Went back today and got another RX 5700 XT, a gift for my brother since hes been using a R9 270 for who knows how long
this time I bought him a PowerColor Red Devil RX 5700 XT version since Microcenter sold out of Sapphires
2nd key was sent to me by email as expected
his setup: ryzen 5 2600, 16 GB cas 16 3000, b450 asrock steel legend
kept insisting the r9 270 was fine when he bought the parts last year, but until today I decided to buy him this card
upon launching WoW, going around in Nazjatar, this thing NEVER reaches 60C at automatic settings, the fan never once turn on since they spin once it reaches 60C
Not even killing the world boss at Nazjatar this has yet to spin, at 7 settings with no changes, it has gotten maybe to like 58C the most, but never 70c+
slightly less clock speed vs my sapphire one, but it can take heat like a champion, little better than my sapphire that for sure, also twice the thickness
if anything imo, Nitro+ before Red Devil
Heāll enjoy this card when he plays VR games thats for sure
The GPU core temp isnāt the issue; itās the Hotspot and Memory temperatures.
Make sure youāre monitoring those.
Keep memory edge temp under 85 and hotspot under 110 and you should be okay.
Most 5700xts I see have perfectly fine GPU temperature, but very high hotspot and memory.
My RAWII rarely ever goes above 65c on the core, and on the default fan curve, the fans wonāt even go until hotspot hits 100.
Spoke to several others with various cards and they mostly experience the same results.
With my undervolt and fan curve, these metrics stay under 85/95 and the core under 70 generally. Itās loud, but probably better for the card.
Howās the nitro treating you. I got the same one for 440 after california tax and it gets pretty loud pass 50%.
The fans sapphire uses though. Pretty powerful, with it crank up to 60% i can feel the air coming out of the case. Currently have it in an NCase V6.1 and with the gpu fans running at full blast, I get a face full of hot air.
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I still like it so far, I prefer the cooling on the Red Devil though, I can put a lower fan curve on that and I can barely hear it vs the sapphire
even though the Red Devil is slightly slower, I wish I could have Red Devil heatsink on the sapphire, would been the perfect combo
think it also helps since I swapped to a new case
None of the factory OCs really matter at all.
You pretty much are rolling the dice either way to silicon lottery - cooling and noise are the only real difference that you can be sure of.
Maybe the PCBs might be a bit different but as long as they at least use reference level PCB (which is quite good for the Navi cards) itās not really a big deal and all generally have the same capacity (lottery).
You are doing all of these cards a disservice by not manually tuning their frequency, memory, voltage, and fan curve. And at that point theyāre all effectively the same, minus noise and heat.
All that said, when 3000 series launches Iāll probably get the 3070 which if rumors are true, sold be similar to 2080 ti level plus quality RTX.
And then give this 5700 xt to my son
If I had this gpu in an ATX build I would have pushed it a bit, sadly I value noise + the sff case can only do so much. I usually undervolt and tune the fan curve to my liking.
Though ive been considering deshrouding it and using 120mm fans.
You can still get some good results from an undervolt and underclock.
Out of the box, mine had a P3 state of 2124mhz and 1198v. Average gaming frequency was around 1950-2000mhz, but it was quite hot.
I have two settings.
One is my performance setting for benchmarks and playing bigger games. I changed P3 to 2100mhz and 1125mv, ramped up fan speed, +20% power limit, and VRAM to 1800mhz. It runs pretty hot on full load, around 75c on the GPU, 80c on the VRAM VRM, and up to 100C on the hotspot. I use this setting when I play Doom Eternal, RDR2, etc.
Second is my general use setting specifically for WoW and other MMOs that tend to run all damn day. P3 to 1900mhz and 1050mv, enhanced (but not super ramped up) fan speed, factory power limit, VRAM factory. It runs a little bit cooler but quieter, and since I enable a 120fps limit and play on 1440p at 7 in WoW, it stays under 80% utilization for the most part pretty quiet and I feel preserves the card since I play these games so long.
I actually did a test comparing the first and second settings in a more demanding game (SotTR) and there was maybe a 3-4% difference in performance. Nothing huge. But sound and temps were enormous.
These cards, much like the Ryzen CPUs, donāt really seem to OC too well or meaningfully or efficiently. But undervolting/etc can help in other ways without impacting performance too much.
Eh, I think Iād rather stick to nvidiaās cards until AMD finishes working out all the kinks with their GPUās. Iāll stick with my RTX 2070 super for now lol.
Well aware of that, I havenāt found a need to go about to fine tune the 5700xt I have. Cooling hasnāt been the issue, just had to control the fan curve. It kinda skyrockets after a certain temp.
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Used this to get the expansion and other game for $13 out of pocketā¦ (didnāt keep the card just temporary). Which was good I havenāt been wanting to spend money on wow since all the incidents earlier in the year. Unfortunately Iām almost out of gold if I want to play much of the new expansion Iāll have to do some sub.
I got a new 5700 xt a while ago. It came with Shadowlands and a game called godfall.
I registered with AMD as soon as I got it, but I have yet to receive my game codes. Dunno if anyone else is having that issue.
How are you liking the new card? I upgraded to the RTX 2070 and itās been great paired with my R5 3600.
I donāt know if the pandemic is effecting the processing time, but it canāt help to email their support team.
Itās ok? I built a new AMD system and I was using my old 1070 card. Was going to wait for ampere to come out but I couldnāt pass up the price plus the shadowlands givaway. Itās only about 15-20% better in the benchmarks overall.
Iāve emailed them a few times. I just get the canned e-mail.
Interesting that you come up with that number, because if you look at the raw numbers here (as imperfect of a source as this is) - there is about a 20% difference between the performance:
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Radeon RX 5700 XT - 16,676
GeForce GTX 1070 - 13,323
Theyāre both good cards - and with the codes you probably got a really good deal. Did you sell the 1070 or put it in another build? (or maybe kept it for a backup)
5700xt is much stronger than a 1070 generally, and on newer games even matches a 2080 sometimes.
Those are synthetics - in real games thereās usually around a 40% difference
Yes, thatās why I found his numbers interestingā¦ Coincidence?
API, game optimizations, and architecture I guess.
Look at horizon zero dawn
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/horizon-zero-dawn-benchmark-test-performance-analysis/4.html
5700xt ~58% faster
Quite a difference.
Interesting how my 2070 holds its own at 1440 ā¦ I got this rig so cheap Iām still shaking my head 9 months later ā¦
Some cards were good buys.
I feel bad for my buddy who upgraded his 7600k/GTX 970 to a Ryzen 7 3700x/RTX 2080 last year specifically for Cyberpunk 2077 only to have it delayed so long that his CPU and GPU became outdated before it released lol