Thursday, July 30th 2020

Sapphire Intros Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse BE - Cost Effective, Trim Feature-set

Sapphire recently launched a cost-effective variant of its Radeon RX 5600 XT Pulse graphics card, the RX 5600 XT Pulse BE. The company extended the Pulse BE treatment to the RX 5700 series, in a bid to make them more cost-effective, and ready for price-cuts. The new RX 5700 XT Pulse BE (model: 11293-09-20G), differs in board design from the RX 5600 XT Pulse BE. It's also significantly different from the original RX 5700 XT Pulse. For starters, it features a more cost-effective cooler shroud design that uses ABS plastic. The underlying heatsink is different from the one on the original Pulse, with one less heat pipe.

Interestingly, the card has the same dimensions as the original Pulse, with 25.4 mm length, 13.5 mm height, and 4.65 cm thickness. Sapphire also trimmed down a handful features. The Pulse BE lacks the Quick Connect fans that easily detach from the cooler, letting you clean the heatsink underneath. It also lacks the dual-BIOS feature which the original has. The card sticks to AMD reference clock speeds, with up to 1815 MHz game clocks, up to 1925 MHz boost, and 14 Gbps (GDDR6-effective) memory. Sapphire is pricing the Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse BE at AMD SEP of USD $399, although you should be able to find it unofficially-discounted.
Sapphire RX 5700 XT Pulse BE
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39 Comments on Sapphire Intros Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse BE - Cost Effective, Trim Feature-set

#26
zo0lykas
Most people who waiting for ampera can't afford anyway.
Super XPYup, that is what many people are looking for.
It's going to be a great PC Gamers Christmas when RDNA2 & Ampere launch and are being reviewed face to face!
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#27
Dristun
bugBut it doesn't do DXR :(
Don't think the day you'll be able to set all of the DXR features on (different types of shadows, reflections, GI and so on, not just one of them) on a 250$ card and play comfortably is coming anytime soon, lol. As for good old tech, 1660ti is plenty. Almost everything is running above 60 at 1080p@high even on my standard 1660.
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#28
Legacy-ZA
I don't think it would be worth it if you are buying this now?
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#30
Th3pwn3r
Legacy-ZAI don't think it would be worth it if you are buying this now?
I agree.

Went from an okay card to meh, no thanks.

BOGUS Edition.

Or

BUNK Edition.
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#31
BlaezaLite
If it's cheap as say £60, I'll have one like my Sapphire RX470/570. Forget it otherwise.
Bloody Eject edition? As in before RDNA2...
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#33
mbeeston
bugBut it doesn't do DXR :(
yes it does, so does pascal :wtf:
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#34
Totally
Chloe PriceI suppose that the BE doesn't stand for Black Edition if it's meant to be a cheaper model.
Bargain Edition in this case.
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#35
InVasMani
bugNo, it's always AMD fans that can't stand a little criticism, even when warranted.

There's an issue, not very widespread, but moreso than other product launches and one year later AMD can't even tell what it is. At this point, the issue itself is less concerning than AMD's inability to fix their crap. Nothing imaginary here.
Well how about Nvidia's inability to fix LOD bias!? You do realize they butchered it from -15.0/+15.0 by x5 to -3.0/+3.0 that's a enormous difference. I guess you'd be fine with them doing that again so LOD bias it stuck at -0.6/0.6+ which coincidentally would actually break their own proprietary abstract art AA smear layer coating. Nvidia doing nothing wrong and not breaking things you literally had to bake your GPU's to re-ball them with Nvidia.

Nvida the way you're meant to bake your space invaders graphics chips....
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#37
manofthem
WCG-TPU Team All-Star!
I have this card, it's alright. I've only been running it for a week or 2. Fans shut off in idle (if you don't have the driver bug that maxes memory full time), and fanless it averages 52C at idle.

Did a little gaming session this evening and temps were almost 80C, with MSI reporting Gpu temp 2 as 88C. While I am not sure, I assume this aligns with the gpu temp hotspot as monitored in GPUz?

I got this card due to W1zz's review of the original Pulse, but when I was looking for a gpu, I could tell it wasn't the same as the one he reviewed.
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#38
InVasMani
AnymalBake Edition it is.
I mean they had to make some compromises to lower the price, but yeah probably some truth to that since they removed a heat pipe, but if they adjusted some other things it might not be "as" bad as it "sounds" literally and figuratively more so I presume the former.
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#39
Gmr_Chick
dj-electricDoes a GTX 1660 \ Super \ Ti not answer this exact description? pretty sure it does, firmly.
Proud owner of a GTX 1660 Super right here! I don't need everything cranked up to super-mega-ultra settings in order to have a great gaming experience, only game at 1080p, don't care about Ray Tracing (lack of DLSS is a bit of a bummer tho)...I seriously couldn't be any more happier with this fine little GPU
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