Sapphire Radeon RX 570 Pulse and RX 580 Pulse review: Solid gaming on a tight budget
While Sapphire's flagship Nitro+ series goes for broke, the Pulse lineup focuses on value.
By Brad Chacos
Senior Editor, PCWorld |
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- Meet the Sapphire Pulse series
- Our test system/The Division benchmarks
- Hitman
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Far Cry Primal
- Ashes of the Singularity
- Synthetics, power, and heat
- Bottom line
Synthetics, power, and heat
We also tested the Sapphire Pulse cards and their rivals using 3DMark’s highly respected DX11 Fire Strike and Fire Strike Ultra synthetic benchmarks, as well as 3DMark’s Time Spy benchmark, which tests DirectX 12 performance at 2560x1440 resolution.
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Brad Chacos/IDGThe difference in scores here is much more than the difference in actual in-game frame rates, which is why you don’t want to test using synthetic benchmarks alone.
Next page: Power and heat
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