Of course, it would be pointless to take out the usual large speculum and nibble at it with relish, but in contrast to pure speculation and rumours, there are also unmistakable and tangible signs that indicate a significant increase in performance (and thus also a higher data rate and density). I’ve been asking around a bit with the board [...]
In the summer of 2017, AMD introduced the GCN 5 alias “Vega” graphics cards, which, after some delay, were finally intended to knock Nvidia’s fast and economical Pascal cards off the throne. Despite the nearly 500 mm2 chip and a 2048-bit wide HBM2 memory interface, the attack failed miserably. The cards were very power-hungry and [...]
To understand the meaning of it all, you should read my article "Radeon RX 5600 XT with new BIOS and stable RAM without Flash! AMD Limits and Benchmark". Because there I describe very precisely how AMD with the new BIOS actually presses the entire overclocking margin of the card into the factory settings in order to be able to offer the [...]
Today’s tutorial shows how to load the new BIOS of the respective Radeon RX 5600 XT in just a few steps without having to physically overwrite the BIOS on the card! The GPU-Z screenshot shows the initial situation with the old BIOS. If you don’t have a new BIOS, load the old one (can be extracted with GPU-Z for example) and simply set [...]
AMD made an interesting move at the last moment and shifted the Radeon RX 5600 XT into a new performance class virtually overnight via BIOS upgrade. This review will answer whether this goes well and whether one can beat the now targeted opponent in the form of the GeForce RTX 2060 6GB. Spoilers I can at this point however already once that the [...]
I deliberately did not participate in the cross-media BIOS discussion of the last few days, because the speculations and data that have become public are actually only the tip of a bigger iceberg and the potential problem lies much deeper. Therefore I want to collect the facts here and now and also only after the launch, which give a quite complex [...]
Actually these are two articles in one, but since one needs the other as a basic requirement, I simply put water cooling modification and overclocking in a review. You can do the one and leave the other. Because even if AMD has given the Radeon Pro W5700 the power reins in terms of performance, at least audibly it will still be. Those who then [...]
One of today's reports, which are catapulted through the media and which can actually leave one's hair to rest, is freely quoted as saying that "AFOX, amD and Nvidia's on-board partners, would have reported a whole series of new models of Geforces and Radeons to the EEC," detailing entries for a speculative "Radeon RX [...]
What brings, or could really bring PCI Express 4.0? Because there is not too much useful to read or see as a video about what can be really useful with graphics cards, especially not from everyday practice (outside the usual games). I tested for 5 hours with quite interesting insights. Guck command!
With the Radeon Pro W5700, Navi has finally arrived in the affordable workstation area. The Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 has been picked out as an opponent. But is performance and driver quality enough for a class victory of the cards up to 1000 Euros? I test full versions of many standard programs, disassemble the map and also have the answers.
Yesterday I had already put the new Radeon Pro W5700 through its paces in the launch article “AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Review – price and performance are right, but it’s enough for the Quadro RTX 4000?“, but I was still unclear where the advantage of the new test platform with the Ryzen 9 3950X including X570 motherboard and [...]
With the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 introduced today, Navi has finally arrived in the affordable workstation sector. Why one uses only the smaller chip with 36 Compute Units (CU) and thus 2304 shaders instead of the full 40 CUs, probably only AMD knows. After all one can offer such a card with 150 watts GPU power (not board power), which one has trimmed [...]
I am currently sitting on the review of the Radeon Pro W5700, AMD's new workstation graphics card with the smaller Navi 10 chip, as you can also find on the radeon RX 5700 consumer version. So far, so unexcited. Nevertheless, I have considered how the possible backlog to the Quadro RTX 4000 could perhaps be shortened a little. Normally, not a [...]
After i created the launch article about AMD's new Radeon RX 5500 XT and also a first overclocking article with the MorePowerTool, I now dedicate myself with the intention of one of the slightly more expensive 8GB board partner cards, which are currently listed at just over 230 Euros Is. The fact is that this price will probably have to move [...]
In the meantime, the MorePowerTool supports three Radeon generations, the Radeon VII, the RX 5700 (X) and 5600 (XT) and the RX 5500 (XT). Of course, each of the three chip types also has special entries and a slightly different structure of the SoftPowerPlayTables (SPPT). After the major driver conversion in December 2019, a lot has also changed [...]
We had already reported on the supposed specifications of the new Radeon RX 5600 XT, also about the launch period at the end of January, more precisely in calendar week three. Meanwhile, more information about the date leaked through, so that our own sources can be considered pretty safe after the 21.01.2020 launch date. However, this time AMD [...]
What is the conversion to a usable water block for the graphics card worth and what is the purpose of this? If you want it quiet, unobtrusive and cool, are you looking for a high-performance cooler for social media-ready limit overclocking or just a conspicuous bling-bling eye willow with a cooling side effect? Everything doesn't go into a [...]
