Conclusion
In general, I consider this card very proficient. I love efficiency almost to the degree of OCD; being able to reduce the time required to complete tasks in my daily life has led me to multitask in countless ways to further achieve my goals. In this way, PowerColor’s focus on efficiency has extended the life of your average graphics card by 4x. The fans are well thought out, and, in a nutshell, round out a high-quality product. But as with all blessing, there is always a catch: the results of the test did provide some artifacts (in the shader particularly), and the frame rate/max test was disappointing when I recorded the screen. I was hoping to see at least 25 FPS in that brutal configuration, so my heart sank as it struggled along at 17FPS.
On a less professional note, the card, in general, is really sick: the aesthetics, the design, the fans! It’s super quiet, too, which is always a plus. I would, however, opt in for the Red Devil RX580; who wouldn’t want a nice LED effect on the inside of their beast and a higher memory capcity?
For the money, this card will be worth it and possibly ranks up there with those longer market value survivors. Any time efficiency is introduced into a product that provides long-lasting effects (take TI graphing calculators, for instance) it quickly becomes a standard in the market. But it’s much harder to achieve efficiency in such a complicated system of components. I’m excited to see new innovations as our wasteful discard-and-replace culture transforms into a strategic embrace of efficiency! Hooray!
