Review of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT video card

A AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is an intermediate / high video card designed to provide a high frame rate at a QuadHD resolution. It presents a series of new technologies of the Radeon range, such as Navi microarchitecture, 7-nanometer lithography, GDDR6 memories and RDNA, an architecture that will replace the GCN used since 2012 by the company.

The main objective of the company with the Navi was to improve the efficiency. Although Vega cards have proven to be high-powered cards and insufficient performance to compete with the most powerful GeForce, the Navi offers much more compact chips, with fewer compute units, but 50% more power per watt consumed.

Official site: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

The RX 5700 XT had to "recalculate the landing" with the launch of RTX Super cards made on Tuesday. Its price was reduced from $ 449 to $ 399, which was to be offset by the recent RTX 2060 Super, which has the same price announced. The price of $ 399 is identical to that of Vega 56 at launch and is well under $ 499.

Board Specifications

We start with the specifications of the table compared to the other models:

developer	AMD	AMD	NVIDIA	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Distributor	AMD	AMD	NVIDIA	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
platforms	PCI-Express x16 4.0	PCI-Express x16 4.0	PCI-Express x16 3.0	PCI-Express x16 3.0	PCI-Express x16 3.0
Official site	Link	Link	Link	Link	Link
Launch price	$ 399.00	$ 349.00	$ 499.00	$ 499.00	$ 399.99
Price updated				R $ 2.350.00 (as of 01/07/2019)
GPU specifications
Manufacturing process	7 nm	7 nm	12nm Finfet	12nm Finfet	12nm Finfet
Chip	Navi	Navi	Turing TU104-410	Turing TU106	Turing TU106-410
A clock	1605 MHz	1465 MHz	1605 MHz	1410 MHz	1470 MHz
Clock (turbo)	1755 MHz	1625 MHz	1770 MHz	1620 MHz	1650 MHz
Memory
Amount of RAM	8GB	8GB	8GB	8GB	8GB
RAM technology	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6
Bus width interface	256 bits	256 bits	256 bits	256 bits	256 bits
A clock	1750 MHz	1750 MHz	1750 MHz	1750 MHz	1750 MHz
Effective clock	14000 MHz	14000 MHz	14000 MHz	14000 MHz	14000 MHz
Bandwidth	448.0	448.0	448	448	448 GB / s
Main Features
Shading units	2560	2304	2560	2304	2176
TMUs	160	144	160	144	136
ROPs	64	64	64	64	64
Pixel rate	112.3 GPixel / s	104.0 GPixel / s	113.3 GPixel / s	106.9 GPixel / s	105.6 GPixel / s
Texture rate	280.3 GTexel / s	234.0 GTexel / s	283.2 GTexel / s	240.5 GTexel / s	224.4 GTexel / s
Floating point performance	8,986 GFLOPS	7.488 GFLOPS	9,062 GFLOPS		7.181
Design
Slot type	Double slot	Double slot	Double slot	Double slot	Double slot
Plate combination holder	NOT	NOT	NOT	NOT	NOT
Power pins	1x 6 pin and 1x 8 pin	1x 6 pin and 1x 8 pin	1x 8 pins	1x 8 pins	1x 8 pins
Board length			270	269	229
TDP	225 (GPU TBP) W	180 (GPU TBP) W	175 W	175 W	160 W
Recommended source	600 W	600 W	550 W	550 W	500 W
Video connections	3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0B	3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0B	3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0B, 1x USB Type-C	3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0B, 1x USB Type-C	2x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0B, 1x DVI, 1x USB
Flights
DirectX	12.0	12.0	12.1	12.1	12.1
OpenCL	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6
shader	6.2	6.2	6.1	6.1	6.1

We received two new generation cards, the Radeon RX 5700 XT being the most beautiful birthday edition. As a differential on the "normal" model, it has grooves from outside to outside in its length, but in the upper part a slight "wave" lowered is a very curious finish, placed only and exclusively through visual questions, a person found beautiful in our environment. The point takes at least a little that clbadic "square" and beat format that the company adopts in its reference plates, as in the normal 5700.

The cooling system continues the tradition, perhaps the greatest criticism of the design of the painting, visually, it is beaten and in practice, we know that it does not have the same efficiency as the current systems with more than one fan, handsome, but ordinary.

The time of evolution in the cooling system of these reference models, namely AMD ?!

In the photos below, the RX 5700 XT next to an RTX 2070 Black EVGA. We do not have here the NVIDIA reference chart and we do not think it makes sense to put it next to the Super model.
In fact, after the price drop announced by AMD in the last few hours, the ideal card to stay next to the RX 5700 XT would be the Super RTX 2060.

Even with the reduction, because the RTX 2070 has been on the market for some time, it has to fight inventory with the RX 5700 XT that should arrive with higher prices.

We use a high-end machine based on a motherboard Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme with processor Intel Core i9-9900K and 16 GB of memory via 2 modules of 8 GB in dual channel frequency and 3200 MHz. The idea is to avoid that the system limits the performance of the video cards tested.

Below are the photos of the card installed in the system used for the tests:

Below are the details of the machine, operating system, drivers and software / games used during testing, as well as a video showing the revision engine used in all video card tests :

Machine used in the tests:

– Intel Core i9-9900K Processor – Overview
– Gigabyte Z390 Motherboard Aorus Xtreme – Official website
– G.SKILL TridentZ Royal Memory Kit 2x8GB 3200MHz – Official site
– SSD SSD HyperX Fury RGB SSU – Review
– SSD WD Black M.2 NVMe 1TB Review
– Cougar Helor 360 Liquid Cooling System – Official website
– Cougar CMX 1000W Power Source – Official Site
– Office Cougar Conquer – Official site
– Monitor Samsung U28E590D 4K 60Hz – Official website

Operating system and drivers:

– Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
– AMD Adrenalin 19.7.1
– NVIDIA GeForce 431.xx

Applications / Games:

– V-Ray Benchmark (rendering application)
– 3DMark (Fire Ultra Strike 4K DX11 / Time Spy Default DX12)
– Assbadin's Creed Odyssey (DX11)
– Battlefield V (DX12)
– Forza Horizon 4 (DX12)
– Metro Exodus (DX12)
– Remake of Resident Evil 2 (DX11)
– Shadow of Tomb Raider (DX12)
– The division (DX12)

GPU-Z

The GPU-Z still has not displayed all the information correctly. Let's update this section as soon as this happens. Below is the most recent version of the GPU-Z:

We have two overclocking issues with the Radeon RX 5700 XT. The first is the AMD model, which can be much better with a more efficient cooling system. I do not understand why it does not evolve in this respect, Vega of the first generation in terms of the best that AMD can offer on video cards. The second problem is drivers, who are still well below expectations. We received two versions, one open, Wattman, the other working, but with some instabilities. Software like Afterburner still has several incompatibility issues.

As I have already said, this is certainly not a draft table that should be considered for overclocking, perhaps in future projects developed by partners because only the models of reference with partner labels should appear at the beginning.

We also performed energy consumption tests with all boards compared. All tests were performed on the machine used in the badysis, which gives the exact notion of what each VGA consumes. It should be noted that the value is the total consumption of the machine and not just the video card. In this way, comparisons with tests from other sites can yield very different results.

For load testing, we use 3DMark, an application that requires a little more system and video card than most games.

OBS: When testing the 3DMark application, we consider 10W as the margin of error, due to the variation resulting from testing the same array.

Our test battery has started with a very important criterion: the temperature of the chip, both in standby mode and in continuous use.

It's important to note that some cards have a system that turns off the fans when the GPU is not required, such as performing simple Windows tasks or even simpler games. As a result, there are temperatures much higher than some models in this situation, but in practice, do not compromise the card. According to the manufacturers, this feature increases the useful life in addition to consuming less energy. Thus, there can be large differences in temperature at rest, which does not characterize a bad plate if the temperature is high.

Why did the board have a lower temperature when it was overclocked?

This is a normal situation on the current boards of directors. The rotation of the fan or fans (depending on the model) accelerates, resulting in a faster cooling of the graphics processor, sometimes with a lower temperature than normal.

Why does the board with a reference cooling system have a lower idle temperature than a board with a theoretically better cooling system?

Because current video cards with cooler models tend to stop fans when the temperature drops below 40, 45 or even 50 degrees, the trend is that the graphics processor does not drop the temperature plus the limit that closes the FAN.

Let's start by testing the cards with the system in sleep mode:

For the test of the plate used, we measured the peak of temperature during tests of the 3DMark operating in continuous mode.

OBS: Temperatures can vary considerably depending on the region of the country, the system on which the card is installed and the test used.

V-Ray

The V-Ray reference test used is the result of rendering with the help of the GPU, a good test to see how cards can reduce working time in graphics applications. The smaller it is, the better the performance.

We start with synthetic tests, using specific applications to measure plate performance.

3DMark

We ran the latest version of the Futuremark application with two tests, Fire Strike in Ultra 4K mode and Time Spy in normal mode based on DirectX 12 API. Below are the results:

The following is the new Time Spy test run on the DirectX 12 API:

Let's go now to the basics: performance tests of some of the best games on the market.

To help you understand the following graphs: Above 60 ips is ideal for monitors operating at this frequency. The faster the speed is close to 30 frames per second, the smoother the fluidity, and under 30, the game starts to become "unplayable"

Assbadin's Creed Odyssey

Ubisoft's open world game is very hardware demanding, both in terms of the complexity of the cities and the constraints it imposes on the processor, as well as the details of the models and their load on the video card. Overall, this is a game that greatly benefits the GeForce cards, significantly penalizing the Radeon cards even months after the launch and arrival of new drivers.

Battlefield V

The game developed by DICE follows as a benchmark in graphic quality, running on both the DirectX API 12 and RTX 11. The game developed by DICE follows as a benchmark in graphic quality, running on both the DirectX API 12 and RTX 11. The game developed by

Forza Horzion 4

The exclusive Microsoft game is distinguished by its excellent use of DirectX 12 API, offering high performance levels on powerful hardware and good results even on smaller hardware.

Metro Exodus

Again, the Metro franchise is in charge of introducing a game with new levels of requirement for the hardware. With graphics capable of "folding" video cards, 2A Games is also distinguished by the introduction of technologies such as Ray Tracing and DLSS, the exclusive features of the GeForce RTX range.

Resident Evil 2 Remake

The remake of the great horror clbadic brought an excellent repaginada in the visual of the game, emphasizing the graphic quality and a great requirement in video memory.

Shadow of Tomb Raider

The latest game from the Lara Croft franchise, Shadow of Tomb Raider brings great graphics, promising a lot of video cards, even high-performance models. The game also supports DirectX 12 and will be one of the first to support Ray Tracing technology.

Tom Clancy's Division 2

Division 2 uses a proprietary graphic engine developed by Ubisoft Mbadive, which deals with complex scenarios and large amounts of particles on the screen.

The price repositioning before the launch went well for the Navi 5700 XT. The performance level of the chart is slightly higher than that of the RTX 2060 Super in most scenarios, or 10%, which can be significantly higher in some games where the company does better, such as Forza Horizon.

The card has a slight advantage over the RTX Super 2060

One of the most impressive changes, in light of AMD's recent past, is the issue of frequencies. In its default configuration, the card has even exceeded 2.0 GHz during our games, something unexpected in that it exceeds the current Boost specification, or 1905 MHz. Even at 77 ° C (the temperature at which our model stabilized the heating), it still remained at 1900 MHz, well above the 1755 MHz Boost Game Specification.

Finally, AMD has changed its game in terms of performance and consumption

But there was a promise of overclocking this model, thanks to the good power of the chip and software enhancements, which did not happen during our testing period. Wattman was released at the last minute and the use of Afterburner gave poor results to our tests because of the incompatibility of the features. Frequencies came out very well in stock, but tinkering with them was not viable and did not even make sense at the moment and on this chart, maybe in models of partners, should that happen.

The frequencies were above the boost of our gameplay

Speaking of beta drivers, a map problem (and one that is difficult to represent in reference tables) is instability. The model exhibited many variations in performance during the tests, leading to several additional attempts for each test and several procedures for cleaning the drivers or image recovery to try to locate the problem, which also posed small problems. questions about our mental health since in many situations the plate presented a different result.

The drivers are maturing and overclocking remains a mystery

The comparison becomes more obvious since we also had tests with the Super lately, which was not the case in GeForce, which proved to be more consistent. In this scenario, it should also be remembered that the Navi brings new technologies, while the GeForce Super is a "warmed" Turing, which already has almost a year of market, so it is possible that hell does not reproduce not the experience of the end consumer, equates that os drivers chegarem a um estágio but maduro. Curiosamente, no nosso gameplay as it is fluíram bem, como dá pra ver no vídeo.

Competitive test for the QuadHD na qualidade ultra

A Radeon RX 5700 XT Competitive level of quadruple quads taxa, e até capaz de rodar alguns games but leves em 4K. Ao longo dos nossos testes ela também apresentou uma boa estabilidade, como 1% no gameplay não distanciando muito da media gerada quadros, o that mostra has capacidade dessa placa entregar um gameplay fluido e eficiente.

AMD is not apostando no Ray Tracing, caso você does not care

A AMD não está jogando suas fichas no jogo do Ray Tracing por aqui, sendo that a empresa só vem falando da tecnologia em soluções como games na nuvem, sem apostar em aceleração específica em hardware para ter essa experiência locally. Como conjunto de games trazendo suporte ao RTX crescendo, incluindo medalhões como Cyberpunk, Doom e Call of Duty, a tecnologia parece estar ganhando relevancia, mas e o consumidor that define se faz falta or não esse recurso.

Infelizmente os modelos referência da AMD não pbadaram pela mesma evolução que os da Nvidia, então em partes ficamos "na escura" sober o that um chip Navi entrega em um projecto com um bom sistema de múltiplas fans e alimentação de energia but "parruda". O nível de ruído é perceptível acima das GeForce e as temperaturas não estão ruins, mas definitivamente es esperaria por futuros modelos com sistemas but eficientes de outras empresas para eventuais interessados ​​nesse produto. Ou pelo menos esperamos que existam, já que tem sido uma das sérias deficiências das Radeon recentes frente as GeForce, esse suporte de empresas parceiras com projetos mais avançados.

A chegada da RX 5700 XT movimentou os preços no segmento, o que é ótimo para nós

Por fim, a RX 5700 XT já prestou um grande serviço antes de chegar ao mercado: ajudou a tirar a Nvidia do marasmo e forçou a empresa a ao menos mexer um pouco nos preços exorbitantes introduzidos nas RTXs. Além disso, esse modelo se mostrou capaz de entregar um pouco mais de desempenho que a rival pelo mesmo preço, se tornando uma opção interessante aos consumidores. Entre um pouquinho mais de performance ou suporte ao RTX, fica por conta do consumidor definir suas prioridades. Demos um selo ouro pelo corte de preços nas últimas horas, caso contrario a placa receberia um selo prata, não mais do que isso, porém o preço mais competitivo da um gás a mais para na briga com as placas concorrentes.