The Best Selling Graphics Card On AliExpress Is Bad...
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whatever it is, it's better than having GT 710
@@edm0nz And GT 710 is better than an R5 430 😭
Unless it's a GT 210
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official My childhood was ruined by GT 210 and GT 710
@@edm0nz it is time to take your revenge
My first alienware "gaming" laptop had a gt240m... even the 710 is 50% fast than that turd was.
Yoo, that was my first GPU, I bought one about two year ago! I'm from Brazil and GPU prices are absolutely insane here. I played so many games on that beauty. It's easy to criticise it when there are thousands of better options, but for me, it was a lifesaver! I gave my old PC to a younger cousin, and he’s still enjoying it a lot. It's still going strong! Hail cheap GPU's form AliExpress, Hail Old Xeon's as well lol
Same. The only unplayable games on this rx550 is calisto protocol and cyberpunk.
Thank you for this more grounded perspective. I remember a time in my life in which I was happy, if the game run at 1024x768 with 30+ frames.
We are so spoiled today, that we not even noticing it.
It is something people from more well-off countries don't realize!
@@dgerdi I generally miss the days of playing League of Legends and Starcraft 2 on my shitty laptop at my buddies place. 30 Fps but I didn't care.
Yeah man whatever gets the job done. I will always remain with this mind set. No matter what kind of good stuff I have, I would still be happy with this.
The RX550 has 512 cores while RX 570 is 2048. So its literally one quarter of an RX570... No wonder it's slow
Cores aren't everything, but he compared it to a 580 and 470, so idk where you got 570
Edit: ITT; people berating me for calling this guy out for mentioning a card that isn't in the video, and pretending to be on a moral high ground while continuing to berate me. It's like I'm on reddit or something.
@@DorrajRX580 2048SP as the name suggests does indeed have 2048 shaders (or cores in typical use) though.
@@Moonstone-Redux okay....? And?
@@DorrajRX 580 2048SP is essentially a rebranded RX 570.
@@HunterTracks cool... So..?
Well, I recently got the RX 550 in my workstation. It is one of the cheapest GPUs that are officially supported for Windows 11 and can handle 3 screens at 4k resolution. For 50 euros this GPU was a real bargain. You can't really game with it, but as a display output it is really a magical GPU for this price.
I agree. its the best you can get in a server build that needs a gpu. Ive got a gt 1030 instead.
So the 470 isn't compatible?
No@@charginginprogresss
20 is bargain
@@FAL87 if you're gaming the gt 1030 is roughly 25% slower than the rx 550.
Soyo is actually a name brand, I always forget they’re still around. They used to make motherboards and put stickers on top of the chipsets to brand them as their own.
That company died and the branding was purchased by a Chinese company a long time ago. It has none of the quality that a Soyo MoBo used to have and barely the name recognition, unless you are older.
@@iamperplexed4695 yeah, that makes sense.
@@iamperplexed4695 the now soyo brand motherboards are surprisingly capable and not bad for budget builds. I've used them myself and they're solid on a budget
@@iamperplexed4695The new Soyo is building its own legacy in affordable legacy tech for the less wealthy parts of the earth.
Clearly new old tech doesn't make sense in the first world with priority access to new tech (except for quirky enthusiasts).
But this is the most reputable source of tech for some markets.
Reminds me of my old Soyo TV I had until 2020, 13 years old, on 24/7 and only got replaced because it became obsolete to me
I just hit 3:26 and I already know the testing is flawed. 16 gigs just isn't enough for the sheer superhuman power of the RX550 limp edition. You need a minimum of 64 gigs, anything less is insulting the poor video card.
actually this gpu requires a power psu of precisely a hamster wheel with your nearestt small homeless old man running inside it
The stuttering in CS2 isn't the GPU, but Valve shifting all competent devs to Deadlock instead.
Dota2 player here and yes 100% true.
it is caused for the low ram, it has 2gbs of ram that rx550
but cool story bro...
@@arch1107 3:49 4GB, not 2.
@@arch1107 except the 550 had 4 gb of vram and the game was still stuttering on the rx 580, which has 8
but cool story bro...
deadlock is not even optimized yet and i am getting sub 50 fps with fsr on with gtx 1060.
go away malders.
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Wonder if Dawid does it lol. Noticed that they're almost always there super early.
I always Mark sponsor segments when it possible, but I haven't got a chance in dawid videos even after coming after 15 seconds into video.
I suggest you mention it as little as possible. No need to ring the bells :)
@@MyRealName there is literally no reasonable way for them to combat SB. They would have to turn off fast forwarding during sponsor segments, which would be an absolutely massive change that people would go crazy about. Imagine if podcast apps removed the skip 30 seconds buttons.
Videos like these make me content with having a gtx 1650
I have a 1660 and yes, I agree with you.
May I know what you would play if you had a higher end card?
@@fimdy6530 Starfield. It's his favorite game.
Now that I’ve got a 1650 super… same. A GT1030 is now the minimum to revive an older system, since the one I had literally lacks the PCIE lanes and speed required for anything better. I don’t even know if the RTX “3040” would do any good on that system.
1650 is almost 1.5x as fast as the 550 so yes its expected the 1650 Super GDDR 6 its 30 to 40 % faster than the RX 550
I bought a graphics card from a brand called Aisurix (RX 5500XT, 8GB) which only costs around 110USD. It exploded after a month of use, and I fought the seller about the warranty. In the end, they sent me a replacement, but for some reason, just 1 week after they sent that one, another one arrived lol
The replacements are still doing great right now after almost a year of usage.
Aisurix is quite infamous for how luck-based their cards are. Sometimes you get a long-lasting card, but sometimes you might also get a card that dies in a week at worst. Despite the randomness of their cards' longevity and its weird name, I heard Aisurix is a quite popular refurbish brand in my country (mainly their RX 580 2048SP model) for their budget-friendly price and also due to buyers feeling a little too paranoid of second-hand GPU market.
@@HAVOCprojects exactly this! I'm just glad it's still working up to this day lol
Did you think of returning the extra board? Technically and legally this was theft if you kept it!
@@HAVOCprojectsI can relate. There's nothing but scum and villainy in my country's used market, so I'd rather try my luck with the Chinese 😂
I've had my bad luck before with getting a cheap second-hand RX 570. It worked, but not only it was so hot, I couldn't disassemble it for re-pasting because one of the screws have been damaged, most likely on purpose. Now that's dirty.
At least my next second-hand GPU, a GTX 1070, was a lucky find. It is in a much better condition because its previous owner took good care of it.
I just bought TWO Sapphire RX 580 8GBs for $140 USD, delivered, with a 1 year warranty off e bay and I used them to refresh some older systems. The coolers are way overkill and the performance is fantastic for the price. The VRAM buffer is the real differentiator.
I have a SOYO RX5700XT GPU, I paid 165 USD a year ago. This prices are crazy for the same cards.
I saw it go as low as 120$ usd during 11/11
@@TheSEMOMU You can get some great deals on GPUs on AliExpress. That’s why it’s a shame this is the best selling one. 😅
That’s not bad for basically 3060 level raster performance.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Low power requirements, i.e. does not need 6 or 8 pin connector.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff When a 6600 is a month's salary in many parts of the world, it isn't a surprise that the older cards are still being purchased.
Should be noted that almost all RX cards sold now are used mining cards rebadged and resold as new. Not that there's really anything wrong with that given the price and how well they do perform just some food for thought.
If you're doing an ultra-budget build getting one of the $60 rx 580 cards isn't the worst choice
Even the 6xxx and 5xxx series?
Linus Tech Tips has two videos proving that this doesnt mean nothing. GPU wont degrade because of use and GPU from a gamer would have more chance of being bad.
Not that anyone aver aked, but i'm here to give an explanation that might help to understand why RX550s are selling so well at aliexpress. So, basically, here at Brazil the policy for low value imports recently changed. In the past, you could usually get pc parts without tax at all (unless if you're unlucky , wich was the minority of cases). Due to the changes, the RX550 now cost effectively what was the price point for the RX580 (the champion of brazilian budget gaming), wich is roughly 80 dollars.
I got my younger brother a 4gb Rx 560 just because it was the best thing that would fit his computer that i could afford at the time, and it's a pretty good lil card, plays all the games he likes, so he's happy with it. I'm thinking of getting him a 1650 next as a decent ish upgrade without external power :)
I had an RX550 for a few months in 2017, a Gigabyte OC edition no less! It did reasonably OK in eSports titles even with medium settings, I remember being quite surprised. Ended up giving it to my kid and she used it for her digital art for years afterwards.
I found my old RX560, that I got in 2017, that used to be broken, but after testing it healed itself apparently, and oh boy, that shit is barely usable these days...
Well, it is useful for games from that era 😁
I bought one of those Soyo Monarch RX580 2048SP cards back in 2021 buuuuut It was only $46 on AliExpress at the time which id argue was a good value back then
Note: CS2 often stutters on the first match on first launch cause it's still compiling stuff or whatever. Ideally you should start a match, quit, relaunch and then there should be less of it
steam can compile all the shaders in advance. i did this on linux and it took 1h and didn't help at all lmao
I have a 2GB RX 550 that came in a GPU drought era iBuypower prebuilt I bought "parts only" a couple of years ago for $200, it was new in box, box damaged but original box still sealed. It was a decent PC, 11400, z590 MB, 8GB or DDR4 3000, 500GB WD Blue NVME, and the RX 550. I wasn't mad about it on a $200 PC that was brand new, the box was damaged, and the front bezel had some broken clips. I ended up adding memory and somehow managed to get a 3060 directly from EVGA for $199.
I still have the 550, it isn't much for gaming, a 1050ti is a better choice, and a 1650 absolutely stomps it with crocs. What it is great for is testing and as a basic display adapter while working on PCs with no built in graphics.
It did run Fallout New Vegas and 4 very well, so there is that.
doesn't ur intel 11400 actually have a better iGPU than 550?
Probably, the RTX 3060 12GB was a monster upgrade
2:40 DAWID, THE CARD IS ON FIRE!!!
The reason this thing is so popular might be because compared to the Fermi Quadros that are in a lot of old workstation PCs that people use as entry-level systems.
You should try overclocking them, the max clock on all of these are in the sub 1100mhz range, but polaris cards will generally do 1350mhz+, guess it depends on how much power they can take before they explode.
The RX 550 is pretty similar in performance to the Vega 7, the integrated graphics that comes with CPUs like the Ryzen 5 5600g.
This type of GPU is probably meant for really old office computers you want to keep using since it doesn't need to be plugged to the PSU
I just found one of these in Tarkov! ( Yes, I know the tarkov card is actually a GTX 750 TI as I have one on display)
I have a PowerColor RX 550 4GB I used with an i3 7100 and 16GB of ram for awhile last year. For any games pre-2013 in 1080p, this is actually a great little card. It did Borderlands 2 and Black Ops 2 in 1440p Medium settings/60 FPS :) It's in my moms Lenovo system now for general use.
Honestly, the 470 was the best one. With the exception of PubG, it's 1% lows were better across the board by nearly 2x and max FPS wise it was within a few frames of that cut down 580 for 30-40 dollars cheaper. Not that I'd personally recommend any of this stuff. I'm sure you could find something newer and more powerful for $100 bucks used. All these are 7-8 years old and are going to stop being supported with driver updates sooner rather than later. You can save up like 25/35 dollars extra and get a used 2060 on Ebay these days. Probably less if you have a local market.
Given the prices I kinda doubt it, but it's almost like the 470 has 8GB and the 580 4GB...? That'd explain the minimums.
AliExpress and GPU are not positive words
I dunno, recently saw a guy buy a 6600M card from alie and overclocking it. He got great performance for 100 bucks.
They just took mobile GPU's and turned them into cards, with active cooling. Giving you space to overclock quite a bit.
@@transformerstuff7029 Obviously there are some good deals bruh
nah, aliexpress and HDD are not positive words. Cuz hdds are fake there, not gpus
@@malachkah ton of fakes gpus there too man haha
I love me some aliexpress. But it's scary place to buy tech.
Did have GREAT experience buying mechanical keyboards though.
@@malachkah
its not fake, just learn how to buy from aliexpress
there are a fake sellers, just don't buy from them.
I have a RX 560 2gb XFX in my collection. It comes out every now and then to test motherboards or setups where I dont care if it dies. I paid $10 on marketplace, used its fans to fix a RX 470 and now it has a 120mm zip tire on it. Great low power card, better than nothing, more suited for 2010-2015 games at a playable FPS.
The reason the 470 performed about the same as the 580 is because the 4xx and 5xx series cards used the same chipset, the 5xx just had higher clocks. So the 470 is two tiers above the 550, which is why it performs better.
In fact, people were flashing the 5xx bios onto their 4xx cards to fet the added speed.
You should try that for a video. Find a 570 bios to slap onto that 470 and see what the performace gain is, if any!
Anyways i miss the car Dawid used to drive in Cyberpunk to benchmark pc's in the past.
That cute little thing.
It's the card packaging Linus got in his recent video. Crazy how the box screams Nvidia while it's an AMD
Soyo used to be a good, popular motherboard manufacturer - back when we had way more manufacturers like Aopen, Chaintech, DFI etc. Soyo ceased trading and hasn't existed since2009, so anything using the name Soyo is already a scam. Soyo hasn't existed as an Electronics manufacturer for 15+ years!
@@chrisfanning5842 That’s very interesting! Thanks for the info. 👍
I think in some parts such as my land the brand is sort of combined with Kyo. So they make boards, SSDs and stuff still, but under the Kyo Soyo name. Idk if its the same co. being acquired, or if its just a similar name and they have nothing in common, but yeah they're still around here.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff "While no longer operational in US and Taiwan, most of the assets were shipped to Shenzhen, China, and PC production still goes on for the Chinese market."
@@bayuchandrasukma820 So I did some digging and Maxsun and Soyo share the same head office (12th Floor, To-Win Building, 30 Huaxia Rd, Guangzhou) Despite this, there's no other indication that Soyo is owned by Maxsun, and no mention of it either on Soyo's or Masun's websites. It's possibly Maxsun bought the rights to the brand name and logo when Soyo was being liquidated under Chapter7 bankrupcy filings.
Soyo does in fact still exist, and they do still make and sell products, just not in Western markets. They're a great budget option here in Asia.
What about testing older cards like this with lossless scaling? To boost performance on a budget?
I use these Soyo RX550's in my budget builds and they are just fine and I never pay more than $60 for them and I often pay $70-80 for new RX580's on Aliexpress.
4:51 Is diabodical
Ngl, when i saw the thumbnail i swore i was looking at an old Gigabyte 750Ti. Lol
im glad he didnt look down on the 750 ti
I am rocking an RX 580 still. Modded Fallout 4 on high, all the new NFS games on medium low, AC Unity on medium. And no big stutters
I also had this card video rx 550 4Gb but from sapphire. He was doing his job very well. I was even surprised how good she is within her power! it's not a powerful gaming card, but it's not bad enough to not be able to do anything. See that rx 550 4gb has pci-ex 8x gen3.
It plays cyberpunk 2077 with fsr3 implemented. I knew it without a video bc I use rx460 4gb. Unlikely benchmarkers, I felt it is even better than LS FG.
I actually bought a very similar gpu to this, its an rx 550 as well, the same cooler design but is from aisurix (a not known brand), as you can guess, it didnt work, i dont know if its a motherboard incompatibility or not enough power but computer doesnt boot if its connected. I returned it, bought an asus gt 1030 as its the only available budget gpu, and it worked.
For anyone curious:
Motherboard is a OEM samsung h61s1 (which has a VERY old bios version from 2011 and is a legacy boot)
PSU is OEM as well, its a samsung 350watt
CPU is an i5-2400
Might be motherboard incompatibility as i heard that radeon gpu dont like legacy bios. Or highly likely Power supply since it doesnt even POST.
😂 in the brilliant ad at the start you say 'Data' the correct amd the wrong way both in 5 seconds 😀 love you Dawid 😊
I weirdly appreciate the new scruffy t-shirt with the hole in it. It shows that it’s done some work in its time, get that bad boy framed
I love (/s) how, with the appearance of FSR and DLSS, game performance got divided between "looks" and "feels". In some cases, it "looks presentable, feels like molasses" in others "feels passable, looks smeared in vaseline".
Mr. Wid, I believe that after image in 2077 is just the reflection of the back of the car off of the road itself! Have a great day and it was a lovely video to watch before I go to work!
No, that's ghosting from low framerate and the saturation of TAA search space, where it can't track motion vectors out this far.
Man there are so many channels and youtubers telling people to stop buying garbage and get informed before making purchases but they still do it.
My very first graphics card that i bought was MSI RX580 RedDevil, a total beast for 1080p mid to high settings. Then sold the card, got a Sapphire RX580. Then swapped it with another RX580, but an ROG OC. Card a bit problem, crashes at times. But damn it was a beast. RX580 was the peoples' champion.
You are wrong. Red devil is a line up from the brand Powercolor not MSI
@@chengizkhan8741my bad your royal highness, I got it mixed up due to the colour scheme. Yes your greatness, it was a PowerColor Rx580 RedDevil.
@@adambasri3397 Apologizes accepted, dear subject 😂
yep, that's the experience... thankfully i finally left that thing... mine's a Sapphire RX550 4GB, did well enough for 1366x768 monitor but when I switched to 1080p, damn...
In China, such a configuration is already benn a very popular "budget" combination, it incluudes an E3 or E5 intel xeon CPU, plus an RX580 GPU.
Great vid! Been telling people the same thing for awhile myself. The rx 470 4gb is leagues better than the rx 550 4gb and for the same price! Although the 550 is a pretty good option for those office machines without gpu power cables
Damn. You're better off with iGPUs these days. Even Intel once Arrow Lake is released. :O
But you also need whole system for that, that are much pricier. Though I am not gonna justify buying that card brand new. Better get a used 1650
the Radeon 780m is quite a bit faster than the 550 but it doesn't fit anywhere in my gaming PC.
@@BBB12106 you need a whole system to put this card into also...
@@Eric-ct2ri yes, but that whole system can be as cheap as $60 not $400
I bought an SJS RX 580 2048 SP for $59.95 on AliExpress absolutely mint
what if you disable core 0 on task manager? its the re-appearing tweaks people use to get more performance.
I heard Soyo Dragon and immediately went back 20 years to my first real PC build with an Althon XP and a HUUUUUGE 80gb hard drive. Wow! Had no idea Soyo was still around
It's a different company now. Teclast group, Maxsun.
soyo got bought by maxsun and they both make pc parts
You gotta do some emulation tests, PS3, PS2, Switch, I'm sure the 550 would do well!
Great vid!
Dawid are your Msi afterburner overlay settings anywhere you’ve got it set up exactly how I want it and for the life of me messing around in there gets me no where! :)
This video could have helped me a lot in 2019 when I got a RX550 for my desktop.Fortunately I played only dota 2 so it was just bearable enough for my use case😅
Well, it was not that bad. It did run Witcher 3 at 1080p low, GTA V at 1080p high, Dark Souls 3 at 1080p med etc ...
6:40 I'm pretty sure that's normal cause every car or motorcycle that's decently fast has that effect in Cyberpunk. Unless you're talking about how the effect looks more like a stationary image as opposed to the usual cool effect it gives.
i still want to know more about the "usb2.0 high speed" floppy drive in the intro of all of Dawids videos
that's an SD/CF card reader, it uses the USB header connectors hence the "USB 2.0 high speed" badge on it. I have one similar but it's USB 1.0
I bought a couple of these to go along Xeon V3 CPUs and motherboard to build very cheap workstations and to add to an existing VM server as a GPU passthrough and it is just perfect as a cheap display adapter for desktop apps (not gaming). Got also a used 580 for a cheapo gaming pc and it was quite good and pretty amazing value.
I'd love to see you look at what _cheap_ graphics cards are out there that do add more video outs, but aren't rip offs?
Wonder if there's currently an issue with the 500 series drivers / cards - the 1% lows on that 470 blew them _both_ out of the water.
The rx 550 is essentially amd's version of a gt 1030, whoever pays over 30 dollars for it is throwing their money away
It is faster than gt 1030, and price depends on local market.
@@aleksazunjic9672 still, the 750 ti is better
dont stop making vids i love these
The reason Cyberpunk looks odd even with FSR disabled is because the game uses a native TAA implementation that is incredibly poorly tuned, and a number of temporal shaders. Also, when you mentioned that the RX580 did not have the same after image, it actually still does, just less noticable. The bumper can be seen duplicated above your finger. This is yet again another example of CDPR not properly implementing the feature.
I don’t think I’ve ever doom scrolled since covid. I was really thinking Left 4 Dead 2 was gonna happen IRL
Why was there 0 OC attempts? That might be the sole readon to people buying this card? I might have missed something but please try to OC this card. I got really intrigued when i saw the temps
Just picked up a 2048 sp RX 580 gpu from Soyo in white for a super budget build for a 12 year old. Made one for a family friend's kid, and now the kids friend wants the same pc, so making a duplicate for them in the next 2 weeks.
Looks like a DVI-D port, as opposed to DVI-I which also carries a VGA signal...
I have a low profile RX 550 4 GB in a SFF PC. Works great. But I would suggest a brand new Intel ARC A310 .. can be had for $99 in lo pro form from ASRock. Not a very powerful gpu, but brand new, has fully updated drivers, and can play Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p lowest settings at 45 fps without FSR or Xess (which actually works well on Cyberpunk).
The 1% lows on the 470 look so good compared to even the 580. Maybe just lucky on the GPU lottery but still impressive how it keeps up!
hey dawid, i appreciate dota 2 benchmark on your videos, but can you watch a game rather than using demo mode for dota2? because demo mode is not really ideal i think for the test hehe
I'm also surprised that 470 card you got is cool, since most reviews and buyers report that is has a bad cooling and reaches 80c and starts thermal throttling (it also a 470D which is a cut down version of the 470 and equal to the 560XT which I wish you can do another video on)
You should buy the most expensive pre-built available and check if it's any better and reasonable then cheaper pre-builts
Time for Dawid to get time appropriate gear for other kinds of comparisons.
You can still buy RX 550s... like from a store? That's actually crazy. What else do they sell? New in box iPhone 8s?
From the thumbnail, i thought Gilfoyle from silicone valley had started a youtube channel.
Hey Dawid, love the video. But I have a few gripes (with all tech youtubers mind you) about the definition of "usable esports gpu"...
Having worked 7 years in that industry now, the BARE minimum for an esports gpu should be where the 1% lows are the average fps shown here.... 94fps is nowhere near enough for esports titles nowadays simply because of the outright *need* for a high refresh rate. not only professionally, but also in general esports centric communities 90-100fps being "acceptable" is the minimum nowadays simply due to the nature of these games.
when CS:GO came out and was popularised, it was still acceptable for people to play 60fps on 60hz with a good frametimes, but times have definitely changed...
I used an RX 550 when I got back into PC gaming after several years. I had no idea what was good or not but only had intel integrated graphics
for 40€ you can get a P106-100, as long as your processor has iGPU you're settled, using one for my VM without any issue
Dawid, I feel like we sometimes don't talk about this enough, but what do you think if someone is building a budget system, how viable is it to choose an AMD CPU with an integrated graphics card. They do pretty well these days no?
I've seen that after effects thingy on rtx2080 and 3080 also. It happened when I was switching settings and trying stuff and doing benchmarks
I bought a Soyo rx580 2048 new for 60 bucks almost 3 years ago, it still workibg and running every game that i’ve tried on it. It came in the same box but the foam inside where cutted qith the shape of the card not with foam pads until they reach the card like the one on the video xD. Like from Galicia
Thanks for the review. If I had this old card it would be realy frustrating to use when playing games. Even at low settings.
No grooves cut in the heat sink by the way it was extroooooded then chopped into a heat sink size chunk
You get the Cyberpunk 2077 console launch day experience.
Can you take a look at the needed technical characteristics for this game on the cloud services like Boosteroid, for example, because I am planning to start playing on it, but my laptop is quite old and I don't know if I'll be able to play there at all?
That 470 framerate for CS2, the 1% low, is that an error? Is it actually getting 48, not 148? Because otherwise, it's getting triple the 1% low of the 580... Which seems wrong?
I really wanted to keep my RX580, it plays everything BUT the games releasing this year.. Final Fantasy, Starfield etc. I ended up moving to an RX 5700 XT, it's honestly amazing.
The reviews and sales numbers for the RX 550 come from the time of the GPU shortage
I got RX580 2048SP of AliExpressed for 87.30 CAD in Jan 2024 for a side mini PC. It was white. not too wide or long ( so it fit ) and had its 2 fans be of RGB rainbow style.
The RX580 isn't hitting the intended speeds, Mine does the same thing and I realized these chinese Rx580's default to 100 watt tdp which I had to push the power limit to 150 to get the full performance. I might look into flashing mine to accept the 150 watts by default
8:35 DAWID DONT ABBREVIATE CYBERPUNK DAWIDD
Its not bad, it does a specific job i like - Be very very low power, modern and act as a troubleshooting videocard in all kinds of random shit. :)
The 1% lows on the 470 compared to the 580 were crazy on some of those games.
You can try AMD RX 5600 XT Challenger D 6G OC from about ~ 150$. I bought new from retail store before upgrading to 7900 GRE
I do like the old budget card round up.
I find it unfortunate that you have to spend so much to get a good new/ "current" card.
Although... used market... $200-250 in the US can get you up to used RTX 3060 territory which is pretty good honestly.
So if you spent $200-250 on a GPU for a used PC in the $500 - 700 total cost range... that's not bad overall... maybe a nice AM4 based system.
That's a lot of money for what it is. Also, would be interesting if David removed the cooler, because a lot of those Chinese Polaris cards are ex-miners and not really new cards.
I'm pretty sure you can get a much better deal with an used RX 6600 and drivers will still work for a long while.
Sure, I understand some people really can't afford the equivalent to $150 USD, but in this case, it is really worth it to save more money and get a much better product.
Running an rx580 from release, don't feel a need to upgrade, can run all I want, even space marine 2, not high settings not anything super, but works good enough for me! I can't really afford anything new, and the performance is decent
Oh is it now Dawid...
It would've been a good value card at $20-$30. $55 is really pushing it.
That RX470 was on 30% sale which put its price down to the RX450 level btw.