PowerColor RX 5700 Red Dragon Review: Non-XT Overclocking, Thermals, & Noise
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Joe
As a potential 5700/xt customer, I am still torn between AMD/NVIDIA. One of the number one concerns that keeps reappearing every time I look into the AMD RX 5000 series is instability issues. The price to performance ratio seems nice for some of these new AMD cards, but you go online to read reviews, and everyone is just complaining about drivers, blue screens, games crashing etc. Is there anyway we can get some type of metrics on this included in the reviews? All of the charts are saying this a good buy, but the consumer is seemingly going through hell trying to run these cards. When you start to layer in the stability of these cards at current the price differential between AMD/NVIDIA would close the gap. IE is it worth an extra 50- 100 to play your games without many issues.
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As a potential 5700/xt customer, I am still torn between AMD/NVIDIA. One of the number one concerns that keeps reappearing every time I look into the AMD RX 5000 series is instability issues. The price to performance ratio seems nice for some of these new AMD cards, but you go online to read reviews, and everyone is just complaining about drivers, blue screens, games crashing etc. Is there anyway we can get some type of metrics on this included in the reviews? All of the charts are saying this a good buy, but the consumer is seemingly going through hell trying to run these cards. When you start to layer in the stability of these cards at current the price differential between AMD/NVIDIA would close the gap. IE is it worth an extra 50- 100 to play your games without many issues.
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Farns
Not a attack on GamerNexus just some stuff to consider, great video. If you can withstand the noise the ref model runs cooler then any max fan AIB. On Newegg you can get the ref for 330 most of the time. Go for asrock if you can, it has a 3 year warranty vs sapphires 2 year. But if it's 350 vs 360 and you don't plan on doing any above and beyond over clocking with a loud fan I'd go with Red Dragon aib. Now lets nitpick and say your not using a closed case and torture tests do not match real world gaming temps. ;. Not knitpicking you can slide the OC up to the Red Dragon pre oc levels and have no problem on the reference blower(louder if you want the same thermals.
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Not a attack on GamerNexus just some stuff to consider, great video. If you can withstand the noise the ref model runs cooler then any max fan AIB. On Newegg you can get the ref for 330 most of the time. Go for asrock if you can, it has a 3 year warranty vs sapphires 2 year. But if it's 350 vs 360 and you don't plan on doing any above and beyond over clocking with a loud fan I'd go with Red Dragon aib. Now lets nitpick and say your not using a closed case and torture tests do not match real world gaming temps. ;. Not knitpicking you can slide the OC up to the Red Dragon pre oc levels and have no problem on the reference blower(louder if you want the same thermals.
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Farens
Every day bsod, yes game flying but bsods. But i have old pc motherboard asus gen3, i7 2600k, 8gb ddr 3 all fast, but bsods. I reinstall win 10 official tools, formating disk clean install, official windows key. Yes i buy 750 watt new chiftec proton edition. Old drivers not installing i install old driver, dark screen, i turn off hdmi, and change hdmi 1, 2, 3 in my 4k tv and set in hdmi 1, then screen return, but driver menu not working, i dont know have bsod old drivers becose in new drivers amd make cool things sharpens in games and boost.
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Every day bsod, yes game flying but bsods. But i have old pc motherboard asus gen3, i7 2600k, 8gb ddr 3 all fast, but bsods. I reinstall win 10 official tools, formating disk clean install, official windows key. Yes i buy 750 watt new chiftec proton edition. Old drivers not installing i install old driver, dark screen, i turn off hdmi, and change hdmi 1, 2, 3 in my 4k tv and set in hdmi 1, then screen return, but driver menu not working, i dont know have bsod old drivers becose in new drivers amd make cool things sharpens in games and boost.
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bigsportsman
AMD, get your software division together. Instead of adding new features that don't really work at launch how about getting your old ones and your standard software working first. You can later add COMPLETED and WORKING new features when they are ACTUALLY FINISHED. While we all know that software bugs will happen from time to time, however, they are not supposed to happen EVERY TIME! That is not called a bug that is simply called bad software design!
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AMD, get your software division together. Instead of adding new features that don't really work at launch how about getting your old ones and your standard software working first. You can later add COMPLETED and WORKING new features when they are ACTUALLY FINISHED. While we all know that software bugs will happen from time to time, however, they are not supposed to happen EVERY TIME! That is not called a bug that is simply called bad software design!
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letni
These powercolor, sapphire, xfx cards are the reason I stick with Nvidia. Seriously if they got some decent third party cards I'd buy one. Always been the same. The performance has been there but not the designs. The reference cards have always been terrible. The Vega 64 came in crappy flavours like the red devil. The Rog strix which you'd think was going to be ok was terrible. Even if you get one that's not hot or loud it looks like a brick: )
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These powercolor, sapphire, xfx cards are the reason I stick with Nvidia. Seriously if they got some decent third party cards I'd buy one. Always been the same. The performance has been there but not the designs. The reference cards have always been terrible. The Vega 64 came in crappy flavours like the red devil. The Rog strix which you'd think was going to be ok was terrible. Even if you get one that's not hot or loud it looks like a brick: )
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Stewart
I am not entirely sure your reference temps are correct, I run my own 5700 at 40dba and it has very similar temps to that of the red dragon. I have to admit I have mine undervolted but that is easy for the novice as it is just one click. With a little tweaking I have found these reference cards to be much quieter and cooler than all the reviews have suggested.
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I am not entirely sure your reference temps are correct, I run my own 5700 at 40dba and it has very similar temps to that of the red dragon. I have to admit I have mine undervolted but that is easy for the novice as it is just one click. With a little tweaking I have found these reference cards to be much quieter and cooler than all the reviews have suggested.
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Tom
. because AMD's fan software is garbage - excuse me! I've used it a lot and Wattman (in Radeon Settings) is the only software I use to control the fan speeds on my Vega 56, because unlike Afterburner I can actually adjust the entire fan curve as opposed to setting a fixed % fan speed. It works really well and is easy to use, I have no complaints about it at all.
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. because AMD's fan software is garbage - excuse me! I've used it a lot and Wattman (in Radeon Settings) is the only software I use to control the fan speeds on my Vega 56, because unlike Afterburner I can actually adjust the entire fan curve as opposed to setting a fixed % fan speed. It works really well and is easy to use, I have no complaints about it at all.
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Alex
So, 5700 gaming oc or red dragon? Both at the same price, plus for red dragon, 8+6 connectors, dual bios, gaming oc plus = pretier imo, triple fan, and its narrower, wich is better on my pc case wich is kind of narrow. I plan to use powerplay or biosflash, so my only worry on buying the gaming oc is that it wont be enough power with just one 8 pin connector
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So, 5700 gaming oc or red dragon? Both at the same price, plus for red dragon, 8+6 connectors, dual bios, gaming oc plus = pretier imo, triple fan, and its narrower, wich is better on my pc case wich is kind of narrow. I plan to use powerplay or biosflash, so my only worry on buying the gaming oc is that it wont be enough power with just one 8 pin connector
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Willies
just realized that Steve has been explaining what a graphics card is every time with these intros to rx 5700 reviews. like every single one of them. imagine how short these videos would be if everybody just understood what hardware was no need to explain why they look different, works the same, price variate, and explaining why we hate blower style XD
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just realized that Steve has been explaining what a graphics card is every time with these intros to rx 5700 reviews. like every single one of them. imagine how short these videos would be if everybody just understood what hardware was no need to explain why they look different, works the same, price variate, and explaining why we hate blower style XD
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FlxDrv
You should check out the rx 5700 non xt pulse from sapphire, using the powerplay mod i managed a 1. 95 GHz oc and was hitting 170w avrage. And the temps stays at 80c edge using the stick fan curve. And I've seen other people hitting this oc. That's put the card to 5700 xt stock level of performance in 3dmark Time spy
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You should check out the rx 5700 non xt pulse from sapphire, using the powerplay mod i managed a 1. 95 GHz oc and was hitting 170w avrage. And the temps stays at 80c edge using the stick fan curve. And I've seen other people hitting this oc. That's put the card to 5700 xt stock level of performance in 3dmark Time spy
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