MSI Radeon RX 560 4GT LP OC 4GB Low Profile @ $125 ($110 after rebate)

[pastrychef]

Newegg is having a 2 day sale on the MSI Radeon RX 560 4GB Low Profile video card. This should prove to be a great card for users with SFF cases. Since macOS has native support for RX 560, I think it's a much better alternative to the GTX 1050 which is the best low profile Nvidia card currently available.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137308&cm_re=rx_560-_-14-137-308-_-Product

 

[trs96]

Yes, those work quite well if you're using an SFF pre-built HP or dell and want to power a single 4K monitor. For 110 after rebate no one can complain about the price. Should have a long period of support in macOS as they are now exclusively using AMD.

 

[Gigamaxx]

Killer Deal! A RX 550 non compatible goes for that. I paid $139 US for my RX 460 about 2 years ago.

 

[pastrychef]

The deal was too good for me to pass up... Ended up grabbing one for my HP ProDesk 600 G2.

 

[pastrychef]

Received my RX 560 yesterday, but was a little too busy to unbox it until today...

Seems like a very nice card. I love how compact the card is. I like that there's a little heft to it. It's not heavy like my Vega, but there's enough heft so that it doesn't feel cheap. I also like that only four screws hold the heatsink. It will make it easier for me to replace the stock thermal compound.

 

[Gigamaxx]

Received my RX 560 yesterday, but was a little too busy to unbox it until today...

Seems like a very nice card. I love how compact the card is.View attachment 342526 View attachment 342527 I like that there's a little heft to it. It's not heavy like my Vega, but there's enough heft so that it doesn't feel cheap. I also like that only four screws hold the heatsink. It will make it easier for me to replace the stock thermal compound.

MSI makes solid cards, with thick wafer material. Nice, let’s see some benches when you get it optimized.

 

[pastrychef]

MSI makes solid cards, with thick wafer material. Nice, let’s see some benches when you get it optimized.

The RX 560 was very much just plug-n-play. The only thing I did was adjust resolution. Oddly, it defaulted to 4K@60Hz over HDMI!! But using this setting resulted in a lot of flickering, so I tried 4K@50Hz scaled to 1920x1080 (HiDPI) and everything is beautiful!! Even HDMI audio is working without any changes to my configuration.



Here are some benchmarks from my previous GTX 745 vs the new RX 560:





I tried to run Unigine Heaven and Valley on the GTX 745 but it crashed on launch... Here are the results from the RX 560. I turned the eye candy down to medium and disabled anti-aliasing to get better frame rates. Both Unigine benchmarks showed that the GPU was reaching 80C so I think there was probably some throttling. I think some better thermal compound can help lower temps.

 

[vlad1966]

So I got one of these cards on a price match of $125 at my local Micro Center, and it's annoying the hell out of me with its loud fans. Anyone else have loud fans on this card???

 

[pastrychef]

So I got one of these cards on a price match of $125 at my local Micro Center, and it's annoying the hell out of me with its loud fans. Anyone else have loud fans on this card???

I can't hear the fans on mine.

 

[trs96]

The RX 560 was very much just plug-n-play. The only thing I did was adjust resolution. Oddly, it defaulted to 4K@60Hz over HDMI!! But using this setting resulted in a lot of flickering, so I tried 4K@50Hz scaled to 1920x1080 (HiDPI) and everything is beautiful!! Even HDMI audio is working without any changes to my configuration.
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Here are some benchmarks from my previous GTX 745 vs the new RX 560:
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I tried to run Unigine Heaven and Valley on the GTX 745 but it crashed on launch... Here are the results from the RX 560. I turned the eye candy down to medium and disabled anti-aliasing to get better frame rates. Both Unigine benchmarks showed that the GPU was reaching 80C so I think there was probably some throttling. I think some better thermal compound can help lower temps.
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For only about $110 this was are really nice upgrade. Suprising how much better the numbers are even over the older Quadro 4000 GPU. This was a really good investment in graphics for your HP 600 G2.