SAPPHIRE RX 5600 XT Pulse Review

1. Introduction and the BIOS Situation2. Sapphire RX 5600 XT Pulse3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)16. Clock Speed17. Temperatures18. Acoustics19. Power Consumption20. Overclocking: Frequency and Games21. Overclocking: Temperatures, Acoustics, Power22. Closing Thoughts23. View All Pages

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint is an online tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and published by Ubisoft. The game was released worldwide on 4 October 2019, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, (Wikipedia).

We test using the Very High preset, with AA disabled, DX11 API.

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is a tougher test for the 5600 XT, and despite being an AMD title this game does seem to run better on Nvidia hardware. At 1080p, the original 5600 XT BIOS was 7% behind the RTX 2060 and only 4% ahead of the GTX 1660 Ti. Updating the BIOS did push the 5600 XT just ahead of the RTX 2060, but not by much at all.

At 1440p, even with the updated BIOS the 5600 XT is slower than the RTX 2060 by 4%. Without the BIOS update, the card is 13% slower so it is still a significant improvement for the AMD GPU, just not enough to beat the 2060.

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