ASUS ROG Strix RX 5600 XT Gaming OC is the branded version ASUS ROG of the AMD RX 5600 XT video card: a mid-range product introduced by AMD to cover a price range largely dominated by nvidia with its RTX 2060. Let's say right away that if you are looking for a video card that can allow you to use Ray Tracing, go besides why at the moment AMD did not anticipate support for this technology and the 5600 XT is no exception.
ùOnce removed from the box with attention to detail, as per the ASUS ROG feature, what we are in hand is a hardware component neat, aesthetically beautiful and also quite heavy.
As it is not a high-end product "enthusiastBut still mid-range, the size they are generous and they could turn up their noses at those who maybe think of putting it in a compact build. The design is impressive, with a triple fan and one cooler almost 6 cm thick. The length instead is almost 31 cmdefinitely not suitable for small houses also because it occupies nearly three PCIe slots. The backplate integrates RGB lighting with the ASUS ROG logo.
The power supply of the video card is entrusted to a double connector (6 and 8 pins) which guarantees a suitable supply to the same chipset of the RX 5700, older sister of the 5600 XT. The exits in the rear are four, three Display port and an HDMI. The VGA has the double bios selectable with hardware button shifting between the "Quiet"And"Performance".
Technically speaking, we are dealing with a product that was conceived to be present in a segment where AMD was not actually competitive, taking the chipset of the top-of-the-range video card with 2304 Stream Processor e 36 Control Unit, reducing its performance and building around it a hardware capable of having lower consumption e lower temperatures.
The available memory is 6Gb, while the clock frequency varies according to the mode of use: in game we can count on 1670 Mhz with boost mode able to deliver 1750 Mhz and tips of 1770 Mhz with l 'OC activated.
ASUS ROG Strix RX 5600 XT Gaming OC has as its operating software theAMD Adrenalin 2020 Edition, new version of the AMD management software thanks to which we will be able to manage all the various functions such as the Radeon Boost, the Anti-lag, Fidelity FX and gaming center thanks to which you can take screenshots of Videogames and manage the streaming. On paper the video card supports resolutions up to 8K, thanks also to the FreeSync2 HDR. You can connect up to four monitors, with a maximum supported resolution of 7680 × 4320.
If reading these technical data you are thinking of buying the ASUS ROG Strix RX 5600 XT Gaming OC to have the same performance as the RX 5700 acting on the overclock, unfortunately you will be disappointed: AMD has in fact anticipated you and broke the eggs in the basket, acting on the BIOS and setting a overclock limit. The VGA in fact "mura" to 1820 Mhz, not allowing you to reach the performance of the older sister although, in fact, the hardware would be perfectly capable of doing so. In fact, AMD's goal is not to make its flagship product unsaleable, but to limit the success of the Nvidia 2060 which, in fact, promptly dropped in price to counter it. Having made the necessary premises, let's see how it behaved.
Test and Performance
Once assembled and correctly installed, ASUS ROG Strix RX 5600 XT Gaming OC welcomes you with the ROG logo illuminated on the backplate (if you don't like it you can deactivate it with the appropriate mechanical button). The hardware we tested it with is an Intel CPU i5 9600K and a motherboard ASUS ROG Z390-F Gaming with 16 Gb of RAM. In idle the video card is practically stationary, the temperature is around 40 ° while at stake also rises to 60 °, values more than acceptable and it's all thanks to the powerful ASUS ROG heatsink and the three fans perfectly calibrated even for the most extreme uses, which are not never arrive to spin at high rpm.
The program we used for our tests is 3DMark Time Spy benchmark which gave a score of 7300 approximately, while as regards the use in game, the graphics card was tested with F1 2019 set to maximum details and guaranteeing much more than the canonical 60fps in Full HD. If you are a fan of Final Fantasy, be aware that this card has received a "Fairly High”To the internal benchmark of Final Fantasy XV, while if
Conclusions
If you are looking for a video card to be able to play all the titles currently on the market at resolution Full HD and that can compete with the GeForce RTX 2060, the ASUS ROG Strix RX 5600 XT Gaming OC is definitely a great choice. You can find it on the market at a price that is around 420 € and it defends itself equally well by going up in resolution, going to 1440p with some compromises on the more demanding titles. Clearly, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, there is no support for Ray Tracing offered by Nvidia, but honestly… Do you really need it?
Nobody stops you from chasing the object of desire made available by Nvidia, buying a 2060 (which costs almost 500 euros), but know that activating the Ray Tracing the performance of the video card they literally collapse and, several times, it is necessary to deactivate it in order to reach an acceptable number of FPS for the fluidity of the game.
What's the point of having something and not using it? Despite the validity of the ASUS product, we are talking about a mid-range video card, a product on which those who generally do not have big claims or do not have a high budget available are oriented. In that case, our advice is to shelve for the moment the path of Ray Tracing and focus on something that allows you to run almost everything to the maximum possible, thus allowing you to fully enjoy your favorite titles. If you want alternatives you can orient yourself on ASUS TUF Gaming X3 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT OC which allows you to save something compared to the ROG Strix model, otherwise if you are lucky and find offers, the advice is to orient yourself on the older sister, the Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 5700 XT OC Edition 8 GB GDDR6 with which you can also play a 2560 × 1440 at high details and constant 60 fps.
