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Should I replace my XFX RX 590 with a 5500 XT or 5600 XT?

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15 minutes ago, phil7990 said:

Hi,

 

So Last year I bought the XFX RX 590. It's excacly 1 year old. I was thinking about this new graphicscard lineup from AMD whcih seems awesome.

I need to stay with AMD because I have a freesync monitor. I actually want to also because AMD is actually nice again in its graphicscards...

Now the 5700 XT is out of my pricerange as well as the 5700.

 

So it's either the 5500 XT or the 5600 XT. Now should I upgrade to one of these? Or is the upgrade just not worth?

Freesync works on Nvidia now, 590 is great nothing under the 5700 or 2070 like minibois said. Stick with the 590 it's still a great card. using a RX 470 in my secondary rig still and it's really not bad if you factor in I paid equal to $80 for the 8gb MSI gaming X varient. the 590 is even better so still a very capable card.

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Hi,

 

So Last year I bought the XFX RX 590. It's excacly 1 year old. I was thinking about this new graphicscard lineup from AMD whcih seems awesome.

I need to stay with AMD because I have a freesync monitor. I actually want to also because AMD is actually nice again in its graphicscards...

Now the 5700 XT is out of my pricerange as well as the 5700.

 

So it's either the 5500 XT or the 5600 XT. Now should I upgrade to one of these? Or is the upgrade just not worth?

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FYI, Nvidia now supports adaptive refresh rate on freesync monitors. (they made their GPUs compatible with freesync (and called it something like G-Sync basic) and then rebranded their own G-sync to G-sync Ultimate or something like that.

 

You should upgrade if your current hardware can no longer do everything you want it to do.

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4 minutes ago, phil7990 said:

I need to stay with AMD because I have a freesync monitor.

You don't, since Nvidia now supports Freesync too (through HDMI I believe).

I wouldn't bother upgrading to anything below a 5700 or RTX 2070 level of GPU. Wouldn't be much of an improvement from the RX 590, other than power consumption.

 

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The 5500XT is slower than a 590. The 5600XT is not released yet. 

Also Freesync also works with NVidia GPUs since a year ago.

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15 minutes ago, phil7990 said:

Hi,

 

So Last year I bought the XFX RX 590. It's excacly 1 year old. I was thinking about this new graphicscard lineup from AMD whcih seems awesome.

I need to stay with AMD because I have a freesync monitor. I actually want to also because AMD is actually nice again in its graphicscards...

Now the 5700 XT is out of my pricerange as well as the 5700.

 

So it's either the 5500 XT or the 5600 XT. Now should I upgrade to one of these? Or is the upgrade just not worth?

Freesync works on Nvidia now, 590 is great nothing under the 5700 or 2070 like minibois said. Stick with the 590 it's still a great card. using a RX 470 in my secondary rig still and it's really not bad if you factor in I paid equal to $80 for the 8gb MSI gaming X varient. the 590 is even better so still a very capable card.

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29 minutes ago, Cryptonite said:

Freesync works on Nvidia now, 590 is great nothing under the 5700 or 2070 like minibois said. Stick with the 590 it's still a great card. using a RX 470 in my secondary rig still and it's really not bad if you factor in I paid equal to $80 for the 8gb MSI gaming X varient. the 590 is even better so still a very capable card.

Ok thank you.

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I'd also say you can easily keep the 590 for some more time ^^ but if you really want to upgrade I would choose the 5600xt since it seems to be a really good value compared to the 1660ti being slower and more expensive. 

 

Also the 5500xt is only marginally faster than the 580gb so it's not really an upgrade at all ^^ 

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