Sapphire Graphics card.

[Pcnoob745]

Hello. My PC will have a Sapphire RX 590. My cousin says that Sapphire is crap but i think that Sapphire are still the best ones at AMD (or one of the best). Who is right?

[seon123]

Neither...? You judge the product in question, not the brand... Unless you're like 7, and all you care about is what stickers you get with your GPU/headset/mouse etc.

[Pcnoob745]

 

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

Neither...? You judge the product in question, not the brand... Unless you're like 7, and all you care about is what stickers you get with your GPU/headset/mouse etc

Well the thing is that i do not care about the look. Performance is my nr. 1 question. Not about the looks

[Tristerin]

Sapphire is legit, stop worrying about it lol - Sapphire also tends to have some of the best air cooling options on the market for hot chips imho

[seon123]

1 minute ago, Pcnoob745 said:

 

Well the thing is that i do not care about the look. Performance is my nr. 1 question. Not about the looks

Again, the performance depends on the product. You shouldn't expect a Sapphire R7 240 to perform as well as a Sapphire 5700 XT Nitro+. And the 5700 XT Nitro+ is a better card than the 5700 XT Pulse, etc.

[Pcnoob745]

Just now, Tristerin said:

Sapphire is legit, stop worrying about it lol - Sapphire also tends to have some of the best air cooling options on the market for hot chips imho

Im not worried. My cousin is like... If he does not recognize the company or isnt interested then he says its crap

[Pcnoob745]

Just now, seon123 said:

Again, the performance depends on the product. You shouldn't expect a Sapphire R7 240 to perform as well as a Sapphire 5700 XT Nitro+. And the 5700 XT Nitro+ is a better card than the 5700 XT Pulse, etc.

Ryzen 5 3600 with rx 590 16 gb ram

Thats the setup

[Pcnoob745]

Just now, Pcnoob745 said:

Ryzen 5 3600 with rx 590 16 gb ram

Thats the setup

And the main question really is.. is does it have a good reputation?

[Boyohan]

12 minutes ago, Pcnoob745 said:

Hello. My PC will have a Sapphire RX 590. My cousin says that Sapphire is crap but i think that Sapphire are still the best ones at AMD (or one of the best). Who is right?

I have heard the same from some ppl but Sapphire makes solid GPUs.

I believe that the reason they (and Powercolor) sometimes get a bad rep is because a lot of ppl are not familiar with them as they only make AMD gpus.

 

[Pcnoob745]

Just now, Boyohan said:

I have heard the same from some ppl but Sapphire makes solid GPUs.

I believe that the reason they (and Powercolor) sometimes get a bad rep is because a lot of ppl are not familiar with the as they only make AMD gpus.

 

Thank you for the good answer!

[Whiro]

1 minute ago, Pcnoob745 said:

And the main question really is.. is does it have a good reputation?

Well I still have somewhere my old Sapphire HD 7770 which runs without problems till now

[Tristerin]

1 minute ago, Pcnoob745 said:

And the main question really is.. is does it have a good reputation?

Reputation?  In my circle of tech yes, I am running 2 Sapphire cards in my rigs.  

[Boyohan]

3 minutes ago, Pcnoob745 said:

Ryzen 5 3600 with rx 590 16 gb ram

Thats the setup

Solid setup for a mid range PC 

[Pcnoob745]

2 minutes ago, Boyohan said:

Solid setup for a mid range PC 

Ok thanks for all the help I need to get some sleep as it is 0:23 am in Latvia

[Jurrunio]

10 minutes ago, Pcnoob745 said:

Im not worried. My cousin is like... If he does not recognize the company or isnt interested then he says its crap

Then what he said is irrelevant

[mariushm]

Sapphire is a "preferred partner", one of the companies that are first to receive documentation from AMD, they receive reference designs and info first and so on ... it's one of the benefits of making AMD cards exclusively.

The same way, you have brands like Zotac which are exclusive to nVidia.

 

I'm not aware of any model from Sapphire that was downright bad, with issues, unlike some models from some other manufacturers (like Asus TUF series, or that Thicc card which has crappy cooling, a MSI model that didn't have any heatsinks on ram making the ram work at 100+ degrees celsius etc etc)

The Sapphire cards are not always the best overclockers, but the actual design and components used are solid, so you wouldn't be disappointed with them.

 

[Jurrunio]

13 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Sapphire is a "preferred partner", one of the companies that are first to receive documentation from AMD, they receive reference designs and info first and so on ... it's one of the benefits of making AMD cards exclusively.

The same way, you have brands like Zotac which are exclusive to nVidia.

but what if I say Zotac and Sapphire share the same parent company (PCPartner)?

[mariushm]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

but what if I say Zotac and Sapphire share the same parent company (PCPartner)?

I'm actually not sure Zotac has a similar situation to Sapphire - it's just the first brand that came to mind as being exclusively nVidia

EVGA is another company that makes only nVidia cards but I don't think they have some special arrangements with nVidia

If I remember correctly, BFG was another nVidia only, until they went under.

[Jurrunio]

7 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I'm actually not sure Zotac has a similar situation to Sapphire - it's just the first brand that came to mind as being exclusively nVidia

EVGA is another company that makes only nVidia cards but I don't think they have some special arrangements with nVidia

If I remember correctly, BFG was another nVidia only, until they went under.

I mean, maybe Sapphire gets extra care from AMD since PCPartner produces Radeon Pros, but Zotac certainly doesn't from Nvidia. Quadros and Teslas are made by Foxconn (after they bought Leadtek, that I know.

 

EVGA's the odd one, the only one making unlocked BIOSes available to customers I think. Others cant release their unlocked BIOSes.

[circeseye]

sapphire nitros are my go to with amd...top notch cooling and have never had a issue with them.