With rumors of the looming launch of the GeForce GTX 1650 series cards we can't help but think about what they'll be up against in terms of cards available today, and the Radeon RX 570 definitely comes to mind. While word on the street is the GTX 1650 will be aiming for the RX 580 performance but with lower power requirements it really can't be ignored that the RX 570 brings similar performance to the table for an insanely low offering of around $129.99 for the 4GB variant and the 8GB variant can be had for as little as $139.99. While I would question whether the 2048 Stream Processors of the Radeon RX 570 have the grunt to carry and really benefit from the additional 4GB I wouldn't shy away from having it just to satisfy those higher resolution textures and, well, it's only a $10 premium for the double the VRAM.

That brings us to today and we really wanted to revisit the Radeon RX 570 that we reviewed a long time ago now and have kept alive in our game to game testing only to see it outstretch the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB by a long stretch in recent titles. NVIDIA has been getting a good bit of attention lately from me due to updates and newly supported features like DXR being extended to GTX cards, but it is time to jump in and see what the, now budget, line of 1080p targeted cards from the Radeon group have to offer up in early 2019.

Test Setup

We tested all the cards on our Z370 based test system with the Intel Core i9-9900k clocked to 5GHz across all cores with 16GB of DDR4 3200. We tested across DX11 and DX12 but it might be time to go back and add in Wolfenstein 2 into the lineup to cover a few more bases.

Test System