At one frame per second, even Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 can only smile wearily.
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Anyone who orders gaming hardware from Wish.com must be prepared to receive (much) less than the product description promises. The tech influencer in this case was also aware of this in advance.
What exactly is it about? YouTuber Dawid Does Tech Stuff has a graphics card called 8K Gaming Graphics Card
ordered from the cheap online retailer Wish.com and put it to the 8K test in the video embedded below.
- According to the title it cost 100 dollars, in the video itself you can see a slightly higher price of 144 dollars.
- For comparison: Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia first used the 8K buzzword in connection with the RTX 3090 from 2020, which we therefore also tested in 8K. The cost of the GPU back then: at least 1,500 euros.
- In theory it dominates
8K
-Graphics card from Wish.com via Display Port 1.4 actually allows gaming at this resolution. In practice, however, their performance is, as expected, far too low.
Link to YouTube content
Which graphics card is it?
As a sticker on the back reveals, the YouTuber got a stripped-down Radeon RX 580 from 2018. It was produced by AMD for the Chinese market.
- The exact name is
RX 580 2048SP
. The technical data largely corresponds to those of the graphics card, which we know in this country as the Radeon RX 570. - According to the labeling on the cooling solution with two axial fans, the design of which really appeals to us Gigabytes If you remember, the card comes from a manufacturer unknown to us
Dicasver
. - The memory capacity is 8.0 GB of VRAM, which can already be tight in Full HD – not to mention 4K or 8K.
Our current duel between the gaming flagships RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4090 from AMD and Nvidia clearly shows how extremely high the demands are on the VRAM and the graphics card when playing in 8K:
How fast
is the graphics card in 8K?
After the YouTuber was able to overcome some technical difficulties, he finally managed to play in 8K with his new graphics card from Wish.com. Or rather, watch a slideshow.
- Cyberpunk 2077, which is still very demanding even for fast and current graphics cards, runs with an extremely jerky frame per second or with frame times in the range of 1,000 milliseconds.
- Things don't look any better in The Last of Us, quite the opposite. Here it is no longer even possible to use the game's menu properly and the frame times in the game are in the range of 1,500 to 1,700 milliseconds.
- The only solution is to switch to the 27-year-old title Quake 2. Here you can find FPS values in the range of 20 frames per second or frame times of around 50 milliseconds.
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8K vs 4K and Full HD – Can you see a difference in Cyberpunk 2077?
The slimmed down RX 580 compared with today's hardware: As our large graphics card comparison with different performance classes shows, the hidden RX 570 is significantly slower than current models.
She ends up way down in performance class 13.
This puts it at roughly the same level as a Geforce GTX 1650, which was released in 2019. AMD's latest GPU with comparable performance is the RX 6500 XT from 2022.
A GPU like this is still suitable for less demanding titles, low detail levels and playing in Full HD. But it is about as far away from real 8K gaming as suitable televisions and monitors are widely available.