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Best Bench: 85% Sapphire(1DA2 E376)
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Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		14.1 %			78 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +452%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	15.5 fps	98.3 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +534%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	25.7 fps	105 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +309%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	23.2 fps	88.6 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +282%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	16.5 fps	114 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +591%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	17.7 fps	109 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +516%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	28.2 fps	112 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +297%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	26.5 fps	94.1 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +255%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	18.8 fps	128 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +581%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max		108 Fps			158 Fps	Much Better CSGO Fps. +46%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max		103 Fps			189 Fps	Hugely Better LoL Fps. +85%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.3 %	Hugely higher market share. +400%	0.06 %
Value Value For Money	42.4 %		109 %	Hugely better value. +156%
User Rating UBM User Rating	57 %		58 %	+2%
Price Price (score)	$79	Much cheaper. +54%	$170


Age Newest	84 Months	80 Months	+5%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	24.2 fps	175 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +623%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	25.7 fps	77.6 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +202%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	21.4 fps	155 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +624%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	22.3 fps	74.5 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +234%

Hot on the heels of the release of the Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 launched earlier this week, AMD have released a new Polaris 12 GPU, the Radeon RX 550. It is a sub-$100 entry level GPU, targeted at those who want an inexpensive, low profile, low power and low performance component for mini desktop PCs or a minor upgrade on integrated GPUs. It has just 8 compute units, a boost clock of 1183 MHz and comes with either 2 or 4 Gb of GDDR5 memory capable of delivering up to 112 GB/s bandwidth. As expected from a discrete GPU, the RX 550 wipes the floor with Intel’s current best desktop iGPU (HD 630 (Kaby Lake). The RX 550 is expected to be around 70% as fast as the only $20 dearer RX 560 (the successor to the RX 460 to be released next month), however this should be sufficient for an okay gaming experience for many games on non-demanding settings. It is anticipated, that AMD will tailor the form of the 550 more towards the laptop market as the year progresses. ^{[Apr '17 GPUPro]}

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The Radeon RX Vega 56 is the weakest member of AMD's Vega GPU family. The Vega architecture is built on 14 nm silicon and contains next-generation compute units (nCUs). Each NCU houses 64 steam processors, of which the Vega 56 has 3584 vs. 4096 in the Vega 64. The new architecture employs 8GB of second generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). In terms of compatibility all of the games we tested were fine apart from GTAV where enabling reflection MSAA resulted in very poor, almost matt, reflection fidelity (the same bug appeared on several Navi and Vega cards). Although the Vega 56 has 12.5% less processing units, users have found that by flashing an RX 64 BIOS into an RX 56 card allows a 10% increase in OC headroom which effectively brings a BIOS flashed RX 56 onto par with a stock RX 64 and just 12.5% slower than a fully overclocked RX 64. All of this OC headroom is great on paper but in the real world the reference Vega 56 is far too noisy. Hair dryer levels of noise at stock clocks are unacceptable for most users. Provided you are partially deaf or happy to use noise canceling headphones the Vega 56 “can” deliver levels of performance that approach an RTX 2060 but prices need to drop below $200 before the Vega 56 is competitive. ^{[Nov '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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