AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT review

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT review AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Deals The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT arrives in a post-Nvidia Turing world. While Team Red has dominated processor sales due to processors like the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X that came before it, the company is also struggling to release a GPU to grab people's attention, in the same way that these processors. This means that this GPU had a lot of work before it hit the market. Fortunately, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is more than up to the task, perhaps making it even more impressive. Even in the shadow of its successor, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, it's still a capable GPU that's all the more appealing due to the shortage of newer GPUs in stock. Along with the Radeon RX 5700, this is AMD's RDNA architecture and they took it to a level where it can compete with Nvidia's powerful offerings. This not only gives the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 good value for money, but it can also hold its own against the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super. In doing so, he allowed AMD to make a spectacular comeback. Offering excellent gaming performance along with a host of features, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is among the best graphics cards today. We expect to see Prime Day deals on the RX 5700 XT, especially since while newer AMD GPUs still have issues in stock, this graphics card is available. As we follow all the great deals, we'll keep you up to date with any cheap discounts on this card. Please visit us regularly before June 22.

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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.

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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

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(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

Performance

No matter how many cool software features AMD Navi has brought, the most important thing, especially in a post-Nvidia Turing landscape, is raw performance. Well, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is a 1440p monster. Playing games like Metro Exodus and World War Z at 1440p is a breeze with this AMD graphics card, and we didn't notice any huge drops in performance no matter how demanding the game. The AMD Radeon RX 5700XT struggles a bit when you're spinning at 4K, but it's ultimately not designed for that kind of workload anyway. This is also reflected in our references. In our 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme tests, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT had no trouble matching the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super, hitting 4,119 versus 4,117 on the latter. Image 1 of 4

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Final verdict

The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is without a doubt one of the best AMD graphics cards we've come across in years. It offers excellent 1440p gaming performance and plenty of features that are truly usable from day one. However, it's impossible to ignore the impact of the recently released Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super on AMD's value. If AMD can bring the prices of this card down by around $50, this graphics card will be a no-brainer. But, until then, it's harder to recommend. Still, AMD Navi is absolutely promising, and if this is the first iteration of its new graphics architecture, we're excited to see what it can do in the future. Price - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT: ▼