Gigabyte rx 5600 xt gaming oc review in Spanish (full analysis)

As planned, AMD has launched the new Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU following its announcement at CES 2020, with which it intends to fight you-to-you with Nvidia's GTX 1660 Super. The one we are going to review today is the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC, a custom version that comes with its WINDOFRCE X3 triple fan heatsink and a lot to say in terms of performance / price.

In this case we have a factory overclocking at 1620 MHz, 6 GB GDDR6 and RDNA architecture on a 7 nm node that does not yet have ray tracing. We hope that this AMD model is more successful than the RX 5500 XT, which was a bit of a no man's land at a somewhat high price.

Before continuing, we always thank Gigabyte for their trust in Professional Review for giving us their GPU so soon to do our analysis.

Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC technical features

Unboxing

We started a new review looking at the Unboxing of the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC, a card that has come to us in a box with extensive dimensions due to the length of the model. In this box we have the front area occupied by the Gigabyte eye along with the basic specifications of the card, and on the back the information of the custom model.

This flexible cardboard box gives way to another, more robust, rigid cardboard box with a box-type opening where the card is stored. For this, a polyethylene foam panel and an antistatic bag have been used to keep it safe.

So the purchase bundle has the following elements:

• Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC GPU Support Documentation

Nothing else, although we see that all the ports and connections of the card are protected by plastic caps. We do not have the drivers either, so we will have to download them either from the assembler page or from AMD.

Exterior design

Finally, what is supposed to be the last consignment of AMD cards before the premiere of its Navi 23 architecture with Ray Tracing has been released. In this case it is another graphics card with a performance located in the mid / high range, where Nvidia and AMD have a hard fight to see who takes the cat to the water. To put us in context, the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC and the rest of the 5600 XT should be fighting with the Nvidia 1660 Ti and even the reference RTX 2060, the refresh of Nvidia precisely to stand up to AMD with improved performance and a price drop.

The Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC is presented to us with a design that we have already seen through and through, and that at least for this generation will remain due to the success it has given it both in aesthetics and performance. It is a configuration with a triple fan heatsink with quite large measurements, 280 mm long, 114 mm wide and 50 mm thick. That makes it clear that the Navi 10 chip needs a more tuning heatsink than the 5500 XT as it is thicker and wider. The weight is not specified, but it is around the kg.

Your WINDFORCE 3X heatsink is partially capped with a thick ABS plastic shell as always and a sleek design, but without giving up the sharp lines on the edges and top. It is mostly black, except for certain details among the fans that are gray. In this upper part we do not have any type of lighting, something that we believe would already play.

But the most interesting for us will be the fans, in this case there are three, each one with a diameter of 80 mm that has an alternate rotation mode. This means that the center fan rotates in the opposite direction to the outdoors, to create positive air flow in areas where the fans are closest to each other. And we can say that this benefits both the air flow and the maximum RPM they reach, which in this case is around 3, 500 RPM. The only drawback to this is that we will not be able to manage the fans separately, but as a whole, all three at the same time.

In addition, the helical-type propeller design is optimized to improve axial airflow without generating too much noise, thanks to the splines on each blade. With 3D Active Fan technology, we will have an intelligent control system for the fans, which has been the 0 dB mode. With it, the fans will be off while the card is idle, only activating when it has a high load and exceeds a temperature threshold.

If we now turn to the side of the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC, we will see that only the fans are covered, while the entire metal block is exposed to allow hot air to escape. If we did not cover the fans, the air flow would break and would not enter the aluminum fins correctly. In the lateral area that the user sees we have as always the GIGABYTE logo equipped with RGB Fusion 2.0 lighting, managed by software.

Without more to see on the sides, we go to see the blackplate area, which in this Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC the manufacturer has placed an aluminum one. This is good news for heat evacuation in the back, although we do miss some openings in the area to allow air in and out. In any case, it is a positive thing in a mid-range GPU like this, since it provides it with better finishes and manufacturing quality.

Ports and connections

We still have to see the back of the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC, where the video ports will be located. In this case we have a thickness of 2.5 slots, something not so common in this price range, although the ports are the same as always:

• 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4

This configuration is the standard in current cards except in specific cases, but some manufacturers such as Colorful sometimes include DVI adapters for those who still have old monitors at home. For us it is the most useful, since it offers 4 outputs for 4K monitors at 60 Hz. We must know that the DisplayPort port will give us a maximum resolution of 8K at 60 FPS, while in 4K we will reach 165 Hz or 4K @ 60 FPS at 30 bits depth, and in 5K we can go up to 120 Hz. In the case of HDMI, it supports a 4K @ 60 Hz resolution, so the best option will be the DisplayPort for high resolution monitors and refreshment.

The entire Navi family has a PCI 4.0 x16 interface, and this is no exception. AMD with its 7 nm has implemented this interface in all its products, CPU, Chipset and GPU. For practical purposes we would have plenty with PCIe 3.0, but they wanted to make the leap before Intel.

As for the power connection, this card complies with an 8-pin connector, despite the fact that we have a TDP of 180W, so consumption should be around those figures. Finally we find the respective connections on the PCB that allow us to power the integrated lighting and the three fans in a single connector.

Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC: PCB and internal hardware

We leave the outside and go into the bowels of the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC to get a closer look at its heatsink and PCB. To separate the two components, it was only necessary to remove the 4 screws that connect the heatsink to the socket and a few others that ensure the fastening. Remember that this process leads to the loss of product guarantee.

WINDFORCE 3X heatsink

If you have already seen the analysis of other Gigabyte cards, you will find the design chosen for this heatsink quite familiar. We find a triple block configuration as usual, whose difference in this case is its width and thickness. All of them are built in aluminum with transverse fins and copper heatpipes that run throughout the area to distribute the heat.

The central block is responsible for capturing the heat of the GPU and memories, thanks to a fairly extensive cold plate in which 5 heatpipes make direct contact with the chipset. For the memories, in this case 6 chips, silicone thermal pads have been used. The three blocks are connected to each other by means of the mentioned heatpipes, which also have a double-layer copper system with pressurized steam channels that help improve heat transport.

Finally, a plate located in the second block is responsible for cooling the VRM of this graphics card. Specifically, the chokes and MOSFETS using silicone pads. We only have to see the temperatures that this GPU will throw at full performance.

Architecture with improvements unlocked at the last minute

The Navi architecture was one of the great novelties of AMD for 2019, with it it was intended to stand up to an intractable Nvidia that was several steps above in terms of performance and efficiency. It was precisely here where the AMD architecture finally saw a huge improvement thanks to RDNA, which increased the IPC of its 7nm nodes while consuming half less than the last GCN. Although this has not served to unseat top-of-the-range GPUs such as the 2080 Ti, it does stand up for itself in the mid and high range with great performance and good price.

The AMD RX 5600 XT is a GPU designed for the mid-range, possibly one of the best that will go in Full HD resolution at high refresh rates and high graphics quality, at least that's what the manufacturer claims. In it we fear that a 7 nm Navi 10 chip is installed, which contains 36 computing units inside which, thanks to 2560 shaders with some disabled functions, generate 2304 shading units, a figure adjusted to be placed between the RX 5500 XT and the RX 5700. The computation capacity rises to 224.6 GTexel / s in texture rate, 14.38 TFLOPS FP16 and 7, 188 TFLOPS FP32. And all this generates a total of 144 TMU and 64 ROP.

Gigabyte has done its bit as always by performing a slight factory overclocking on the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC. In this case the base frequency is 1355 MHz (1130 MHz reference model), gaming frequency of 1560 MHz (1375 MHz reference) and a boost mode frequency of 1620 MHz (1560 MHz reference). It is a not too considerable increase, and remember that it is a completely unlocked processor in which we can raise its frequency. We will see how it responds to manual overclocking.

We continue with the memory, because in this model we have a configuration of 6 GB GDDR6 working at 14 Gbps as effective frequency. These 6 chips generate a bus width of 192 bits, 32 bits for each element and a bandwidth of 336 GB / s. It is here and in the TDP where improvements have been made at the last minute, since this card in principle would have a TDP of 150 W together with some memories working at 12 Gbps, that is, 2000 MHz of memory frequency and 30W less. The reason for this change is simple, Nvidia has lowered the prices of its tragic cards including the RTX 2060, and AMD has decided to tighten the nuts of this model to improve the performance / price ratio.

Adrenalin controllers do not bring significant improvements in terms of functions, continuing with solutions such as the Radeon Anti-Lag to improve the response time between the response of the card and the peripherals, and the Radeon Boost, to translate it into a best FPS rate in the game. It also offers FreeSync 2 HDR compatibility , but in no case ray tracing capabilities as you already know.

The VRM that Gigabyte has installed in its GPU has the usual Ultra Durable 2oz MOSFETS together with solid capacitors and metallic chokes. In all we have 6 + 2 power phases to support this new 180W TDP without major problems.

Test bench and performance test

Let's go to see what the performance of this Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC is. For this we have used the same tests and games as for the other cards. Our test bench consists of the following components:

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i9-9900K
Base plate:	Asus Maximus XI Formula
Memory:	T-Force Vulkan 3200 MHz
Heatsink	Corsair H100i Platinum SE
HDD	ADATA SU750
Graphic card	Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC
Power supply	Cooler Master V850 Gold

All the synthetic tests and tests have been carried out with the filters as they come in the configuration of each program. The tests consist of tests that run in the three main resolutions, Full HD, 2K and 4K. We have run all of them on the Windows 10 Pro operating system in its fully updated 1909 version and with Adrenalin drivers also in their latest version.

What are we looking for in these tests?

First, the best possible image quality. The most important value for us is the average FPS (Frames per second), the higher the number of FPS the more fluid the game will go. Benchmark scores will help us compare this GPU to the competition. To slightly differentiate the quality, we leave you a table to assess the quality in FPS based on the quantity we get in each game and resolution.

FRAMES PER SECOND
Frames Per Second (FPS)	Gameplay
Less than 30 FPS	Limited
30 ~ 40 FPS	Playable
40 ~ 60 FPS	Good
Greater than 60 FPS	Really good
Greater than 144 Hz	E-sports level

Benchmarks

For benchmark tests we will use the following programs and tests:

• 3DMark Fire Strike normal3DMark Fire Strike UltraTime SpyVRMARK Orange Room

Game testing

We are now going to evaluate the real performance in games, thus having a more palpable proof of what our Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC will be able to deliver under DirectX 12 and OpenGL in this case.

The tests will be carried out at the three most used resolutions in gaming, we refer to Full HD (1920 x 1080p), QHD or 2K (2560 x 1440p) and UHD or 4K (3840 x 2160p). In this way, we will have a complete range of results to be able to compare them with other GPUs. For each of the games, we have kept the settings in high quality in all three resolutions.

• Final Fantasy XV, standard, TAA, DirectX 11 DOOM, Ultra, TAA, Open GL / Vulkan Deus EX Mankind Divided, Alto, Anisotropico x4, DirectX 12 Far Cry 5, Alto, TAA, DirectX 12 Metro Exodus, Alto, Anisotropico x16, DirectX 12 (without RT) Shadow of the Tomb Rider, Alto, TAA + Anisotropic x4, DirectX 12 Control, Alto, without RTX, rendered at 1920x1080p, DirectX 12 Gears 5, Alto, TAA, DirectX 12

Overclocking

As in other cards, we are going to overclock this Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC to see how far we can increase its performance. For this we have used MSI Afterburner for its ease of use. In this way we have carried out a new test in 3DMark Fire Strike and new tests of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider in all three resolutions.

Shadow of the Tomb Rider	Stock	@ Overclock
1920 x 1080 (Full HD)	111 FPS	115 FPS
2560 x 1440 (WQHD)	75 FPS	77 FPS
3840 x 2160 (4K)	40 FPS	40 FPS
3DMark Fire Strike	Stock	@ Overclock
Graphics Score	21977	23005
Physics Score	23726	23774
Combined	19375	20199

In this case we have been able to increase the GPU clock quite considerably and in a totally stable way, reaching up to 1820 MHz. Likewise, the memory clock has been raised to 1860 MHz, which would be about 14880 MHz effectively. With this we have managed to upload 4 FPS in Full HD, 2 FPS in 2K and only tenths in 4K. It is not a spectacular increase, but it is greater than that seen in other GPUs with RDNA architecture.

Temperatures and consumption

Finally, we have proceeded to stress the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC for a few hours while monitoring its temperatures and consumption. For this, we have used as FurMark for stress and HWiNFO to capture results, along with a wattmeter that measures the power of all the complete equipment, except the monitor. With the arrival of winter, the ambient temperature in the room is 21 ° C.

We must look at how well this heatsink works that giving the maximum an average of 67 ^o C has been obtained , which is spectacular on a graphics card. All this with the fans at about 1600 RPM at most.

The consumption yes that has noticed enough the increase of DP from 150 to 180W, rising to 250W only in the GPU, and obtaining an overall consumption of almost 500W with the i9-9900K.

Final words and conclusion about Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC

Gigabyte is committed to a continuous design for this new GPU that comes in several versions as usual. The highest performance is this triple fan configuration with the WINDFORCE 3X heatsink which is almost identical in size to higher power models.

In fact, one of the main qualities of this graphics card in this and other assemblers is going to be its excellent temperatures, since at maximum performance we have 67 ^o C with fans turning at 40% of its maximum capacity, imagine how far we could go. with them to the maximum.

As for technical characteristics, AMD has surprised making modifications at the last minute after seeing the price decrease of the Nvidia RTX 2060. So with a BIOS update it has raised to 6 Gbps the 6 GB of GDDR6 memory and to 180W the TDP of the graphics chip, which initially worked at 12 Gbps and 150W respectively.

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This, along with a factory overclocking of 1620 MHz has served to place it as a reference for its price not only in Full HD, but also in other resolutions above the RTX 2060 and even very close to the RX 5700. In any case, we have obtained rates above 100 FPS in almost all games tested in high quality, except the most demanding ones such as Metro or Gears 5. In fact, it is the one that has performed the most out of the 5600 XT we have tested so far.

In addition, in this case we do have a good response in overclocking, since we have been able to squeeze the GPU up to 1820 MHz and the memory clock up to 1860 MHz to obtain 4 or 5 FPS in Full HD. In addition it has behaved perfectly and completely stable.

We end as always with the price and availability of the Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC, a card that will come out this January 22, 2020 at a price of 338 euros, one of the cheapest and excellent performance, so it is a pretty good bet. Safe for all those who want to play the latest titles in high quality and with high FPS rates. The RTX 2060 is also a serious option due to its price decrease in custom models, and also with ray tracing, so there are two options to evaluate.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ PERFORMANCE / VERY GOOD PRICE	- VERY CONTINUOUS DESIGN
+ +100 FPS IN FULL HD HIGH QUALITY	- ONLY ONE POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR
+ AS ALWAYS, ITS CONSTRUCTION
+ VERY GOOD TEMPERATURES ALWAYS
+ GOOD ANSWER IN OVERCLOCKING

The Professional Review team awarded him the gold medal:

Gigabyte RX 5600 XT Gaming OC

COMPONENT QUALITY - 86%

DISSIPATION - 88%

GAMING EXPERIENCE - 85%

SOUND - 87%

PRICE - 87%

87%