Hi all! Today we bring to your attention a review of the msi amd radeon rx 570 armor oc - a powerful gaming video card, which is currently considered one of the best in its segment. You can find out the current price in this popular online store.
Let's consider two options - and. The only difference between them is that the more powerful one has 8GB of video memory, while the “younger” model has half as much. They have no further differences in characteristics.
Alternative options
You will find all graphic cards in our always up-to-date rating. An alternative to the tested model can be video cards with a better price-quality ratio.
Video cards. All test results
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3G 3GB GDDR5
Productivity (80%) : 43.1
Equipment (5%)
: 77.6
Overall rating: 50.9
Price/quality ratio: 75
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X 11G 11GB GDDR5X
Productivity (80%) : 90.8
Equipment (5%)
: 68.2
Overall rating: 88.1
Price/quality ratio: 68
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AMP Extreme 8GB GDDR5
Productivity (80%) : 70
Equipment (5%)
: 100
Overall rating: 73.2
Price/quality ratio: 89
Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Dual 3GB GDDR5
Productivity (80%) : 43.5
Equipment (5%)
: 68.2
Overall rating: 50.2
Price/quality ratio: 86
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP! Extreme 8GB
Productivity (80%) : 62
Equipment (5%)
: 100
Overall rating: 67.9
Price/quality ratio: 85
Video cards. All test results
Printed circuit board
The device is built on a full-fledged board from the senior ATI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X line. What its overclocking capabilities are remains to be determined based on the testing results. However, the performance of this graphics accelerator allows you not to worry about loss of graphics quality in games.
It uses a Military Class element base with solid-state components - Solid CAP capacitors, coils with ferrite cores and economical HI-c CAP capacitors. The Polaris 20 XL graphics chip is manufactured using a 14 nm process technology.
The 8 GB video memory is made up of eight chips, while the younger model has four.
Characteristics and test results of Asus Radeon RX 570 Expedition OC 4GB GDDR5
| Price-quality ratio | 79 |
| DirectX version | DirectX 12 |
| Driver version | 17.5.2 |
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 570 |
| GPU frequency | 1.168 MHz |
| Memory | 4096 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 7.000 MHz |
| Memory bus width | 1 x 256 Bit |
| Number of shader units | 2048 cores |
| Thermal package (TDP) | 150 W |
| Idle power consumption | 58 W |
| Power consumption under load | 285 W |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 72°C |
| Cooling system type | Air |
| Noise in 2D mode | — |
| Average noise in mixed mode | 1.5 sleep |
| DVI | 1 port |
| HDMI | 1 port |
| mini HDMI | — |
| HDMI cable included | — |
| Display Port | 1 port |
| D-sub | — |
| Adapters included | |
| Software included | 1 program |
| Games included | — |
| Video card length | 24 cm |
| Number of occupied slots | 2 slots |
| Test: 3DMark Cloud Gate | 26.873 points. |
| Test: 3DMark Fire Strike | 10.350 points. |
| Test: 3DMark Fire Strike (Ultra) | 2.689 points |
| Test: 3DMark Feature Test (DX11, Single-thread) | 2.130.774 Draw Calls |
| Test: 3DMark Feature Test (DX11, Multi-thread) | 2.048.502 Draw Calls |
| Test: 3DMark Feature Test (Mantle) | — |
| Test: 3DMark Feature Test (DirectX 12) | 24.927.318 Draw Calls |
| Test: Dirt Rally (Full HD) | 66.0 fps |
| Test: Dirt Rally (UHD) | 26.3 fps |
| Test: Alien: Isolation (Full HD) | 122.9 fps |
| Test: Alien: Isolation (UHD) | 39.0 fps |
| Test: GTA V (Full HD) | 77.0 fps |
| Test: GTA V (UHD) | 26.3 fps |
| Test: Ashes of the Singularity (Full HD) | 44.0 fps |
| Test: Ashes of the Singularity (UHD) | 32.4 fps |
| Test: Metro: Last Light Redux (Full HD) | 77.2 fps |
| Test: Metro: Last Light Redux (UHD) | 22.0 fps |
| Test: LuxMark | 2.484 points |
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Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 4G GDDR5 video card review
In this review, I propose to get acquainted with the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 4G GDDR5 video card. The video card was purchased at a discount in exchange for writing this review, so item 18 is available. Anyone who wants to know about this video card in detail, please refer to cat. Radeon RX 570 video cards are based on the Polaris 20 GPU, but unlike the older Radeon RX 580 model, it uses a slightly less powerful processor with the XL prefix. One of the main differences from the predecessor Radeon RX 470 is that instead of 1792 stream processors, the Radeon RX 570 now uses 2048, in addition, AMD switched to an optimized technical process and made other improvements, but in general the entire line of 500 series video cards is not is something completely new, and in fact, is a slightly updated 400 series. As for the reviewed Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 4G GDDR5, the detailed performance characteristics look like this:
- GPU: Polaris 20 XL
- Process technology: 14 nm
- Number of transistors: 5.7 billion.
- GPU clock speed: 1244 MHz
- Memory frequency real/effective: 1750/7000 MHz
- Memory type: GDDR5
- Memory capacity: 4 GB
- Memory bus: 256 bits
- Memory Bandwidth: 211.2 GB/s
- DirectX version: 12
- Stream processors: 2048
- Texture blocks: 128
- Raster Operation Pipelines (ROP): 32
- Pixel fill rate: 39,808 GPixel/s
- Texture fill rate: 159,232 GTexel/s
- Compute performance: 5,095 TFLOPS
- Connection: PCI-E 3.0 x16
- External interfaces: 1xDisplayPort, 1xHDMI, 2xDVI
- Number of fans: 2
- Additional power connector: 8Pin
- Number of occupied slots: 2
- Dimensions: 250x100x40 mm.
- Weight: 0.9610 kg
The packaging is absolutely the same box in red and black as the older Yeston AMD Radeon RX580 model, which I talked about earlier.
The package of the video card itself includes an additional power adapter from 8pin to 2 Molex, as well as installation instructions.
The appearance of the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 is also absolutely identical to the previously reviewed Yeston AMD Radeon RX580, with the exception of the color of the metal casing covering the radiator of the cooling system - here it is black.
On top there is a pair of 11-blade cooling fans with a diameter of 90 mm. The fans look somewhat unusual thanks to the use of translucent matte plastic.
At the back there is a massive metal plate of rigidity with additional perforation for heat dissipation.
At the top there is an 8 Pin additional power connector; the I/O panel has a pair of DVI-D, as well as one HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4.
As you can see, the metal casing in this case has a more decorative purpose, because Cooling fans are mounted directly on the radiator.
The aluminum radiator consists of two parts with longitudinal and transverse arrangement of plates. Direct heat removal from the processor and memory chips is carried out through a copper plate adjacent to four heat pipes that penetrate both parts of the radiator and connect them to each other. The cooling system starts the fans only when a certain temperature is reached.
Video card memory - Elpida chips labeled W4032BABG-70-F are characterized by an effective frequency of 7000 MHz (the actual frequency is 1750 MHz).
The GPU is marked 215-0910052, which corresponds to the AMD Radeon RX 570 model
We assemble the cooling system in place and install the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 into the system unit.
Brief characteristics of the system are as follows: Intel Core i7-7700 3600 MHz processor, 8 GB DDR4 RAM, 120 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD.
This is the information about the graphics subsystem that the AIDA64 utility provides us with.
Information from the current version of the TechPowerUp GPU-Z utility. As mentioned earlier, the stock GPU frequency for the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 is 1244 MHz. This frequency falls within the limit of the values recommended by AMD for this GPU (1168-1244 MHz), that is, there is no talk of any factory overclocking here. The RAM operating frequency of 1750 MHz is also the “factory” frequency for Elpida W4032BABG-70-F chips.According to the utility, this video card model has a fairly high (81.7%) ASIC rating. The ASIC quality function characterizes the “processor quality”, which determines the amount of leakage current from the GPU - the lower the ASIC, the higher the leakage current. This parameter largely characterizes the overclocking potential of the device and, accordingly, the higher the percentage of ASICs, the greater the likelihood of achieving good results in overclocking.
As mentioned above, when there is no load on the graphics subsystem, the cooling fans are inactive. This helps to reduce overall energy consumption to some extent. This has virtually no effect on noise, since the video card remains virtually silent up to 60-70% of the possible operating speed. In the stress test, at maximum load on the processor and memory, the temperature rises to 73 degrees and stays around this value. To maintain this temperature, the fan speed increases to 93%.
As for overclocking, the potential of the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 turned out to be quite good. In the FurMark stress test, the card was able to maintain 1480 MHz “core” and 2022 MHz (8080 MHz) “memory”, although for this we had to slightly raise the voltage and power consumption limit.
In synthetic tests, as well as in demanding games at maximum graphics settings at stock frequencies, the card shows relatively average results. This is quite natural, this model does not belong to the top segment and you should not expect it to perform in all games; the overall average value of the 13 tested games below was about 65 FPS.
Don’t forget that video cards based on the AMD Radeon RX570 chip are excellent for cryptocurrency mining, so in conclusion, a little about that. At stock frequencies when mining the Ethereum cryptocurrency, Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 shows a very modest hashrate of 16 Mh/s.
Increasing the memory frequency, and in this case the card was able to consistently maintain the bar at 2030 MHz, only slightly increased performance to 18 Mh/s.
It would seem that “everything is lost” and we can call it a day. But you shouldn’t rush to conclusions and it’s time to use special tools, the first of which is installing a specialized version of drivers from AMD. After this, productivity increased more significantly and reached almost 26 Mh/s.
The last special tool was the firmware of the video card timings, as a result of which the hashrate reached 29.7 Mh/s - a very good result considering that the maximum performance of AMD Radeon RX5xx video cards in Ethereum mining ranges from 29 to 31 Mh/s. I deliberately did not dwell on the details of the firmware process, since I already spoke about this in sufficient detail in the review of the Yeston AMD Radeon RX580 video card, and in this case, both the process itself and the timing values are absolutely identical.
In general, the video card performed quite well, as for impressions, the main disadvantage characteristic of most representatives of the “red” is the increased heat generation, the value of which, although within acceptable limits, is still quite high compared to video cards based on chips from Nvidia.
The advantages of the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 include the presence of a function for automatically stopping cooling fans, as well as good overclocking potential.
Discount information
Until March 20, 2018, the Yeston AMD Radeon RX570 video card has a coupon “GBYAR4” with a cost of $538.99.
The product was provided for writing a review by the store. The review was published in accordance with clause 18 of the Site Rules.
