10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewedThe Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.
All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.
This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB graphics card, when running 2023 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 238 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.
The Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB graphics card is returning a playable performance on Days Gone at 1080p of 31 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Star Citizen which we predict will get playable frame rates of 31 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Far Cry 6, which was getting 0 FPS under tests.
People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Days Gone where it was weak. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 62 FPS, Medium: 49 FPS, High: 33 FPS and Ultra: 24 FPS. We added Star Citizen to our research and predict it will be weak with a 24 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Far Cry 6 which got 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB is not a first choice gaming resolution. While this graphics card would likely be more suited to 1080p gaming, you may be able to make some graphical tweaks in the game options to improve your stability at 1440p.
How many years will the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card
Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB? A good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon RX 560 Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB would be the RX 5000 Series
Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB which meets 716 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 50% better performance. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series
Radeon RX 5300. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 20% better and can meet 300 of their recommended requirements.
