Aorus Radeon RX 570 review: The best graphics card you can buy under $200, barely changed
This Polaris refresh is more of a side-grade than an upgrade, but it's still the best option in its price class.
By Brad Chacos
Senior Editor, PCWorld | PT
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- Meet AMD’s Radeon RX 570
- Test system/Division benchmarks
- Hitman
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Far Cry Primal
- Ashes of the Singularity
- Synthetics, VR, power, and heat
- Bottom line
Hitman
Hitman’s Glacier engine traditionally favored AMD hardware as a flagship AMD Gaming Evolved title, but GeForce cards have evened the score with driver updates. We test in both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12, with SSAO disabled.
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Brad Chacos/IDGThe Radeon RX 570 comes out slightly ahead here when comparing the ideal graphics API for each brand (DX11 for Nvidia, DX12 for AMD) but again, it’s awfully close—just 4 frames or so per second. And again, the oomph this refresh provides proves minimal versus the RX 470.
Hitman’s very much playable at both 1440p and 1080p with graphics cranked on all cards. Avoid DX12 mode on the GTX 1060, though, as the paltry amount of memory introduces some nasty stuttering.
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