AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT review – with the last-minute BIOS boost to an efficient RTX-2060 killer?

1 - Introduction and overview 2 - Tear Down - Board design and cooler 3 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4 - Wolfenstein: Young Blood 5 - F1 2019 6 - Grand Theft Auto V 7 - Total War: Three Kingdoms 8 - Far Cry 5 9 - Tom Clancy's The Division 2 10 - Metro Exodus 11 - Power Consumption and PSU recommendation 12 - Clock rate, temperatures and infrared analysis 13 - Fan speed and noise 14 - Summary and conclusion

Fan speeds over the temperature curve

You don’t have to understand AMD’s fuzzy logic for fan control, but at least with the Powercolor card, everything works as it should. In both cases it remains amazingly quiet, although the fans really do act in a mannerly way even with the new BIOS. With a heatpipe more, it would surely be even less, but it is also completely ok. Better would always be possible, of course.

In pure numbers it looks like this:

Noise emission

One hears almost nothing and this is quite suitable to fire the cosy deep red fireplace ambience. What didn’t work with Polaris or Vega, now finally works with Navi. So you may let the fireplace and love glow and not the living room PC with 3D-animated combustion process. Cooling down the 150 watts is of course no magic trick, but with the 33.2 dB(A) it is almost inaudible. So it fits perfectly, even with the new BIOS and a heatpipe too little.