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by this point most of you probably already know where the RX 580 stacks up against its current competition the RX 480 which is also an EMV card the GTX 1060 and the gtx 1070 and i have to say based on the benchmarks that you're about to see the 580 is a compelling offer and an excellent value especially compared to what we saw from previous generations on both sides of the aisle so in this video we're changing things up a bit we're assuming you've already seen the slew of benchmarks regarding the RX 5 eighties performance and standard resolutions and that's why in this benchmarking video you'll see 1080p ultra wide as the resolution of choice which is a 21 PI nine format versus the standard 16 by 9 aspect ratio with 1080p 1440p 4k cetera on top of that we'll be using an R seven 1700 X rising CPU clocked at 3.8 gigahertz paired with 16 gigabytes of 26 66 megahertz ddr4 now as for the two graphics cards I've decided to give the RX 480 as much for disadvantage as possible in terms of overclocking potential just because in this case it is a blower style card whereas the rx 580 is just a third-party custom cooled card from gigabytes Oris and gaming lineup and I have to say this card is absolutely beautiful if there is one thing that I have to critique about it though it's that it's so large it's actually like a two and a half three slot card if you really want to get technical with it it's not a thin card by any means it's also not very light so build quality is excellent it's an excellent design thermally can actually dissipate quite a bit of heat coming from the RX 5 ad which actually is a higher TDP then the standard RX 4 80 but at the same time you expect that it's a more powerful version of the polaris architecture now with that I do want to say one more thing these are out of the box just clock frequencies here I haven't tinkered with any memory frequencies or GPU frequency so you can look these up they're linked in the video description you can also find both of these cards if you're interested in purchasing one or the other so let's start first with GTA 5 I always start with this benchmark because it is so well optimized it leverages both CPU and GPU horsepower very well and very fair now the first graph you're going to see here is the frame time graph a little context here what this is showing is the amount of time that it takes for each graphics card to under every single frame over the course of the benchmark now this may seem a bit counterintuitive because when it comes to FPS we want the highest number right well frame times is essentially that fraction flipped upside down instead of frames per second its seconds per frame and in this case you want the lowest number possible which means that it doesn't require card very much time to render each subsequent frame now in the case of the rx 580 it spends a majority of its time rendering frames faster than its 480 counterpart though around the 5000 frame both cards definitely stuttered a bit the 580 had a little bit more trouble seems that very exceptional spike there in the middle and this would actually be noticeable in real life you would see literal stuttering in these cases just because it's it's basically a pause in the graphics cards ability to render frames and that's why you see those sharp spikes for the most part though the trend you're looking for is a very flat and consistent line that stays well below I would say 25 to 30 milliseconds now this graphs counterpart which I'm sure you've seen quite a bit the average and minimum frame rates of both cards the RX 580 maintained eighty nine point eight fps almost ninety FPS at very high settings with no AAA and no advanced graphics signifying a 6.2 percent increase of performance in general over the arcs 4u counterpart and we look at the averages next up on our list is Witcher 3 now this is a very graphics intensive game it's why still uses benchmark it's not going to be picky about the CPU per se as long as it's not something like a dual-core from 2004 if it's a quad-core and semi modern you should be ok on the CPU side the graphics card will be leveraged heavily in this case now for the frame time graph here everything looks hunky-dory except for those very sharp spikes both the 480 and the 580 experienced these by the way and at similar times interestingly enough the 160 millisecond delay is definitely noticeable it occurs two or three times for both cards this is a severe stutter issue and that would be probably the result of the ultra preset in this case I recommend lowering the settings even though the 580 and the 40 did very well this is something that could be solved by lowering in-game settings nonetheless average and minimum frame rates are acceptable for both cards the rx 580 pulls ahead by 13 three four percent on average and that's due to the fact that witcher 3 is so graphic intensive any small change in GPU horsepower will be amplified by a game like this now let's take a u-turn and look at again it's very CPU intensive in this case city skylines here we see the RX 580 pulling ahead up front and this is where in the benchmark I would assume far out from the city now when I zoomed way into the city CPU intensive nough sin creases and that is why the difference between the two cards later on the benchmark becomes very obscure at this point the graphics card isn't being leveraged very much at all and that is why the frame rates are fairly consistent the story continues with average and minimum frame rates the RX 580 received a 6% increase over the 480 on average though it did did slightly lower on the minimum side this is probably within the margin of error though and remember because it's a CPU intensive the 1700 X or CPU what we leverage more in this case if we switch the CPU to something that has a slightly higher IPC say a 7700 K at 5 gigahertz then we could expect a larger increase in framerate than we do from the 480 to the 580 lastly I wanted to benchmark a DirectX 12 title that is optimized for both AMD CPUs and GPUs so best-case scenario here for ashes of the singularity I don't know anyone who just plays ashes do any of you play ashes I just benchmark with it's pretty much all it is to make sure to benchmark across the board here the RX 580 run at about 10% more frames per second than the RX 480 there's really nothing else to say here this is just a benchmark showing the difference in graphics potential with a GPU intensive benchmark now I want to end this video on a very brief and cool note for AMD by this point you might be wondering why on earth of 580 even exist if the 480 was doing just fine in the current market in fact in some cases it was even outperforming the 1060 while at the same time costing less than 1060 which means that not only do you get the better value which is been a and B strong suits since when ever but you also get the better performer in a few cases not all cases but still worth considering that's why I prefer the Arg 480 over the 1060 just you know as a general consumer but what the 580 does is bring you that extra 5 to 15% performance increase it depends on the game whether it's CPU or GPU intensive and whether it's AMD optimized or not for almost the same price as the 400 series lineup that is super cool of AMD I can see it now in video releasing the 1060 Ti and attacking on a $75 premium that standard operating procedure admitted Green Team so I'm very surprised that AMD hasn't decided to go that route they've improved their architecture and for most case are not charging a penny more for it if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up thumbs down for the opposite click a subscribe button if you haven't already stay tuned for more content like this on the channel this is Salazar studio thanks for learning this