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
- 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
Ashes of the Singularity
Ashes of the Singularity, running on Oxide’s custom Nitrous engine, was an early standard-bearer for DirectX 12, and many months later it’s still the premier game for seeing what next-gen graphics technologies have to offer. The performance gains it offers with DX12 over DX11 can be eye-opening, though those gains tend to be more profound on Radeon cards.
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Brad Chacos/IDGWe test the game using the High graphics setting, as the incredibly strenuous Crazy and Extreme presets aren’t reflective of real-world usage scenarios.
The patterns we’ve seen before play out the same here. It’s essentially a dead heat between the RX 470, RX 570, and 3GB EVGA GTX 1060, comparing the GeForce card’s DX11 results to the Radeon’s DX12.
Next page: Synthetic benchmarks