough that be ram so that's also another big perk here so I think on that note I'm ready to pop this guy in the test bed or in the other test build that we have here let's talk about that really quick we've got a define s from fractal design they've also provided the power supply here the fractal Newton 600 watts it's an old unit had a few years but it still works we've also got a 7600 K from Intel to Core i5 KB Lake overclocked to 4.8 gigahertz at one point three five bolts on a hyper 212 turbo from coolermaster we've got an MSI Z 270 gaming Pro carbon for our motherboard 16 gigs it's a 2 by 8 gig kit of G scale trite NZ 3200 that's ddr4 of course and it is operating at that rated frequency and drive right here is the Rd 400 a 1 terabyte m2 SSD nvme baby from good ol Toshiba ocz Hales yeah all right I say we get this card locked and loaded fire up some 1440p games and see what she's made of you know what Before we jump into some games why don't we overclock this guy and see how far we can take her how about that that sounds fun let's go ahead and max at our power limit temp limits already maxed out on the slider so again we're operating at thirteen hundred and eighty mega Hertz right here on the core clock out of the box I'm gonna go ahead and let's see if we can do fourteen hundred and twenty blaze it okay I know it's only been a few seconds but I'm impatient cuz I'm filming a video so I'm gonna go ahead and crank it up to fourteen hundred and thirty fourteen hundred and forty come on fourteen hundred and forty this is for gaming at 1440p we have to be able to hit 1440 megahertz it's only right dare I try fourteen hundred and fifty I did okay I'm gonna call it a fourteen hundred and fifty megahertz right here guys I think that's pretty good we've got two let's see what is that a 70 megahertz offset from thirteen hundred and eighty to fourteen hundred and fifty I'm cool with that let's go ahead and overclock our mammaries here I think this maxes out at 2500 if I'm not mistaken which Oh 20 250 sorry which I'm gonna go ahead and say yes on that let's see if we're in good shape which it looks like we are I'm not seeing any artifacting so I'm gonna I'm gonna just say this is a really quick overclock quick and dirty overclock I'm gonna say it's stable it could very well not be but that's what I'm gonna go with for now so let's just jump of this games if it crashes it crashes we'll go back to the drawing board and readjust our settings here but I think we're good for some games so the first game I want to play here is doom 2016 let's so let's go ahead and jump into the campaign and we're gonna do who should we do let's do volcán hey let's just do some bulk in here folk and I got I got a restart give me a sec okay so other video settings here 2560 by 1440 anti-aliasing we're doing SMA a1 TX overall quality ultra I think we can do altra now I'm gonna try to enlarge the frame counter in the right corner in post-production so hopefully you can see it but we're getting around 80 to 90 frames per second right now which is pretty killer see you here in the 70s so this is always I always look at this this artifact here in this little like thingy in the middle because it usually drops the frame rate pretty nice so you can see we're getting like 7080 right now if you look at other parts of this room we're getting 8090 let's go ahead and fight some demons my favorite thing to do in doom boom poor place to spawn buddy unwise so we're getting around 7080 right now seventy to ninety seems to be the the range which is not bad at all it's incredibly smooth and I don't know the keenest eyes either like this this feels like a gtx 1080i to me a guy i experience no difference like once you get above like 75 FPS for me it's all it's all the same and some of you guys might be completely different be able to actually feel that sort of granular difference there but this feels exceptional to me so I'm giving doom a big fat pass for the RX 580 when it comes to 1440p gaming we were seeing again a range of 70 to 90 fps in that little section that we played which is absolutely fantastic let's go ahead and try GTA 5 now it's a little bit more difficult I believe will do 2x MSAA I could imagine a lot of people gaming it no you know what I'm gonna take msaa off because we're at 2560 by 1440 it's really not worth the performance hit there everything else is on very high which is a little unnecessary there are a couple things we can turn down here grass does not have to be high at all I'll say soft - shadows tessellation doesn't really affect performance much in this game 25 okay vsync is off gotta restart BRB so now we're here in GTA 5 of course we're getting around 40 to 50 fps it looks like the game still looks absolutely beautiful frame rates aren't nearly as high as they were in Doom but overall overall tracking and overall movement is relatively fluid and it's not quite as fluid as doom obviously but it's very playable oh my god I think my overclocks too high all right I'm cranking this down to 1430 and let's just take the memory down - we'll just we'll just leave this at 2100 for now all right well we'll see how that treats us but that's okay that we're jumping back in here that we crashed out because that sort of gives me another opportunity to tweak the settings a bit more and see if we can squeeze a bit more performance out of this game because I'm not quite satisfied with that forty to fifty that means in in really taxing areas we might even dip into the 30s which can add a little bit of chop chop to the experience which is no bueno so let's go ahead and go back to the drawing board here all right round two this is uh getting around 60 FPS right now in the high 50s low 60s looks like we're about 10 FPS on average higher than we were before we tweak the settings a bit again just a testament to how scalable this game is and it still looks really nice even though we've kind of now mixed the settings between very high and high there's kind of a nice blend there the game still looks way better than a console which I guess doesn't say much but just looking at it you know that this is PC grade graphics view that you're looking at it still looks really nice and hitting that 60 FPS mark really does make a nice difference a noticeable difference to me then when you're sort of hovering below that I'm gonna give GTA 5 a pass for the RX 580 1440p hell yeah just tweak some settings and you're good to go I think most people would be happy with this level of performance for sure especially given the price point of this card again battlefield one here we go this is gonna be the last game that we play today for this little test here and I'm gonna go ahead and say let's do let's do high well we'll do high settings first and we'll so we'll see what what happens there I don't think we need to change the framerate loader I doubt we'll be getting to the 200 zone but let's go ahead and see what we can do here I'm just gonna fire up the first level here for the opening scene there's quite a bit going on yep okay looks like we're at 70 75 mid-70s Oh a 90s okay Wow 70s to the 90s 70 to 90 range I wasn't really expecting that it's pretty good actually oh I forgot to look at where I was going because I was looking at the frame rate counter oh dude oh you guys are probably getting a better idea of how the game is performing than I am because my hands are sort of full at the moment but look at that oh we dip into the 50s oh why are you so slow overloading that's cuz I'm dying I'm about to die help no 44 oh look at that dips into the 40's so interesting some some some harsh dips into the 40's there but for the most part we're rocking rocking in the seventies and eighties own it's pretty sweet actually okay how am I not dead yet if this is a real battle I would have died five like ten lifetimes except my guy sorry guy if that was you know I think it was okay I should I should die now I should there we go okay I think we have a little bit more Headroom here so I say we crank it up to ultra see what happens and looks like we're in the 60s 60 70s still pretty good actually Wow not bad you let's see if we can get it to drop into the 30s if there's like a big explosion there's a big explosion I'll run into it which is never advised in a real life situation but oh my gosh there's so many people oh wait hey whoa we dropped into the 50s right there oh boy yep we're in the 50s we're in the 50s now the hell's going on I can't see anything up drop in the 40s okay well that's a that's a pass for me battlefield one can definitely handle 1440p with the RX 580 granite this is overclocked but I'm pretty sure you can do it right out of the box as well well hey that was super fun and I did have gpu-z running the whole time so fourteen hundred and fifty megahertz was the highest core clock we hit although that was with the unstable overclock that I had set so really you're looking at fourteen hundred and thirty megahertz which still isn't bad and seventy five degrees Celsius is the hottest our Red Devil got up to it could be better but it's it's not bad it's definitely not bad well well below eighty degrees is always nice and it looks like we were consistently at a hundred percent GPU load which means we weren't bottlenecked by our 7600 K in any way so what are my overall thoughts on the rx 580 well so far my thoughts have been overwhelmingly positive because in the hour and a half that I was gaming with this card while making this video I was really surprised and quite frankly impressed with the frame rates that it was able to pull off for 230 bucks this is a better value than the Asus Strix our X 480 that I was testing with it earlier it outperforms that card it has better power efficiency and it supports the latest technologies from AMD all together making it a really nice package for budget gamers who still want to branch outside of the realm of 1080p gaming for 1440p gamers I mean this really puts 1440 within the realm within reach of a lot of gamers who don't have a thousand plus bucks to spend on a full system I'd say you could probably get away with a 7 to $800 build and still play 1440p games over 60fps with the use of this card not the Red Devil per se and by the way this is not like a green light on the red devil variant of the Oryx 580 I'm just talking about the 580 I have not done a full review of the power color red devil so no way am i recommending this variant yet so there's time about the 580 here but it's overall very very solid very solid GPU and honestly again if you have an AR X 480 do not upgrade to the 580 it's not it just doesn't make sense however if you were considering the 480 then get this instead it's a much better Buy in my opinion again I would still need to test this also against the gtx 1066 gig variant from nvidia and it'd be interesting to see how this stacks up against those cards with the newer the faster memory clocks that have just been announced not too long ago so overall GG AMD keep on keeping on and pumping out good hardware as you have been lately and can't wait for Vega Vega is the next big thing that's gonna be a different architecture that's super exciting and is probably gonna Moore's more so compete with nvidia z' higher-end cards so that should be really fun to test out when it comes around but that's gonna do it for now guys that's what I think about the rx 580 and I'm really happy that it does pull off 1440p gaming very well but you guys let me know what you think in the comments below also feel free to toss me a like on this video if you enjoyed it it does help me a lot also before you go you can head over to my store where I'm selling shirts and other goodies or you can check out bit wit ultra my early access ad-free channel the first two weeks are completely free and if you decide to stay on it's only a dollar fifty a month so you can go ahead and check that out when you've got some time but that's gonna do it for me guys thank you so much for watching as always have a great day and I'll see you guys in the next one