Why Would They Make This? 16GB RX 580 From Aliexpress...
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The necromancers of engineering in Shenzen cooked up a 16Gb version of the RX 580, with a catch.
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All jokes aside: It is mind blowing that a card from 2016 (yeah, that´s right) performs like that in 2023. Polaris was/is AMD´s masterpiece.
AMD does that a lot, it's not a unique case of amazing performance down the road.
Three words.
7970 Ghz Edition.
so does GeForce 10 series GPUs.
Hey guys, sorry for interrupting but would like to ask if said graphic card you mention would be s good card for beginners? Would love to play stuff like hell let loose, even on medium thst would be awesom. Im looking for a graphic card thst wont break the bank
I was always kinda confused why people love the rx 580 but shit on the 1060 6gb, in my market they’re the same price, and the 580 uses a lot more power while not being much more powerful (just 2gb of extra vram, but let’s be honest, 6gb is completely enough for the 1060 class of gpu)
@@jonathank5841depends how much is your bank, where you live, and if you're willing to go second hand or not
The RX580 2048SP is called RX 570 elsewhere in the world.
The normal 2048 has 8gb. Double the amount of the normal 570.
@@mijingles8864 570 has 8gb of vram
@@mijingles8864 there is a 8gb variant of rx570
@@mijingles8864some of the RX570s actually have 8 gb of vram
no, it is a 2048SP
570 is a different thing
The 16 GB version only has 192GB/s of mem bandwidth. If you could push that a little higher (normal 580 has 256GB/s), it would net you some significant, additional performance. Polaris10 allows for adjusting memory timings and bios mods btw.
polaris is dead bc of new DirectX
@@donciutino7490 What is it? the 12.2?
@@donciutino7490 is it 12.1?
For some reason they used 6Gbps memory modules instead of the 8Gbps modules that the original RX 580 had. This probably made the performance significantly worse.
The memory also runs 500 Mhz slower. Everything is nerfed on this card.
The 2048SP thing got me intrigued. Turns out, it's literally just the RX 570 with a small 40mhz factory overclock on the max boost. The RX 570 is the same die as the 580 and same architecture design as the 590 (it was a die shrink)
I'm wish Dawid tested ML stuff, theoretically (if you ignore AMD shenanigans) this GPU could be amazing bang 4 buck for stable diffusion/LLMs. I mean, if tinygrad succeeds :D
RX 590 is actually a different die. It is made on 12nm instead of 14nm.
@@MenkoDanyonly if you wanna tinker. gfx803 isn’t officially supported by rocm for a while. Thanks to amds drivers the speed on windows in ML is blatantly bad. In linux you will have to find a way to get rocm going for these specific cards, then you could actually get halfway decent performance for the price but it’s not really worth the hassle if you can just buy a 3060 12 gig or more recent 12gig Radeon card used for not much more
@@pfizerpricehike9747 Trust me, I know. During the early LLaMA days I desperately wanted more ram (4090 is not enough), I was this --->
@@pfizerpricehike9747idk about pricing in your region, but in Russia that 580 16gb costs half the price that the cheapest used 3060s usually go for, while providing 30% more VRAM. For applications that need VRAM that bad the card seems like a good deal
My guess is that the 16gb may help on productivity tasks? Very fun video. I like that when you crank things to unusable, the 16gb is technically 3x better
Actually it's 4 and half Times better
Rather than doing ultra preset or 4K you could have only increased the texture setting. Wouldn't have hurt performance and still used most of the memory the game could use anyway.
Increasing textures reduces performance too..
@@12Rosen Not as much as everything on ultra though.
@@12Rosen only when bandwidth is quite low
@@12Rosen Not nearly as much as increasing everything to Ultra. Especially not with 580's memory bandwidth, which can handle high res textures just fine.
@@12Rosen No, it doesn't. It was tested so many times. Anisotropic filtering doesn't have any performance cost either. This has been true since like 2002 or 2003.
Great video. Very entertaining. My son and I are currently in the process of upgrading an old sff business machine just to see how it plays games at 1080p. Low power low profile. Thnx again.
I bought my RX 580 8GB between 2017 and 2018 and it was great for 1080p gaming. I just upgraded it this year a month ago to a RADEON RX 6650 XT. I still recommend the RX 580 if you are on a budget you can still game with that GPU.
I have an RX 580 8gb and it runs at least some modern games decently well
I just upgraded from an RX 470 just last week to a 7800XT. That thing can still game, especially with FSR enabled. That feature is such a lifesaver!
Yes, I bought my rx 580 for 45€ 1 year ago. I only upgraded to a gtx 1080 2 months ago because it was in a pc I got for 20€ used (well, it was free but I needed a 20€ wifi card)
It has a i7-6850K on a MSI X99A Gaming Pro Carbon in an old Lian Li PC-Z70.
I also forgot to mention the 7800XT I got was sold to me for.....wait for it.....89 usd. Yes 89 bucks. A friend I build PC's for gave me a free 1000w ASUS ROG Strix PSU and tried to sell his 7800XT to me for 409 usd hoping that I'd bite the offer. Since I told him I was using a Seasonic M12II 525w PSU so I was limited on upgrades. I was considering the 6650XT since its good on a 500w PSU. When I declined, he just sold it to me at 89 usd. I've been gaming since then, replayed RE 4 Remake, and everything is at max settings on my 1080p 27" 144hz curved monitor.
@@itpugil Holy $hit, that's cheap!
Hey Dawid, I also have one of these scalpel RX 580s. And for overclocking with MSI afterburner it's everything to do with the power limit settings. They are running at like 50% power capacity, so slide that bad boy up and it will hold the frequencies.
It doesn't matter what the video is about, it could be an intricate look into a cable and you manage to make it entertaining! Well done my guy!
I love Dawid's videos because he doesn't say why things are a bad idea he gets the hardware and shows you and it speaks for itself.
Why your channel and videos haven't popped up and been recommended for me in so long is infuriating. This is literally the first video of yours I've ever seen, and I have no idea why. You are freaking hilarious, and I enjoyed this video so much. Already liked and subscribed.
I'm still running an RX 580. Told myself I'd replace it when it wasn't good enough, and it's still doing everything I need it to do.
Same got inside a puter I built back in 2013, cpu is bottle necking it. I rarely game on it as I have a better PC for that.
Davvid is 😎 🫘
Same here, I watch a ton of tech videos and never saw Dawid in my recommend. I found him through Toasty Bros and immediately subbed.
This memory could be very useful for loading larger AI models for the same reasons that the 12GB 3060 is the budget secret weapon for AI enthusiasts.
preach
yup!! i just learned about the 3060 myself.. just picked up 3 for my AI rig.. really not bad performance for the price!!!
No Tensor Cores and you think it will be good for AI
@@brokeDude2901 slow but no memory limitation at cheap price maybe we gotta wait stablediffusion for cpus ryzen 7000 support bf16 but not fp16
You are not running any AI on amd hardware, and not because of tensor cores, but awful software support and lack of driver updates. Rocm is no longer updated for these cards.
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I feel like it's not even for gaming at that point. Probably for mining or machine learning that needs "Just Vram"
Its sure !
Memory is cheap now (who know do they even use new chips) and this is a way to stand up in market saturated with millions of other 580 cards available now.
But it's pointless, it's just like 4GB gt710 cards.
The 580 was my first gpu, it sure was a huge upgrade from integrated graphics😅
I'd regretted it from 390x to Rx 580 they're neck to neck! Wasted my money! 🤦♂
@@stargirl5194 i got 4k monitor and still use my 1080ti for it Some games run fine 4k with it still.
@@hawky2k215 Performance wise yes. Power draw wise not really. The 580 drew a whopping 100w less than the 390x. If you used it for around 4-5 years 4h/day you saved around $100 in the electrical bill alone (depending on the kwh price). That and it also probably reduced the load on the CPU... If you bought your 580 8GB at the time for $200 you effectively reduced the cost by half. No money wasted there if you ask me since it's still by today standards a very solid card and can be resold much easier at a higher price than a 390x.
My second gpu. Bought it as an upgrade to GTX 550 Ti. Got it right before the GPU prices went insane in 2020
I still like how some graphics cards, like the 3D Wildcat back in the day (which was a CAD-oriented card) had upgradable RAM slots on the card. Then again, these cards were also not cheap as i think they ran a few thousand dollars each at the time. That being said, I think we are venturing into rather absurd territory where graphics cards have more RAM than some systems. I used to joke (back when 64GB iPods were around) that it was sad if your iPod had more storage space than your computer.
If it not just the Vram but memory bus aswell ??? Am sure the stories would be different
Unfortunately, Wildcat was severely flawed card in many ways.
Dawid never disappoints
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Except with EPYC CPU.
God bless him
he's using AI generated images. that's very disappointing
@@targz__Its true unfortunately 🥲
Always happy when the best TechTuber around releases a new video. I seem to always go out of my way to ensure I get to enjoy the video ASAP.
I clicked faster than linus being exposed by gamer nexus
Wow this is an original comment
So you clicked after several months of investigation?
Faster than 44.25 minutes
Doesn’t seem like they’ve properly set a response on their TH-cam yet
NAWWW 💀💀💀
Yeah when I heard about this version of the card, I just asked myself "why? and WHY the cut down version?". 8GB is really the sweetspot for RX580, more and slower memory will not help you in any case. RX580 is such a good card, released in 2017 and still relevant card for 1080p gaming in 2023, and you can undervolt most of the cards so they are super efficient for this architecture.
I just finally upgraded from the rx 580 - the thing was a champ. I mean still ran everything I ever threw at it well enough.
jumped up to the 7600. This new card runs so cold for me, I dunno how I am going to heat my office this winter.
My guess would be etherium leftovers. Mining ETH required a lot of RAM, but wasn’t very intense on the core. My understanding was that it did benefit significantly from faster memory, but maybe they were chasing some type of power savings or maybe this was just what was available and cheap and worked.
@@BronzedTube its kinda crazy I have a 580 and I was planning to upgrade to a 7600 too 💀💀
@@BronzedTube Why, though? You could have literally spent like $40 more for a brand new, on sale 6700 XT or 6750 XT that would have crushed the 7600. Or, even a used, under warranty 3070.
@@natedturtle Please don't. Just spend the small amount of extra money on a 6750XT. Skip eating out like once or twice, you'll have a vastly superior card.
I remember seeing graphics cards in Maplin back when dad would go in to buy some electronics components... and that gpu box gave me nostalgic feelings towards that...
you ALWAYS start my Saturday morning off right with HILARITY!!! THANK YOU DAWID!
The added memory is likely for crypto mining.
The RX580 was mining powerhouse for a while, but only 8gb version, because mining uses a crap ton of vram. 4gb just doesnt cut it.
So 16gb would probably have a pretty big effect on your hash rate.
It's for A.I.
You can use a polarization filter. That will make the information on the chips much more visible.
That often won't help in these cases. The cards are constructed from found working parts pulled from dead cards. To conceal the sourcing of the chips they sand off the model/serial numbers
I knew you'd buy one of these when I saw them the other week.
Nice one brother.
the rx580 8gb was a beast card probably one of my most favorite gpu's of all time. It did 4k on my tv when i had my HTPC setup at the time and played wild lands at respectable frame rates and it handled my ultrawide in games too. bought it for 100$ sold it for 300$
Given it was basically a 480 it remained relevant for a shocking amount of time
Weird idea for these kind of cards... You could try rendering a video with them, to see if the extra memory can maybe somehow make it a little faster? 😅
Yeah, my first thought is that this is for cryptomining, or rendering or something. I can't imagine why else this FrankenGPU would exist.
It's a very weird variant because I think It's made for ML (stable diffusion, Vicuna-13b...) BUT, as far as I know, these cards are compatible only with a very outdated version of ROCm (which is the AMD's crippled version of CUDA) so the performance will be pretty low these days.
We need someone to test this card with ROCm to see if "it does something" though.
I just don't know what I would do without a weekly dose of Dawid. Please keep this going! And thanks!
Glad to see this channel growing.
be interesting to see how such a card works in something like davinci resolve. comparing it to say a 570 which is what it's based on would be a fairer test
I love how if you stop to look closely at the ai generated images at the beginning they are pretty much 90% squiggly lines that don’t mean anything like my drawings of a “mad scientist laboratory” when I was 4 except it’s all colored in and shaded real well.
you know if the circumcized 580 can do that well with 16gb of vram imagine what the regular version would do with the same memory🤔🤔
Aw man for a second I thought this was a GTX 580 and got excited! But, I watched the whole thing anyways because your videos are awesome.
I love this sort of product, so original
This intro has better cinematic than some games 😂
Honestly I'd say the best card for something like this would be a RX 5700 XT that would make it a budget 1440p powerhouse.
I'm using a 6600xt for 1440p, even though it is said to be a 1080p card, it is performing quite well
My 5700xt is already a 1440p powerhouse
@@Am_Yeff Not anymore my RX 5700 XT is struggling in 1440p gaming because of vram.
@@EliezYT mine isnt, runs VR DCS great and most things at 144fps, really still an amazing card
@@Am_Yeff Are you playing newer titles like The last of us and Cyberpunk? I see the vram usage go pretty high playing 1440p high settings.
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I had this card back in $2018-19 on 9400f and it was really good for the price. Bought it on eBay for $200 at the time. Gigabyte I think. I could play MEA on high on a 4k 55" LG tv. Old tech should get better as software improves, pretty neat.
WOW, 16gb really brings out the 4k performance. I could only imagine what some games could do with 2 rx580s working together in tandem
по видео видно что это всё напрасно,16 это всё в никуда
the video shows that it's all in vain, and it's all going nowhere
@@wizardothefoolYeah RX 580 at 4K, it’s a massive piece of shit and dual gpu gaming is dead
2 rx580? Might as well get 1 RX6700 XT
I would be curious to see how it handles generative AI tasks. Some LLMs are massive memory hogs.
The vram chips were sanded down because they came from a batch that performed too low or had too many errors. Samsung or a third party would sell these on discounted to other parties, so they can do more testing (hopefully) and reclaim the good ones. It's really common and not necessarily as sketchy as it looks - but they're probably low spec.
I hope you are testing all the games with the textures on the max. That's the biggest reason to have more vram. And when you have enough vram, texture quality don't impact the framerate that much.
As soon as i saw the beginning of the video, I immediately thought "the vram is not the bottleneck".
I had a strix rx480 (basically the same as your 580) and used it up untill a few months ago. A very good card and lasted a lot longer than it should. It now lives in my daughters minecraft pc.
Great video btw!
I wonder how this card would do for Stable Diffusion rendering, since the more video memory it has, the bigger the images it can generate.
That's what I asking for too
Quality wise, better go for RX 6600 and beyond
All that thermal paste is ramping up my OCD. 😄 Let me clean that up for you. Great review as always Dawid. Take care. Cheers
I also have a Strix 580, it's actually insane how good this card is, i didn't even realize how much of a better base clock it has compared to the other 580s.
from jie shuo ?
I’m waiting for the 16GB GT710 review.
they did it because they could not because they should
watch Jurassic park for the reference🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You could have reprogrammed the BIOS for a more aggressive fan curve (keeping it ~65C) and bumped the core clock speeds and even improved memory timings. That would have been an interesting experiment. I've always wondered if tightening memory latency helped gameplay.
One other thing you could do by making your own BIOS is to bump the memory speeds up as well (until you start seeing ECC errors in HWInfo64).
I am actually surprised how well the 5700 XT is doing right now in Starfield. Being a minimum spec, I have been tinkering with it and I can get some pretty high settings and still hovering around the 60fps without FSR. Quite surprising. Before when there would be something like a GTX650 minimum, the game would have to be run on low settings to get 60fps.
When that card first came out it was great! every game ran at full settings.
I love that people are resurrecting old tech with upgrades, especially since in my opinion manufactures should make things like ram upgradable, and cpus usable regardless of mobile or desktop in any platform, mobile highend cpu's use to be a killer option for passively cooled home theater pcs, etc.. and then if you could get a highend mobile gpu on a card you were set to have the best experince.
Chinese market are doing that. They buy old motherboards, RAM, and GPU and create a Frankenstein outta them
This abomination was made for mining a fair few of these are in the wild considering the price difference to other 16gb cards it made a lot of sense
Correct. 2048 SP was chosen because it used less energy for similar yield.
I wonder how it would work for more computational loads like video rendering or something, if maybe then the card could take full advantage of the additional ram
Nothing I buy from there ever arrives lol
ha ha
weird lol
Dawid, you gotta understand (and a lot of gamers and Nvidia takes advantage of this misconception) that resolution is not the only thing that affects VRAM usage. Texture settings are typically the settings that affect VRAM usage, but even then there are a lot of games that "smartly" use VRAM for textures. In a lot of modern games, the texture setting simply affects how fast the textures are streamed in, not how big the textures are, RE4R being the best example. (annoying how they put a gb size next to the setting despite that not being what it does)
But that's not all, any RT settings, specific detail settings, all will affect VRAM usage, not just "pump to 4k to use VRAM". It hurt me to see you playing games at 4k with medium settings, like what's the point of testing out the VRAM if you don't change the settings that actually scale with more VRAM!
TL;DR
@@rustler08 TLDR: 4K resolution is not the only way to increase VRAM usage. Normal settings do that too. Turning a game up to 4K but keeping the settings low will not use too much VRAM.
I get you're trying to be clever, but not enough to prove him wrong. It ultimately varies based on the method game developers used to make the game. Doom eternal, RDR2 pre-caches everything into vram to prevent stutters. Tiling is used with dx12 and as you say, is a smart way to use vram. It however requires some advanced yet troublesome prediction or scheduling to prevent stuttering. There are many games that simply determine textures based off of resolution, so dawid is completely fine in his video. The game is not going to load higher resolution textures for a lower screen resolution, there is zero point. On the flip side a game might default to 2k textures or higher when set to 4k resolution.
Shadows also use quite a bit of VRAM
your commentary is legendary.
As always one of the more informative videos on TH-cam 😌. I have been thinking about buying a horrible cut down version of an RX 580 but with an unreasonable amount of video memory lmao 😂… now I know that if I’m only planning on playing “The Last of Us” and nothing else with cranked 4K settings the RX 580 abomination is a better buy than the more powerful less memory ASUS version lol 🤣🤣💀🪦 we can get 9 whole frames 😏 which is more than 2 👍 at least based on my limited math knowledge!
what have they done to my precious 580...
lmao nice joke. nobody uses a GPU that bad nowadays
@@MrTefe shut 😔😔😔😔
@@MrTefe alot of people do, I bought one last week, not my main rig but, I still bought it.
@@MrTefesurprise surprise, it's close to the 🐐 1060
Just love the humour and the way you take nothing seriously about tech. If we want serious results, I will watch Gamers Nexus. But your channel is funny and makes me feel better. Also, I love your Anna she's so cool, I wish we so her more often. Cheers!
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@@raven4k998 LENOOOOOODE.
Dawid, you should try playing the 7 days to die game. If you have a save with a lot going on, that old game uses a lot of VRAM (10gb is not even enough at 1440p). You can use that to compare GPU VRAM.
I would love to test the card for some mining. See if there’s any difference whatsoever being able to use all 16 GB for crypto mining.
Memory is use for generative AI.
The problem is that many open source projects use nVidia and little by little we can use AMD GPUs.
This could be a great card, not for games, but other applications.
But... the software is not yet.
you can run stable diffusion on it.
Are a lot of people actually looking for 7 year old AMD GPUs for this kind of work though?
@@jomeyqmalone some may for budget stuff. rendering works too. also video editing with eg davinci resolve can benefit from thsi large FB. i mean teh next competitor to that value in terms of vram is prolly the Intel A770. Which is quiet a gap tho.
Day 53 of Ahoy there
the thing is its not hard to add extra vram to a board but the nvidia and amd wont let their board partners put more vram on their boards, they used to actually allow this years ago which is why you would see the same card with versions with different amounts of vram, like i think base 9800gtx was only 512mb vram but most board partners put 1gb on their boards
It maybe circuncised, but it's still 12 inches long.
The CPU core allocation and usage and the memory allocation stats on the screen while playing is something I've always wanted to deal with my son's PC. We've been running a FX 8350 processor with a 1660 super. Recently unlike what The geek squad tells everyone we actually had a motherboard failure although it could be the processor gave. Either way I picked up a ryzen 5 5600 as an open box that that's sorta land itself nicely 2D newer RAM and the newer motherboard. We have a Corsair liquid cooler that I hope will mitigate the heat of a slight overclock so that I can get the 5602 5600x plus standards.
I have a 4gb version of the 750ti from some internet sale, and it was actually pretty decent back in the day with the extra vram. It overclocked very well! This made me think of it.
I have an MSI Radeon RX 580 GAMING X 8GB card. It has served me well all these years. It is retiring at the end of this week when I build my new computer. I find it odd though, I don't know what I did, but I was getting 60 fps on High at 1080 in Cyberpunk 2077. Secret, the "Ultra" settings in a lot of games, if not all, is really not that great. You might get 1 or 2% increase in visual fidelity. I would prefer the more smooth and increased FPS at High.
These cards are a godsend for creative professionals, rendering, etc.
Almost page 4 of patreons congratulations
I feel like a much more effective way to retain some performance while increasing VRAM usage would be to change the LOD bias. There are multiple ways to do this. One of the easiest ways is to just input a Steam launch command in some games.
This video just shows how good of a card the rx580 is nowadays. Another timeless piece of silicon!
You could have tried video editing, and ultra resolution textures/shaders in minecraft, the vram really comes to shine there
I mean, was it really a scam. It truly had 16GB of vRAM which i didnt think it would really have
This is definitely one of the best intros so far ☠️ 👏 😎
Doing gods work week after week
It's crazy my 2nd gen RTX 3060 has more vram than most new cards lol. I thought I was getting on the ground floor with my single fan, amazon special, GPU, but its actually been a work horse, and since its so ridiculous to 16Gb Vram or higher on a GPU I feel extremely fortunate lol.
It will last
1:03 You sure are, buddy! Good job! You'll be a real boy soon!
My biggest takeaway is that video memory isn't as important as the panic for upgrade made people think. Newer games seem to ask for more but not really doing anything with it.
Unless you're super competitive and needed top of the line setups, there's really no reason to rush for an upgrade
please do more aliexpress videos, that's the only place where I can get cheaper prices where I live
i have an rx580 in a min-spec system. it's a great card - will be interesting to see how a a16gb version fares...
unless you're running out of VRAM to hold reduced textures adding more VRAM doesnt generally increase performance UNLESS you add a wider bus.
However, adding more VRAM can allow for farther LOD fade, and higher textures throughout.
Good old 'Graphics Card'. Everyone's favourite! If only you could pair it with 'Central Processing Unit'
Solid choice for anyone needing a huge VRAM buffer on a budget. Linus Torvald comes to mind. Back in 2020, his personal workstation included a 3970X Threadripper and an RX 580. Dude doesn't need much GPU power, apparently.
I bloody knew you would be the one whod get one of these
Rewatching for the third time. More of this crazy stuff, please 🙏
I actually love the 2048 cards, but that's mostly because, when looking for most performance possible with fewest dollars spent, I don't think anything beats it. Where else are you gonna get a $45-$80 video card that is that powerful?
While certainly a little mock-worthy, I think the card really shows how capable it still is, and is a clear win for absolute budget gaming PC builds!
Hey mate, love the content. Is there any chance you can add Escape from Tarkov to your regular games you benchmark with?
He's used it for testing some stuff before, but the problem is that Tarkov is still in very active development. A run now is different than it was before, and will be different from the future. Plus the game has some whacky usage on GPUs.
I’m choking on my coffee about 3 seconds in. Wasn’t ready for that crap😂
there is also the Sapphire RX 570 Blockchain -16GB graphics card (single HDMI port)
that's actually pretty smart for marketing and sales. loads of people only pay attention to memory when they're buying a card. oh that's a 16 gig card wow!
I used to have so much fun doing this stuff... I recently hit an income level where I can buy basically anything I want tech wise... and it has sorta taken the fun away
I think the reason they frankenstein 16gb because it used to be used for mining purpose
Man I love VRAM mods. I did quite a dew of them. 16GB 3070s and 2080s, as well as my beloved 48GB clamshell 3090. I may strike again with a Radeon of some kind. Perhaps the 5900XT that never was, since I have a golden-sample 5700XT set up to take extra power.
The real reason to have it would be higher quality textures, I wouldn't mind a revisit on this card to see what gaming at low-medium settings but with ULTRA texture detail looks like
this could work for modders with shit tons of texture packs yeah
Great opening to the video. Gives the He-Man Skeletor feels.
it would be interesting to see such a 5700xt with 16gb
Running Baldurs gate 3 at ULTRA with RX580, 1080 50-60ish, this card is truly legendary.