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Dwarf Uprising: Entry-level and lower middle class against the Radeon RX 560

Overview in the entry-level area It is of course a kind of tragic comedy that the sample of the Radeon RX 560 has only reached us now and only after some requests from our US colleagues to AMD. But in the end it even has a certain voice... Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Individual results of all maps Power consumption of all cards First of all, we see that AMD was able to reduce the power consumption of the graphics cards from Polaris in general with the latest drivers. We found this during the post-test of the RX Vega56 and therefore a few more... Asus uses a 4+1 phase of its own design for this board. The special feature is also the positioning of the one voltage converter for the memory, which is in fact located directly under the 6-pin socket. In general, the arrangement is somewhat peculiar... Overclocking Manual overclocking was possible in Witcher 3 to 1460 MHz, which is an increase of 134 MHz. The memory can be raised by 200 MHz without any errors with in Witcher 3 within an hour. A lot is it on the e... Cooling system and backplate Asus knits the cooling quite simple and a simple aluminium rib-cooler made of continuous casting must suffice. Below this is once again a separate VRM cooler for the GPU, which are voltage converters for memory ... Summary Let's start in midfield. Although the Asus ROG RX 560 Strix Gaming OC can still hold a little connection with newer titles with Avolcano or DirectX12 API, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti looks like it is in most titles.

Cooling system and backplate

Asus knits the cooling quite simple and a simple aluminium rib-cooler made of continuous casting must suffice. Below this is once again a separate VRM cooler for the GPU, the voltage converters for the memory are uncooled.

Cooling system at a glance
Type of cooler: Air
Heatsink: Aluminum
Cooling fins: Aluminum block, continuous casting
Heatpipes 2 ground-pressed heatpipes (DHT)
VRM cooling: only via separate small heat sinks
only MOSFETs are cooled
RAM cooling none, indirectly via airflow from the fan
Fan: 2x 7.5 cm fan modules
11 rotor blades
semi-passive lyrised
Backplate No

The massive heat sink has wider slots so that the air flow from the two fans reaches the board, at least in parts. The two ground and pressed heatpipes should contribute to better (and faster) distribution of waste heat.

The already mentioned small VRM heat sink is just enough, but requires already manually higher fan speeds with the maximum OC in order to keep the VRM constant below 100°C.

Fan curves and noise emission ("volume")

The fan curves indicate a rather conservative and volume-optimized control. Start pulses and hysteresis do not exist, the semi-passive mode is simply determined by the mechanical and electrical limits of the fans together with the corresponding voltage values for starting or starting. Stop the fans. Simple, but not very nice.

The whole thing does not look much different in the stress test, although due to the slightly higher power consumption the speeds are also slightly higher.

Measurements for fans and noise emission
Fan speeds Open Benchtable Maximum
2058 rpm
Fan speeds Open Benchtable Average
2050 rpm
Fan Speeds Closed Case Maximum 2222 rpm
Fan Speeds Closed Case Average 2214 rpm
Noise emission (air) Maximum
41.7 dB(A)
Noise Emission (Air) Average
41.2 dB(A)
Noise Emission (Air) Idle 0 dB(A)
Sound characteristic /
Hearing impression
hardly lower frequency bearing noises
clearly audible engine noise< 1 Hz
audible air/demolition noises

To illustrate our subjective audio impression once again, we now have a high-resolution graphic with the complete frequency spectrum of our laboratory measurement:

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

Computer nerd since 1983, audio freak since 1979 and pretty much open to anything with a plug or battery for over 50 years.

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