ASRock RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 Review

1. Introduction2. ASRock RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D33. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)16. Clock Speed17. Temperatures18. Acoustics19. Power Consumption20. Overclocking21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

It has been just over two months since AMD released its newest Navi-based GPU, the RX 5600 XT. Since then it feels like the world has been flipped upside down, but we are continuing our coverage of this GPU with a look at our fourth partner card. This model is the ASRock Phantom Gaming D3, where the D3 signifies this is a triple-fan cooler. A more compact ‘D2' model is also available, with – yep, you guessed it! – a dual-fan cooler.

ASRock is still a relative new-comer to the GPU space, and the RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 is only the third Navi-based GPU we have seen from the company – the others being the RX 5700 XT Taichi X OC+, as well as the more modest RX 5500 XT Challenger 8GB. Offering a triple-fan cooler, a thick heatsink and some relatively simple RGB lighting, how does this 5600 XT compare to the likes of the Sapphire Pulse and Gigabyte Gaming OC?

	RX 5600 XT	RX 5700	RX 5700 XT	RX Vega 56	RX Vega 64
Architecture	Navi	Navi	Navi	Vega 10	Vega 10
Manufacturing Process	7nm	7nm	7nm	14nm	14nm
Transistor Count	10.3 billion	10.3 billion	10.3 billion	12.5 billion	12.5 billion
Die Size	251mm²	251mm²	251mm²	486mm²	495mm²
Compute Units	36	36	40	56	64
Stream Processors	2304	2304	2560	3584	4096
Base GPU Clock	n/a	Up to 1465MHz	Up to 1605MHz	1156 MHz	1274 MHz
Game GPU Clock	1375MHz	Up to 1625MHz	Up to 1755MHz	n/a	n/a
Boost GPU Clock	Up to 1560MHz	Up to 1725MHz	Up to 1905MHz	1471 MHz	1546 MHz
Peak Engine Clock	n/a	n/a	n/a	1590 MHz	1630 MHz
Peak SP Performance	Up to 7.19 TFLOPS	Up to 7.95 TFLOPS	Up to 9.75 TFLOPS	Up to 10.5 TFLOPS	Up to 12.7 TFLOPS
Peak Half Precision Performance	Up to 14.4 TFLOPS	Up to 15.9 TFLOPS	Up to 19.5 TFLOPS	Up to 21.0 TFLOPS	Up to 25.3 TFLOPS
Peak Texture Fill-Rate	Up to 224.6 GT/s	Up to 248.4 GT/s	Up to 304.8 GT/s	Up to 330.0 GT/s	Up to 395.8 GT/s
ROPs	64	64	64	64	64
Peak Pixel Fill-Rate	Up to 99.8 GP/s	Up to 110.4 GP/s	Up to 121.9 GP/s	Up to 94.0 GP/s	Up to 98.9 GP/s
Memory	6GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB HBM	8GB HBM
Memory Bandwidth	288 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	410 GB/s	483.8 GB/s
Memory Interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit
Board Power	150W	185W	225W	210W	295W

 

Original BIOS spec, left, compared with updated BIOS spec, right.

As with most 5600 XTs on the market, the Phantom Gaming D3 has received a BIOS update tweaking its core and memory speeds. Initially it looked like ASRock was going to follow MSI's stance and not update the memory speed on its cards, however just this week a new public BIOS landed pushing memory speeds to 14Gbps. This was the BIOS used for all testing and I had no issues with system stability while testing the card.

For the rest of the spec, 5600 XT uses the same 36 Compute Unit, Navi 10 GPU as the RX 5700, meaning a total of 2304 stream processors. Even with the updated BIOS, however, memory bandwidth for the RX 5600 XT is still less than the RX 5700 (336GB/s compared to 448GB/s) as the 5600 XT uses a 192-bit memory interface, compared to the 256-bit interface used by the 5700.

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