MSI Radeon RX 580

Overclocking potential on our sample was phenomenal, which could be just luck of the draw or a trend for more recently produced chips. Our chip is marked as being produced in week 17 of 2018, which is significantly newer than any other RX 580 GPU we tested so far. I guess only time (and more results) can tell whether this trend is real or just a lucky sample.

Yeah, it feels a little weird to test two 'new' RX 570 and 580 cards really. I mean the GPUs might be called Ellesmere, but these are the very same Polaris GPUs we tested back in June 2016, where we reviewed the first Polaris based Radeon RX 480. Last year in April 2017 we reviewed the RX 580 series. So here we are, June 2018 still testing that GPU series. Granted, it still holds up well in pretty much any game given the right resolution of course. Polaris (Ellesmere) is a better-binned GPU, it is the same series that is used in the RX 480, but fabbed on a better more refined fabrication node - yielded and thus offering higher clock frequencies. That does mean it's a factory tweaked product series. That also shows a bit in power consumption. This card hovers at the 180~200W Watt marker while gaming depending if you tweak it or not. From a design point of view as well as aesthetics and cooling, hey I have little to complain as it's all good. And at Quad HD 2560x1440 you're still fine with the RX 580 really. So I can still recommend the product series from AMD as it does offer decent performance and features with an excellent software suite in the year 2018. The MSI Radeon RX 570/580 MECH2 8G OC hold up well up-to roughly that WQHD resolution domain if you like to tweak it manually, you'll get a little extra out of it. The new MECH2 series is available as we speak, and sure, come recommended.