In purely technical terms, it really is a graphics card with 8K support, but it still doesn’t deserve to be called an “8K gaming graphics card”
Whoever 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 this about? YouTuber Dawid Does Tech Stuff ordered a graphics card called 8K Gaming Graphics Card
from the low-cost online retailer Wish.com and put it to the 8K test in the video embedded below.
- The title says it cost 100 dollars, but the video itself shows 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. Cost of the GPU at the time: at least 1,500 euros.
- In theory, the
8K
graphics card from Wish.com can actually handle gaming in this resolution via Display Port 1.4. In practice, however, its performance is, as expected, far too low.
Which graphics card is it?
As a sticker on the back reveals, the YouTuber received a Radeon RX 580 in a stripped-down form from 2018. It was produced by AMD for the Chinese market
- The exact designation is
RX 580 2048SP
However, the technical data largely corresponds to that of the graphics card that we know in this country as the Radeon RX 570. - According to the label on the cooling solution with two axial fans, the design of which reminds us strongly of Gigabyte the card comes from an unknown manufacturer called
Dicasver
- The memory configuration is 8.0 GB of VRAM, which can already be a bit 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 on VRAM and the graphics card are when gaming in 8K.
How fast
is the graphics card in 8K?
After overcoming some technical difficulties, the YouTuber managed to play in 8K with his new graphics card from Wish.com after all. Or rather: to 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 frametimes in the range of 1,000 milliseconds.
- In The Last of Us it doesn’t look any better, quite the opposite. Here it is no longer even possible to use the game menu properly and the frame times in the game range from 1,500 to 1,700 milliseconds.
- The only remedy is to switch to the approximately 27-year-old title Quake 2, where FPS values in the range of 20 frames per second and frame times of around 50 milliseconds are recorded.
The stripped-down RX 580 in comparison with today’s hardware: As our large graphics card comparison with different performance classes shows, the disguised RX 570 is significantly slower than current models. It lands at the bottom of performance class 13, which puts it roughly at the level of a Geforce GTX 1650 released in 2019. AMD’s latest GPU with comparable performance is the RX 6500 XT from 2022. For less demanding titles, low detail levels and gaming in Full HD, a GPU like this is still perfectly suitable. However, it is about as far away from true 8K gaming as suitable televisions and monitors are from widespread use.
