XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC 3 Ultra

Triple THICC the way you like it



We test and review the new XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC 3 Ultra. The Radeon RX 5600 XT is basically an RX 5700 however with 6GB of GDDR6 and lower clock frequencies. THICC 3 is a product that is extremely pleasing to the eyes really. We have a lot to talk about. XFX is offering a fantastic looking product offering very silent performance, at 329 USD.

Days before the 5600 XT launch something happened, NVIDIA lowered RTX 2060 pricing to 299 USD. And there's where AMD made an 180 degree turn and pretty much created two separated SKUs for the 5600 XT. That would be the reference product, and then the factory tweaked (OC models) with greatly enhanced specs like a 180 Watt power envelope (opposed to 150 W), an increase of the maximum turbo clock as well as a bump in GDDR6 memory data-rate going from 12 towards 14 Gbps. Interesting for sure. The Radeon RX 5600 XT is not replacing the Radeon RX 5700 graphics card. The two products address different market needs. The Radeon RX 5600 XT was specifically designed and optimized to deliver the best 1080p gaming experiences, while the Radeon RX 5700 – with its additional memory and memory bandwidth – was specifically designed for 1440p gaming. Yeah, AMD hasn't been wasting any time, Ryzen 3000 at 7nm, Radeon VII at 7nm, then the Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT, as well as the 5500 series. All at 7nm fabrication. We now add the 5600 XT series. The basis of the product that we test today is the NAVI GPU, with a die fabbed at a 7nm fabricated package and 6GB of GDDR6 graphics memory (12 Gbps) these cards are released in an aim to compete with the GeForce RTX 2060, will it be capable to do that? We can already tell you that the numbers will be interesting to see. The most important aspect, however, is pricing. Where the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT cost 349 and 399 USD respectively the 5600 XT series starts at 279 USD. The NAVI GPU is based on what AMD refers to as RDNA architecture (Radeon DNA). The Radeon 5000 series is the first commercial consumer graphics card that is PCIe Express 4.0 compatible. Both the Radeon 5600 and 5700 are offered with 2304 shader processors. The GPU game clock is dynamic at 1130~1375 MHz with a peak boost clock to 1.560 GHz for the no- OC (reference) model card. NAVI cards are fitted with GDDR6 memory, that means HBM2 is no longer used opposed to what you have been seeing with Vega 56/64, a clever choice as HBM2 memory is difficult to assemble onto the die substrate (lot's of yield issues there) and that makes it very expensive, next to being an expensive memory type to purchase.

Graphics card 5700 XFX THICC3 5600 XT 5500 XT RTX 2060 GTX 1660 Ti GTX 1660 Super Architecture RDNA 1.0 RDNA 1.0 RDNA 1.0 RDNA 1.0 Turing Turing Turing Manufacturing processes 7 nm DUV 7 nm DUV 7 nm DUV 7 nm DUV 12 nm FFN 12 nm FFN 12 nm FFN Chip size (die) 251 mm² 251 mm² 251 mm² 158 mm² 445 mm² 284 mm² 284 mm² Code Name Navi 10 Navi 10 Navi 10 Navi 14 TU106-200 TU116-400 TU116-300 Transistors graphics chip (million) 10,300 10,300 10,300 6400 10,800 6600 6600 PCI Express standard 4.0 ×16 4.0 ×16 4.0 ×16 4.0 ×8 3.0 ×16 3.0 ×16 3.0 ×16 FP32 Shaders / TMU 2.304 / 144 2.304 / 144 2.304 / 144 1.408 / 88 1.920 / 120 1.536 / 96 1.408 / 88 ROP 64 64 64 32 48 48 48 GPU Boost Clock Games (MHz) 1625 1750 1560 1717 1680 1770 1785 Compute power FP32 (GFLOPS) 7488 6336 6336 4835 6451 5437 5027 Memory bus (bit) 256 192 192 128 192 192 192 RAM speed (GT / s) 14.0 12.0 12.0/14.0 14.0 14.0 12.0 14.0 memory type GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6 Memory bandwidth (GB / s) 448.0 288.0 288.0 / 336.0 224.0 336.0 288.0 336.0 Storage capacity (MiB) 8192 6144 6144 8,192 / 4,096 6144 6144 6144 Typical power consumption 180 Watt 150 Watt 150 Watt 130 Watt 160 Watt 120 Watt 125 Watt

XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC 3

So XFX is offering a THICC 2 (299 USD) and THICC 3 (329 USD) version, referring to the cooler and fans. That compact design card holds two fans and the bigger version THICC 3 offers three fans, both follow 0dB mute fan technology, which allows the fans to stop spinning when the GPU core temperature remains below 60 Celsius. The backside holds a backplate that adds structural rigidity. You connect this card with a 6- and 8-pin power header. It has been widely addressed by us already. The latest firmware has small TGP tweak (higher power envelope) + it's boost frequency at 1750 MHz. XFX, unfortunately, did not apply a GDDR6 data-rate increase towards 14 Gbps, which does hurt additional performance towards some of the competing products from Sapphire and PowerColor in the same price range. The card thus features 6 GB of GDDR6 memory running at 12 Gbps and that means a memory bus width at 192-bits, delivering bandwidth of 288GB/s. Tweaking wise AMD is restricting frequencies again. We'll discuss that in the overclocking section of the article. The card offers one HDMI 2.0b port and three DisplayPorts v1.4. The card itself has no RGB, but and this is a personal notation, it looks stunning in design and style.