AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Review: Thermals, Noise, Gaming, & Broken Drivers
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Ruggezugge
Guys. Here s a honest self review. Pre-info: I ve never got to really play with a high end Nvidia card, so I m neither an Amd or Nvidia fanboy. The shop I bought the PC from is one of the most known in Europe, so don t worry about the originality of the components) Im playing on a 1080P 60hz Monitor. ) So. today I got my PC delivered (specs are: AMD Rx5700XT 50th anniversary ed. AMD Ryzen 3600x 16 GB 3200 MHz g. skill aegis RAM B450M plus Max 500 kingston SSD 1TB Toshiba HDD ) I started the PC, wondering the card wasn t actually as loud as a lot of people claim it would be. but after I just clicked on Chrome, the graphics card just started directly to go up to about 1100 RPM. okay, still. The card wasn t THAT loud. It was a bit annoying though, considering the fact that you might wanna spend some good time with the PC also writing word documents or something like that, it could be annoying having to listen to the graphics card as you don t wanna put on headphones every time you use the PC. After that, the graphics card kept on spinning faster, and then slower again and again, without any purpose (I didn t download anything, didn t start anything, I did nothing. I think it went from about 1100 RPM down to 700 RPM and then straight up again. (MSI afterburner just showed 1100 RPM, but I could clearly tell by the sound the blower made that it spinned differently. I m not a professional in PC gaming and components, so I didn t really wanna mess the whole thing up by changing a lot of drivers and some undervolting, let it be afterburner custom settings. Next step: I started up a little mid gaming toaster test: Minecraft. And don t get me wrong here, the RX5700XT was able to dominate the game, but don t expect that you ll run it on a 512x512 Sphax pure BD craft texture pack, it only runs at about 45-(sometimes)68 fps with medium Settings (chunks: 16, mip map 0. I next downloaded the SEUS shader and I was amazed. It was able to handle the shader with 16 chunks at 62-70 fps (some frame drops when moving into a new chunk, of course) but I had the 512x512 texture pack in it AND the shader. (I think it was running way better because the card ran at 99%, without the shader it ran at 50%) BUT also at 84 degrees, which is pretty hot, comparing it to other cards. So overall I could say the PC could handle Minecraft pretty good, if you don t mind about the noise it made because it ran at a speed of 2100 RPM with shaders on. Next game, next chance: Fortnite. I started up Fortnite, expecting the best results ever as many other vids claim it to be a very good experience. It was. The average fps was about 130-170 at epic settings, pretty astonishing in my opinion. But as I mentioned it in the Minecraft part, the card gets annoyingly noisy at 2100 RPM. (It sometimes even went up to almost 2300 RPM. So what s my conclusion? My conclusion is, is that this card IS a good gaming card. You can mostly expect it to handle with games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, Metro Exodus, GTA V and so on. but please. do me a favor: don t even think about this Card Running at low RPM and not being loud just because you re gaming at 1080P and not 1440P or 4K. To be honest I m really upset right now, I waited about a week for the PC, being totally amazed about turning it on and experience a whole new world of gaming and office work. I repeat it once, I m not a Nvidia or Intel or AMD fanboy or whatever, this is a comment by some weird dude who was being too hurried to buy his first own PC system, but I wouldn t even write a that long comment just to blame a company. Comments are welcome, I can answer your questions about the card until I send her back, that ll be in about 3-5 days. R. I. P, my first ever gaming PC that more likely made me surprisingly upset rather than make me happy.
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Guys. Here s a honest self review. Pre-info: I ve never got to really play with a high end Nvidia card, so I m neither an Amd or Nvidia fanboy. The shop I bought the PC from is one of the most known in Europe, so don t worry about the originality of the components) Im playing on a 1080P 60hz Monitor. ) So. today I got my PC delivered (specs are: AMD Rx5700XT 50th anniversary ed. AMD Ryzen 3600x 16 GB 3200 MHz g. skill aegis RAM B450M plus Max 500 kingston SSD 1TB Toshiba HDD ) I started the PC, wondering the card wasn t actually as loud as a lot of people claim it would be. but after I just clicked on Chrome, the graphics card just started directly to go up to about 1100 RPM. okay, still. The card wasn t THAT loud. It was a bit annoying though, considering the fact that you might wanna spend some good time with the PC also writing word documents or something like that, it could be annoying having to listen to the graphics card as you don t wanna put on headphones every time you use the PC. After that, the graphics card kept on spinning faster, and then slower again and again, without any purpose (I didn t download anything, didn t start anything, I did nothing. I think it went from about 1100 RPM down to 700 RPM and then straight up again. (MSI afterburner just showed 1100 RPM, but I could clearly tell by the sound the blower made that it spinned differently. I m not a professional in PC gaming and components, so I didn t really wanna mess the whole thing up by changing a lot of drivers and some undervolting, let it be afterburner custom settings. Next step: I started up a little mid gaming toaster test: Minecraft. And don t get me wrong here, the RX5700XT was able to dominate the game, but don t expect that you ll run it on a 512x512 Sphax pure BD craft texture pack, it only runs at about 45-(sometimes)68 fps with medium Settings (chunks: 16, mip map 0. I next downloaded the SEUS shader and I was amazed. It was able to handle the shader with 16 chunks at 62-70 fps (some frame drops when moving into a new chunk, of course) but I had the 512x512 texture pack in it AND the shader. (I think it was running way better because the card ran at 99%, without the shader it ran at 50%) BUT also at 84 degrees, which is pretty hot, comparing it to other cards. So overall I could say the PC could handle Minecraft pretty good, if you don t mind about the noise it made because it ran at a speed of 2100 RPM with shaders on. Next game, next chance: Fortnite. I started up Fortnite, expecting the best results ever as many other vids claim it to be a very good experience. It was. The average fps was about 130-170 at epic settings, pretty astonishing in my opinion. But as I mentioned it in the Minecraft part, the card gets annoyingly noisy at 2100 RPM. (It sometimes even went up to almost 2300 RPM. So what s my conclusion? My conclusion is, is that this card IS a good gaming card. You can mostly expect it to handle with games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, Metro Exodus, GTA V and so on. but please. do me a favor: don t even think about this Card Running at low RPM and not being loud just because you re gaming at 1080P and not 1440P or 4K. To be honest I m really upset right now, I waited about a week for the PC, being totally amazed about turning it on and experience a whole new world of gaming and office work. I repeat it once, I m not a Nvidia or Intel or AMD fanboy or whatever, this is a comment by some weird dude who was being too hurried to buy his first own PC system, but I wouldn t even write a that long comment just to blame a company. Comments are welcome, I can answer your questions about the card until I send her back, that ll be in about 3-5 days. R. I. P, my first ever gaming PC that more likely made me surprisingly upset rather than make me happy.
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Kenya
I always value Gamers Nexus because of their methodology in testing and they can be relied upon to minimizing the variances that can happen between architectures. The numbers that they produced can be well relied upon. That said, I believe this review refused to acknowledge the key points to AMD's cards: 1. They were original positioned to compete with the original RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 cards 2. Despite the brand new RDNA architecture, we can expect driver improvement while you were reviewing with Press drivers and not public release drivers. 3. In every game comparison chart, the 5700XT (stock) BEAT both the RTX 2070 and the RTX 260 Super (Stock) where this card is positioned at cost-wise. I make a point to say STOCK because you very clearly made point that these drivers are Not Ready For PrimeTime and possibly could be hampered in its over-clocking numbers. 4. In many instances, the stock 5700XT is close enough to the RTX 2070 Super (a card priced 100 more) that we could expect performance parity in the near with future with driver updates. This whole review seemed to give a negative spin on the AMD cards when it did nothing but achieve what they were intended to do in their release: BEAT the NVidia cards in their price category. In the near future, it will way exceed that by performing close to a card that is priced beyond its price category. With all of the negative narrative that was presented without the mentioning of the REAL intent of the card and its true WINS, I would have to say that I will now look at Gamers Nexus as being biased and being an influencer with an agenda and will regard their narrative more with a grain of salt.
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I always value Gamers Nexus because of their methodology in testing and they can be relied upon to minimizing the variances that can happen between architectures. The numbers that they produced can be well relied upon. That said, I believe this review refused to acknowledge the key points to AMD's cards: 1. They were original positioned to compete with the original RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 cards 2. Despite the brand new RDNA architecture, we can expect driver improvement while you were reviewing with Press drivers and not public release drivers. 3. In every game comparison chart, the 5700XT (stock) BEAT both the RTX 2070 and the RTX 260 Super (Stock) where this card is positioned at cost-wise. I make a point to say STOCK because you very clearly made point that these drivers are Not Ready For PrimeTime and possibly could be hampered in its over-clocking numbers. 4. In many instances, the stock 5700XT is close enough to the RTX 2070 Super (a card priced 100 more) that we could expect performance parity in the near with future with driver updates. This whole review seemed to give a negative spin on the AMD cards when it did nothing but achieve what they were intended to do in their release: BEAT the NVidia cards in their price category. In the near future, it will way exceed that by performing close to a card that is priced beyond its price category. With all of the negative narrative that was presented without the mentioning of the REAL intent of the card and its true WINS, I would have to say that I will now look at Gamers Nexus as being biased and being an influencer with an agenda and will regard their narrative more with a grain of salt.
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BGC
Help y'all. Yesterday i finished my AMD build with ryzen 5 3600 and the rx 5700XT but everytime i want to start up gta 5, i hear an error sound and the screen freezes. When i hit ctrl+alt+del and click on taskmanager my screen turns black and my whole system is unuseable. Since i have a b450 tomahawk, i can't connect the restart button otherwise it won't post. So the only way to get the pc running again is to force shutdown and restart the pc. But the whole proces repeats when i restart GTA. Is there any solution to get this fixed? What should i do. Because i basically can't game and test games with this thing. Also i noticed with cinebench R15 that the performance of the 3600 is significantly less compared to a 3600 on a x570 board, like 200-220 points less, same thing with the 5700XT it actually runs worse then an rx 580 by like 11 fps. What the hell is wrong and what can i do. Because i'm at the point of returning these components and go back to intel and nvidia again. This is my first all AMD build, and i'm not pleased by the performance yet. Help me please
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Help y'all. Yesterday i finished my AMD build with ryzen 5 3600 and the rx 5700XT but everytime i want to start up gta 5, i hear an error sound and the screen freezes. When i hit ctrl+alt+del and click on taskmanager my screen turns black and my whole system is unuseable. Since i have a b450 tomahawk, i can't connect the restart button otherwise it won't post. So the only way to get the pc running again is to force shutdown and restart the pc. But the whole proces repeats when i restart GTA. Is there any solution to get this fixed? What should i do. Because i basically can't game and test games with this thing. Also i noticed with cinebench R15 that the performance of the 3600 is significantly less compared to a 3600 on a x570 board, like 200-220 points less, same thing with the 5700XT it actually runs worse then an rx 580 by like 11 fps. What the hell is wrong and what can i do. Because i'm at the point of returning these components and go back to intel and nvidia again. This is my first all AMD build, and i'm not pleased by the performance yet. Help me please
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Drywall
I know this is not a tech form but I am desperate. I am having a lot of problems from the RX 5700 XT. I don't get consistent fames and my card is not overheating e. g I get random screen freezes, my wattman displays 0 stats, I play Dota 2 my average frames 75, Total War Warhammer 2 average frames in battles 17 and my sound gets fragmented. I really don't know what to do I have updated my motherboards drivers and I have reinstalled the AMD drivers 4 times same problems. I read that other people have the same problems and they thought their cards were faulty but when they got a new 5700 the problems persisted. my friends said I need to wait for better drivers but how long will it take? and do AMD even know about this. sigh I just wanna game.
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I know this is not a tech form but I am desperate. I am having a lot of problems from the RX 5700 XT. I don't get consistent fames and my card is not overheating e. g I get random screen freezes, my wattman displays 0 stats, I play Dota 2 my average frames 75, Total War Warhammer 2 average frames in battles 17 and my sound gets fragmented. I really don't know what to do I have updated my motherboards drivers and I have reinstalled the AMD drivers 4 times same problems. I read that other people have the same problems and they thought their cards were faulty but when they got a new 5700 the problems persisted. my friends said I need to wait for better drivers but how long will it take? and do AMD even know about this. sigh I just wanna game.
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Dave
2: 57 WOW That's scummy AF 9: 47 So what you're saying is that AMD tried really hard to beat pascal but then Nvidia came out with 20 series and leveled the playing field. AMD then announced Navi was coming so Nvidia, knowing AMD had nothing just upped the clocks, added a few CU's to the 20 series and created super, pwning AMD, as expected in the first place and also proving that the GPU division of AMD is dying in slow motion and it's bad to the point they spent their budget for this gen on the pcb and silicon development and then just through a cooler from the bargain basement bin in a random Shenzhen stall on to their top level card. Top this off with AMD's crappy drivers - when they are working correctly - and ultimately we have a fail.
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2: 57 WOW That's scummy AF 9: 47 So what you're saying is that AMD tried really hard to beat pascal but then Nvidia came out with 20 series and leveled the playing field. AMD then announced Navi was coming so Nvidia, knowing AMD had nothing just upped the clocks, added a few CU's to the 20 series and created super, pwning AMD, as expected in the first place and also proving that the GPU division of AMD is dying in slow motion and it's bad to the point they spent their budget for this gen on the pcb and silicon development and then just through a cooler from the bargain basement bin in a random Shenzhen stall on to their top level card. Top this off with AMD's crappy drivers - when they are working correctly - and ultimately we have a fail.
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Guest
i dont know what card did you test Steve but my msi rx5700xt idles at 34 degrees celsius with 719rpm. in gaming with auto fan profile goes to 81 degrees celsius in my closed nzxt h500 with 2 140mm intake fans with 900-1000rpm and 1 exhaust fan 120mm 1000rpm and one on top 140mm at 587rpm. cpu cooler is NH-D15 with one fan at 980rpm. so i really dont know what are you talking about. and in gaming is barely audible. i am dont use headphones guys: -). so and the problems with card was only one like in this video 27: 14 -fresh install of win10 1903build amd chipset drivers gpu drivers and screen goes green. after restart and windows update everything is ok.
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i dont know what card did you test Steve but my msi rx5700xt idles at 34 degrees celsius with 719rpm. in gaming with auto fan profile goes to 81 degrees celsius in my closed nzxt h500 with 2 140mm intake fans with 900-1000rpm and 1 exhaust fan 120mm 1000rpm and one on top 140mm at 587rpm. cpu cooler is NH-D15 with one fan at 980rpm. so i really dont know what are you talking about. and in gaming is barely audible. i am dont use headphones guys: -). so and the problems with card was only one like in this video 27: 14 -fresh install of win10 1903build amd chipset drivers gpu drivers and screen goes green. after restart and windows update everything is ok.
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jothain
So I'm out of the current tech loop. Could some one clarify me one thing. If I get AMD Ryzen with APU and RX 7000XT is there something in _desktops_ like laptops switchable graphics, which at least Intel & AMD laptops are capable of. Looking likely to upgrade machine to Ryzen and RX, cause it seems to be slaughtering Intel systems in CAD environments. Also want to do some occasional gaming, but mostly productivity. When getting high end desktop, electric bills. Well it can have effect.
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So I'm out of the current tech loop. Could some one clarify me one thing. If I get AMD Ryzen with APU and RX 7000XT is there something in _desktops_ like laptops switchable graphics, which at least Intel & AMD laptops are capable of. Looking likely to upgrade machine to Ryzen and RX, cause it seems to be slaughtering Intel systems in CAD environments. Also want to do some occasional gaming, but mostly productivity. When getting high end desktop, electric bills. Well it can have effect.
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Joseph
I just shelled out 2000 CDN for a completely brand new AMD build on Friday. It has crashed over 50 times and is completely unstable (and I haven't messed around with any of the settings. Two days later, I have returned it to the store for repair. If, when I get it back, it is still unstable, I will be returning it for a full refund and probably never going with AMD again. What a hassle. Prior to this, I used an intel / nvidia build, which gave me no issues for 5 years.
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I just shelled out 2000 CDN for a completely brand new AMD build on Friday. It has crashed over 50 times and is completely unstable (and I haven't messed around with any of the settings. Two days later, I have returned it to the store for repair. If, when I get it back, it is still unstable, I will be returning it for a full refund and probably never going with AMD again. What a hassle. Prior to this, I used an intel / nvidia build, which gave me no issues for 5 years.
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George
For everyone that is waiting for the custom coolers there is a more imediate solution (PS: not for the lazy pople. You can buy a blower style one and slap on it an Arctic Accelero Xtreme III or IV (they are compatible with the Rx 5700 series as I saw on their website) and voila, you have a damn good cooling for your NAVI card. I personaly have the Xtreme III on a Founders edition GTX 1070 Ti and is very cool and quiet, in fact better than most aftermarket coolers
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For everyone that is waiting for the custom coolers there is a more imediate solution (PS: not for the lazy pople. You can buy a blower style one and slap on it an Arctic Accelero Xtreme III or IV (they are compatible with the Rx 5700 series as I saw on their website) and voila, you have a damn good cooling for your NAVI card. I personaly have the Xtreme III on a Founders edition GTX 1070 Ti and is very cool and quiet, in fact better than most aftermarket coolers
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sadlerbw9
Blowers are fine for server environments where the noise from the 13, 000RPM system fans will drown out a GPU blower, and no poor human ears need to be subjected to them. In my house? Yeah, blowers are too loud. On the up-side, the stock cooler looks almost identical to the blower from my old R9 290x. I'm thinking I might actually be able to use the aftermarket 120mm AIO kit on my old 290x on one of these new cards without any new mounting hardware.
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Blowers are fine for server environments where the noise from the 13, 000RPM system fans will drown out a GPU blower, and no poor human ears need to be subjected to them. In my house? Yeah, blowers are too loud. On the up-side, the stock cooler looks almost identical to the blower from my old R9 290x. I'm thinking I might actually be able to use the aftermarket 120mm AIO kit on my old 290x on one of these new cards without any new mounting hardware.
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