MSI Gaming Radeon RX 5600 XT Boost Clock: 1600 MHz 192-bit 6GB GDDR6 DP/HDMI Dual Torx 3.0 Fans Freesync DirectX 12 Ready Graphics Card

I purchased the video card last year, before all the craziness that we are experiencing now. The prices were ok last year on video cards. I just needed a mid-tier video card for watching some movies, editing a few family videos, and letting my son play an occasional game. I purchased this video card and it came with 2 free downloads for games. I installed this video card on an X570 Unify board with a new AMD 3600 processor. I cannot say anything negative about this purchase. This video card does everything I expected. I am not a gamer but my son plays some games on his iPad. I installed the games on my system and boy they are BIG files. My son plays "Resident Evil," and some combat games as well. The graphics are amazing and my computer doesn't even stutter. For the price and what I need, this was a good purchase.

Rocky start:When I first purchased this in early March 2020, it was extremely unstable because of the well known AMD driver issues which caused constant black screens among thousands of people. I was SO SO close to returning this thing because I had to endure these issues for a month asking myself "Did I really just spend $300 on this piece of junk??" Thankfully I hung in there for just a tad bit longer. Mid March I flashed the new VBIOS using MSI Live Updates and the black screens weren't as constant, but the issues still remained. Finally AMD released a new driver update mid March version 20.3.1 which seemed to fix the black screens and also addressed the known issues in the "What's new" portion of the driver update info.Conclusion:This is a 1080p killing machine! Great value for the money and can stand toe-to-toe against RTX 2060 Super but for about $100 less. Make sure to flash new VBIOS using MSI LIVE Updates and update to latest AMD drivers for RX 5600 XT.

There is just something about pulling this card out of the bag. You can just sense the power emitting from its sleekness. The price of this card has now doubled since it came in the mail in November 2020 if that tells you anything. Feels great to load out games faster than your friends that spent hundreds of dollars more on their set up.*NOTE*The card wasn't showing up in the device manager when I got the rig fired up(make sure you get the card in the PCIe x16 slot 1... for my mobo it was the one that was recommend to work better for 2nd gen Ryzen CPU). Don't worry, just head to AMD's website and there is a section for this graphics card in the driver downloads. It was slightly confusing while trying to situate the drivers because I thought I needed to get them from the MSI website. The MSI website will just give you performance applications to monitor your beast. AMD will get you RADEON software that has Adrenaline that will push drivers to your AMD CPU and GPU. Hopefully this will save you the frustration of not being able to get to the good stuff in a timely manner.

Pros- Very affordable and accurately priced @ > $300- Very cool gpu. Stress tests with Kombuster/Userbenchmark couldn't push the gpu above 80c before OC crash.- Adrenalin software is interesting/Very customizable with current updates (is finally stable)- Freesync (significantly easier to find a nice monitor for this gpu as most monitors now have freesync)- Lots of room for over clocking and pretty damn stable compared to Nvidia- FPS is *pretty good for the priceCons- Very sharp/ grainy graphical style. (NVIDIA is known for being smooth and silky while this card is grainy and sharp in most games. This is not a bad thing if you're looking for the best FPS, but i try to build systems that look amazing and function amazing. This card is more of the side of "function amazing")- Gets crushed by the 2060 super and fairly out done by the 2060. This is a half step down from the 2060 in my book.- Time consuming for new PC builders to get settings dialed in. I've spent probably 4-5 hours getting this card dialed in - running DDU, driver updates, general card settings in adrenaline, monitor configuration etc. Much more tweaking needed compared to an NVIDIA card buy after everything is all said and done, i like the customization this card offers.- Not particularly amazing but a good card. Can't run warzone on max settings without a lot of performance chopping, WoW at max settings performs around 65-75 fps. Was a little disappointed at first. HOWEVER on more customized graphics/settings in adrenalin you can push the image quality down and get significantly higher performance.OVERALL (TLDR) - I'd give this card a 7/10 for value alone. Don't expect this card to handle everything you throw at it, but do expect this card to put up pretty good performance in most scenarios.