- AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT at Amazon for € 1,549.99
Prices and availability
The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is available today for €399 (around €315, AU$580), but an Anniversary Edition is available with a beautiful design and higher clock speeds for €449 (around €350, AU €650). At both price points, it goes hand in hand with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super. But this is where things get a bit tricky. You see, before the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super was announced on July 2, the AMD Radeon RX 5700XT was comparing very favorably to the RTX 2070 Founders Edition, which cost around $150 (about $120, AU$215). more at that time. . However, the $2060 (around $399, AU$315) Nvidia Geforce RTX 580 Super steals AMD's thunder. Right now, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is trading blows with the sometimes overperforming and sometimes underperforming 2060 Super, depending on the test. That means the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is still worth your time and money, but it's not head and shoulders above the competition. (Image credit: Infogram)Features and chipset
AMD Navi graphics cards aren't the first mainstream graphics cards to use a 7nm manufacturing process, but they are the first to be built from the ground up with gaming as the primary focus. AMD hopes to improve raster performance in games by tailoring its graphics architecture specifically for gaming, rather than the compute-based performance of AMD Radeon VII. In practice, this means that even with a technically weaker GPU, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is consistently able to hold its own against the Radeon VII, thanks to its new RDNA architecture. This architecture should be able to deliver up to 1,25 times the performance at the same clock speed as the previous GCN or Graphics Core Next. This increase in performance per clock is accompanied by the advantages in terms of energy efficiency that the change to 7nm brings. However, AMD Radeon RX 5700XT also contains many important software features. It looks like AMD will be going head to head with Nvidia by providing Radeon Image Sharpening. This intelligently refines images: Instead of just a sharpening filter, RIS is contrast sensitive, so you won't end up with artifacts or weird textures in tricky scenes. The best part is that you don't necessarily need developers to make it work on most games. However, if developers get started, they can enable Adaptive Contrast Sharpening, or CAS, through the new FidelityFX system. This is an open source library of image enhancement technologies and should theoretically work on most GPUs, if not now then at least in the future. But obviously these effects will work better on AMD processors. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 also has a feature for esports gamers, who focus less on image quality and more on raw performance. And, with AMD Radeon Anti-Lag, these users should see much lower latency. This mode will essentially tell your processor to wait until the GPU is ready before sending it new images. This way, there shouldn't be a buffer of images waiting to be displayed, which can cause input lag in fast-paced titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Image 1 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Image 2 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Image 3 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Image 4 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Image 5 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Image 6 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Image 7 of 7 (Image credit: Infogram) Test system specifications Processor: 3.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (12 cores, 70 MB cache, up to 4,6 GHz)RAM: 16 GB G.Skill TridentZ Royale DDR4 (3400 MHz) Motherboard: ASRock Taichi X570
Power supply: Corsair RM850x
Storage: 2TB Aorus M.2 Gigabyte SSD (NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4) Enclosure: Corsair Crystal Series 570X RGB
Operating system: Windows 10