Sapphire Radeon 11265-05-20G Pulse RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI/DVI-D/Dual DP OC with Backplate (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card Graphic Cards

Upgraded from a ASUS Strix R9 380. From a performance perspective, its works great, ~30%+ increase in performance. You can look at online comparisons on what type of performance to expect, and this met that. (playing BF1, Witcher 3, Warzone...) I have it paired with a AMD FX8350, 16GB RAM. Three things I want to point out: 1.) The unit arrived with a slightly bent bracket. Was able to use pliers to straighten it out, and amazon was quick to resolve it. Not sure if this is Amazon or Sapphire to blame. 2.) After I removed my old R9 380, placed new RX 580 GPU in, everything booted fine. I updated the drivers to the latest via Adrenal 2020 (not necessarily required). After rebooting, my wired LAN stopped working. Windows did not detect it anymore. Just disappeared. Not seen in Device Manager. Did a bunch of troubleshooting (reset CMOS, go back to old drivers etc) to no avail. Instead of wasting additional hours, I just decided to buy a new pciexpress LAN card ($15). I do not know if this directly tied to the new GPU install, or purely coincidental. As time permits I may investigate further. Just felt I had to share this info. **Update**: After thinking about this I am leaning towards this is purely coincidental. Fortunately ethernet ports are inexpensive. 3.) From the perspective of stability, I have had this installed for 3 days now, moderate gaming use, only had 2 errors requiring a reboot. This may be due to conflicting software (apparently running any parallel GPU software may pose problems) or games itself. Hard to say who is to "blame" for this right now. With my older GPU did not encounter this. For this I am knocking a star off for now. I will continue to monitor and update my review. UPDATE SEP 16 2020: Changing review from 4 to 5 stars. I have since upgraded my build to an AMD R5 3600. No issues when running its stock frequencies. If I use the built in Radeon "OC" feature to go to 1436mhz, I had some hiccups hear and there. I think its true, AMD cards are good for those who want to tinker around. I have no regrets with this card so far. UPDATE FEB 19 2021: I swapped out my 5+ yr old bronze rated evga power supply to a gold rated cooler master. I haven't had a single crash yet when doing the "automatic overclock" to 1436 (mostly playing COD Coldwar/warzone/Cod WW2. I'm pretty sure my old PSU was finally giving out as it was 5 yrs old (at this point I attribute my previous problems with that). Lesson learned: if you plan to do some overclock get a solid PSU. I am still very happy with this GPU! UPDATE JUL 19 2021: GPU is still going strong with no issues. UPDATE JAN 14 2022: GPU functioning great. Be mindful there is a GPU shortage crisis (COVID) since 2020-2022 and all prices are inflated. Not worth the inflated price. UPDATE JUN 20 2022: GPU is still rocking with no issues. I have decided to upgrade to a Sapphire Radeon Pulse 6600XT to get better (144fps, bought a 144hz display) FPS at 1080p. This RX580 was fantastic and still does phenomenal 75fps 1080p gameplay. I have no regrets purchasing it.

1. Out of the box into the mac - use a dual 6pin to 8pin adapter cable 2. boot up - screens are black until login screen appears. - No apple logo showing the boot process. 3. Login screen appears - log in 4. Open up Premiere Pro 2020 it sees metal GPU acceleration off you go! SIMPLE I replaced a really good nvidia Quadro K5000 which had 4GB Video ram and that card worked great in Premiere Pro 2019 with CUDA. That nvidia card - not so good with metal, actually awful with metal in 2019. Updated to Premiere pro 2020 and found out adobe discontinued CUDA sadly. I then tried Metal as the option for PP 2020 with the nivdia K5000 card and it actually worked better than it did in 2019 but I felt that it suffered a little. It lagged sometimes where it did not in 2019. Multi-cam edit seemed quirky too. For the low price of AMD I figured try out the AMD Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 after all it had to be better it was twice the VRAM. My nvida card cost about 5 times the price of this one, oddly, and still does. My nvidia card was a lot of work a few years ago, I had to download drivers then install cuda software…. On and on… Every security update meant downloading and install the latest cuda update… This AMD none of that nonsense. It just works. So you don’t get a Apple Boot Screen, I don’t care it’s a mac for crying out loud I can count on 0 fingers how many times I needed to go to recovery mode in 11 years. I came from windows 11 years ago and never looked back. Macs are just easy, everything about them is easy. Macs just work! If you get stuff that is certified for mac or get what apple recommends you have no issues. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to keep a backup boot drive so if the drive should fail I can pop in the clone and get back up in minutes minus any updates. I keep my clone updated for the most part so I can never see why I should need the startup screen with options or recovery mode. I don’t dual boot so I have no need for the option command. I use Parallels to boot up windows 7 inside the mac OS for times I need that, I never just boot strait into windows at power up. If I ever need options or recovery I’ll use my old card. When I upgrade I just do it from the OS, you know download install etc. My mac started with snow leopard and I have kept it updated, mostly, never doing a startup drive method, just download and install method in app store. This card works great in Premiere Pro 2020 better than my Nvidia K5000! Can I tell a performance gain?… yes . It takes Processors, RAM, SSD’s and a good GPU - to make a good editing performance machine. GPU is only part of the equation but is probably one of the most important. Backstory to why I choose to upgrade from a good video card to a good video card: For the number 1 reason PP2020 did not work all that great with nvidia. Number 2 I could not upgrade to Mojave with the nvidia card, ok it will upgrade but the problem was Premiere Pro 2020 on Mojave with the nvidia K5000 running metal was quirky, I mean quirky to the point it drove me nuts. Mojave has no built in drivers for nvidia which is why I presume. Their was no cuda or driver updates from nvidia and every time you booted I got an error message about it. I use a Blackmagic card that outputs my preview to a TV monitor, that was herkie jerky and the GPU affects that I guess. The computer display was smooth, kind of, but my preview monitor using Blackmagic was way to jerky to the point of maybe it was doing 10 frames a second. I Updated the Blackmagic card to the latest software to no avail, so that had nothing to do with it. It had to be nvidia. That was a deal breaker to go back down to High Serria. I don’t plan on updating to Mojave until adobe quits supporting high serria. But knowing I can now and that PP 2020 works better with the AMD was worth the changeover and for a small investment compared to nvidia costs.

I purchased this to work with my 2017 MacBook Air and run DaVinci Resolve. It has been an exceptional upgrade. The MB Air just does not have enough power (I purchased the Air before I realized I would be getting involved in some film editing). This has been a great purchase so far. Could not be happier. I don't like to rate purchases right away. A month in, electronics, cars, etc. should all be great. What matters more is how well they work 1-2-3 years out. This was purchased in January of 2020 and I use it regularly, even when not editing, as I write this review on April 14, 2021. I also set up a separate monitor at my desk. So far it runs really smoothly. Set up was really simple. I installed this inside a Razer Core X - Thunderbolt 3. Installation was simple and everything has functioned perfectly since. The only hold up with DaVinci Resolve is related to my MacBook Air only having a max of 16 GB of memory and therefore it struggles to run heavy operations in Fusion - which is the biggest memory hog in Resolve. That's not a function of the eGPU but of the Mac limitations. But, I've done a great deal of work in color grading and that function has been exceptional. So, too every other page in Resolve. Just an excellent eGPU to date, a little over a year out.

Used this GPU for my first build, as I wait for the NVIDIA 30 series to become more accessible. I wanted to be able to obtain more than 60 FPS at 1080p. This provides that with no problems. I am very new to PC building and gaming, so please ensure you do your research on different cards to get what's right for your needs. The Radeon software to view GPU stats and data is a nice feature for a newb like me (Brought up by hitting ALT+R). I dropped by one star as I've noticed inconsistencies in FPS at certain times, but never that frequently, and never that noticeable. Does everything that I personally need it to do. Very happy with this purchase. PC Specs and FPS examples below: Ryzen 7 3700X TUF Gaming B550M Motherboard Sapphire Radeon RX580 Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 X 8GB) DDR4 3600 WD Black SN750 1TB SSD Games/FPS (All ran in High settings) COD Modern Warfare/Warzone- 72.1 avg. FPS Stranded Deep- 121 avg. FPS Fallout 4- 82.5 avg. FPS Green Hell- 62.3 avg. FPS

Full disclosure, I picked this up from Amazon on black Friday at a steep discount by buying it used from the warehouse. I paid $136, so dollar for dollar the best graphics card I have bought. In the sub-200 price range this is your best bang for the buck. And Sapphire is typically the highest quality of the AMD card manufacturers (sorry ASUS, love you for everything else). In addition to max 1080p gaming, this card is also very versatile. I had it working on an old Sabertooth 2.0 Mobo in a PCI-E 2.0 slot paired with an FX 8350, still worked as well as my dual 270s, although it was severely bottlenecked by both board and processor. Apparently they work well with older Apple computers as well, but I can't verify that first hand as I build Windows machines. As for size, this card is actually smaller than the biggest and longest of both this generation and previous. You should be able to fit this comfortably in any mid or full ATX case. In conclusion: mid to upper mid range performance on a low budget price can't be beaten, plus with Sapphire you get a high quality build on top of it.

Performance: Improved performance 10-15% over previous EVGA NVIDIA 980Ti SC 6GB using the FCPX benchmark BruceX. Good enough for me. Value: good performance for the price Efficiency: Power requirements much welcomed. I used two 6-pin power connectors located on the main board to power the GPU with an adapter cable that combined the power into the single 8-pin power connector on the GPU. Adapter not included. No cables included. My former GPU required TWO power sources 6-pin and 8-pin (not accounting power thru the PCI-E slot). Former card had me tapping power from two SATA Connectors! (Yes, odd approach.) This new card frees up 2 drive sleds that I had to free up with the former GPU. Fixed bug: This new card also alleviated windowing issues (windows not refreshing correctly) after upgrading to High Sierra from Yosemite. Problem fixed with new card. Drivers: My former GPU used drivers that had to be updated via another Mac via Screen Sharing quite routinely whenever Apple releases an OS update/security update. Not no more inopportune black creeps with unsupported NVIDIA GPUs. Glad that is over. Mohave: This AMD GPU is on the “tested” list of cards for Mohave. Now unafraid of making the change to Mohave. Good stuff. Boot screen: You won’t see a boot screen tho’. Nothing new for the pre-2013 Mac Pro users.

For VR, I use an Oculus Rift CV1, and this GPU works fine with that. I'm coming from a GTX 1060. Motion-to-photon latency averages around 20ms. As far as I can tell, this GPU works fine with all the VR games I tried so far. I bought this GPU specifically because it has 2 HDMI ports, and I needed both (one for my regular display, and another for the Rift CV1). It has DisplayPort as well which I assume would work fine for any other VR headset. For 4K gaming, it works, but depending on the game, you'll need to drop some settings to reach higher framerates. Basically, no MSAA and lift the power limit to the max (30%), and you'll do pretty well with some games at 4K, and mostly everything at 1080p. I play Guild Wars 2 at 4K with mostly highest settings. I've played FFXIV also with mostly highest settings at 4K, along with WoW. Monster Hunter World I put to 1080p though, but use GPU scaling to up it to 4K; plays great. I had an issue with 3 different XFX Polaris GPUs (RX 560 and 2 580s) where doing 4K@60Hz over HDMI resulted in flickering until I made and used a CVT-RB resolution. This isn't an issue with this GPU though! I had thought that Polaris itself was defective or something, but it looks like it's GPU-dependent, and possibly something XFX is doing to make it broken. So to be clear, I can do 4K@60Hz over HDMI without issue with this GPU. I don't overclock, but I do make sure to increase the power limit to the max. The VBIOS that came with my GPU maxes at 30% (around 200W, but I've seen it occasionally go to around 219W). No problem, and it's a free hassle-free performance improvement! At the time of writing, AMD doesn't provide drivers for Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling with the latest Windows 10 2004 OS and this GPU (RX 580). It's unknown if they'll do it for Polaris/GCN. But even without that, latency overall is great, and just as-good as NVIDIA with VR. Works great on Linux as well. Forgot how nice it was to be able to just use the open-source graphics driver (I'm coming from a GTX 1060). No problems! Basically, it's a RX 580 that works better than what I've had from XFX, but also works great within expectations! After writing this review however, I noticed a few games would cause the display driver to crash after some time (usually after an hour or two). Looking a bit more into this, someone mentioned they had to increase their video memory voltage to fix the problem. I've done this (put the memory voltage to the max 1.2V) and it seems to have fixed the instability. So it's possible some GPUs come with a stock voltage that's a bit too low.

This graphics card is louder than my "old one"—Geforce 1050Ti. The Radeon software for Windows 10 is garbage in my opinion. I preferred just the vanilla driver that I used with the nvidia card... The Radeon software is overkill, IMO. But I didn't buy this graphics card for gaming. Works with macOS Catalina out-of-the-box, which is why I purchased it. Sometimes I consider installing my old nvidia card into the PC and just having two to use and saving this Radeon for when I boot macOS because in all other cases, I preferred the several years older nvidia -_- However, I think for the money, it's a good graphics card, but I will admit to not having a point of reference for what a high-end card would be capable of or how bad a low-end one would be. It's also kind of an eyesore in my LED lit case (whereas the Geforce had some LED to it). All-in-all, I'd probably purchase again, but I'd definitely take a hard look at alternatives first. I think the Geforce card I mentioned is a good comparison because it's older and cheaper, yet I found it preferable in some cases.