TechSpot'southward Best Of features are designed to simplify your shopping procedure past condensing all the information nosotros gather from reviews and tests into digestible ownership guides broken down by price bracket or intended use. Granted, in one case yous've settled on the best GPU for you, yous will still accept to choose a specific make and model. And generally, yous tin find several unlike models based on the aforementioned GPU.

For the past few months we've had on paw about a dozen Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards from different manufacturers which is nigh every 5600 XT model in existence. We've tested them and at present nosotros desire to share what are the best models, and more than chiefly, which one you should (and shouldn't) purchase. Here goes a quick breakdown that will steer yous in the right direction for your 5600 XT purchase.

Best Value / Best 5600 XT

Sapphire Pulse RX 5600 XT

When information technology comes to Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards, this is about the merely category that matters, and that's because the 5600 XT is a cut-down 5700, which is a lower-clocked 5700 XT, and therefore yous don't want to go spending 5700 coin on a fancy 5600 XT.

Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards have been known to become on sale for every bit depression every bit $300. Equally of writing we could detect an Asus Dual Fan Evo model selling for around $310 at Newegg, and MSI and Asrock base models are usually fetching $330. That being the case, $300 is the about y'all should consider spending on a 5600 XT.

Thankfully, the two best cards are plant around the $280 MSRP: the Sapphire Pulse and Gigabyte Gaming OC. In terms of cooling performance they rival premium models from the likes of Asus, MSI and PowerColor. Out of the two, nosotros favor the Sapphire Pulse equally it just feels like a step upwardly from the Gigabyte in terms of quality. Also when looking at user reviews people seem to be having a better feel with the Pulse.

Going past those reviews, for some reason cards like the Gaming OC take been more susceptible to black screen issues and other bugs that accept plagued AMD for over a year now. Unfortunately we have little to no experience with these bug. We'll admit later on seeing the verified user reports on Newegg -- it does make u.s. a bit hesitant to recommend any 5600 XT graphics card -- merely we also find it puzzling how a menu like the Gaming OC tin can have so many unhappy user reports, while the Pulse has near none.

We accept both cards on paw and in our experience both have worked flawlessly. Even more than puzzling is that the problems reported for the Gaming OC seem to be driver related, simply again nowhere near the volume of issues has been reported with the Pulse.

Taking that into account, nosotros feel the Sapphire Pulse is the best value Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics menu and the one you should be looking to buy.

Best Performance

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming X

If nosotros could pick one of the many 5600 XT graphics cards and pick ane for my own gaming system, and nosotros didn't have to pay the retail toll, we'd accept MSI'south Gaming X. This massive graphics card borrows its cooler from the 5700 XT, so it'southward consummate overkill on a 5600 XT. That said, information technology'southward non that much meliorate than the Sapphire Pulse which is shocking given the Gaming X weighs about seventy% more than.

The massive heatsink means you can turn the fans right down and notwithstanding proceed the hot spot below 80C. Information technology'due south too a menacing looking graphics carte and while looks aren't that of import, information technology'southward a overnice bonus. Unfortunately though, the 5600 XT Gaming X isn't a product y'all should buy at the current request price of $330. Information technology makes no sense as you can purchase an RX 5700 for that price.

The RX 5700 isn't merely better considering it's faster, yous as well get an 8GB frame buffer opposed to the 6GB buffer that comes on the 5600 XT.

There are a few other high quality 5600 XT graphics cards like the Gaming 10 that are priced so high they make no sense to purchase. In that group we notice the Asus TUF Gaming, Asus Strix, XFX THICC 3 Pro and PowerColor Red Devil.

Simply we believe it'southward worth mentioning them because they are all good quality 5600 XT's and if any of them are discounted later in their life bike and are available for a price that makes sense (aforementioned or less than the Pulse), then they'd certainly be worth purchasing.

Best Compact

PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 5600 XT

The vast majority of 5600 XT graphics cards volition accept up three slots in your system and most are fairly long. The Sapphire Pulse is one of the more compact designs measuring 254mm long, but again information technology will require iii slots. If you're after a dual-slot card your options are quite express and we recommend fugitive cheaper models such equally the Gigabyte WindForce OC.

The best dual-slot 5600 XT that we've come beyond is without question the PowerColor Red Dragon. It'due south by far the best performing model that takes up 2 slots and it's relatively compact at merely 240mm long. The Reddish Dragon seems to be available for $290 right now (it'south commonly a tad more expensive) which isn't ideal, but information technology's not a bad price either.

There is a second option that's even smaller. Also from PowerColor, the RX 5600 XT ITX is dainty, elementary and to the point. We've got the ITX model on mitt and information technology works quite well, though as you might look it runs a bit hotter than the larger models. With the fan spinning at 1600 RPM it's reasonably quiet and a peak hotspot temperature of 90C isn't terrible given the card'southward size. The memory and VRM temps are surprisingly adept, the GDDR6 retentiveness peaked at 76C in our examination while the VRM reached just 71C. Overall impressive stuff for a tiny unmarried-fan 5600 XT, and we've got no bug recommending it for meaty Mini-ITX builds.

Worst Models

As for which models y'all need to avoid... thankfully nigh 5600 XT cards are skillful, which wasn't the case with the showtime wave of RX 5700 series graphics cards. We exercise recommend you actively avoid the XFX THICC II Pro, MSI Mech, and Gigabyte WindForce models.

The XFX THICC Two Pro suffers from high hotspot temperatures while the Mech and WindForce models are loud and despite that still run quite hot. We're also going to tentatively recommend you avoid the Asrock Challenger D. This i in detail nosotros don't have on hand and accept been unable to buy locally, just the fact that Asrock tried to avoid us testing it and information technology'southward selling beneath the MSRP already, is non a good sign.