Gigabyte AORUS RX 580 XTR 8 GB

[W1zzard]

The AORUS RX 580 XTR is Gigabyte's highest-clocked Radeon RX 580 variant. The large overclock out of the box ensures that the card can beat the GTX 1060 6 GB. Also included is the crucial idle-fan-off feature and adjustable RGB lighting.

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[Fluffmeister]

GTX 1080 Ti power consumption, but not GTX 1080 Ti performance.

 

[Outback Bronze]

GTX 1080 Ti power consumption, but not GTX 1080 Ti performance.

Not for the Ti price, no

 

[Fluffmeister]

Muahaha, It's performance per watt falls short of even Maxwell.

 

[HD64G]

Great review as usual @W1zzard. Almost the same performance as the Nitro Limited edition, so nothing new here for me at least.

The biggest find in this review though is that Fury X at 4K is on the GTX1070 level of performance and left clearly behind the 980Ti by 10%. A surprise to me I confess by its beginning on market when @W1zzard found it just on par with 980Ti @4K. Even at 1440P, at start 980Ti was faster by 5% and now Fury X wins by 3-4%. Massive difference for the exact same products imho.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/31.html

 

[MAXLD]

Hmm, interesting card, let me check the stores.....

damn miners.

Seeing my good old R9 290 giving up her soul two days ago, there's almost nothing out there to buy. If Vega doesn't help, in a couple of years we'll all be budget plebs or damn broke 1080Ti owners.
Where's actually that "multi-gpu DX12 / double VRAM" miracle we were all hoping for? Could be handy during these dark days... two junk cards could possibly almost make a decent one (almost)...

 

[Casecutter]

"AMD misplanned their GPU chip production" W1zzard... So their crystal ball was on the fritz that day?

Dammed if you... dammed if you don't. If RTG pressed GloFo to make more neither can ask for better margins. While just as they add volume and cards make it in the channel "it all goes bust" and RTG is stuck with excess new product, as the miner's dump theirs on Ebay...

Sorry RTG has got bit once and they've learned, they can ever slowly up wafer starts, but the can't replay what happen the last go around.

 

[coolernoob]

"270$" is not how you spell 450$ - please fix this error, because this card makes zero sense at current price (current - for last 3 months not "just a little spike till next cargo")

 

[notb]

I struggle to understand how this card got such a high mark. :-(
If NVIDIA made a 1060Ti with identical results, it would be called the largest failure of its generation.

 

[jabbadap]

Hmm there's some odd cards on the some of the charts, like RX 550 and gt1030... Upcoming low end review perhaps?

On the topic though, great review as always . Everything on this card screams that clocks are pushed out of arch optimum, no OC room left and very high power consumption.

 

[Fluffmeister]

The biggest find in this review though is that Fury X at 4K is on the GTX1070 level of performance and left clearly behind the 980Ti by 10%. A surprise to me I confess by its beginning on market when @W1zzard found it just on par with 980Ti @4K. Even at 1440P, at start 980Ti was faster by 5% and now Fury X wins by 3-4%. Massive difference for the exact same products imho.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/31.html

PC Games Hardware has done a nice follow up, as well as Tech Spot, worth a look:

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafi...s/Rangliste-GPU-Grafikchip-Benchmark-1174201/

https://www.techspot.com/review/1329-buying-gpu-radeon-fury-geforce-980/

Not for the Ti price, no

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...03900&cm_re=rx_480-_-9SIA85V5J03900-_-Product

Pesky miners eh?

 

[hapkiman]

Good review, thanks. Sounds like a nice overclocked 480.

 

[notb]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...03900&cm_re=rx_480-_-9SIA85V5J03900-_-Product
Pesky miners eh?

I don't understand where are these prices coming from (and I've seen up to $800...). RX580 can be had for under $450.

 

[Ruru]

Low stock because of toy money miners.

 

[Casecutter]

I'm hoping when it goes "bust" and all the RX and this time around even GTX's that the prices will crash to the floor and a average 580 8Gb or GTX106 6Gb will be like <$100. Figure if we weren't riding this "mining wave" those card would be like $150-170 working a rebate. When all such volume finally avalanches back onto the market prices, will be rock bottom.

Both sides are surely pushing back they're next releases and letting this run course (face it they're selling all they ever committed in wafers from GloFo/TSMC) as production for both are firing on all cylinders until the first real sign of "hick-up" in mining. Then they'll cease production and start the new stuff. By the time they've volume to go market most of the Ebay frenzy will have subsided. Let's hope the next chip's give a high enough boost in performance and lower power (and low MSRP's) to really draw gamers to think about a new purchase.

 

[bug]

Good review, thanks. Sounds like a nice overclocked 480.

Performance per watt is worse than 480, tho.

 

[the54thvoid]

So...

And

If mining is pushing the 580 to that level, how much will e-tailers charge for Vega RX?

Looks like a 1070 is a far better bet for mining, especially on power/perf (which is important for mining).

 

[bug]

So...

And

If mining is pushing the 580 to that level, how much will e-tailers charge for Vega RX?

Looks like a 1070 is a far better bet for mining, especially on power/perf (which is important for mining).

So... maybe mining isn't the cause then?

 

[0x4452]

The card is nice - crammed PCB with powerful VRMs, good layout and decent cooling. But hard to justify over a 1060 6GB for me. Its marginally faster for double the power consumption.

 

[Caelestis]

The biggest find in this review though is that Fury X at 4K is on the GTX1070 level of performance and left clearly behind the 980Ti by 10%. A surprise to me I confess by its beginning on market when @W1zzard found it just on par with 980Ti @4K. Even at 1440P, at start 980Ti was faster by 5% and now Fury X wins by 3-4%. Massive difference for the exact same products imho.

I think on the one hand it is a result of the good driver support from AMD for older GPU and secondly because of DirectX 12 & Vulkan. Similar results can be seen when comparing the 970 and the 390. When the 390 came out, it was pretty much on the same level of the 970. Now the 970 is far behind the 390 in modern titles. But this is certainly also a result of the higher VRAM.

 

[notb]

I think on the one hand it is a result of the good driver support from AMD for older GPU and secondly because of DirectX 12 & Vulkan. Similar results can be seen when comparing the 970 and the 390. When the 390 came out, it was pretty much on the same level of the 970. Now the 970 is far behind the 390 in modern titles. But this is certainly also a result of the higher VRAM.

Actually this is mostly a result of lack of new products. They're concentrating on their old architecture.
Just wait for the RX Vega and rebuilt drivers - you'll see how quickly the older cards will lose performance.

 

[Joss]

The complains about power consumption are exaggerated in my opinion. The card pulls 243 W peak gaming (should be closer to 200 W most of the time) which any good 550 W PSU will handle.

 

[Gin]

Nvidia's DX12 performance is really poor. RX580 matching/beating 980Ti and Fury X matching/beating 1070.

 

[notb]

Nvidia's DX12 performance is really poor. RX580 matching/beating 980Ti and Fury X matching/beating 1070.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_support

The complains about power consumption are exaggerated in my opinion. The card pulls 243 W peak gaming (should be closer to 200 W most of the time) which any good 550 W PSU will handle.

But it's still 100W more that could be saved (as NVIDIA has shown).
Keyword: heat.

 

[bug]

The complains about power consumption are exaggerated in my opinion. The card pulls 243 W peak gaming (should be closer to 200 W most of the time) which any good 550 W PSU will handle.

For the millionth time: when expressing concerns about power usage people are not worried about their electrical bill or whether the system can cope with it. Performance per watt is an indicator of how efficient an architecture is compared to another and a higher TDP means you'll have to move more air to cool the thing which translates into more noise. If you don't care about efficiency and can find a card that's silent enough for you even when drawing more power, buying a more power hungry part is a viable option.

In short, TDP is a parameter of the card and it will be mentioned whenever a new card is released.