Review: PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Red Devil

Conclusion

Buying a card at below £200 has just become that little bit more interesting with the release of the Radeon RX 570 GPU.

Ostensibly a higher-clocked version of the RX 470 from last year, most add-in board partners have simply repurposed coolers and made minor specification tweaks between iterations.

Not PowerColor though, as the RX 570 Red Devil 4GB is a far more substantial card than last year's offering. It's big, has a decent core clock and keeps the GPU relatively cool, but it's louder than we'd like.

The obvious fly in the ointment at this juncture is that the RX 570 OC cards of today are competing with price-reduced RX 480 4GB cards from yesteryear, and while that comparison is valid, we'd steer consumers in the direction of the first-run Polaris GPU.

This, admittedly, puts the RX 570 in a spot, further tightened by Nvidia reducing the price on select GTX 1060 6GB cards in response to the RX 500 range.

These type of well-overclocked RX 570s need to be closer to £170 for them to make great sense, and if PowerColor can bring the price of this model down to what's being charged for the lessser-clocked Red Dragon, it would turn this card from average to good.

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The PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Red Devil 4GB is on pre-order at Scan Computers.

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