System Overview & Testing Procedures
We will be testing the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X in our graphics card test bench, which is made up of the following components:
Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X
Motherboard: ASRock X299 Taichi
Memory: Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB DDR4-2666 32GB
Storage: Gigabyte UD Pro 512GB
Power: Corsair AX860i
Cooling: NZXT Kraken X52
Case: Lian Li T80
As far as RGB lighting on the card the only thing that lights up is the small MSI gaming logo on the side of the card. This can be controlled using MSI’s Mystic Light software.
Opening up GPU-Z we can verify the speeds of the card.
We will be comparing the following cards:
– Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 Super AMP
– Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Extreme
– AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
– MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Super Gaming X
– ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Taichi OC+
– Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT
– MSI RX 5700 XT Evoke OC
– Gigabyte RTX 2060 Super Gaming OC 8G
– Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super WindForce OC 8G
– Sapphire Pulse RX 5700
– Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AMP! Edition
– Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 2060 Twin Fan
– MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Ventus 6G OC
– Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G
– MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming X
– Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC 6G
– MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming X 6G
– Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming OC 6G
– Sapphire Pulse RX 5500 XT 8GB
– MSI RX 5500 XT Gaming X
– MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 3GB
Benchmarking Information
We have an entire benchmarking suite to test these cards to their full potential. Games will be run at 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions. Our benchmarking suite also includes synthetic tests as well.
Synthetic Tests
3DMark
– Time Spy
– Fire Strike
– Fire Strike Extreme
– Fire Strike Ultra
VRMark
– Orange Room
UNIGINE SuperPosition Benchmark
– 1080p High Benchmark
– 1080p Extreme Benchmark
– 4K Optimized Becnhmark
Game Tests
Ashes of The Singularity
Battlefield V
The Division
FarCry 5
Final Fantasy XV
Metro Last Light Redux
Other Tests
Power Consumption
– Kill-a-watt meter (whole system)
Temperatures
– AIDA64 GPU Diode Reading
Noise Levels
– Risepro Sound Level Meter
Now let’s get to testing!
