Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GB

Can it stave off GTX 1060 at the £250 price point?

The Radeon RX 5500 XT plays in the video-card zone AMD knows best: budget gaming at 1080p. It's solid and close, but slightly inconsistent performance in the early going allows Nvidia's latest line of GeForce GTX Super GPUs to edge it out.

Sapphire's Pulse graphics cards focus on "great value for your money." We review the Sapphire Radeon RX 570 Pulse and Radeon RX 580 Pulse alongside the pricier Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+.

Having reviewed a couple of new AMD RX 500-series cards on launch day, we are supplementing those in

Introduction Gaming on a tighter budget isn't anywhere near as hard as it used to be. With many cards now falling into the sub-£200 price bracket, you can get fantastic performance from any game at 1080p, sometimes even 1440p, without spending a small fortune. The latest cards from Sapphire look set to tick all the right boxes for affordable gaming, and the PULSE RX 570 4GB especially. Priced at just £180 the card delivers a refresh of the older RX 470 chipset, but with upgraded hardware, features, a new cooler and more to make it better value for money than

While Sapphire's flagship Nitro+ series goes for broke, the Pulse lineup focuses on value.