Note to new 5700XT owners: if you find you're getting barely perceptible micro-stutter, go into the Radeon Adrenalin suite > Settings (gear wheel top right) > Display and enable GPU Scaling. Sincerely, A long-time 5700XT owner
Personally the Radeon software has given me nonstop problems and crashes. Going driver only and just using MSI Afterburner to adjust the 5700 XT performance settings has been flawless so far. Setting the fan curve for silence/not in use at lower temps is also finicky on Radeon software.
@@jtbryan64 Yeah, they're going for real cheap on the used market rn. Insane amount of performance for the price. Another note: something else that can help is (in Adrenalin) going to Gaming > Graphics > (scroll down) Advanced, click Tessellation settings, choose "Override application settings", and choose 16x. In some games that use Nvidia tech the tessellation is super cranked up, tanking performance on Radeon. Personally I can't tell the difference between 16x and 64x, and going with 16x can help smooth out the frame-times.
Recently upgraded to RX 6600 from my good old GTX 980Ti witch I had since 2015. And not looking back, it is sooo much more power efficient and has good performance!
The 5700 XT really is a great card and if you bought one back in the day you've certainly got your moneys worth and probably will for a few years yet if you're not fussed about ray tracing.
Honestly, my last nvidia card as a 780TI, after i've got a RX 580 and the 5700 XT. Now i'm back to nvidia with a 3060ti (yet i still own the 5700 XT). It still is kind of fuzzy with drivers for some DX11 games, plus the card runs way too loud as it junction temp gets too hot and the fan curve uses the junction as the temp base.
I have this GPU, I got mine for $140. It's a really good GPU that you can easily find for around $150 and has the same performance as a RTX 3060, which costs nearly double the price.
@Glass of Water Not enough to justify the doubled price. The only reasons you'd avoid it are the fact that it was a mining favorite or you actually do work with your GPU, since ROCm and AMD's encoder suck compared to Nvidia. If I wasn't already set on another card, I'd probably consider it.
I had the Asrock challenger RX5700 that you could bios flash to a 5700XT. I passed it down to my step-son when I upgraded to my 6900XT and he is still using it for 1080, high refresh rate gaming. It really is a bang up card. It out performs my wife's 3060 10GB in a lot of games.
Great video! It’s impressive how you have your videos match what the majority of gamers/ tech enthusiasts like or want to know. Keep up the great work!
True, I'm kinda binging his channel right now, because i assume he is in a similar age as me (mid 30's) and has similar experiences. I can't really donate, because i only have a travel credit card (uncommon in the country i live, plus trust issues with online payments. Maybe i can get play cards to pay on YT, but not tested yet). With the 5700XT, i have had bad experiences sadly. This does not affect every user, but i was left disappointed, not because of the card itself, AMD or the performance, but because of a poorly handled RMA case by Sapphire. I bought a Sapphire Pulse 5700XT in late 2019, brand new in Box. It had a factory defect, where the T-Junction was above 110°C in an open case with proper ventilation, the legendary HAF XB cube. The card overheated itself after a couple of hours of utilisation. Had to send it in three times before i got something working. I then sold it with a note that the card may be sketchy, well under value, because i did not want to risk another heatstroke and got a 2070 super. Sapphire really fell off and XFX isn't great either. I had my experiences with them in the past (fan bearings questionable) and the history of the parent company is questionable. In the late 90's, early 2000's they pit SIS mobo chipsets on AGP cards and sold them as scam "3D cards", not many know it and there is only one RU-vidr which made a video about it. I'm currently using a 4070. But also nVidia kinda fell off, since EVGA is gone. My sister in law bought an RTX 3060 Ti from gigabyte. Worst cooler design i have seen since the GTX 480, which was equally noisy. The gigabyte card was a dual fan card. Very flimsy materials and no fan curve, straight from 0 to 100%. I'm using a Palit 4070, which is "okay". But at the end, i was left saddened. During the 2000's and 2010's some of my favourite cards have been from sapphire, mostly the HD7970Ghz Edition. Other manufacturers also fell off, like Asus. Had a monitor from them recently and it had QC issues and they handled it pretty poorly too. I don't like the state of how these corporations act nowadays.
@@rileyxbell I don't think it has ever been a 4K card. One reason I never got a 4K monitor. That and the fact that the 1440p one I chose is very colour accurate and easy to calibrate.
@@mastroitek That was mostly just an issue at launch. The only crashes I've ever had with my bios modded 5700 have been related to unstable overclocks, never the drivers.
@@yasu_red Fortunately I don't have crashes, just a bunch of annoying other problems that completely ruin the experience. I love the card but hate the overall experience. I was actually thinking to sell it (goes for 200$+ where Ilive) and get a 750 for something more
Just upgraded my 5700xt to a 4070ti. I can't say the experience was always smooth, but the card was a beast over the past 3 years. It enabled me to play so many games over the pandemic time, mostly at high 1080p. Anyone looking for a decent budget card doesn't have to look far here.
@@Myguy-ky8yg What is a 7800xtx? Do you mean a 7900xtx, which is not in any way the same price or performance level as the 4070ti, or the 7800xt? Assuming you mean the 7800xt, then yes, today if I were to buy a new GPU, I'd probably buy the 7800xt. 9 months ago, however, the 7800xt in my country was the same price as a 4070ti due to the fact they need to be imported and the demand for AMD here is lower. It was a no brainer going for the faster Nvidia card due to the pricing. As I had said, I've been using AMD cards since the Radeon 9800XT in 2003 replaced my Voodoo 3, but at the given price point a year ago, the 4070ti was a great purchase. DLSS3 has been incredible at letting me play cyberpunk at 1440p with everything at max, and Nvidia Broadcast I've found invaluable in my professional life.
I went from GTX 980 to RX 5600 XT and it's also a big difference. Mine was unstable due to the second/overclock BIOS amd made for it at 1750mhz vram so I had to flash the original 1500mhz vram bios and works as new now. And cooler.
When the gpu prices went down again after the etheruim merge i bought a rx 5700 xt and have been very happy with it at 1440p, I mostly play older games but it's a huge upgrade from my r9 390
I had this card for a year in 2019. I hated how many driver issues it had in the start, but looking back on it, it was completely fine. I got my use out of it. Would recommend.
@jakejoyride Sometimes my screen would go black on displayport for no reason especially on higher resolutions. At the time, it soured how I thought about the card, so.
@@forog1 I owned it between november and january 22-23, and my experiences with it have been only bad, lots of driver bugs the worst ones are in VR and the others are just nuisances, in VR it would have a constant flashing in my eyes when the game would lag, (this doesn’t happen with my new nvidia card) which was extremely painful and the other issue i encountered a lot was chrome crashing when playing back youtube videos, and there is a fix for it but it involves disabling hardware acceleration which sucks if you use chrome for tasks that require some hardware acceleration, which i do, a lot, and while yes the performance in games is amazing and the value is definitely there, it isn’t a great recommendation unless your an enthusiast who can look past it’s current flaws.
You should do a video on the card right above it on the hardware survey, the 1080 Ti. I have one in my system and I’m amazed at how much potential this thing still has
The RX 5700xt really did me well. I managed to snag one for like $400 during the times they were going for $1,200. I recently upgraded to an RX 6950xt and said goodbye to my 5700xt and sold it to a friend, legendary card for me.
Those aliexpress ones are the same price as a 1650 in Brazil, making it one of the best deals for gamers on a limited budget. Completly different tier of performance for the same price
I just got a hell of a deal. Just picked up 3 rx5700xt for $280. The previous owner was honest and said they were for mining. So I reapplied the thermal paste and benchmarked everything to make sure they were good. All of them perform great!
I bought one of these when they came out for my partner's art computer, and it has been a pleasure to live with since day one. I was tempted to sell it at the beginning of the scalppocalypse but I knew it might take years to get another card as good for the money, so I held on to it. Paired with a ryzen 7 3700x it's got loads of performance and I don't want to upgrade for at least another year, that is unless something drastically more power efficient and sub £300 comes out
i have the anniversary edition of it. i have downclocked it to 1700mhz with an undervolt to 889mV and +50% powertarget. stays around 74C with very quiet fancurve. and consumption is around 120watts.
I bought the 5700xt for £300 brand new back in 2020 after my rx 470 died, the card was amazing value after the driver issues were fixed, the performance of the card skyrocketed to the point where it was no longer competing with the 2060 but was slightly worse than a 2070 super. All of this for only £300. I upgraded my monitor to 1440p at the beginning of 2023, and the card was still fine. It wasn't perfect, but lowering some settings from ultra to high or medium, and it was easily getting 60fps and above or just enabling FSR was enough in a lot of modern games. I upgraded last month and gave the card to my younger brother. Had he not been using a 4gb gtx 960, I probably still would be using the 5700xt now since I had no reason to really upgrade.
I did what i don't recommend anyone did, and bought a version without fans just a heatsink. It said it was a gigabyte version but there's no branding on the PCB, the bios was messed with so the aib code was messed with. I put the fans of a zotac 1060 amp! and it's working great. I still have no ideia what it is tho
I got a red devil 5700XT at launch and as a 1080p gamer it's still running strong and I have no complaints. I don't plan on upgrading for a few more years yet since it runs great at 1080p.
I have an 5700 XT 16GB that came with the iMac I purchased back in 2020. To this day it blows my mind how capable the GPU is. It’s turned my iMac into a proper gaming PC through Bootcamp, and it will probably serve me as such for the next 2-3 years
Kinda funny bcs red devil is the best 5700xt in terms of cooling capacity. Try to undervolt via adrenaline it a bit. Mine is doing 1900 mhz on 985 mv, consumption dropped to 145 w max, 87 max hotspot
I got an XFX 5700xt off ebay for $100, I spent $25 on new thermal pads and $8 on a fan because 1 was noisy, put it back together, temps were amazing and runs great in the kids PC. Runs every game she wants to play, mainly Fortnite, but it is really impressive.
I have a 5700 xt right now and i love it. I got mine used for 169 dollars online and its works just fine for 1080p games. GTA V, Warzone 2.0 and everyone is on maxed out and you could upscale to 4k if you had a 4k monitor or TV.
@@ammanus356 new no way, used? Yeah, but then the RX6600XT is $120-150 so it's still cheaper, it's quite obvious that NVIDIA is not worth it at these lower performance brackets
@@AstiLoyce Given i've seen a 7900xt go for 500 dollars brand new, you can snag way better deals than initial MSRP. My 4090 i got for 1100 brand new. And Nvidia are more worth it at lower performance brackets than higher due to the uplift of DLSS vs FSR and improved image quality that comes with it, plus RT is viable on the lower end Nvidia cards. Don't be an AMD shill.
@@bofasofa9399 Simply it's playable and for single player games it's more than enough, only fast paced and competitive titles are a much better experience at 120+ FPS
I bought my MSI mech 5700XT in October 2019 second hand but sealed for $304. I still use it to this day and it still serves me well. I was too lazy to trade up during the crypto craze as I didn't have a backup GPU.
great video. I just picked up a used 5700 reference on ebay for $100 and flashed the bios to 5700xt. I then undervolted down to 1100mv and bumped fan up a little. it is running flawless. comparable to my son's more expensive 3060 we bought for him during the pandemic for $650
@@bofasofa9399it used to be pretty decent at 1440p back when it launched, I have one, you should check out some benchmarks from 2019-2020. Kind of like how the 1080ti was a 4k card back in its day but now it's struggling at 1440p alongside the similar performing 5700xt.
I got an RX 5700 and did the ever popular bios flash to get overclocking limits from the 5700 XT, and I think the only thing that would bring me to replace it would be VRAM capacity not keeping up on future games, since that's been a growing problem already for some games.
Another great video! Can’t believe this channel is not more popular, you put more work into these videos being entertaining than any other tech channel in my opinion.
Got a 5600xt during the GPU shortage for 160. Great GPU, quick suggestion when using it tho. Don't use the gaming profile in the adrenaline software, it is the only thing that causes crashes. Other than that no issues.
i was still using mine until a few weeks ago! Picked it up on the first week of release for £370. It was running a 4k monitor on new games, but in low setting. I upgraded to the 16gb Intel Ark, which runs most stuff at very decent FPS in 4k.
I would like to suggest 2 simple things for Msi afterburner . I think that if you keep Gpu % numbers under Cpu % numbers it will is a lot easier for the viewer to spot the figure that he wants (same goes with Celsius numbers).Also keep the UI of afterburner at lets say 1080p size when you change the resolution. When benchmarking at 4k the UI is tiny and hard to 'read'. You can change it from Riva Tuners menu. Thanks for the content and keep up the good work.
Great video, I look up to you! I tested a Gigabyte triple fan model for a video and it blew my mind. Near RTX 2070/super performance for like 70% of the price back then. My rig had a Ryzen 5 2600x which bottlenecked the GPU, but it was still a beast even when the full potential of it wasn't unleashed. Will you start to review some budget offerings that are newer sometime in the future? I am in the process of testing an i3 10105f that I got for 70 euros. Will you review these kinds of cpus?
@@NamTran-xc2ip Sorry for the late reply, I am not talking about personal builds. I am building PC's for customers and I do reviews of products on RU-vid, I hope everything is clear now 😁
I was strongly considering a 5700 XT for the PC I build my dad for christmas 2022. I ended up going for a new RX 6600 Pulse instead becauase it was on sale though.
I have a Asus rog rx 5700xt. Got it at the end of 2019 on sale for 450$ when all gpu prices were pretty high. Absolutely love that card and I have not still considered changing it. I did some undervolting + overclocking and I am very happy with its performance
I was recently looking for a GPU on a budget as I had to sell my 3070 for money reasons and now it's the first time I've been siding with AMD after 6 years again with my last one being a Radeon HD 7850. Glad that I've got my 5700XT for $180. Can't wait to test it out once it's there. I'll update the comment once I've got it up and running. UPDATE: Sorry, I totally forgot to do the update… It’s been a great GPU to be honest. Everything I threw at it runs absolutely fine. It’s quite a compelling card for the price and honestly, you can’t go wrong with it at all.
Upgraded from an RX 460 to a RX 5700 XT a couple of months ago. So glad i chose to wait for more than a year for something affordable. Man, prices were so crazy... I'm pretty sure this card will be fine for the foreseeable future.
What a leap! I myself went from an RX 460 4 GB to a friend’s secondhand GTX 1060 6 GB before giving that to a friend when building them a new system last year, to an R7 250 (merely for video output at that point, no way I was gaming on that lol). But then the same friend who gave me their 1060 got me an RX 6600 for my birthday. But that RX 460 was the best card I ever bought, I wish I still had it for some of my older backup systems.
@@TH3C001 Yeah, that RX 460 was epic value. Don't remember exactly when I bought it, but I bought it new. It is still working perfectly and now sits in my backup system. I love it when good cards just refuse to die. I also considered getting an RX 6600, but the prices were pretty crazy when I was looking. I remembered getting the RX 460 for around €100, and the RX 6600 was around €500 when I looked... The RX 5700 XT that I ended up getting cost me less than half that. And yeah, It is a serious upgrade ^^. I do notice it on my electricity bill though...
Depends on your market and needs. I got a 5700XT for under 150, and personally, I'd keep money and take the extra performance. Both are good options though, no doubt!
@@Pixrl3491 The 5700XT is 10% better in terms of frames per second, yes but the non XT 6600 is way more power efficient. Both are great choices however, depends also on your PSU and how much you find each one going for.
The superior card is the 6700xt, solid 1440p performance. RDNA2 fixed about every problem AMD had with drivers and feature support, one of the best for Linux gaming as well. RDNA 1 is pretty similar to GCN 1. Viable long term, but the next update fixed everything wrong with it as well.
Nice video. For people who are on a hard budget but want something modern, Ive been recommending that if you're going used, do the 5700xt, and if you're going new, do something in the 6600 series.
True. I'm also partial to AMD cards. Much better value. Got the 5700xt for my daughter last year and this year my son got the 6700 10gb. Both should be good for 1080p for quite a while.
Would love to see Counter Strike 2 results when it releases. Mine is achieving about 200ish fps with high settings in 1080p on the overpass limited test. The well implemented lighting and shaders in the source 2 engine maps feels like ray tracing, yet there is actually no real time ray tracing at all. If you need a cheap upgrade just to be able to run CS2, maybe a 5700XT can get you started.
Bought mine just before the GPU market went crazy. (late 2020) Payed 400usd for the Pulse model. It was a really good buy, i game with it every day without any issues! Sure, i would like a 6950xt, but not for the prices they are asking!
Bought my Sapphire 5700XT Nitro for 389€ in 2019, slapped a 100€ Waterblock on it to avoid thermal throttling and never looked back. Still serves me well.
I'd consider 6700XT, 2080 ti and maybe arc 770 16gb as baseline for low priced cards with some future proofing. Nvidia is trying hard to raise what we have to spend for a specific performace category, going out of thier way to handicap ram and bus width and cutting down core counts, giving us as little an upgrade as possible and ensuring we need thier next gen
bought mine new. PowerColor Red Devil. sitting in my semi truck right now (it's my entertainment center and mobile office). it's backed by a r5 3600 and plays everything I throw at it.
I've just bought a 1440p monitor and you just convinced me to go team red. I currently have a gtx970 in my setup and I was planning to upgrade to a 2070 super, but the value of this card seems INSANE. Thank you.
Right now this is probably the king of budget cards. At this exact moment there are several listings around $120. Its near-peer cards like RTX 2070 or 2070 Super or RX 6600 XT are $190+.
It's absurd how there are absolutely no other GPUs that offer similar performance in the price bracket. Everything Nvidia is overpriced. It's bizarre that the 5600XT is about the same price and even the 5500XT isn't far in price to a 5700/XT.
Been running mine since launch day, sadly it will be retired this year when the 7800XT comes out, it cant quite feed my full 165hz at 1080p in *SOME* games. But it does run everything maxed out 1080p at or slightly above 100 fps ie Destiny 2 at 100 locked, ff 14 at locked 120, eso at 144, ME remasters at locked 165 etc etc. It should be noted this GPU is 5 to 10 percent faster than a PS5, it just lacks RT (which the ps5 just tacked onto RDNA Gen 1 anyways so no big loss)
Ive had the 5700xt since 2020. Great card for value especially in Europe. Dunno if in going to upgrade since there haven't been any games too demanding for me so far, and the gpu market still kinda sucks.
It had some teething issues on release, but they were quickly ironed out. I got one before the scalper/mining market blew the prices for them up, and it probably was one of my favorite GPUs of all time. It ran pretty hot, but it ran VR titles with high scaling like a champ
I bought the 5700xt a couple months after launch for its launch price and it has been great for me. Sapphire Nitro+. basically silent and does well in the games I play, which is mostly rocket league anyway and it does that absolutely fine at 4k 120hz (lg c1 77"). I do play cities skylines with tons of mods, so the 8gb is a bit small. 32 GB ram is also just enough to load cities. r5-3600 still going strong :)
My wife's rig has the Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT. It does everything she wants and more. Bought it new for about $400 a couple years ago. Been a really great card.
A lot of these cards come overvolted apparently so check into that if you get one. I was having problems with overheating, i thought it was fans or my case but turns out i bumped the voltage down a little bit and now i have cool temps and no impact on performance!
Good video. I have a Strix model of the 5700 XT and it seems to be holding up well enough for my needs (1080p60). I don't do a lot of big-budget AAA releases, but I binged Elden Ring last year for more hours than I'd like to admit, and the card did quite well with it on the highest settings.
getting 6700xt with 12gb vram is perfect cause its 22 % faster with more vram which will last u longer thats what i got just realized iv had my 6700 xt since 2020
I've got to be honest, I've had such awesome luck with building budget systems with people dumping their OEM 5500xt 4GB. These things are a six pin and can fit in neat any prebuilt (minus SFF) and for the money (a lot of them I've picked up for around $70), the value is insane.
Bought mine over 2 years ago, when people were lining up every morning at MicroCenter to (hopefully) buy a graphics card. I used the crazy market to my advantage by selling off 3 of my old cards and the one in my rig on eBay and it paid for this card plus put a few extra dollars in my pocket. I am still using it to this day, and it runs all my games at 1440 with no issues. Will replace it with a RX 6900 XT when I find the right deal, but this card is worth it if you can find a good used one especially for gaming at 1080p.
I have this card in my Workstation. I put a custom waterblock on it and it's been running well since launch. It isn't used for Gaming though. It was used for playing Battlefield V back in 2018-2019 and it did so very well at 1440p. I've since moved onto the RX 6800 XT as my main Graphics card in my Gaming PC. I don't yet have an excuse to upgrade. Upgrading to one of the 7000 series RX cards would require a CPU upgrade. My Ryzen 9 5950x would be a bottleneck for the 7000 series so the RX 6800 XT is basically still my best bet for now at 1440p. Just not really interested in the Intel 13th Gen or the AMD Ryzen 7000 series. Going to wait for the next gen afterwards.
My heart is slightly bleeding because i had a driver related hdmi problem preventing me to use it for VR any longer. I now switched to a 3070 but could tell you that this is otherwise a dream of a performer, i had on my rog, 10160 Timespyscore, matched the 2080 and at times outperformed the 3060 slightly.
I bought my rx 5700 xt in 2019. It carried me through the pandemic and the gong show gpu prices. Up to when I upgraded to a rx 6800 xt in 2022. It’s a great 1080p card and when I bought it. It was the best value at the time as it was cheaper than the 2070 super, and was going toe to toe with it.
@@ПредводительПельмешек I bought it locally and the buyer was asking $150, so I offered $125 and they accepted. I actually had no idea it was the NITRO+ until I was there checking it out.
I build myself last year a 5700XT LAN Party PC. Because my main PC is too big and heavy to carry around everywhere. And at a LAN Party you don't really need the most high end performance. Really happy with it. Other components i use in there My old Ryzen 5 3600 16 GB 3200 Mhz RAM Asus Prime B450MK 2 (not a good MB, but it does the job) Kolink Citadel RGB Mesh (Very happy with that case)
