Conclusion
...makes a well-implemented Radeon RX 580, such as the Sapphire Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB card, arguably the fastest choice at that £250 price point.The release of the Radeon RX 580 GPU may well be seen by many as a short-term marketing move to solidify AMD's position in the sub-£250 graphics market.
Extra performance is made possible by increasing the core frequency on the Polaris GPU architecture rather than something newer and more interesting such as RX Vega. This is RX 480 with a better, more refined skin.
The handy bump in performance makes a well-implemented Radeon RX 580, such as the Sapphire Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB card, arguably the fastest choice at that £250 price point, but do understand that energy efficiency has been sacrificed for performance - the card consumes about as much wattage as a GeForce GTX 1080 OC.
Sapphire couldn't have done much more with the Radeon RX 580 tools at its disposal. Its effort is highly clocked, looks good, is relatively cool and amongst the quietest Radeons we have tested of late.
Keeps relatively quiet
Crying out for 1440p FreeSync display
Solid Sapphire build quality
Limited core headroom
Rather on the large side
HEXUS.where2buy*
The Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition graphics card is available to purchase from Scan Computers.
HEXUS.right2reply
At HEXUS, we invite the companies whose products we test to comment on our articles. If any company representatives for the products reviewed choose to respond, we'll publish their commentary here verbatim.
*UK-based HEXUS community members are eligible for free delivery and priority customer service through the SCAN.care@HEXUS forum.
Related Reading
12 Intel XeSS demonstrated in Hitman 3 and The Riftbreaker
And devs can now access the XeSS DevMesh program to test it in their games.
0 AMD lines up Accelerated Data Centre Premiere for 8th Nov
Epyc processors and Instinct accelerators will be the hardware stars of the show.
