XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro
The video card we have for our review today is a retail video card from XFX with a customized configuration, cooling and a high factory overclock. The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro is part of XFX’s THICC lineup. The MSRP on this video card will be $279.99 on launch day at Newegg, meaning it does not carry a price premium, which is very welcomed. This is the default AMD reference pricing. With the high factory overclock and custom cooling, this price is nice, and will certainly compete with the competition well. This video card’s thermal design has been updated. The entire heatsink and fan assembly has been improved. Plus, this video card has a very high factory overclock.
First let’s talk about the GPU clock speed, seeing as the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro offers a factory overclock. AMD has set the game clock at 1375MHz and the peak clock at 1560MHz. On the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro XFX has set the game clock at 1460MHz (with the original BIOS) and with the new BIOS the game clock is now 1560MHz. 1560MHz is the new specification. Check out page 16 of this review for more detail about this new BIOS we are talking about. In our results today we are showing the performance with the game clock at the original 1460MHz, but a new BIOS came out the night before the launch raising it to 1560MHz. We will do a follow-up review with the new performance.
Because of the robust cooling and the way total graphics power works the clock speed can boost well over the game clock and perform closer to the peak clock on this video card while gaming. As you will see later on, when we test the actual frequency this card runs at, you will see it runs well over the 1460MHz game clock and is almost as high as the peak clock while gaming making it much faster than a reference card.
Other specifications include 6GB of GDDR6 at the default 12GHz giving it the reference spec 288GB/sec of bandwidth. It is, of course, 7nm and supports PCIe 4.0. It has three DisplayPorts and one HDMI port. It requires one 8-pin power connector. The recommended PSU is 500W. The video card measures 11.02 inches in length, 5.83 inches in width and 1.73 inches in height.
New THICC II Thermal Design
This video card has a revised thermal solution compared to previous designs. It features copper GPU and memory cooling components, copper composite heatpipes and an open airflow design for improved thermal performance. There is a 100% copper GPU and memory heatsink. It has a newly designed open-air design on the top to let airflow move through. It has 4x 6MM copper composite heatpipes throughout. It has two 100mm dual fans with the technology to stop rotation under a certain temperature.
Dual-BIOS
There is also a dual-BIOS on this video card. The video card will be shipped in the default performance position, with the selector closest to the PCIe power connector. However, you can switch the video card into its second BIOS position manually. The default BIOS position enables the power limit (Total Graphics Power/TDP) at a higher 135W. When you select the secondary BIOS position it lowers it to 125W to align closer to the AMD reference specs. This means in the secondary BIOS position it should also have slightly slower fan speed and average clocks.
