I’ve always been an amd fanboy for a myriad reasons. The idea of an underdog thrills me. When AMD acquired ATI and terrascale, they implicitly said to the market that the consumer deserves a choice. Nvidia might own the top end today, but it wasn’t always like that, and with the Radeon VII we’re as close as ever to having a choice in the high end again but that’s not why we’re here today.
Today, we are confronted with two different, and more value oriented choices. Both are wonderful in their own ways, but at the end of the day, there does emerge a valuable conclusion. Today we compare the rx 580 and rx 570.
After throwing together a test system with a ryzen 5 2600 overclocked to 4Ghz, 8Gb of DDR4 ram @ 3000Mhz I sat down and decided to give these two cards a round of benchmarks.
All of these benchmarks are tested on a fresh install of windows 10 pro 10.0.1776 and AMD adrenalin drivers 19.4.3
We looked at a rather small battery of games, but I think we get a very clear picture of the value proposition of the Rx580 vs the rx 570 rather quickly when comparing the overclocked results of the 570 with that of the stock results of the 580.
In almost all of the titles you’ll see that the 570 can creep right up onto a stock Gigabyte gaming/mining 580 and even surpass it in some instances. Now of course the 580 is a better card in all respects(performance wise), and at the end of the day an overclocked 580 stomps the 570 handily in synthetic and real world testing.
But ask yourself a couple of questions before instinctively listening to the marketing and feel like you deserve a true midrange solution in the 580. If you’re gaming on a 60 hz monitor, at 1080p, what are those frames after 60 doing for you? If you’re playing something competitive like CSGO every frame above 60 means less latency, but be aware of the diminishing returns above ~120fps.
If you’re like me, hooking your PC up to your TV and sitting on the couch to play Tomb Raider or Minecraft, or something else, the 570 will hurt your pocket less, give you the performance you need to have a good time on current generation games, and draw a bit less power from the wall, though the difference would probably be neglible, I didn’t bother measureing power draw for these tests.
Now if you’re gaming on a 144hz monitor, the 570 is still a perfectly viable solution, but your going to sacrifice quality settings and future proof-ness in this situation is less knowable, and at the end of the day, you will have more piece of mind with the 580.
As an aside, Navi is coming out soon, and there is a possibilty that they will release a lower power card that performs on par with the curent polaris lineup, for a few more dollars.But only time will tell!
Also Right now you can get an rx 570 for free, I shit you not, well not free, but for ~150 bucks with 2 free 60 dollar games, that’s close to a free card!
Here’s the video I did on this subject over on YouTube, leave a comment, subscribe, and smmmmasshh that mother fucking like button with your (lady)dick:
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