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.
Really? i just bought this card and, although I barely know much about cards, im surprised to know it performed betrer than your wifes 3060 cause ive heard 3060 is a really good card...I guess mine is better! 😁
@@alimoorad5998some AMD preferred games just kills green team, BO6 plays 80+ FPS on Ultra with 5700 XT while 1080TI and 3060 are somewhere around at 60 region. Hitman 3 and Far Cry 6 have kinda similar picture. Glad that I've upgraded from GTX 1050 to 5700 XT, since I'm playing CoD with my pals mostly, spare FPS in that game definitely helps. Unfortunately it also goes both ways, Cyberpunk 2077 is better with 3060TI, big difference also. But 5700XT still gives solid performance in that game.
@@ChainikVlad Oh man! That's interesting! What game is BO6 btw? Im drawing a blank! Im starting to feel happier with my purchase now. Just curious, do you think Baldurs Gate will run well on my setup? I have 16 GB ram and a 12th Gen i5 cpu. Also...do you have any tips under settings or something that I can do or SHOULD do to my GPU to make it run better? Also, how much FPS are you getting on COD and at what settings? Im thinking of maybe trying out Arena Breakout Infinite. Thanks man. I appreciate the reply
@alimoorad5998 Black Ops 6 Should run great, 12 Gen is still kicking for many tasks. I'm considering upgrading to 32 GB of RAM for modded games and editing videos, but most AAA games don't require that much, so 16 GB is still enough. I myself didn't used any settings, only undervolted it a little bit to 1800 mhz and made fan run more louder for maintaining temperature. For games I recommend to switch from Ultra to High textures, I don't see practically a difference, but you can run browser on background if you switch. Other settings can stay in ultra. You can try OC your card, but honestly with temperatures - I don't know if you should. As I said in previous comment - BO6, since it's a Call Of Duty - gets you 80 FPS on Ultra, MW3 is more or less the same, but it may be even better. Warzone will soon be running on BO6, so 80 on Ultra, more FPS on other settings. Arena Breakout is not a demanding game, so it would run great. Don't know how much FPS, since I'm not interested in that game, but still I won't be worried about that game.
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
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 TH-camr 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.
The RX 5700xt really did me well. I managed to snag one for like $400 during the times they were going for $1,200. I recently upgraded to an RX 6950xt and said goodbye to my 5700xt and sold it to a friend, legendary card for me.
@@mastroitek That was mostly just an issue at launch. The only crashes I've ever had with my bios modded 5700 have been related to unstable overclocks, never the drivers.
@@yasu_red Fortunately I don't have crashes, just a bunch of annoying other problems that completely ruin the experience. I love the card but hate the overall experience. I was actually thinking to sell it (goes for 200$+ where Ilive) and get a 750 for something more
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.
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 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.
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
@@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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
@@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 got an XFX 5700xt off ebay for $100, I spent $25 on new thermal pads and $8 on a fan because 1 was noisy, put it back together, temps were amazing and runs great in the kids PC. Runs every game she wants to play, mainly Fortnite, but it is really impressive.
i was still using mine until a few weeks ago! Picked it up on the first week of release for £370. It was running a 4k monitor on new games, but in low setting. I upgraded to the 16gb Intel Ark, which runs most stuff at very decent FPS in 4k.
I have a Asus rog rx 5700xt. Got it at the end of 2019 on sale for 450$ 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 TH-cam, I hope everything is clear now 😁
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.
Iceberg Tech : the RX 5700 XT 8GB destroyed the RTX 2080 Super 8GB in the Nvidias RTX launch title called Battlefield V....which is ironic to say the least. Confirmation source : my own testings and Techpowerup review of the RX 5700 XT alongside a few others that dared to point that out. Back then it was unrightfully advertised as the inbetween GPU of RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070....when in reality it was a direct competitor to the RTX 2070 Super and left the RTX 2070 in the dust. Due to that 4-cure rendering technique it's the most AMD FINE RED WINE influenced GPU in the AMD history because it's rendering power keeps holding on today whereas Nvidias RTX 2070 Super is slowly falling behind it in ever modern games that are texture heavy.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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 :)
This makes me feel really good. I bought my first gaming pc last week used on Facebook marketplace. Some guy was gifted it by his brother-in-law who bought it pre-built by gigabyte (Brother-in-law decided to build a new one from scratch). Its fully AMD, and still modifiable. The guy didn't really use it a whole lot and gamed pretty modestly. So he was selling it for $400. The CPU, Mother-Board, and GPU by themselves were all worth combined $500+. Never-the-less, i offered him $300 and he accepted. Iv checked the PC out and have already made some modifications to its ram, wifi/bluetooth bandwidth. Its already running faster an d better. I was worried about this GPU having a hard time with modded skyrim but now that iv seen some of these stress test. I see I'll be just fine. I would like to upgrade the CPU to the Ryzen 5 5600 soon but doing some comparisons on price for performance value. My rig is overall pretty good in the $600-$800 range if someone were to buy it pre-built.
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.
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.
The best review ever about this card. Exactly what i think. I've got mine Asus Strix RX 5700 XT 3 years ago and damned....still rocks. It's a piece of perfection technology. I play all these games in almost full with no any issues. Smooth like silk 😎
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 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 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.
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.
Excellent review ! I've got mine in 2019, the RX5700XT Nitro+ paired with a 1440p@144Hz monitor, still runs anything like a charm. I want to point out the decent TDP of that GPU, 225W. It's not that much, like you can run this GPU on a cheap 550W PSU with no problem, and if you are into second hand hardware because you have low budget, you won't need to spend extra money on bigger PSU and cooling. TDP is now a thing to consider when you look at newer GPU, the mid/high end now eat +300W which is insane, and not everyone can get a hand on +800W PSU + the extra case fans to cool all of that. So if like me you have a 650W PSU, just don't get any GPU over 250/275W. Also like every hardware made by AMD, it get too much voltage by default, so you should undervolt it (you can also power limit in AMD driver but it's more messy), meaning you get 98% performance, for lower power consomption, lower heat, lower noise, and lower stress on your PSU !
@@RCoffee Resolution doesn't matter for your CPU choice. Depending of your budget anything 6 or 8 core (8c for AAA game and more future proof, 6c is still good enough for 90% of game), from R5 3600X to R7 5800X3D you'll be fine. AM5 is still pretty expensive, and for Intel any i5 from 12 or 13th gen (with Intel you'll have to get to Windows 11 btw).
Hi. I bought a 5700XT on the web and I'm waiting for it. My PSU delivers 500W, I use my monitor at 720p and I don't play more than half an hour straight, once every other day. DO you think my 500W PSU will be able to run it? Do you think my computer might end up damaged from using this card? I know it is power hungry (but it is what I can buy at the moment).
My 5700XT Strix gave me a wonderful few gaming years. ASUS allowed me to trade it in for a new fixed one due to issues. Drivers gotten better over the time.. software was just bad but made some solid improvements eventually. Upgraded to a 4080 now. Played it on my 4k ultrawide monitor where it really started to struggle more and more
@@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 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.
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.
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.
Still using this gem in 2024 @1440p. RDR2 runs like a dream and no need to upgrade. New titles are on the horizon but so far no need to upgrade. Best buy ever, especially just before the gpu market went mad
I've been using the 5700XT since I bought it in 2019. It has been a solid card for me. It still runs everything at respectable levels, as shown in the video. It is beginning to show its age and I'm considering an upgrade this year.
This card was as fast as my previous 1080 Ti using waaaay less power and it handled my multiple monitor setup way better too #EyefinityFTW. I went to a 6700 XT after that and saw a decent bump at the same power, plus all the DX12 features. Then to a 6900 XT for native 4k gaming (also using max settings and no FSR to get 4k like I had to on the 6700 XT). Now, I'm rocking a 7900 XTX and it's an Absolute Monster in every since of the word. Thankfully, I didn't have to upgade anything else. Through all of these GPU upgrades I kept the same motherboard, case, power supply, etc. I did update my bios and drop a Ryzen 5000 series CPU in my AM4 system, but I didn't NEED to for 60fps gaming; even maxed out at 4k. Anyway, the 5700 XT is definitely a sweet GPU for its time and just like other AMD GPUs (w/adequate VRAM...cough.. cough..nvidia GPU owners are Xxxx'd), it will age very well indeed.
Bought it for $300 back in 2019. Sold it for $840 to some miner in the 2021 craze. I loved this card dearly, great performance for the money and left me with a great treat.
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)
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)
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.
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.
Instant replay can have similar issues :)
Thanks! I just picked one up last week for a good deal!
@@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.
@@abesmissioncontrol2013picked one up locally for $100. That's a lot of gpu for that price. It's on its way to a friend who is running an rx 580.
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!
How bigs the difference at 1080P tho? As Far as i know the 980TI was very close at 1080P but 1440P is where the RX6600 will take the lead.
Using a Sapphire Pulse RX6600 and it's a budget beast. Best 1080p AAA card, 1440p for 2019 AAA games and under.
Bro you are comparing a 2021 card with a 2014 one. U good????
@I Danwich My 4090 is miles better than my old 3dfx Voodoo 3. Not going back.
@I Danwich My dude, my 40000000090 GTRGTRFHXXX is st leat twice as fast as my Turing Machine
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.
nobody is focused on ray tracing @ that price point. I have a 3060 TI and ray tracing is out of the question.
@@brokencage9723 i have a 2070 and play with Raytracing sometimes. It's not worth the performance tho
I have a 3080 and the only time i use rtx is with the (stupid) windows store Minecraft
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 got my 5700xt ultra thic III for $400 2 years ago
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.
mines? Bro what...
Performance is above 3060
@@zarrar26 no, rtx 3060 is slightly faster.
@@glassofwater7281 its within the 2 percentile across most titles
@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.
Really? i just bought this card and, although I barely know much about cards, im surprised to know it performed betrer than your wifes 3060 cause ive heard 3060 is a really good card...I guess mine is better! 😁
@@alimoorad5998some AMD preferred games just kills green team, BO6 plays 80+ FPS on Ultra with 5700 XT while 1080TI and 3060 are somewhere around at 60 region. Hitman 3 and Far Cry 6 have kinda similar picture. Glad that I've upgraded from GTX 1050 to 5700 XT, since I'm playing CoD with my pals mostly, spare FPS in that game definitely helps.
Unfortunately it also goes both ways, Cyberpunk 2077 is better with 3060TI, big difference also. But 5700XT still gives solid performance in that game.
@@ChainikVlad Oh man! That's interesting! What game is BO6 btw? Im drawing a blank!
Im starting to feel happier with my purchase now. Just curious, do you think Baldurs Gate will run well on my setup? I have 16 GB ram and a 12th Gen i5 cpu.
Also...do you have any tips under settings or something that I can do or SHOULD do to my GPU to make it run better?
Also, how much FPS are you getting on COD and at what settings? Im thinking of maybe trying out Arena Breakout Infinite.
Thanks man. I appreciate the reply
@alimoorad5998 Black Ops 6
Should run great, 12 Gen is still kicking for many tasks. I'm considering upgrading to 32 GB of RAM for modded games and editing videos, but most AAA games don't require that much, so 16 GB is still enough.
I myself didn't used any settings, only undervolted it a little bit to 1800 mhz and made fan run more louder for maintaining temperature. For games I recommend to switch from Ultra to High textures, I don't see practically a difference, but you can run browser on background if you switch. Other settings can stay in ultra. You can try OC your card, but honestly with temperatures - I don't know if you should.
As I said in previous comment - BO6, since it's a Call Of Duty - gets you 80 FPS on Ultra, MW3 is more or less the same, but it may be even better. Warzone will soon be running on BO6, so 80 on Ultra, more FPS on other settings. Arena Breakout is not a demanding game, so it would run great. Don't know how much FPS, since I'm not interested in that game, but still I won't be worried about that game.
Finally! Another video about my GPU, I was thinking that everyone has forgotten about this GPU because most graphs nowadays exclude it.
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.
ik your comment is 9 months ago but the 4070 ti is terrible card for price i would have gotten the 7800xtx its cheapers is around the same performance
@@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 picked up a 5700 XT back about 6 months ago from CEX for £220. Been a decent card. Definitely worth the money.
same. very good price for performance, especially with 2yr warranty from cex.
What version did you get? The reference card or smth else?
@@razvanalecu1851 I got the reference model. no visible damage or scratch and still performs great after a few weeks
@@razvanalecu1851 Asus ROG Strix
same and I got the Red devil one. 215usd
Been watching your video's lately and they are amazing ! lately upgraded from GTX 970 to RX 5600 XT and it's wow !
Why are you putting spaces before exclamation marks?
@@bofasofa9399 It's what they do in france.
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.
@cosminmilitaru9920 how do you do that? I recently built a pc with a used 5700xt and am wondering if I need to do the same as you.
@@Dapplicationthose french guys it's like they have a whole another language
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
Still run my Red Devil since 2019, such a good card still, no bugs, runs cool, Powercolor did a great job with the cooler on it.
Got the same one!
Got that card aswell it’s amazing I got the 6800xt version too it just stays quiet never had driver problems with them cards
I love Red Devil cards. Got a 580 before 2020 and just got a 6700xt.
Powercolor is one of the better (imo one of the best) manufacturer for AMD gpus
Mine can run 110°c when on assetto
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!
Thanks mate 😀
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 TH-camr 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.
I've had this card since 2019. Been using it almost exclusively for 1440p 60. Still going strong and FSR has helped significantly.
Plus fsr 3 will Come this card will bé crazy
I just honestly couldn't imagine being happy with 60fps in 2023... maybe 2015?
@@bofasofa9399 Never had a faster monitor. Does everything as I'd expect. Got no complaints at 60fps.
U think u could use it on 4k fsr performance? Or 50% render resolution
@@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.
The RX 5700xt really did me well. I managed to snag one for like $400 during the times they were going for $1,200. I recently upgraded to an RX 6950xt and said goodbye to my 5700xt and sold it to a friend, legendary card for me.
I got a 5700 for 150 and a friend got a 5700xt for 150 also, unbeatable price performance
Same here. Undervolting is critical tho.
And in my experience the card also comes with unbeatable bad drivers. Though yes, amazing price/perf
@@mastroitek That was mostly just an issue at launch. The only crashes I've ever had with my bios modded 5700 have been related to unstable overclocks, never the drivers.
@@yasu_red Fortunately I don't have crashes, just a bunch of annoying other problems that completely ruin the experience. I love the card but hate the overall experience.
I was actually thinking to sell it (goes for 200$+ where Ilive) and get a 750 for something more
Why? Radeon drivers are excellent. Radeon-profiler does a good job. Are you running some outdated is or something? (Linux user here)
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.
I had it from release and have no idea what you talk about. I updated my drivers regularly.
@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.
@@jakejoyride It was also a pile of shit for me when i had it, its a common issue, 5700xt is notorious for its awful drivers
@@finnsstuffs "Was". Its rock solid now and faster than the 2070 Super due to Smart Access Memory and other driver maturity.
@@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.
Picked up an Asrock 5700xt for 99$ a few weeks ago and a new 5700x for 160$ to go with it. Amazing the value that can be had recently.
Yeah im well impressed with my 5700xt. It's hard to justify upgrading when the performance is often 60 fps even at 1440p for all my games
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
That's quite a great deal considering everything's so expensive in Brazil.
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 have one in my PC and it runs anything I want. No plans on switching it out anytime soon.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 No it's not, nobody plays at max graphics with these cards. 8 GB is still reliable and isn't going anywhere soon.
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.
Bought a this card at a bargain at 120 usd, knowing it can match rtx 3060. Honestly I felt like I stole something
Fantastic card. I recently replaced my Sapphire Nitro + RX 5700 XT for RX 7900 XTX. Big upgrade as well.
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
I'd love to! I don't own one right now, but maybe soon?
It and the 5700xt have historically been really close in performance. I'd be curious to see how they compare these days!
@@jasonandrews7355 The 5700xt and 1080ti are less than half as powerful as the 4070ti
@@bofasofa9399 But the 4070ti is twice, thrice or even quadruple the price of those two cards depending on your region and where you get one.
@@bofasofa9399 rice is less than half the size of a nickel. Wait, what were we talking about?
The 5700 XT is a solid choice, I had it for a while before upgrading and it was a great 1440p card
??? It is NOT a 1440p card... it struggles to even maintain 50-60fps at 1440
@@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.
@@bofasofa9399 read more closely, I said "was"
@@bofasofa9399 bofa deez in yo mouth at 1440p
@@bofasofa9399not really lmao it plays good at 1440p I used it on 3440x1440 my games played fine only newer titles it struggles because of vram
I’ve been waiting for this video, nobody talks about this card it’s so underrated
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.
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.
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
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.
I got mine for 115 which was a HUGE steal and it was a great upgrade from a 1650 super
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
I bought a 5700xt for $140. its been such a great value card. ive been playing hogwarts legacy at high settings 4k fsr at like 45-60fps.
?? Why are you excited about 45-60 FPS in 2023
@@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
Insane value card. Definitely should get more attention
I have this exact Pulse model and it's great 🙂. Got it about 3 years ago (new), before prices went crazy.
I got an XFX 5700xt off ebay for $100, I spent $25 on new thermal pads and $8 on a fan because 1 was noisy, put it back together, temps were amazing and runs great in the kids PC. Runs every game she wants to play, mainly Fortnite, but it is really impressive.
i was still using mine until a few weeks ago! Picked it up on the first week of release for £370. It was running a 4k monitor on new games, but in low setting. I upgraded to the 16gb Intel Ark, which runs most stuff at very decent FPS in 4k.
I have a Asus rog rx 5700xt. Got it at the end of 2019 on sale for 450$ 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 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.
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.
6months later how is it
It's 2024. Any updates mah dude? 😂😂
@@KaRuNaRuGa Sry about that. Totally forgot…posted the update now. 💀
@@LNCRFT Glad you came through with the update dude, planning to get the same card. Thanks!
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 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.
Went from integrated graphics to a 5700xt red devil. While it does run pretty hot, it is definitely one of the best for the money
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
that card runs hot? check your cooling / case
@@accelerator5524 hotspots like 95 it just is loud
Might need to repaste it. My gigabyte oc 5700 xt wouldn't even climb that high overclocked. Was in a crappy nzxt 510i case too
@@waterfelon My 5700 XT at 2000 and 1.111V is doing like 70-75C in TJ.
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.
Good card but you can now find used 6600s for 180-200 dollars/euros which are a much better choice. Thanks for the video, keep them coming brother!
6600 non xt is worse by 15%, especially on pcie3.0
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.
@@jasonandrews7355 Exactly. It really depends on your needs. That's a very good deal you got yourself there, kudos!
well 6600xt is 192bit pci 4x8 while 5700xt is 256bit 4x16🤙🏻🤙🏻
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.
Still rocking my 5700XT. GPU's have been insanely priced since its release. Need more VRAM now, but otherwise it's been a great performer.
I have the exact same card from new in 2019. It’s on my spare PC and still runs great.
Just got myself a Strix 5700XT for half the price of a 3060, and I’m so happy with it. Running this with an i7 9700, still gives amazing performance
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?
Why bother with that? Thats not an upgrade over 2600x, 12100f is better
@@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 TH-cam, I hope everything is clear now 😁
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 using the 5700xt since 2019 and its been freaking great very excited to see someone actually giving it its due
Iceberg Tech : the RX 5700 XT 8GB destroyed the RTX 2080 Super 8GB in the Nvidias RTX launch title called Battlefield V....which is ironic to say the least.
Confirmation source : my own testings and Techpowerup review of the RX 5700 XT alongside a few others that dared to point that out.
Back then it was unrightfully advertised as the inbetween GPU of RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070....when in reality it was a direct competitor to the RTX 2070 Super and left the RTX 2070 in the dust.
Due to that 4-cure rendering technique it's the most AMD FINE RED WINE influenced GPU in the AMD history because it's rendering power keeps holding on today whereas Nvidias RTX 2070 Super is slowly falling behind it in ever modern games that are texture heavy.
I have a 6600xt that was $230, compared to a 3060 that was $400+. The Price to Performance ratio is insane.
3060 with dlss crushes it
@@ammanus356 yeah... For around $200 more lol
@@AstiLoyce You can snag a 3060 for 200 dollars lol i dunno what market youre looking on
@@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.
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.
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.
@@QueertyUCR amd cards specialize in 1440p gaming so youre more than fine at 1080p
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.
Picked one of these up used locally for $100. Gonna give it to a friend of mine.
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...
Still rocking my XFX Thicc II
i am glad i found this channel , fantastic video.
My Red Devil 5700XT was great. 1440p was no problem at all for what I played. Paid for itself and my 6900XT.
Tempted to get one of these for my spare rig to upgrade the GTX 960 that is sorely holding my R5 2600 back lol
Well the R5 2600 will hold back the RX 5700XT...I had that CPU, upgraded to 5600x.
@@takehirolol5962 yeah maybe a bit but this rig is gonna be used as a Steam streaming machine and won't be going higher than 1080p 60fps
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!
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.
Navi 1 has honestly aged very well. From my experience, for 1080 and 1440, a 5700 XT is great. Navi 2 is also wonderful if you can get a good price.
Thinking of building my very first PC and this card has stood out to me quite a bit.
It’s so nice to see a small tech TH-camr, but seeing one who’s British is even better than that. Love the channel, subbed.
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 :)
Im running a 5700 xt bios flashed to a Rx 5700. Got it for only €125. Also got a Rx 5600 xt for €100
I still run my 5700xt Mech OC pair with 3600x im happy . Underrated Card !
This makes me feel really good.
I bought my first gaming pc last week used on Facebook marketplace. Some guy was gifted it by his brother-in-law who bought it pre-built by gigabyte (Brother-in-law decided to build a new one from scratch). Its fully AMD, and still modifiable. The guy didn't really use it a whole lot and gamed pretty modestly. So he was selling it for $400. The CPU, Mother-Board, and GPU by themselves were all worth combined $500+.
Never-the-less, i offered him $300 and he accepted. Iv checked the PC out and have already made some modifications to its ram, wifi/bluetooth bandwidth. Its already running faster an d better. I was worried about this GPU having a hard time with modded skyrim but now that iv seen some of these stress test. I see I'll be just fine.
I would like to upgrade the CPU to the Ryzen 5 5600 soon but doing some comparisons on price for performance value. My rig is overall pretty good in the $600-$800 range if someone were to buy it pre-built.
Got this card for 133 usd, upgraded from a gtx 660!
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.
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.
The best review ever about this card. Exactly what i think. I've got mine Asus Strix RX 5700 XT 3 years ago and damned....still rocks. It's a piece of perfection technology. I play all these games in almost full with no any issues. Smooth like silk 😎
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.
I recently upgraded my 580 to a used 5700xt pulse for $172 all I can say is WOW
I have the 5700 and OCd it on the 5700 XT Bios since. Still going strong!
Picked up 5700XT for my first Gaming PC build back in Jan 2020 and I still have no plans of upgrading the gpu its that good.
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 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.
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.
I paid 140 for an rx580 4 years ago, just paid 135 for a 5700, needless to say I'm pleased with it, bit loud but for a good price its a great card
Excellent review ! I've got mine in 2019, the RX5700XT Nitro+ paired with a 1440p@144Hz monitor, still runs anything like a charm.
I want to point out the decent TDP of that GPU, 225W. It's not that much, like you can run this GPU on a cheap 550W PSU with no problem, and if you are into second hand hardware because you have low budget, you won't need to spend extra money on bigger PSU and cooling. TDP is now a thing to consider when you look at newer GPU, the mid/high end now eat +300W which is insane, and not everyone can get a hand on +800W PSU + the extra case fans to cool all of that. So if like me you have a 650W PSU, just don't get any GPU over 250/275W.
Also like every hardware made by AMD, it get too much voltage by default, so you should undervolt it (you can also power limit in AMD driver but it's more messy), meaning you get 98% performance, for lower power consomption, lower heat, lower noise, and lower stress on your PSU !
Hi Mister-Tea :) What CPU do you recommend for 5700XT? Not planning to play on 1440p, just casual 1080p :)
@@RCoffee Resolution doesn't matter for your CPU choice. Depending of your budget anything 6 or 8 core (8c for AAA game and more future proof, 6c is still good enough for 90% of game), from R5 3600X to R7 5800X3D you'll be fine. AM5 is still pretty expensive, and for Intel any i5 from 12 or 13th gen (with Intel you'll have to get to Windows 11 btw).
Hi. I bought a 5700XT on the web and I'm waiting for it. My PSU delivers 500W, I use my monitor at 720p and I don't play more than half an hour straight, once every other day. DO you think my 500W PSU will be able to run it? Do you think my computer might end up damaged from using this card? I know it is power hungry (but it is what I can buy at the moment).
My 5700XT Strix gave me a wonderful few gaming years. ASUS allowed me to trade it in for a new fixed one due to issues. Drivers gotten better over the time.. software was just bad but made some solid improvements eventually. Upgraded to a 4080 now. Played it on my 4k ultrawide monitor where it really started to struggle more and more
Still can not get an average of 60 in Cyberpunk 2077, end barely keeps 60 in a few more games.
I got this gpu for $125. The Sapphire NITRO+ edition. I am floored with the value there, especially getting one of the more premium models!
Nitro+ for WHAT price?I've paid almost twice more,but tbh at my place nitro+ is very rare and overall prices is about 180-200$ even for a regular one
@@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.
Now I'm jealous!
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.
What do you use it for, workstation wise? I’ve got a 5700XT Red Devil that’s just sitting here doing nothing, and I’d love to put it to use.
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.
built my first PC with this boi just days before all the pricings went insane during the "19" cough cough and i never regretted a single thing.
Just got one aor £130 , nice little upgrade from the 1050ti I had previously
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.
Still using this gem in 2024 @1440p. RDR2 runs like a dream and no need to upgrade. New titles are on the horizon but so far no need to upgrade. Best buy ever, especially just before the gpu market went mad
I've been using the 5700XT since I bought it in 2019. It has been a solid card for me. It still runs everything at respectable levels, as shown in the video. It is beginning to show its age and I'm considering an upgrade this year.
This card was as fast as my previous 1080 Ti using waaaay less power and it handled my multiple monitor setup way better too #EyefinityFTW. I went to a 6700 XT after that and saw a decent bump at the same power, plus all the DX12 features. Then to a 6900 XT for native 4k gaming (also using max settings and no FSR to get 4k like I had to on the 6700 XT). Now, I'm rocking a 7900 XTX and it's an Absolute Monster in every since of the word. Thankfully, I didn't have to upgade anything else. Through all of these GPU upgrades I kept the same motherboard, case, power supply, etc. I did update my bios and drop a Ryzen 5000 series CPU in my AM4 system, but I didn't NEED to for 60fps gaming; even maxed out at 4k.
Anyway, the 5700 XT is definitely a sweet GPU for its time and just like other AMD GPUs (w/adequate VRAM...cough.. cough..nvidia GPU owners are Xxxx'd), it will age very well indeed.
Bought it for $300 back in 2019. Sold it for $840 to some miner in the 2021 craze.
I loved this card dearly, great performance for the money and left me with a great treat.
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)
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)
I absolutely loved my 5700XT, no driver issues either. The only reason I upgraded is I’m getting deeply into MSFS in VR which is VERY hungry!
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.