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we started off our Polaris refresh coverage with the RX 580 review which you can find on the website and channel already that coverage focused on the 1060 and 580 and today we're focusing on the RX 475 70 with a splash of the 1060 and 1050 Ti this review highlights the Gigabyte rx 570 or s card which uses a dual fan cooler medium form factor and the new Polaris updates the BIOS before that this coverage is brought to you by the Computex conference which runs from May 30th to June 3rd in Taipei Taiwan this year Computex is the biggest event of the year for PC hardware and technology where we preview the newest prototypes before they come to market we highly recommend attending or following this event online for industry professionals and enthusiasts learn more at the link in the description below other than BIOS updates that improve idle and relaxed workload power consumption on the 500 series cards like these and this one the gigabyte one for today the other update is increased frequencies stock and increase the voltage Headroom allowed by AMD that the vendors have to actually implement that on their devices and that allows for higher performance overall though marginal in some cases like you'll see here today the increased frequency is a way to get some extra performance out of what's left of Polaris prior to launching Andy's next major line the gigabyte RX 5 70 or s card is priced at $180 right now landing it between the 10 60 the 580 and the 1050 TI cards and those are respectively at around 240 to 250 and around 140 to 165 at the high end for the 1050 TI gigabyte is shipping its rx5 sony RS with clocks at 1295 megahertz in OC mode or 1280 in gaming mode and the rest of the specs are exactly the same as the RX 470 it's only an updated power profile updated by o some updated frequencies and technically you can unlock 400 series cards into 500 series cards with the BIOS flash we started retesting all the cards on our bench for the 1080 TI review so that means the low-end cards are still being retested we've retested the 470 of course the 575 80 is 480 s have been read on the 1061 reads on owns 150 Ti is n read on we still have to work on a few other ones like the 1063 gigabyte and 484 gigabyte but the Delta between the 3 & 6 model and the 4 & 8 model of the 10 16 480 respectively should be the same today as it was originally and we have content on that if you're curious or more before getting started on this just like the 580 review this isn't a new architecture so there's not a whole lot of new stuff to talk about it is the same Polaris just with a few small updates you Ark is the same so this review will be focused entirely on performance that's going to be in power first and thermals and then gaming performance with overclocks included and other than that if you are curious about the architecture of Polaris you can check our original RX 480 review which has all that defined and it has not changed for the 580 and the 570 cards methodology is always is linked in the description below on probably page one or two of the article the full article down there will include 3dmark tests which this video won't have a couple of 1440p tests but otherwise everything is here power draw is measured out in the wall this isn't a perfect way to measure power consumption you'd ideally do it at the rails but since we're looking at total system power with only the GPU swapped where ultimately studying deltas between components and that's enough to figure out where they land with 3dmark fire strike extreme workloads the gigabyte rx 570 horas system draws 260 watts from the wall and that's about 4.8% more than the rx 40 gave an ex from MSI or about 26% more than the rx 470 Platinum Card and about twenty eight point seven percent more than the GTX 960 SSC the rx 580 gaming X system meanwhile draws about eight percent more power than the rx 570 system I'm looking at a few games next for honor posts the RX 570 system at 290 watts from the wall which is an increase of 5% over the our X 480 gaming X and it's also an increase of about 28% over the rx 470 Platinum and an increase about 33% over the 1060 SSE the rx 580 at 310 watts from the wall is drawing 6.8 percent more power than the rx 570 we see more of the same in Ghost Recon with the rx 570 at 279 watts from the wall or about 7.7 percent more than the RX 4 80 27% more than the RX 4 70 and 32 percent more than the GTX tenzig the SSE 6 gigabytes finally idle power draw has the 570 at 75 watts total system power which is an improvement over the 400 series and the RX 470 for example which runs at Sony nine watts in the same configuration resulting in a power reduction of 5% in the 500 series of the 400 series one idle we saw similar with the rx 580 and this is expected and the head tune of the BIOS power profile and voltages set at the RS 500 series draws less power one idle or when in multi monitor and movie viewing scenarios so the 500 series clearly draws quite a bit more power than the 400 series when unloaded scenarios because it's running those higher frequencies and voltages out of the box they're almost go hand in hand in power as the two are directly correlated starting with frequency versus temperature time and fan speed we see that the RX 570 auras GPU runs its temperature against the line of about 76 degrees Celsius with an ever increasing fan rpm that seems to max at around 2300 to keep temperatures to 76 C under a torture scenario clock fluctuations are largely unnoticeable with the line that's nearly flat for the entire duration of the test although the fan increases to sustain this clock rate the user experience and always notwithstanding is better as a result we don't experience noticeable clock range swings and those could introduce stuttering from frequency changes if they were to occur looking at temperatures of the individual components we see that the gigabyte board continues its trend of running a little warmer than its competition from MSI and EVGA but it's not in a way that impacts performance aside from potential and efficiency and power consumption we're looking at temperatures on the vram of about 80 to 84 C with the hottest module with set temperatures of the relatively densely packed BRM left of the GPU at around 80 Celsius adding the msi RX 580 gaming ex to the charts for perspective this is represented by the way by various shades of red on the chart we see Emma size erm vrm and GPU components all hover around 68 to 71 see there are different components at play of course the FETs aren't exactly the same the cooling design is different that means we've got a few variables and we're not anywhere close to 125 C threshold for most pets so performance is fine it's just it's better with MSI and the Twin Frozr cooler this is particularly true for the vram where gigabytes 10 V at 570 aureus use a less impressive cooling solution for the memory flanking the GPU here's a resurrection of our EQ thermals chart which was the GPU temperature to simplify things there's more than a year of data on this chart as you can see here so we're going to crop it in a bit to just the most relevant parts for today the gigabyte RX 570 or s in this crop chart lands at around 40 6.4 Celsius delta T over ambient furloughed or about 4.3 cells these idle this is warmer than the msi RX 580 gaming acts at 41.7 celsius delta T which is running a more aggressive fan profile on these tests the Sapphire rx 470 with reference blower cooler runs at around fifty point three Celsius delta T and that provides perspective on one of the worst coolers that exists for the rx series of cards the RS card certainly isn't impressive in the thermal Dept but it's also $180 time to move on to the game benchmarks most of these will be at 1080p that we did run at several the tests at 1440p you'll find most of those charts in the article below we're focusing on pen ATP for the video today before getting to the test let's look at the OC stepping table we ended up with a stable 1400 megahertz clock for some initial burnin but we had to drop it to 13 90 to sustain a stable clock for most of the games tested doom was a special case where we had the drop clock all the way down to about 1350 to 13 60 megahertz to keep stable because it would just crash on the menu otherwise other games were run at 1390 now that's the fact Andromeda currently has the most cards on the chart the gigabyte rx 570 or s for gigabyte card lands at 62 FPS average 50 fps 1% lows and 47 FPS 0.1% lows these frame times are tightly packed and consistent making for a smooth experience overall and that can be said for nearly all the cards tested with this particular game that lands the rx 570 at about 780 Ti reference card levels and effectively tied with the rx 470 sapphire card the 1050 Ti for comparison is blown away in price performance by the 570 and 470 assuming a 180 dollar price tag on the Auris 570 the 1050 Ti runs about 90% slower than that 570 while the 570 runs about 20% slower than the 580 gaming X or about 28.6% slower than the gtx 1060 SSC overclocked in the RX 570 gets us an improved about 4.3 percent over the stock card considering that we're off to effectively equal performance to a rx 470 in this particular game but five seventy isn't impressive given the relative power draw increase of 25 to 28 percent and we can now look to another title where there's more room for improvement looking now at for honor the rx 570 RS card runs at around 37 FPS average placing it roughly 3.5% ahead of the RS for Sony for gigabyte card and about 35% ahead of the $140 gtx 750ti in other words the 1050 Ti is still oddly position just as it has been since our initial review and doesn't necessarily get a recommendation in most cases we were able to get an actually stable overclock on the Auris 574 once with this game but had to drop our max stable OC by about 10 megahertz to stop obliterating the frame time variants numbers overclocking landed us at about 6% ahead of the stock 570 with only a slight performance detriment to 1% in point one percent lower values after fine-tuning the rx 580 gaming X is the next card on the charts running 93 FPS average for an improvement of about 20% over the rx 570 with the gtx 960 SSC at 94 FPS average as about 60 to 70 dollars difference for about a 20% performance improvement with either the 580 or the 1060 for what it's worth the overclocked 570 is performing only a few FPS behind the SPARC our X 480 gaming X just under 5% total behind that card we're now referencing AMD's best-case scenario using doom with the Vulkan API and asynchronous compute support the RX 570 or S card runs doom while at 1080p pushing about 120 FPS average marking it ahead of the rx for 70 by 5.4 percent in average frame rate in exchange for a power draw increase of around 25% the 570s also ahead of the 1050 Ti by about 67 percent now overclocked in the 570 doesn't really do much for us here only moving frame rate bars by about 2 FPS to the right and equating a performance roughly equal to that of the GTX 960 SSC levels pre overclocked the RX 580 for comparison runs at around 140 FPS average prio see at making it 16.8% faster than the 570 stock card doom can be run at 1440p just as easily with all these cards we can look at those numbers now briefly rx 570 or s runs at around 79 fps pre overclocked ahead of the rs4 70 by about 7 FPS or 9% rx 570 is close to a 1060 as I see and performance here and is about 20 FPS behind the rx 580 gaming that Ghost Recon wildlands at 1080p with very high settings it gets a little hard for the RX 5 setting and 472 run but we also ran tests that medium as part of a new low-end test suite the 5 sony or s card runs around 51 FPS average here with overclocking benefiting our average frame rate by about seven point eight percent this lands with stock or is reasonably ahead of the 10 50 TI and about 2 FPS ahead of e-470 or 3.4 percent that's not a great trade for the power increase but it is an improvement the rx 580 gaming X meanwhile is about 13.7 percent faster than the rx 570 or is card with the 1060 SSC about 31 percent faster than the stock 570 or s card looking at our new chart this one only has a few cards on it because we just started building this data for the 5 sunny review it we've got medium settings at 1080p here with the gigabyte rx 570 now running over 60fps plays in about 65 FPS average pre overclocked or at 68 FPS post overclocked result in an improvement of about 5.6 percent the stock 570 outperforms of stock for 70 by about 4.4 percent and outperforms the 1050 TI by about 22% Sniper Elite is our last game for the charts in the video though you can find 3dmark and ashes of the singularity in the article linked below just like Ghost Recon we've had to expand our sniper elite test to include 1080p resolutions we were originally only benchmarking sniper at 4k for the 1080i launch but we've just begun building 1080p results we're starting with the 4k results because the chart is the most built up and gives some idea of deltas and next will be 1080p the RX 570 runs this particular bench at around 35 fps a verge stock or about 37 with the overclock and that puts it around the same levels of performance of 10 sec the SSC prio see which was previously outmatched somewhat handily by the RX 580 gaming X operating at around 40 FPS average though with a higher power draw as a trade at 1080p high the RX 570 is sustaining around 100 FPS average putting it ahead of the Rx for Sony platinum by about 9.2 percent and that's the biggest lead of all the games tested so that's it for the 5 evany the Auris card at $180 is priced correctly that's where it should be this one's a bit warm but we haven't tested other 572 yet to compare but at $180 it's around the right price this stack here doesn't really change in terms of recommendations previously we're recommending a 1050 over a 460 because there was a pretty reasonable performance gain and we were recommending a 470 over a 1050 Ti if you could afford the extra 30 or so dollars it was well worth it in most cases that remains true here the 570 is slightly better than the 470 and therefore still just as much better than the 1050 Ti as the 470 was previously that with a couple extra percent on top of it so we're still recommending about a 1050 over a 460 and we're recommending a 470 or 570 over the 1050 Ti though is on the lower end 1050 t is like $140 one we used here could be instituted in some of the weird price builds where you might have something really specific you're doing it's not a bad card it's just kind of between two good cards on either end and then for the higher end stuff if you're looking for something around the 250 dollar mark 1060 and the 480 or 580 are still good for that look at that coverage to figure out which one you like more that's mostly a power versus performance argument between the two but for the 570 the only thing here that's really a little different is that the performance gain over the 470 at least with this specific 570 there's not a whole lot it tends to be maybe something like 5 or 6% in some of the medium cases we're I think the one game we hit the most with sniper but a lot of the games were either basically equal or just slightly ahead of the 570 and the power draw increases is somewhat substantial other than idle workloads or low-power movie viewing type tasks so if you've already got a 400 series card as stated previously the 500 series is not for you it's not built for you if you don't have a card that's been made in the last couple years then the 500 series and the 10 series are still worth looking at just the 570 is not that much better than 470 so if you can find a 470 for a decent mount less than this because it's used or whatever it might be worth to buy especially if you're really concerned about because if you're concerned about power the 470 draws less and performs is really not that much work couple percent for something like 25 percent power so that's all for this one the article is linked below if you need more information as always you can subscribe for more you can go to patreon.com/scishow us out directly with this testing or you can go to store that gamers next to scott net if you'd like to buy a shirt like this one which has our average one percent and point one percent low bars on it thank you for watching as always I'll see you all next time you