Sapphire Radeon RX 570 11266-04-20G

No blemish

The main disadvantage of the RX 470 graphics card was a clearly underestimated 120 W heat pack, which did not allow the graphics card to work stably even at reference frequencies, not to mention factory overclocking. After manually increasing the power in the Radeon WattMan application, the problem was completely resolved. But what prevented AMD engineers from doing this by default is not clear. Fortunately, in the updated RX 570, the TDP level was prudently raised to 150 W, which increased stability, reference frequencies, and overclocking potential.

Didn't spare metal

The Sapphire RX 570 4GB Pulse version, on the other hand, received a quiet and efficient cooling system consisting of two 10 cm fans, a finned heatsink, copper pipes and a back plate. In terms of gaming capabilities, the RX 570 even more overtook the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and got even closer to the 3-gigabyte version of the GTX 1060. New AAA-class games on it run at 1080p resolution at medium or even high settings with a frame rate of 60 fps. That is, there is a performance margin for at least a couple of years.

miner's labor

But the main buyers of the RX 570 now are not so much gamers as cryptocurrency miners. And all because the RX 570 has twice as many microcores as the RX 560 (2048 versus 1024 pcs), and only a little less than the RX 580 (2304 pcs), while being significantly cheaper. Namely, the number of microcores, and not the performance of each of them, affects the speed of mining. As a result, if you are a gamer, we advise you to buy Sapphire RX 570 4GB Pulse to build a gaming PC with a total cost of $500, and if you are a miner, then it is better to take two such video cards at once.