Smelling Like Fire is a Feature: PowerColor RX 5600 XT Red Dragon Review

It's unacceptable that a video card can go out the door with a VBIOS that doesn't even spin the fans until 100 degrees, even if it's fixed later. Test your products!
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PowerColor did ultimately release a good VBIOS for its card, but the card still loses in multiple ways to the Sapphire RX 5600 XT Pulse. The Pulse has better serviceability and maintenance options with socketable fans, it costs the same as the Red Dragon (at time of writing), it's got higher frequencies, and it's superior in thermals. There aren't really any reasons to buy the Red Dragon other than if you (1) hate how the Pulse looks or (2) can't get anything else. It's not a "bad" card with the new VBIOS, it's just not competitive. With the original VBIOS and first round of public updates, though, we're experiencing second-hand embarrassment that PowerColor would let VBIOSes out the door with fans that don't even spin. It's shameful, really, and it seems like no one even tested the product. The fact that one reviewer can find so many issues in a span of a 5-6 hour benchmark is laughable for PowerColor, which presumably employs engineers and technicians aplenty as compared to us.

Find Sapphire's RX 5600 XT Pulse on Amazon: https://geni.us/KVluKL
Find PowerColor's Red Dragon RX 5600 XT on Amazon: https://geni.us/AoemSh

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Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman, Josh Svoboda

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