MSI VGA Graphic Cards RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC review
MSI VGA Graphic Cards RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC review
GPU
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AMD Radeon RX 580
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RAM (Memory)
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8 GB RAM
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Weight
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1.4 lb (635.03 g)
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Dimensions (L x W x H)
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26.92 cm x 12.45 cm
x 3.81 cm
10.6 in x 4.9 in x 1.5 in |
Brand
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MSI
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Series
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Radeon RX 580 ARMOR
8G OC
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Model Number
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Radeon RX 580 ARMOR
8G OC
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Based on AMD Polaris architecture and manufactured with 14nm process, the AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics card is specced with 2304 Stream processors, 4GB/8GB GDDR5 memory and 256-bit memory bus. A performance-class graphics card, the Radeon RX 580 empowers gamers who play anything from the latest MOBAs to the most popular AAA titles in Full HD and beyond, and also delivers the power to drive you into the next level of immersion of the world of VR gaming and entertainment.
This ARMOR 8G OC edition card is turbocharged to 1366MHz Boost Clock in OC mode (1340MHz for reference card) so you can get more graphics power for your favorite titles. Its Armor 2x cooling solution is efficient and acoustics optimized, with the fan stopping at low/idle load level. And Military Class 4 components ensure unbeatable quality, reliability and durability you can count on in countless gaming hours.
Board Design
Slot WidthDual-slotLength9.5 inches
10.59 inches
241 mm
269 mmTDP185 WSuggested PSU450 WOutputs1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
1x DVI
2x HDMI
2x DisplayPortPower Connectors1x 8-pinBoard NumberC940,
D009-04
Graphics Features
DirectX12 (12_0)OpenGL4.6OpenCL2.0Vulkan1.2.131Shader Model6.4
Memory
Memory Size8 GBMemory TypeGDDR5Memory Bus256 bitBandwidth256.0 GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units2304TMUs144ROPs32Compute Units36L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)L2 Cache2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate42.88 GPixel/s
43.71 GPixel/sTexture Rate193.0 GTexel/s
196.7 GTexel/sFP16 (half) performance6.175 TFLOPS
6.295 TFLOPS (1:1)FP32 (float) performance6.175 TFLOPS
6.295 TFLOPSFP64 (double) performance385.9 GFLOPS
393.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock1257 MHzBoost Clock1340 MHz
1366 MHz (+2%)Memory Clock2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Graphics Card
Release DateApr 18th, 2017GenerationPolaris
(RX 500)ProductionActiveBus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Graphics Processor
GPU NamePolaris 20GPU VariantPolaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)ArchitectureGCN 4.0FoundryGlobalFoundriesProcess Size14 nmTransistors5,700 millionDie Size232 mm²
Classy Black & White design
Game in style & dare to be different with MSI’s unique ARMOR graphics cards. Inspired by advanced armor shielding with a classy black & white finish. ARMOR graphics cards are perfect for gamers and case modders who are looking for something different. This is where gaming meets class.
Dual Fan
ARMOR 2X thermal design is equipped with two of the award winning MSI TORX fans. Thanks to the exclusive blade design, MSI TORX fans provide strong cooling performance while remaining incredibly silent.
Traditional Fan Blade
Maximizes downwards airflow and air dispersion to the massive heat sink below them.
Dispersion Fan Blade
Intake more airflow to maximize air dissipation to heat sink.
ZERO FROZR - Stay undetected
First introduced in 2008 by MSI, ZeroFrozr technology has made its mark and is now the industry standard among graphics cards. It eliminates fan noise by stopping the fans in low-load situations. This means you can focus on gaming without the noise of spinning fans.
Fans Spinning
During intense gaming or benchmarking
Fans Stop
Completely silent during idle, multimedia or light gaming
Heatsink & Airflow control
Under the classy shroud and powerful dual fans is a huge heatsink with countless aluminum fins that help dissipate the heat from the GPU. The copper heatpipes are infused in the baseplate to ensure efficient cooling. The aluminum fins are rigged with Airflow Control technology to maximize airflow towards the heatpipes.
The Future of Gaming
The AMD FreeSync technology enables the smoothest, fastest and most exciting gaming experience ever by eliminating screen tearing, display shutter and input lag.
Ultra-high resolution (UHD) delivers 4x the resolution of 1080p content, enabling much sharper and crisper images with delicate details during gaming.
Prepare for VR with MSI
To experience and enjoy the impressive world of Virtual Reality, high-performance hardware is required. MSI, world leading brand in high-end gaming and eSports, provides the right advice to make sure your system is VR Ready. Integrating the very best of cutting edge technologies in recommended MSI VR gaming hardware for smooth performance. Together with VR partners, MSI brings gamers an extremely realistic VR experience where games come alive.
Afterburner
MSI Afterburner is the world’s most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility which gives you full control of your graphics cards. It also provides an incredibly detailed overview of your hardware and comes with some additional features such as customizing fan profiles, benchmarking and video recording.
msi RX 5 80 armor hg OC card so this is an overclocked card the armor line from msi and it's an RX 580 retails for about 248 and you can pick it up right now for my friends at B&H Photo who provided this card so I want to thank them for doing that so we can actually apply it to a build now we're not doing a fresh build we're doing something a little different here we're gonna be swapping out the card from a previous build and the last build we did was the risin 5
1600 X with a Titan X maximal card yeah this build right here so we had a Titan X Maxwell audition in there we're gonna keep everything the same 16 gigs of ram ddr4 we've got the rise in v 1600 x the board for msi and the 50 power watt all that lighting and snazzy stuff in there so the only thing replacing is the Titan X and we're swapping that out for the RX 580 from MSI so technically look closer look at the car this clock is gonna be overclocked is over 12 to 13 66
megahertz in gigs of ram ddr5 ram with this card here you've got a few ports with it and the sports include a DVI port to display ports and two HDMI port so enough ports it's a dual fan dual cooling fan system on the card as well and you know that's something to take note actually runs pretty cool so the old build we had some really good performance but let's do a quick recap of what kind of performance gaming performance we got from this old build so looking
at a game like doom were doing between 68 to 71 frames per second which is nice and interesting and then moving on to division we're doing about 47 to 50 frames per second on the division and finally Mass Effect Andromeda is between 40 it's about 40 I believe about 45 to about 50 frames per second Mass Effect Andromeda so now that we've switched the card over and we now have our X 580 in here let's take a look at those three games run in the same
system when an RX 580 now the first game is doom and I apologized and I'm playing it off a monitor I'm recording on screen because the real life software from AMD for some reason just did not want to record this gameplay don't know why but that being said looking at a game of do we gots about 57 all the way to about 71 frames a second there's a larger jump in frame rates here within this but it's around pretty steady and smooth of course we expect it to be
lower than the Titan X but I can see the margin is actually pretty good with this card included in this rig so I do like that I think it's a really good performance there and in a gaming fast paced game like doom you want you know higher frame rates as possible now moving over to the division we're getting we get lower than what course we go with the Titan X but what we had here was an average range of about 38 to 43 frames per second so again closer but not the
same which is good it means this card can still perform fairly well on this rig and given those close to what we're getting with that Titan X so that is a good thing to actually see our final game is Mass Effect Andromeda and here we held a steady nice clip of between 50 to 55 frames per seconds so that's actually slightly better in my mind that while the Titan X did but the game ran brother really raw steady frame rates all the way through I will point out that I did have an
update so that might have helped with it but overall the performance of the RX 5 80s really impressed me what I liked about the card is that moving from the title next to this on the same build I was getting similar performance I mean this year this there are a few drop downs in frame rates but my gameplay performance didn't change which means my terrible gameplay was still the same but I was able to get some really good framerate performance from those
three games that we checked out on the last system which is good and again it costs way less I mean the Ark's 580 the msi armored edition which we were actually reviewing here in this video and in Titan X even there's a Maxwell is still you can see the difference there and what you're getting and how valuable this card is in terms of performance so I definitely like it so I suggest if you guys are interested in building a budget PC that can do
some really good gaming for KVR definitely could the rx 580 in there I think that's a worthwhile card we used to do so and I think in the build such as what I have here with the risin 5 1600 X 16 gigs of ram the msi board all those parts we have all the parts for you in the pc part baker down below but if you also just want to specifically buy the card definitely check
it out at B&H photo so if you guys have any questions or any comments about what we've done here in this review let us know if you would like to just leave a comment for anything go ahead and do that in the comment section of this review .
MSI is rx 580 technical fucking terms and in this review I'll be reviewing Emma size rx 580 overclocked eight gigabyte fucking overclocked edition all that Sh it's a long name long title but you know what I'm not gonna be doing a bunch of benchmarks this is simply a review my experience with a graphics card and how its treated me if you want all that technical technical jargon you can check out the link in the description below where I posted a blog going in more
depth and actually how it ranks in comparison to all the other different versions of the rx 580 so without wasting any more time let's get this review started , all right so the reason why I'm not gonna get into too much detail with this graphics card is simply because it's been done over and over and over again I'll definitely be giving you guys plenty of information as to making a wise and informed purchase but I can quite honestly tell you right now if you're on
the market for a graphics card and you're more budget oriented and under this card is a no-brainer honestly um for the price you you really can't beat it and that's where you're gonna see most of my reasoning as to why you would even purchase this GPU comes from the price it's the value king or queen if you like to call your objects she's I guess like boats do people do that with tech stuff so I've been talking about all this values what does it
brand-new on average now I'm not talking about taxes cuz you know what every where every state has their own freakin tax bracket and all that bullshit price doesn't mean everything right if you're paying for something that can't perform you've wasted but if you pay for something that can hold its own hey you know what then that's the value so let me get into the actual performance of this graphics card on screen I'm gonna be showing just a few games
that I regularly play and actually about a year's worth of benchmarking data I guess we could say I can just straight-out tell you when playing counter-strike I get easily 220 to 280 and then in those really intense spots in the game in terms of like you know it's it's not an intense game to run but it does have spots here and there where the game has a lot of extra stuff that has to render and it gets about like 180 low the lowest I've ever seen it it's it's trooper and then
playing ARMA 3 I get anywhere from like 4 FPS 255 and guys I know yeah oh your CPU is trash that's why you get low frames look this is for my hardware and actually if you're playing ARMA 3 those are not bad frames you are like drooling from the mouth if you can get 50 frames per second in that game and more specifically in that game ARMA 3 king of the hill 95 to 100 players person people fuck heads on the server all shooting rocket launcher is all going
crazy it is a very very intense game to run and I can run it so before I get too in-depth on how this game this thing performs let's see what we're working with here and enjoy the b-roll the interface is as expected PCI x16 a boost clock of 1366 megahertz a memory clock of 8,000 megahertz the 3d api's it supports is DirectX 12 an opengl 4.5 the memory size is 8 gigabytes with a memory interface of 256 bit has 2304 streaming processors and an 8 pin power
connector the recommended PSU is 500 Watts it has 2 HDMI ports to display ports in one dvi-d port it has a 10.5 nine inch length and a 4.9 2 inch width it is a dual slot GPU so check your motherboard in computer case and in aisle ports and all that shit to make sure that this thing will fit in your pure case or if you're like me and you run naked doesn't matter so let's now get into my experience with this card over the years that I've had it it's been a great card it doesn't suck at anything and it doesn't exceed it anything this is quite honestly really boring it's a really
boring graphics card it doesn't have anything special there's nothing extra it can do there's no extra sauce it looks plain and it's quite honestly a pretty plain new graphics card you buy this card and it will run like everything for the most part that 8 gigabytes of memory on this thing is really really good and I see why they did it and it's it helps it from from getting overwhelmed too and that's something that you'll see a lot of like 4 gigabyte cards and 2 gigabyte cards they'd
stutter and like freaked the fuck out and and 4 gigabytes is like kind of freaking the fuck out and then this 8 is just it's it's chilling most games yeah you just lower the graphics down to like medium and you are already at 60 frames per second on most games the actual let me get into the pros now so the pros this graphics card is uh its value and - it's like really simple overclocking on this thing is really really easy I personally run a pretty heavy overclock I was
able to gain 134 megahertz on the core clock and 250 megahertz on the memory clock so it was like it's a pretty good overclocker so the cons for some reason MSI decided to put freaking jet engine fans quite honestly server fans that just look a little cooler on this card to make it cooler and all my goodness in my opinion they could have added a backplate and I've seen this with some older graphics cards it's like a front plate but like there's the backplate you know you got
your PCB with the actual processor and then they put another plate on there that then gets transferred up to the heatsink so they could have done that and then they could have added a beefier heat seat cuz it's a really tiny heatsink on this thing it it sucks when you're playing it's the noisiest thing probably on this half of the house and I mean noisier than certain people talking noisier than like a car alarm going off when it is running it is running this thing is so
freaking loud you you would think it's gonna take off it's it's insane I once once had been running benchmarks and I go on the other side of the whole house and guess what I hear that was the first time I ever run a benchmark on that thing so it was the first time I ever you know heard it that loud and I mean I've heard some pretty decently loud computer fans but I will play some auto audio footage of this thing running holy cow, with that said I personally
set it to a noise level I'm acceptable hearing that like I'm like okay it's there but it's not annoying and it's not so loud that I can't hear anything I let it run a little bit hot about like 70 degrees Celsius at like 55 to 60% fan speed and and that's it it's locked in at that sound and and with that then yeah it's a great card and even still even with it a little bit warm it still performs so if you want a little bit more detail technical detail then head it to the link in the description
below and it'll take you to my blog post about this thing in there I detail you know the detail details that you'll just have to find out for yourself and then you can tell everyone in the comments below you can be one of those guys.
the msi armor rating on RX 580 so like I was saying my computer's been we're starting I thought this was a RAM issue yeah it doesn't seem that's the case because after changing from this video card I haven't had any issues that's the red dragon via our X 480 and then I upgraded to the gtx 1060 which is a free phenomenal card if you were to ask me and then I decided to get this today msi armor RX 580 and then that's the ram i originally thought was
corrupt but you know are not corrupt but just just faulty I guess I don't know and then I picked up this Ram the you know the RGB Corsair Vengeance 16 gigs but this review is got their armor right here the armor maybe so yeah I didn't find out it's not the RAM the the same issues happen with my 16 gigs of ram every time I would render videos it would just restart in the middle of it and I figured maybe my four 80s over here III mean least that's what I thought
so then I picked up the GTX which I love the GTX it's great but then it was brought to my attention which I'm gonna talk a little bit more about this in the future the future it's later on in this video that uh I found a good good deal on it definitely so in the back of the box the features that comes with this says Radeon freesync to technology bring young chill Radeon relive capture and stream a MDX connect ready HD already direct x12 optimized Vulcan optimized
fourth-generation GCN 3rd gen fit fit 14 AMD liquid VR technology AMD virtual super resolution VSR AMD crossfire technology open CL support opengl 4.5 support and of course the memory bus is 256 bit 8 gigabytes of gddr5 yeah it comes with 2 DisplayPort to HDMI ports this thing is pretty badass now it also says here that he see with advanced air flow control and Torx fan so anyways let's get this open down this box there you go alright this is actually a
pretty cool little box I mean I've opened up some other GPUs that didn't really have much bonuses really to be honest or just it just didn't look as well look it's nice you know so let me get this open real quick got ourselves here looks like my install disk I'll user manual or user guide it's cool things did they bring you know these they put these in there for people who don't know what they're doing but yeah look at this I haven't seen one of these it looks like a little comic
book of like what to do with your graphics card how to install it cool yeah no need it in a disc my case was which is the mean at 5 p.m. he doesn't have a disk drive and then just some random stickers and then we get to the video guard I think this thing looks pretty good in a smell you know that the smell of I don't know just new computer parts is there something about I just I really like you know it's kind of on is that on is that weird I don't know but I just like it
so let's get this thing out of here all right that that thing is cool I like that I like I like the overall look I like how there's no really no real front plate no no no back plate you just see aboard fans in a sink it is it's basic in my opinion but if anything it's it's it's gonna take away from you know it's gonna make sure it doesn't overheat and get you hot which is I feel like my RX 480 is like over cased or something the case is just too much K's on it just you know oh yeah here's my
computer I got some RGB fans that was actually the back fan it's not an RGB now forgive me - areas really was kind of dirty my space is kind of dirty I've been really busy so I don't have a chance to clean it but and then here's another review of I trying didn't get in there a little bit more so you can see the liquid cooler the new RAM the mother board actually has RGB as well as it doesn't light up as much as my last board which which was an Asus I believe and like the
board anyways so let's go and get that out all right and that is the 10 60 of course because the 480 I will never put back in here ever all right let's get it out let's replace that with my new video card but this is a cool video card the 10th excuse is great I recommend it it means it's awesome it's just really expensive and that's it that was actually used to be honest here we go let's pop this that's the 580 right there and that's just an oh look at that look
at the case my case right now the mean at 5:00 p.m. which I really like it's pretty pretty awesome so I went to user benchmark distant persons with the RX 5 ad and then gtx 1060 when i had each card installed so stay tuned because you're gonna see that right now hey guys how's it going so normally i do reviews reactions for movies movie news whatever maybe I felt this video is appropriate because in order for me to make these videos requires me to render
through a video software now I can't render through a video suffer if my computer keeps restarting on me in the middle of doing it so that leads me to me buying the RX 4 80 a year and a half ago I really like this card I did like this card I had this thing in my Rosewill 4v2 white edition so a lot a lot of circulation so heat issues were not a problem at the time but then I decided to sell the case and by myself I mean at 5 p.m. which I really liked this case but this
card just runs too hot for it so I decided to move on and get I'll have a box here the the GTX 1060 which I really like but then it was brought to my attention RX v AV you know overclocked alright you know comes out comes out the box overclock and I was like well I just spent or something for my 1060 and this thing so far has performed better actually doesn't run as hot as the GTX did at least not in my case I've ran a benchmark test and both using going our user benchmark and this thing is outperformed it when you see for the
bulb a few pictures for you so you can see the difference so what the gtx 1060 my my gaming results were at 67% my graphics card was at a 69 point not 69.4% which is a good 3d score says this GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and alter detail levels that doesn't sound too bad but then let me pull up the next one and then we get to this one that says pretty much that my my you know the gtx 1060 was performing below expectations which it was benching out at 69.4% which i mean i mean compared to the RX 480 these are good
numbers and then when I got in this card and I ran that same test today the first test I got which which bumped up my my gaming to 70% and then a gave me a graphics of seventy three point four percent which is a good 3d score similar to the last thing is that this GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels and then I went and checked out just a little bit more information on it and pretty much this you know the GTRs
sorry that the RX 580 is performing way above expectations as it says which is running at seventy three point four percent which this says is very good it says 3d dx9 you know DirectX 9 runs at a 76% which is less this two hundred and thirty frames per second GX 10 72 percent of 165 frames per second so in comparison to my GTX 1060 and my RX 480 the RX 580 has has really blown me away I didn't expect this I know that the GTX was a six gig and this is uh eight
gigs I mean I wasn't expecting this I heard that AMD runs hot and from my experience it does now this card is actually running really cool but it doesn't have it didn't have a back plate or a front plate all it had was like the board they sinks and the fans that's practically practically what it was well yeah with the RX 580 I'm super impressed with the results I've gotten so far
one other thing is it is brand new out of box while my GTX 1060 was used I don't think that has anything to do with it but maybe I don't know .
Learn more about the MSI RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC
ModelBrandMSIModelRX 580 ARMOR 8G OC
InterfaceInterfacePCI Express x16
ChipsetChipset ManufacturerAMDGPU SeriesAMD Radeon RX 500 SeriesGPURadeon RX 580Boost Clock1366 MHzStream Processors2304 Stream Processors
MemoryEffective Memory Clock8000 MHzMemory Size8GBMemory Interface256-BitMemory TypeGDDR5
3D APIDirectXDirectX 12OpenGLOpenGL 4.5
PortsHDMI2 x HDMIMulti-Monitor Support5DisplayPort2 x DisplayPortDVI1 x DL-DVI-D
DetailsCrossFireX SupportCrossfire, 2-WayVirtual Reality ReadyYesCoolerDouble FansThermal Design Power185WSystem RequirementsRecommended PSU: 500WPower Connector8-PinDual-Link DVI SupportedYesHDCP ReadyYes
FeaturesFeaturesArmor 2X Thermal Design
- TORX Fan:
Dispersion fan blade: Steep curved blade accelerating the airflow.
Traditional fan blade: Provides steady airflow to massive heat sink below.
- Zero Frozr: Stopping the fan in low-load situations, keeping a noise-free environment.
- Advanced Airflow Control technology: Improves cooling efficiency by using advanced aerodynamics to focus airflow.
Afterburner Overclocking Utility
- Wireless control through Android/iOS devices.
- Predator: In-game video recording.
- Kombustor: DirectX12 benchmark.
- Supports multi-GPU setups.
Military Class 4 Components
- Certified to MIL-STD-810G standards for top stability and quality.
- Built with Hi-c CAP, Solid CAP, and New SFC components.
Form Factor & DimensionsMax GPU Length269 mmCard Dimensions (L x H)10.59" x 4.92"Slot WidthDual Slot.
Memory Size8 GBMemory TypeGDDR5Memory Bus256 bitBandwidth256.0 GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units2304TMUs144ROPs32Compute Units36L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)L2 Cache2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate42.88 GPixel/s
43.71 GPixel/sTexture Rate193.0 GTexel/s
196.7 GTexel/sFP16 (half) performance6.175 TFLOPS
6.295 TFLOPS (1:1)FP32 (float) performance6.175 TFLOPS
6.295 TFLOPSFP64 (double) performance385.9 GFLOPS
393.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock1257 MHzBoost Clock1340 MHz
1366 MHz (+2%)Memory Clock2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Graphics Card
Release DateApr 18th, 2017GenerationPolaris
(RX 500)ProductionActiveBus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Graphics Processor
GPU NamePolaris 20GPU VariantPolaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)ArchitectureGCN 4.0FoundryGlobalFoundriesProcess Size14 nmTransistors5,700 millionDie Size232 mm²
Classy Black & White design
Game in style & dare to be different with MSI’s unique ARMOR graphics cards. Inspired by advanced armor shielding with a classy black & white finish. ARMOR graphics cards are perfect for gamers and case modders who are looking for something different. This is where gaming meets class.
Dual Fan
ARMOR 2X thermal design is equipped with two of the award winning MSI TORX fans. Thanks to the exclusive blade design, MSI TORX fans provide strong cooling performance while remaining incredibly silent.
Traditional Fan Blade
Maximizes downwards airflow and air dispersion to the massive heat sink below them.
Dispersion Fan Blade
Intake more airflow to maximize air dissipation to heat sink.
ZERO FROZR - Stay undetected
First introduced in 2008 by MSI, ZeroFrozr technology has made its mark and is now the industry standard among graphics cards. It eliminates fan noise by stopping the fans in low-load situations. This means you can focus on gaming without the noise of spinning fans.
Fans Spinning
During intense gaming or benchmarking
Fans Stop
Completely silent during idle, multimedia or light gaming
Heatsink & Airflow control
Under the classy shroud and powerful dual fans is a huge heatsink with countless aluminum fins that help dissipate the heat from the GPU. The copper heatpipes are infused in the baseplate to ensure efficient cooling. The aluminum fins are rigged with Airflow Control technology to maximize airflow towards the heatpipes.
The Future of Gaming
The AMD FreeSync technology enables the smoothest, fastest and most exciting gaming experience ever by eliminating screen tearing, display shutter and input lag.
Ultra-high resolution (UHD) delivers 4x the resolution of 1080p content, enabling much sharper and crisper images with delicate details during gaming.
Prepare for VR with MSI
To experience and enjoy the impressive world of Virtual Reality, high-performance hardware is required. MSI, world leading brand in high-end gaming and eSports, provides the right advice to make sure your system is VR Ready. Integrating the very best of cutting edge technologies in recommended MSI VR gaming hardware for smooth performance. Together with VR partners, MSI brings gamers an extremely realistic VR experience where games come alive.
Afterburner
MSI Afterburner is the world’s most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility which gives you full control of your graphics cards. It also provides an incredibly detailed overview of your hardware and comes with some additional features such as customizing fan profiles, benchmarking and video recording.
msi RX 5 80 armor hg OC card so this is an overclocked card the armor line from msi and it's an RX 580 retails for about 248 and you can pick it up right now for my friends at B&H Photo who provided this card so I want to thank them for doing that so we can actually apply it to a build now we're not doing a fresh build we're doing something a little different here we're gonna be swapping out the card from a previous build and the last build we did was the risin 5
1600 X with a Titan X maximal card yeah this build right here so we had a Titan X Maxwell audition in there we're gonna keep everything the same 16 gigs of ram ddr4 we've got the rise in v 1600 x the board for msi and the 50 power watt all that lighting and snazzy stuff in there so the only thing replacing is the Titan X and we're swapping that out for the RX 580 from MSI so technically look closer look at the car this clock is gonna be overclocked is over 12 to 13 66
megahertz in gigs of ram ddr5 ram with this card here you've got a few ports with it and the sports include a DVI port to display ports and two HDMI port so enough ports it's a dual fan dual cooling fan system on the card as well and you know that's something to take note actually runs pretty cool so the old build we had some really good performance but let's do a quick recap of what kind of performance gaming performance we got from this old build so looking
at a game like doom were doing between 68 to 71 frames per second which is nice and interesting and then moving on to division we're doing about 47 to 50 frames per second on the division and finally Mass Effect Andromeda is between 40 it's about 40 I believe about 45 to about 50 frames per second Mass Effect Andromeda so now that we've switched the card over and we now have our X 580 in here let's take a look at those three games run in the same
system when an RX 580 now the first game is doom and I apologized and I'm playing it off a monitor I'm recording on screen because the real life software from AMD for some reason just did not want to record this gameplay don't know why but that being said looking at a game of do we gots about 57 all the way to about 71 frames a second there's a larger jump in frame rates here within this but it's around pretty steady and smooth of course we expect it to be
lower than the Titan X but I can see the margin is actually pretty good with this card included in this rig so I do like that I think it's a really good performance there and in a gaming fast paced game like doom you want you know higher frame rates as possible now moving over to the division we're getting we get lower than what course we go with the Titan X but what we had here was an average range of about 38 to 43 frames per second so again closer but not the
same which is good it means this card can still perform fairly well on this rig and given those close to what we're getting with that Titan X so that is a good thing to actually see our final game is Mass Effect Andromeda and here we held a steady nice clip of between 50 to 55 frames per seconds so that's actually slightly better in my mind that while the Titan X did but the game ran brother really raw steady frame rates all the way through I will point out that I did have an
update so that might have helped with it but overall the performance of the RX 5 80s really impressed me what I liked about the card is that moving from the title next to this on the same build I was getting similar performance I mean this year this there are a few drop downs in frame rates but my gameplay performance didn't change which means my terrible gameplay was still the same but I was able to get some really good framerate performance from those
three games that we checked out on the last system which is good and again it costs way less I mean the Ark's 580 the msi armored edition which we were actually reviewing here in this video and in Titan X even there's a Maxwell is still you can see the difference there and what you're getting and how valuable this card is in terms of performance so I definitely like it so I suggest if you guys are interested in building a budget PC that can do
some really good gaming for KVR definitely could the rx 580 in there I think that's a worthwhile card we used to do so and I think in the build such as what I have here with the risin 5 1600 X 16 gigs of ram the msi board all those parts we have all the parts for you in the pc part baker down below but if you also just want to specifically buy the card definitely check
it out at B&H photo so if you guys have any questions or any comments about what we've done here in this review let us know if you would like to just leave a comment for anything go ahead and do that in the comment section of this review .
MSI VGA Graphic Cards RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC review
MSI is rx 580 technical fucking terms and in this review I'll be reviewing Emma size rx 580 overclocked eight gigabyte fucking overclocked edition all that Sh it's a long name long title but you know what I'm not gonna be doing a bunch of benchmarks this is simply a review my experience with a graphics card and how its treated me if you want all that technical technical jargon you can check out the link in the description below where I posted a blog going in more
depth and actually how it ranks in comparison to all the other different versions of the rx 580 so without wasting any more time let's get this review started , all right so the reason why I'm not gonna get into too much detail with this graphics card is simply because it's been done over and over and over again I'll definitely be giving you guys plenty of information as to making a wise and informed purchase but I can quite honestly tell you right now if you're on
the market for a graphics card and you're more budget oriented and under this card is a no-brainer honestly um for the price you you really can't beat it and that's where you're gonna see most of my reasoning as to why you would even purchase this GPU comes from the price it's the value king or queen if you like to call your objects she's I guess like boats do people do that with tech stuff so I've been talking about all this values what does it
brand-new on average now I'm not talking about taxes cuz you know what every where every state has their own freakin tax bracket and all that bullshit price doesn't mean everything right if you're paying for something that can't perform you've wasted but if you pay for something that can hold its own hey you know what then that's the value so let me get into the actual performance of this graphics card on screen I'm gonna be showing just a few games
that I regularly play and actually about a year's worth of benchmarking data I guess we could say I can just straight-out tell you when playing counter-strike I get easily 220 to 280 and then in those really intense spots in the game in terms of like you know it's it's not an intense game to run but it does have spots here and there where the game has a lot of extra stuff that has to render and it gets about like 180 low the lowest I've ever seen it it's it's trooper and then
playing ARMA 3 I get anywhere from like 4 FPS 255 and guys I know yeah oh your CPU is trash that's why you get low frames look this is for my hardware and actually if you're playing ARMA 3 those are not bad frames you are like drooling from the mouth if you can get 50 frames per second in that game and more specifically in that game ARMA 3 king of the hill 95 to 100 players person people fuck heads on the server all shooting rocket launcher is all going
crazy it is a very very intense game to run and I can run it so before I get too in-depth on how this game this thing performs let's see what we're working with here and enjoy the b-roll the interface is as expected PCI x16 a boost clock of 1366 megahertz a memory clock of 8,000 megahertz the 3d api's it supports is DirectX 12 an opengl 4.5 the memory size is 8 gigabytes with a memory interface of 256 bit has 2304 streaming processors and an 8 pin power
connector the recommended PSU is 500 Watts it has 2 HDMI ports to display ports in one dvi-d port it has a 10.5 nine inch length and a 4.9 2 inch width it is a dual slot GPU so check your motherboard in computer case and in aisle ports and all that shit to make sure that this thing will fit in your pure case or if you're like me and you run naked doesn't matter so let's now get into my experience with this card over the years that I've had it it's been a great card it doesn't suck at anything and it doesn't exceed it anything this is quite honestly really boring it's a really
boring graphics card it doesn't have anything special there's nothing extra it can do there's no extra sauce it looks plain and it's quite honestly a pretty plain new graphics card you buy this card and it will run like everything for the most part that 8 gigabytes of memory on this thing is really really good and I see why they did it and it's it helps it from from getting overwhelmed too and that's something that you'll see a lot of like 4 gigabyte cards and 2 gigabyte cards they'd
stutter and like freaked the fuck out and and 4 gigabytes is like kind of freaking the fuck out and then this 8 is just it's it's chilling most games yeah you just lower the graphics down to like medium and you are already at 60 frames per second on most games the actual let me get into the pros now so the pros this graphics card is uh its value and - it's like really simple overclocking on this thing is really really easy I personally run a pretty heavy overclock I was
able to gain 134 megahertz on the core clock and 250 megahertz on the memory clock so it was like it's a pretty good overclocker so the cons for some reason MSI decided to put freaking jet engine fans quite honestly server fans that just look a little cooler on this card to make it cooler and all my goodness in my opinion they could have added a backplate and I've seen this with some older graphics cards it's like a front plate but like there's the backplate you know you got
your PCB with the actual processor and then they put another plate on there that then gets transferred up to the heatsink so they could have done that and then they could have added a beefier heat seat cuz it's a really tiny heatsink on this thing it it sucks when you're playing it's the noisiest thing probably on this half of the house and I mean noisier than certain people talking noisier than like a car alarm going off when it is running it is running this thing is so
freaking loud you you would think it's gonna take off it's it's insane I once once had been running benchmarks and I go on the other side of the whole house and guess what I hear that was the first time I ever run a benchmark on that thing so it was the first time I ever you know heard it that loud and I mean I've heard some pretty decently loud computer fans but I will play some auto audio footage of this thing running holy cow, with that said I personally
set it to a noise level I'm acceptable hearing that like I'm like okay it's there but it's not annoying and it's not so loud that I can't hear anything I let it run a little bit hot about like 70 degrees Celsius at like 55 to 60% fan speed and and that's it it's locked in at that sound and and with that then yeah it's a great card and even still even with it a little bit warm it still performs so if you want a little bit more detail technical detail then head it to the link in the description
below and it'll take you to my blog post about this thing in there I detail you know the detail details that you'll just have to find out for yourself and then you can tell everyone in the comments below you can be one of those guys.
the msi armor rating on RX 580 so like I was saying my computer's been we're starting I thought this was a RAM issue yeah it doesn't seem that's the case because after changing from this video card I haven't had any issues that's the red dragon via our X 480 and then I upgraded to the gtx 1060 which is a free phenomenal card if you were to ask me and then I decided to get this today msi armor RX 580 and then that's the ram i originally thought was
corrupt but you know are not corrupt but just just faulty I guess I don't know and then I picked up this Ram the you know the RGB Corsair Vengeance 16 gigs but this review is got their armor right here the armor maybe so yeah I didn't find out it's not the RAM the the same issues happen with my 16 gigs of ram every time I would render videos it would just restart in the middle of it and I figured maybe my four 80s over here III mean least that's what I thought
so then I picked up the GTX which I love the GTX it's great but then it was brought to my attention which I'm gonna talk a little bit more about this in the future the future it's later on in this video that uh I found a good good deal on it definitely so in the back of the box the features that comes with this says Radeon freesync to technology bring young chill Radeon relive capture and stream a MDX connect ready HD already direct x12 optimized Vulcan optimized
fourth-generation GCN 3rd gen fit fit 14 AMD liquid VR technology AMD virtual super resolution VSR AMD crossfire technology open CL support opengl 4.5 support and of course the memory bus is 256 bit 8 gigabytes of gddr5 yeah it comes with 2 DisplayPort to HDMI ports this thing is pretty badass now it also says here that he see with advanced air flow control and Torx fan so anyways let's get this open down this box there you go alright this is actually a
pretty cool little box I mean I've opened up some other GPUs that didn't really have much bonuses really to be honest or just it just didn't look as well look it's nice you know so let me get this open real quick got ourselves here looks like my install disk I'll user manual or user guide it's cool things did they bring you know these they put these in there for people who don't know what they're doing but yeah look at this I haven't seen one of these it looks like a little comic
book of like what to do with your graphics card how to install it cool yeah no need it in a disc my case was which is the mean at 5 p.m. he doesn't have a disk drive and then just some random stickers and then we get to the video guard I think this thing looks pretty good in a smell you know that the smell of I don't know just new computer parts is there something about I just I really like you know it's kind of on is that on is that weird I don't know but I just like it
so let's get this thing out of here all right that that thing is cool I like that I like I like the overall look I like how there's no really no real front plate no no no back plate you just see aboard fans in a sink it is it's basic in my opinion but if anything it's it's it's gonna take away from you know it's gonna make sure it doesn't overheat and get you hot which is I feel like my RX 480 is like over cased or something the case is just too much K's on it just you know oh yeah here's my
computer I got some RGB fans that was actually the back fan it's not an RGB now forgive me - areas really was kind of dirty my space is kind of dirty I've been really busy so I don't have a chance to clean it but and then here's another review of I trying didn't get in there a little bit more so you can see the liquid cooler the new RAM the mother board actually has RGB as well as it doesn't light up as much as my last board which which was an Asus I believe and like the
board anyways so let's go and get that out all right and that is the 10 60 of course because the 480 I will never put back in here ever all right let's get it out let's replace that with my new video card but this is a cool video card the 10th excuse is great I recommend it it means it's awesome it's just really expensive and that's it that was actually used to be honest here we go let's pop this that's the 580 right there and that's just an oh look at that look
at the case my case right now the mean at 5:00 p.m. which I really like it's pretty pretty awesome so I went to user benchmark distant persons with the RX 5 ad and then gtx 1060 when i had each card installed so stay tuned because you're gonna see that right now hey guys how's it going so normally i do reviews reactions for movies movie news whatever maybe I felt this video is appropriate because in order for me to make these videos requires me to render
through a video software now I can't render through a video suffer if my computer keeps restarting on me in the middle of doing it so that leads me to me buying the RX 4 80 a year and a half ago I really like this card I did like this card I had this thing in my Rosewill 4v2 white edition so a lot a lot of circulation so heat issues were not a problem at the time but then I decided to sell the case and by myself I mean at 5 p.m. which I really liked this case but this
card just runs too hot for it so I decided to move on and get I'll have a box here the the GTX 1060 which I really like but then it was brought to my attention RX v AV you know overclocked alright you know comes out comes out the box overclock and I was like well I just spent or something for my 1060 and this thing so far has performed better actually doesn't run as hot as the GTX did at least not in my case I've ran a benchmark test and both using going our user benchmark and this thing is outperformed it when you see for the
bulb a few pictures for you so you can see the difference so what the gtx 1060 my my gaming results were at 67% my graphics card was at a 69 point not 69.4% which is a good 3d score says this GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and alter detail levels that doesn't sound too bad but then let me pull up the next one and then we get to this one that says pretty much that my my you know the gtx 1060 was performing below expectations which it was benching out at 69.4% which i mean i mean compared to the RX 480 these are good
numbers and then when I got in this card and I ran that same test today the first test I got which which bumped up my my gaming to 70% and then a gave me a graphics of seventy three point four percent which is a good 3d score similar to the last thing is that this GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels and then I went and checked out just a little bit more information on it and pretty much this you know the GTRs
sorry that the RX 580 is performing way above expectations as it says which is running at seventy three point four percent which this says is very good it says 3d dx9 you know DirectX 9 runs at a 76% which is less this two hundred and thirty frames per second GX 10 72 percent of 165 frames per second so in comparison to my GTX 1060 and my RX 480 the RX 580 has has really blown me away I didn't expect this I know that the GTX was a six gig and this is uh eight
gigs I mean I wasn't expecting this I heard that AMD runs hot and from my experience it does now this card is actually running really cool but it doesn't have it didn't have a back plate or a front plate all it had was like the board they sinks and the fans that's practically practically what it was well yeah with the RX 580 I'm super impressed with the results I've gotten so far
one other thing is it is brand new out of box while my GTX 1060 was used I don't think that has anything to do with it but maybe I don't know .
Learn more about the MSI RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC
ModelBrandMSIModelRX 580 ARMOR 8G OC
InterfaceInterfacePCI Express x16
ChipsetChipset ManufacturerAMDGPU SeriesAMD Radeon RX 500 SeriesGPURadeon RX 580Boost Clock1366 MHzStream Processors2304 Stream Processors
MemoryEffective Memory Clock8000 MHzMemory Size8GBMemory Interface256-BitMemory TypeGDDR5
3D APIDirectXDirectX 12OpenGLOpenGL 4.5
PortsHDMI2 x HDMIMulti-Monitor Support5DisplayPort2 x DisplayPortDVI1 x DL-DVI-D
DetailsCrossFireX SupportCrossfire, 2-WayVirtual Reality ReadyYesCoolerDouble FansThermal Design Power185WSystem RequirementsRecommended PSU: 500WPower Connector8-PinDual-Link DVI SupportedYesHDCP ReadyYes
FeaturesFeaturesArmor 2X Thermal Design
- TORX Fan:
Dispersion fan blade: Steep curved blade accelerating the airflow.
Traditional fan blade: Provides steady airflow to massive heat sink below.
- Zero Frozr: Stopping the fan in low-load situations, keeping a noise-free environment.
- Advanced Airflow Control technology: Improves cooling efficiency by using advanced aerodynamics to focus airflow.
Afterburner Overclocking Utility
- Wireless control through Android/iOS devices.
- Predator: In-game video recording.
- Kombustor: DirectX12 benchmark.
- Supports multi-GPU setups.
Military Class 4 Components
- Certified to MIL-STD-810G standards for top stability and quality.
- Built with Hi-c CAP, Solid CAP, and New SFC components.
Form Factor & DimensionsMax GPU Length269 mmCard Dimensions (L x H)10.59" x 4.92"Slot WidthDual Slot.
MSI VGA Graphic Cards RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC review
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