Just get the 5700 XT. It's not much more money. If you're willing to pay $40 over base price for a good card, $50 for a higher tier of card should not bother you. Between needing to upgrade sooner and the 5700 not having XT in the name (bad for resale value), what are you really saving? And the performance will be worse through the whole life of the card.
Yeah I remember that 'easily convenient detachable fan' RX 480 Graphics Card from Sapphire, I am really glad they also went that way again now with this specific 5700XT of them and it wasn't just a curious poke in the implementation, man now this Sapphire 5700XT is on my consideration aaahhh
dont bother waiting for that card, it will compete with Nvidia 2080. which at that point will be useless because Nivida will release the 3080 and crush everything that came before it. AMD never compete with Nvidia new card its always their old card, and then nvidia release new cards and AMD is not even in the picture. "that's why it's always.. wait for AMD this or wait for AMD that". etc
@@reapov2665 .......then what was the super series all about regardless Rx 5800xt if it comes out in early 2020 late 2019 will be good regardless if the price is right
@@dg-cg5gi Even ignoring the fanboy/shill/troll part, Reapov's just demonstrating his ignorance. Also funny how it's always guys by default that are so good at being like this.
@@Deliverygirl You mean the Toxic branding which hasn't been used since 2014? Also, the toxic cards hasn't always been the best ones, infact it wasn't until 5870 days, that the Toxic cards made sense. Up until then, they had just been over the top coolers.
@@MegaDominik1 got nitro 470 , pulse itx 570 and nitro+ se 580 ( all of them were ex-mining card , dead vrm& revived) .Yeah the nitro 400 series basically is the pulse model
Except High end Asus Strix cards cool better than their EVGA equivalents at lower noise levels (according to Gamers' Nexus' 1080Ti roundup) but Sapphire cards cool better at the same fan speed than Asus cards (according to F7GOS' review of the V64 Nitro vs Asus V64)
Sapphire used to have this great product line called TOXIC. Sapphire literally made the most powerful AIB cards in the entire WORLD with Toxic. The HD 7970 Toxic for example was faster than the original Titan with the same amount of memory for about 8 months before the Titan came out. Compared to EVGA's Kingpin, EVGA is only a drop in the bucket in comparison. AIB partner designs are dead. We used to have amazing coolers for low end cards, GREAT mid-tier low profile designs, and AMAZING forward thinking top of the line high end cards for AMD. AIBs used to right AMD's wrongs with their reference designs and not only that, but they made the cards themselves FAR, FAR, more advanced, more powerful than they should've been and only charged a small premium. AIB GPUs used to look professional and dignified, and have awesome performance compared to a reference card. Now they are less than average in quality.
edgyartproject did you happen to listen to the broken silicon podcast episode about great AIB cards? If you haven’t check it out on Moore’s law is dead’s TH-cam channel, it was really good
4:25 those fuses _do not_ protect the board, they are for diagnostic purposes. If anything ever goes awry to the point that one of those fuses blows then the card was already dead, but reduces overhead with RMA's. You can look at the fuses and immediately know to throw the card out, rather than trying to diagnose an issue and possibly refurbish it.
Awwww Yeah! I've been waiting for this one! I just came from watching Gamer's Nexus review!! Great reviews from both of you guys! You two are my favorite tech channels for reviews! So much unbiased data! I have the RX580 Nitro+ SE and if I were to upgrade GPU's anytime soon I think it would definitely be this card!!
Four years later, and I would be happy looking for this specific 5700xt, on EBay. That said, my only gripe, nit-pic- All three fans being the same-interchangeable would have been worth any performance gains due to the counter clockwise odd ball center fan. Making them replaceable and serviceable, makes up for that, ten fold.
I wanted to get the Nitro, but settled for a Red Devil when I saw one at the store, being how fast they have been selling out at my usual store. Happy to see they are about equal, but still would have preferred the Saphire.
I'm a proud owner of this amazing card. I play current gen games at 1440p/75hz on high / ultra settings without a hitch. Red Dead 2 is probably the only game in my library I make some concessions for, but that's mostly on high settings overall. Everything else is liquid smooth and rock solid. If you can find the Nitro+ for cheap, it would serve you well even now. Much recommend!
I have seen a couple of videos about this video card, but your video was THE BEST in comparison! I like your clear graphs. Good explanation and the very all around experience. You are telling every important aspect without overloading the information. Thank you for your work! Greets from Bavaria, Germany.
Just found one on Ebay for 148 USD shipped! Was a tossup between the 5700XT and the 1080 TI....is going into an 'older system...decided to go with the 5700XT, and was pleased that this model is OKAY! Great review and helpful a few years later!!!!
Just picked this up. A behemoth card and looks amazing. Probably one of the nicest cards I've ever seen. Small case owners be warned, shes a girthy girl.
@ in theory yes. But electrical engineers usually have reverse-polarity contingencies in place. A diode would be able to stop any backward current flow to the card. They couldve also just powered the fans from an external source, disconnected from the card
I totally recommend this card, in my 13L case , undervolted runs at 60-70 under load, 35 idle. on my x570 board it has issues with pcie 4.0, so Id recommend forcing 3.0
After doing some research over the last couple of weeks I decided to buy the Nitro + to upgrade my 4GB XFX RX580 and what an amazing GPU it is. Not only is the performance fantastic but the cooling on this GPU is outstanding. My XFX would run between 75-80 C in demanding games with the fans screaming while this card never goes above 65 C with the fan set to 70% max. To make things even better it is also a lot quieter than my dual fan XFX, even though it has an additional fan. The fan serviceability was also a feature that was important for me as I fix things for a living. It was a literal plug and play experience for me and I haven't experienced any of the driver issues that some people seem to be having. I'm very happy with this card and for 419 dollars it is totally worth it in my opinion. Thanks to reviews such as these I was able to make a purchasing decision that I'm happy with.
I'd like to see a switch to turn on or off RGB lighting... some people (like me) don't want lights coming out of their case, especially if you don't have a clear side panel.
Been on the fence with this one vs RTX 2060 super at the moment. Just built for the first time in a decade, but the possible driver issues are worrisome. It seem this may really affect older builds and I may not have the issues with a new fresh build.
you should reveiw a aib rx 5700 non xt, they stay very cool and consules very little power. i have a rx 5700 sapphire pulse and oc'ed it @ 2.00GHz and set the ram at 930MHz using the powerplay mod and gained about 10% more performance. so should be very close to a stock 5700xt. with this oc the gpu consums about 160-170w so i can still use the stock fan curve and the fan run at 1800rpm under a heaven benchmark loop making very quiet when gaming. for info, stock the gpu consume 130w and with an undervolt and a slight oc (1800MHz) it conumes just above 100w i really want to see how it compares others rx 5700xt
for just an extra of 50dls i think the xt is just a better purchase overall but im with you in some countries there is a diff of 100dls as mine for example for whatever reason that i dont understand, taxes and truying to get as much profit as possible.
@@nicane-9966 it was a 70$ diff for me, and even then why do people don't understand that sometimes you just don't want to spend more money, i wanted to spend 400€ on gpu and that's it, if you always say to yourself "yeah but with just a little more i can get this" you'll end up with a 1200$ 2080ti.
I use this card since few years - I have got the SE edition for 420$ (higher clocks and RGB fans...). I love this card, it performs brilliant. I do not need an upgrade yet.
I had a pair of sapphire nitro plus fury Sr+ variant, absolutely loved those cards. They drove at the time my brand-new 34-in 3440 X 1440 ultrawide monitor. Of course now I power that monitor with a single Vega 56 better than I did the 2 furies.
I did the pad/paste swap and added the wraith cooler I got with my cpu on the back of the xfx reference 5700xt and changed the fan curve a little and In running at 70c under heaviest load. Currently also experimenting with undervolting at 1100mv and running stable with less heat spike.
Red Devil Vs Sapphire Nitro+ : The Red Devil have Best 5700xt performance, cooling..etc Sapphire Nitro+ is 99% same as Red Devil, but have slightly better VRAM temps Overall.. the are the best 2 5700xt out there, personally I like Sapphire, but I would pick Red Devil if it's not available
the Nitro+ is the best card for cooling too, GN covered this very in depth. If you compare stock to stock the Nitro+ draws 10% more power and roughly matches the other high end cards in thermals, when reducing it to 200W it's far and away the better cooler.
I would like to note that this fan replacement style was first used by XFX. I had similar fan replacement available for my 3 - XFX RX 580 CrimsonBlack Editions.
Easily-replaceable fans is a very good feature that other manufacturers should adopt as well. I've never had a failed fan, but I see other people having such with their GPUs all the damn time, so I can definitely imagine a lot of people being extremely grateful for that feature.
Yeah I've actually never had one fail and I've got a crazy amount of graphs cards, though only a few of them are worked hard. Still I hear from plenty of people who suffer fan failure so it's certainly a thing.
Have the Sapphire rx580. It's been excellent. Paired with a Ryzen 9 3900x it's already pretty magic, I might snap this up or maybe wait for the next generation. Good stuff!
Tbh the Sapphire Nitro+ RX5700XT SE is one of the best mid high range cards I've ever ran in a system. And I had a lot of cards. GTX970Ti, R9 390X, GTX 1080, RX590 SN+ Edition. But the XT is designwise and also powerwise my alltime favorite tbh.
@HardwareUnboxed In our country a Chinese brand called Colourful has a rtx 2060 model which is 20% cheaper than all the other retail cards, it is even cheaper than the 1660ti. Should I risk it and buy it or settle for a 1660ti?
Great, thanks for the video. Sapphire did very well, as anytime with Nito+. Next the Asrock Taichi 5700 XT please :-) Keep up your good work, all the best from Germany, Peperich
Marcus Cook that’s what I’m waiting for... these are basically 1080ti for around same price or slightly more than a used one on eBay. I’m def interested in the 5900xt as it should be an upgrade without paying $1000
@@xfcarcache8771 i'm buying the red devil just to get off of nvidia, selling the 1080ti to replace the cost of this card and updating to big navi whenever it actually happens
Is there a reason why you test AMD cards with 9900? That card suport PCI 4.0. Is there any difference if you test it on an AMD mobo supporting PCIe 4.0?
fan replacments are a joke with sapphire i have a Sapphire RX Vega 64 Nitro+ and one of the fans makes a noise all the time they 100% wont replace it and told me to rma the card this when it was 3 months old, oh and i even asked to buy one as im not going through rma just for a fan they said they dont sell them
@XX78J I recall a thread on r/AMD or something about a 390 Nitro with leaky pads... basically it went like, card breaks because the fluid juicing from the pads is conductive or whatevs, Sapphire and Mindfactory join forces to gVngbVng an ordinary German boiii (or grill, dunno) with the said card outta warranty, the victim posts on Reddit, gets many responses but not a word from a rep, tries to work it out in their homeland Germany and reports back for a month with no positive updates, someone moans on Sapphire's Twatter to no avail, and in maybe half a year or a bit more the thread vanishes together with the user (u/deleted, post not found). I think it all started either in very late 2017 or sometime in 2018.
I can confirm Sapphire is probably the best GPU aftermarket manufacturer out there. I bought an R9 290 Sapphire Vapor X when they released it and my friend who had more money bought EVGA 980ti Classified edition. His blew up back in 2018, while I'm still gaming with my R9 290 with zero problems. I'm a sapphire customer for life.
This is the best new pc part I've seen in a while! My Tri X hd7970 was a pure monster and my friends r9 290 Toxics were beyond amazing. I saw the PULSE card and knew there had to be more. Now if they can get us a Toxic version when the 5800 and 5900 come around I'll be a happy man.
@@jotunheim5302 Thanks! indeed it is, ive just got the card, and it successfully passed the 3dMark stress test multiple times. Theres no signs on it being faulty based on the results, and ill be using this card for years to come.
That is a great idea for replacing fans. I wish my MSI 2080 Gaming X Trio had that, hopefully I will not need to replace them; the fans on my MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning lasted 4 years and still work fine, and I gamed for hours nearly every day with that card.
Thank you! Waiting for this GPU! I have a V64 Nitro+ so cool and i think i will sell my spare V56 to get some budget for this Amazing 5700XT Nitro+ Sapphire is the best AMD Partner
AMD lucky bastard to have SAPPHIRE as a dedicated partner. Just imagine they also make NVIDIA cards, perhaps people will throw money at them even before looking at price. Sexy AF I must say! P/S: Hmm, PCB still have 2 empty choke slot, perhaps rumor about TOXIC is real.
The msi Nvidia cards are fantastic. The AMD ones aren't that good for some reason. I've always had Asus,msi or zotac. I find them great cards. This card is probably the only xt version I would buy. Not a fan of powercolor or xfx. Overall Nvidia have the better partner cards imo.
@@shido8597 More option always is good thing. Speaking of EVGA, they got me with GTX 10 Series design, but RTX lineup is "Ehh!". Not sure what kind of stuff they smoking.
The Nitro+ series has been fantastic in the last while, great cooling performance and noise, actually useful features instead of gamer garbage and not too aggressive styling (although I'd prefer a simpler backplate). Bought an RX 570 Nitro+ a while back and have been very satisfied with it!
RepsUp100 they don't have to lol. The people that are going to buy RTX 2080 Tis are far and few. Most average people will be good enough with mid range cards, and AMD is tapping into this market well and killing Jewvidia with their RX5700 series cards.
High end GPU's only account for about 10% of the market. The other 90% are mid/low. Why would a struggling company with little resources for R&D put too much effort into making something that only 10% of the market will buy?
@@MarkLikesCoffee860 High-end GPUs do influence reputation and probably the sales of all of their other products. It's a bit of speculation on my part, but Ryzen 9 got a lot of people talking about it, and since AMD is mopping the floor with Intel, people might be swayed into taking AMD more seriously. That being, said, I highly doubt they'll try to compete immediately in high-end, just like they didn't do it with their CPUs.
Amd needs more production capasity to go for bigger gpu at this moment. They have shortage ot 5700 cars, shortage of Ryzen cpu... so big gpu just does not fit to that equation... yet, So big Navi hate to wait Until there is less demand in TSMCs production capasity...
Still got a Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC for over 5,5 years and its still going strong in 1080p gaming tbh. Might upgrade next year to a 5700 XT tho, hopefully the price will drop a little bit until then
How much Wattage does the I7 pull at full load.... should be at around 150-200W. The Sapphire Nitro RX5700XT SE runs up to 250W. RAM and all other parts should equal about 50W too. So to catch Power Spikings... get a 750W Modular Gold.
Conclusion: after 100,000 5700XT models tested, they are all the same performance wise. They just look different from one to another. What do you mean overclocking? Define overclocking.
After having to return two PowerColor RX5700 XT Dual Fan GPUs for extremely loud coil whine and faulty fans, I've decided to get one of these based on your reviews.
my current card has both fans missing because they broke and started stuttering and i had no way at all to replace them, when you said how the fans on this one were easily obtained and replaced i ejaculated
All I want to know is why there is always a shortage of these video cards. Is this a controlled shortage where they are purposefully producing a small amount to drive demand? I don't get it. I want one of these, but I'm not going to wait when there are so many comparable choices.
Could you please do a review on the soft power play table for 5700XT? I heard it can make 5700XT performs better than a overlocked 2070super, and head to head to a stock RTX2080. Really interested in that.
I ordered the XFX RX 5700 XT THICC II ULTRA. My selling point was no RGB. I personally hate the whole RGB wave on anything besides the backs of monitors and desktop peripherals.
I live in hot climate where the ambient during daytime easily exceed 30 celcius. Does the temp here directly increased from your ambient? e.g. if 21℃ ambient = 71℃ core, so then does 31℃ = 81℃??? This stuff really changes cards that I would choose to buy.
Damn that's sexy. Last gen sapphire cards were my favorite in terms of aesthetic. The sapphire pulse 5700xt was a disappointment so it's good to see this one's looking good
Question for Q&A: How much of the PCIe 3.0 bandwith is used by current gen GPUs roughly (e.g. RTX 2080 Ti in Metro Exodus on Ultra in 1440p)? Is the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 enough for GPU upgrades in the next 3-5 years? Or do you have to change your mainboard in a few years with a GPU upgrade because you need the bandwidth that PCIe 4.0 provides?
Edit: I misspoke @ 0:36, meant to say 92mm, not 82mm.
steve can you test Trixx Boost?
Steve, would the centre fan be 92mm and outer fans 95mm?
@@mudgie0205 no
I was just going to comment XD
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This card has an excellent seperate plate that cools the ram, watch and learn MSI.
But will it blend?
@ Yes
*Vram ..the V is very important.
MSI : OK
The OG TUF 5700XT: What is VRAM cooling?
That removable fans should be a norm. Easy to clean. I'm looking a 5700 version of that.
Unfortunately I bought sapphire pulse I didn't find the nitro version in rx 5700
Just get the 5700 XT. It's not much more money. If you're willing to pay $40 over base price for a good card, $50 for a higher tier of card should not bother you. Between needing to upgrade sooner and the 5700 not having XT in the name (bad for resale value), what are you really saving? And the performance will be worse through the whole life of the card.
I remember my XFX RX 480 having easily removable fans.
Yeah I remember that 'easily convenient detachable fan' RX 480 Graphics Card from Sapphire, I am really glad they also went that way again now with this specific 5700XT of them and it wasn't just a curious poke in the implementation, man now this Sapphire 5700XT is on my consideration aaahhh
@@OfSheikah sadly they discontinued that such a cool feature
It just so happens Steve I’m not tired of 5700xt reviews.I would love to see some of these cards tested with the power table mod tho.
let's do it
what's the powertable mod
Sapphire are killing it. Some damn good coolers
The fan-design alone make me want this. I kinda want to wait for the 5800 XT though.
dont bother waiting for that card, it will compete with Nvidia 2080. which at that point will be useless because Nivida will release the 3080 and crush everything that came before it. AMD never compete with Nvidia new card its always their old card, and then nvidia release new cards and AMD is not even in the picture. "that's why it's always.. wait for AMD this or wait for AMD that". etc
@@reapov2665 Why would anyone want to support Nvidia and their super inflated prices?
@@reapov2665 .......then what was the super series all about regardless Rx 5800xt if it comes out in early 2020 late 2019 will be good regardless if the price is right
@@venomcuregaming6734 don't bother with him lmao. Just from that comment we know hes a Nvidia fanboi
@@dg-cg5gi Even ignoring the fanboy/shill/troll part, Reapov's just demonstrating his ignorance.
Also funny how it's always guys by default that are so good at being like this.
Its finally here. The nitro+ version. Its the best aib in the vega 64 generation. Hope its also the best in the 5700xt.
Aside from Sapphire's Toxic cards, the Nitro+ cards have always been the best AMD partner cards to be had every generation.
@@Deliverygirl not on rx 400 Generation
@@Deliverygirl You mean the Toxic branding which hasn't been used since 2014?
Also, the toxic cards hasn't always been the best ones, infact it wasn't until 5870 days, that the Toxic cards made sense.
Up until then, they had just been over the top coolers.
@@MegaDominik1 got nitro 470 , pulse itx 570 and nitro+ se 580 ( all of them were ex-mining card , dead vrm& revived) .Yeah the nitro 400 series basically is the pulse model
@@eldegal3441 nope. not rly. even the 500 pulse series has a way larger heatsink than the 400 series
Sapphire is literally EVGA for Amd .
Except High end Asus Strix cards cool better than their EVGA equivalents at lower noise levels (according to Gamers' Nexus' 1080Ti roundup) but Sapphire cards cool better at the same fan speed than Asus cards (according to F7GOS' review of the V64 Nitro vs Asus V64)
Without the silly market segmentation and prices.
Sapphire used to have this great product line called TOXIC.
Sapphire literally made the most powerful AIB cards in the entire WORLD with Toxic. The HD 7970 Toxic for example was faster than the original Titan with the same amount of memory for about 8 months before the Titan came out.
Compared to EVGA's Kingpin, EVGA is only a drop in the bucket in comparison. AIB partner designs are dead. We used to have amazing coolers for low end cards, GREAT mid-tier low profile designs, and AMAZING forward thinking top of the line high end cards for AMD. AIBs used to right AMD's wrongs with their reference designs and not only that, but they made the cards themselves FAR, FAR, more advanced, more powerful than they should've been and only charged a small premium.
AIB GPUs used to look professional and dignified, and have awesome performance compared to a reference card. Now they are less than average in quality.
@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname toxic is coming back
edgyartproject did you happen to listen to the broken silicon podcast episode about great AIB cards? If you haven’t check it out on Moore’s law is dead’s TH-cam channel, it was really good
Now THAT'S a partner card! Beautiful.
4:25 those fuses _do not_ protect the board, they are for diagnostic purposes. If anything ever goes awry to the point that one of those fuses blows then the card was already dead, but reduces overhead with RMA's. You can look at the fuses and immediately know to throw the card out, rather than trying to diagnose an issue and possibly refurbish it.
Awwww Yeah! I've been waiting for this one!
I just came from watching Gamer's Nexus review!!
Great reviews from both of you guys! You two are my favorite tech channels for reviews!
So much unbiased data!
I have the RX580 Nitro+ SE and if I were to upgrade GPU's anytime soon I think it would definitely be this card!!
Same! Except I have the sapphire pulse 580 lol
This is how these manufacturers should be making cards. Way to go sapphire!
Four years later, and I would be happy looking for this specific 5700xt, on EBay. That said, my only gripe, nit-pic-
All three fans being the same-interchangeable would have been worth any performance gains due to the counter clockwise odd ball center fan. Making them replaceable and serviceable, makes up for that, ten fold.
So Sapphire took the original Nitro+ design and spiced it up...a lot. /drool
Please don't ever change the outro. I love it.
Actually bought the Pulse, and I'm incredibly happy with it.
Me too haven't got it yet though
Got the Pulse too, great upgrade from my 670 GTX.
@@ivanlagrossemoule That was an awesome performance uplift.
@@ivanlagrossemoule ayy i'm upgrading from GTX 670 as well, but the nitro+ instead of pulse for me!
This.... is the definitive XT AIB, Sapphire are always the dogs bollox 👍 Esp the Nitro series
I was hoping the Cooler would be more Outragess like the Toxic & Vapor X Cards in the R9 Series, they did the R9 Fan Design
I wanted to get the Nitro, but settled for a Red Devil when I saw one at the store, being how fast they have been selling out at my usual store. Happy to see they are about equal, but still would have preferred the Saphire.
Been waiting for this GPU to make an appearance, this is my next upgrade to replace my Sapphire RX580 Nitro +
@@JonBowe I'll replace my RX590 nitro with this soon. 590 just isn't powerful enough for smooth 1080/60 in many games.
@@blownfuse26 you regret getting the reddevil? If you now can find a nitro would you change it?
I'm a proud owner of this amazing card. I play current gen games at 1440p/75hz on high / ultra settings without a hitch.
Red Dead 2 is probably the only game in my library I make some concessions for, but that's mostly on high settings overall. Everything else is liquid smooth and rock solid.
If you can find the Nitro+ for cheap, it would serve you well even now. Much recommend!
Do you think this gpu still holds up in 2023?
0:46 Some Aussie magic right there.
roflmao... making one fan flush- I mean spin backward? lol
@@TheXev Look closer. Namely at how the card is powered.
Wtf
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Its not powered. An external fan is used to blow air at the gpu which is making the fan to spin
Getting this one as soon as it hits our market. Great looking and performing card
I wish you luck - i gave up and got reference it was so difficult to get an AIB. But watercooling is in its future so its all good lol
71C load temp on 21C ambient temp....
Mmmm... No go for my climate...
David CWS you have to remember that was with the fans at 1400 rpm. Not even CLOSE to the max fan rpm
Manjushri Managed to snatch one during the early release
Ordered one, hopefully the "in stock" was real 😬
I have seen a couple of videos about this video card, but your video was THE BEST in comparison!
I like your clear graphs. Good explanation and the very all around experience. You are telling every important aspect without overloading the information.
Thank you for your work!
Greets from Bavaria, Germany.
I got a Nitro+ 390. It is extremely solid for the last 3 years.
Just found one on Ebay for 148 USD shipped! Was a tossup between the 5700XT and the 1080 TI....is going into an 'older system...decided to go with the 5700XT, and was pleased that this model is OKAY! Great review and helpful a few years later!!!!
Just picked this up. A behemoth card and looks amazing. Probably one of the nicest cards I've ever seen. Small case owners be warned, shes a girthy girl.
I found my RedDevil yesterday and getting it in 2 weeks
0:45 excuse me sir, what in the blazes is this witchcraft?
Off camera leaf blower? Hair dryer?
@@nathanddrews Yeah I was thinking datavac...
@@nathanddrews But how doesn't the leaf blower drop the card? It doesn't seem to be glued on the table or something.
Won't it generate current in the card though?
@ in theory yes. But electrical engineers usually have reverse-polarity contingencies in place. A diode would be able to stop any backward current flow to the card. They couldve also just powered the fans from an external source, disconnected from the card
I totally recommend this card, in my 13L case , undervolted runs at 60-70 under load, 35 idle.
on my x570 board it has issues with pcie 4.0, so Id recommend forcing 3.0
I'm just inlove with Sapphire's approach on aesthetics. Simple and bold, yet elegant. Y E S.
I'm getting one this weekend at Microcenter. Upgrading from an RX580 so I'm pretty stoked.
You're gonna love it.. its a very good card (I've using one for 9 months)
i upgraded last week from a RX590 and i got double the performance !! Plus it has the best 5700xt cooler
Love the attention that the 5700xt is getting from tech channels. Even the 2070 Super or 2080 is not getting this treatment
I bought this card in Novmber 2020 due to the gpu shortages. This thing is a POWERHOUSE. Am loving the Nitro+ model.
I ordered the OC special version of the Saphirre RX 5700XT 🙂👍
I believe those 3 point star cutouts on the backplate are a reference to the structures formed using Nitrogen in organic chemistry.
I was hoping it would be a dual slot card. However, it still looks very good
Pulse is nearly dual
The ASRock Challenger, Powercolor Red Dragon and Dual Fan are all dual slot.
@@stargazer162 The thicc boi would like to differ
it is, isn't?
It's not? Triple slot? Whaaaaaaat
After doing some research over the last couple of weeks I decided to buy the Nitro + to upgrade my 4GB XFX RX580 and what an amazing GPU it is. Not only is the performance fantastic but the cooling on this GPU is outstanding. My XFX would run between 75-80 C in demanding games with the fans screaming while this card never goes above 65 C with the fan set to 70% max. To make things even better it is also a lot quieter than my dual fan XFX, even though it has an additional fan. The fan serviceability was also a feature that was important for me as I fix things for a living.
It was a literal plug and play experience for me and I haven't experienced any of the driver issues that some people seem to be having. I'm very happy with this card and for 419 dollars it is totally worth it in my opinion. Thanks to reviews such as these I was able to make a purchasing decision that I'm happy with.
That card would match perfectly to my Prime X370 Pro from Asus. I don't know why, but I really like this kind of black/silver/white color scheme.
Absolutely. I have the X470 Prime and I think this will complement the setup perfectly.
Udo der Unförmige Also msi prime 570 creation has very similar color scheme!
The whole Prime series is looking really awesome. But for some reason, the X370 is my favorite. I can't really tell why, I just like it.
@Melae Yes, with the latest BIOS it should support the 3000 CPUs just fine.
7:53 I'm glad temperature is now measured in decibels
lol
One does not simply get bored of board partner card reviews, especially from HUB :)
The fan design looks great for cleaning as well.
Sapphire offer ARGB Fan accessory too,,
if you guys want more Blink
I think, ARGB fan probably will become next gpu trend
I'd like to see a switch to turn on or off RGB lighting... some people (like me) don't want lights coming out of their case, especially if you don't have a clear side panel.
Asus has a model with one smaller argb fan in the middle, while the others are normal. Its out now, you can buy it on newegg
@@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE you can switch it off or dimm in sapphire trixx
Here with my Nitro+ 7900 GRE, impressed at how much de Nitro+ lineup has changed. Although it was always pretty good 👍
OH YES NITRO! They finally sent you guys one!
Been on the fence with this one vs RTX 2060 super at the moment.
Just built for the first time in a decade, but the possible driver issues are worrisome. It seem this may really affect older builds and I may not have the issues with a new fresh build.
you should reveiw a aib rx 5700 non xt, they stay very cool and consules very little power. i have a rx 5700 sapphire pulse and oc'ed it @ 2.00GHz and set the ram at 930MHz using the powerplay mod and gained about 10% more performance.
so should be very close to a stock 5700xt. with this oc the gpu consums about 160-170w so i can still use the stock fan curve and the fan run at 1800rpm under a heaven benchmark loop making very quiet when gaming.
for info, stock the gpu consume 130w and with an undervolt and a slight oc (1800MHz) it conumes just above 100w
i really want to see how it compares others rx 5700xt
pretty good but isn't the powerplay mod too strenuous for the card in the long run ?
@@A.Froster the voltage is at 1.069 V stock it's at 0.993V and the max voltage allowed by amd stock is 1.2V so no degredaation should occur.
for just an extra of 50dls i think the xt is just a better purchase overall but im with you in some countries there is a diff of 100dls as mine for example for whatever reason that i dont understand, taxes and truying to get as much profit as possible.
@@nicane-9966 it was a 70$ diff for me, and even then why do people don't understand that sometimes you just don't want to spend more money, i wanted to spend 400€ on gpu and that's it, if you always say to yourself "yeah but with just a little more i can get this" you'll end up with a 1200$ 2080ti.
@@flxdrv5020 man there is a huge diff between 50dls and more than double the price.
I use this card since few years - I have got the SE edition for 420$ (higher clocks and RGB fans...).
I love this card, it performs brilliant. I do not need an upgrade yet.
I still have RX480 Nitro+...and will upgrade up to 5700XT... and I will stay by Nitro+. 👍
Same here
Same
haha same, mine's on the way. will arrive as early as friday. since i live in california might get it as soon as wednesday.
Same
I had a pair of sapphire nitro plus fury Sr+ variant, absolutely loved those cards. They drove at the time my brand-new 34-in 3440 X 1440 ultrawide monitor. Of course now I power that monitor with a single Vega 56 better than I did the 2 furies.
You did not review the trixx boost which is nitro +’s best feature
What is trixx nitro boost?
I did the pad/paste swap and added the wraith cooler I got with my cpu on the back of the xfx reference 5700xt and changed the fan curve a little and In running at 70c under heaviest load. Currently also experimenting with undervolting at 1100mv and running stable with less heat spike.
Red Devil Vs Sapphire Nitro+ :
The Red Devil have Best 5700xt performance, cooling..etc
Sapphire Nitro+ is 99% same as Red Devil, but have slightly better VRAM temps
Overall.. the are the best 2 5700xt out there, personally I like Sapphire, but I would pick Red Devil if it's not available
the Nitro+ is the best card for cooling too, GN covered this very in depth. If you compare stock to stock the Nitro+ draws 10% more power and roughly matches the other high end cards in thermals, when reducing it to 200W it's far and away the better cooler.
Nitro+ on base clock is a little bit quieter than the red devil tho, which on the other hand has a little bit more performance
I would like to note that this fan replacement style was first used by XFX. I had similar fan replacement available for my 3 - XFX RX 580 CrimsonBlack Editions.
Such a beauty. So this is AMD's EVGA.
2 years later and you still cant find them.
Please review the Acer Nitro VG240Y IPS 144Hz Monitor
Nice review! :) Bought it almost one year ago, still happy with it!
Very sexy card. But something tells me Sapphire made this design not for the RX5700 XT but for the future RX5800 XT card.
Easily-replaceable fans is a very good feature that other manufacturers should adopt as well. I've never had a failed fan, but I see other people having such with their GPUs all the damn time, so I can definitely imagine a lot of people being extremely grateful for that feature.
Yeah I've actually never had one fail and I've got a crazy amount of graphs cards, though only a few of them are worked hard. Still I hear from plenty of people who suffer fan failure so it's certainly a thing.
Im still happy with my pre order of the red devil! Dont make me regret it! 😂
Have the Sapphire rx580. It's been excellent. Paired with a Ryzen 9 3900x it's already pretty magic, I might snap this up or maybe wait for the next generation. Good stuff!
Tbh the Sapphire Nitro+ RX5700XT SE is one of the best mid high range cards I've ever ran in a system. And I had a lot of cards. GTX970Ti, R9 390X, GTX 1080, RX590 SN+ Edition.
But the XT is designwise and also powerwise my alltime favorite tbh.
@HardwareUnboxed In our country a Chinese brand called Colourful has a rtx 2060 model which is 20% cheaper than all the other retail cards, it is even cheaper than the 1660ti. Should I risk it and buy it or settle for a 1660ti?
Buy only if u can get money back, maybe paying with Paypal
Colorful do you mean? The iGame series are VERY good. The non-iGame, I don't know.
@@BinggomanLive yeah the igame variant. How is it?
@@nanonasone3113 I dont think thats possible
@@nerflongshot7750 ok
bought a rx vega 64 nitro+ a month ago, wasn't disappointed . really love that card
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Great, thanks for the video. Sapphire did very well, as anytime with Nito+. Next the Asrock Taichi 5700 XT please :-)
Keep up your good work, all the best from Germany, Peperich
Now I can't wait to see the 5900XT version. Hopefully big navi will be a worthy upgrade to my 1080Ti without paying double the price.
Marcus Cook that’s what I’m waiting for... these are basically 1080ti for around same price or slightly more than a used one on eBay. I’m def interested in the 5900xt as it should be an upgrade without paying $1000
@@xfcarcache8771 i'm buying the red devil just to get off of nvidia, selling the 1080ti to replace the cost of this card and updating to big navi whenever it actually happens
Is there a reason why you test AMD cards with 9900? That card suport PCI 4.0. Is there any difference if you test it on an AMD mobo supporting PCIe 4.0?
fan replacments are a joke with sapphire i have a Sapphire RX Vega 64 Nitro+ and one of the fans makes a noise all the time they 100% wont replace it and told me to rma the card this when it was 3 months old, oh and i even asked to buy one as im not going through rma just for a fan they said they dont sell them
mine is only 9 months old and i tried getting a new fan out of them after 2-3 months
@XX78J I recall a thread on r/AMD or something about a 390 Nitro with leaky pads... basically it went like, card breaks because the fluid juicing from the pads is conductive or whatevs, Sapphire and Mindfactory join forces to gVngbVng an ordinary German boiii (or grill, dunno) with the said card outta warranty, the victim posts on Reddit, gets many responses but not a word from a rep, tries to work it out in their homeland Germany and reports back for a month with no positive updates, someone moans on Sapphire's Twatter to no avail, and in maybe half a year or a bit more the thread vanishes together with the user (u/deleted, post not found). I think it all started either in very late 2017 or sometime in 2018.
I can confirm Sapphire is probably the best GPU aftermarket manufacturer out there. I bought an R9 290 Sapphire Vapor X when they released it and my friend who had more money bought EVGA 980ti Classified edition. His blew up back in 2018, while I'm still gaming with my R9 290 with zero problems. I'm a sapphire customer for life.
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"Contact Sapphire through fan service."
Correct.
I really like Sapphire hardware. Still rocking my Sapphire Pulse Vega 56 with awesome 1080p performance in late 2019.
I want one! :) I have a lot of RX 480/570/580, aswell as a Radeon VII Sapphire's and I love them all.
Why? Xd. You can like open a amd gpu shop:P
@@psychicwarlock5745 Good question haha. No I'm mining crypto currencies with them. And also plays games. But in my gaming rig I have a RTX 2080 Ti.
This is the best new pc part I've seen in a while! My Tri X hd7970 was a pure monster and my friends r9 290 Toxics were beyond amazing. I saw the PULSE card and knew there had to be more. Now if they can get us a Toxic version when the 5800 and 5900 come around I'll be a happy man.
Man, the card looks GOOD! but i already bought the XFX 5700 xt Thicc II
THICC II looks good too
ahhh me toooo!
THICC is a great card too. Congrats.
@@jotunheim5302 Thanks! indeed it is, ive just got the card, and it successfully passed the 3dMark stress test multiple times.
Theres no signs on it being faulty based on the results, and ill be using this card for years to come.
I am buying Sapphire cards since the HD4850...they were always quiet, never broke, never had coil-whining...time to replace my R9 290 :).
No 3950X review today? It's the 16th - perfect for the 16 core model.
I hear it's due to appear on the 30th.
That is a great idea for replacing fans. I wish my MSI 2080 Gaming X Trio had that, hopefully I will not need to replace them; the fans on my MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning lasted 4 years and still work fine, and I gamed for hours nearly every day with that card.
Thank you!
Waiting for this GPU! I have a V64 Nitro+ so cool and i think i will sell my spare V56 to get some budget for this Amazing 5700XT Nitro+
Sapphire is the best AMD Partner
I have this GPU for about half a year and it is amazing :)
AMD lucky bastard to have SAPPHIRE as a dedicated partner. Just imagine they also make NVIDIA cards, perhaps people will throw money at them even before looking at price. Sexy AF I must say!
P/S: Hmm, PCB still have 2 empty choke slot, perhaps rumor about TOXIC is real.
nvidia already have evga
@@shido8597 and Zotac
The msi Nvidia cards are fantastic.
The AMD ones aren't that good for some reason.
I've always had Asus,msi or zotac. I find them great cards.
This card is probably the only xt version I would buy. Not a fan of powercolor or xfx.
Overall Nvidia have the better partner cards imo.
I never had any problems with Sapphire, still playing with a HD 6800
@@shido8597 More option always is good thing. Speaking of EVGA, they got me with GTX 10 Series design, but RTX lineup is "Ehh!". Not sure what kind of stuff they smoking.
The Nitro+ series has been fantastic in the last while, great cooling performance and noise, actually useful features instead of gamer garbage and not too aggressive styling (although I'd prefer a simpler backplate). Bought an RX 570 Nitro+ a while back and have been very satisfied with it!
AMD really needs to release a high end GPU
The tam is on the mid and mid to high/low area aka 5700 5600 5800 range
RepsUp100 they don't have to lol. The people that are going to buy RTX 2080 Tis are far and few. Most average people will be good enough with mid range cards, and AMD is tapping into this market well and killing Jewvidia with their RX5700 series cards.
High end GPU's only account for about 10% of the market. The other 90% are mid/low. Why would a struggling company with little resources for R&D put too much effort into making something that only 10% of the market will buy?
@@MarkLikesCoffee860 High-end GPUs do influence reputation and probably the sales of all of their other products. It's a bit of speculation on my part, but Ryzen 9 got a lot of people talking about it, and since AMD is mopping the floor with Intel, people might be swayed into taking AMD more seriously.
That being, said, I highly doubt they'll try to compete immediately in high-end, just like they didn't do it with their CPUs.
Amd needs more production capasity to go for bigger gpu at this moment. They have shortage ot 5700 cars, shortage of Ryzen cpu... so big gpu just does not fit to that equation... yet,
So big Navi hate to wait Until there is less demand in TSMCs production capasity...
I had already ordered the TUF3 5700 XT but I quickly canceled when I stumbled upon your videos, ordered this one instead.
So this card is longer, yet lighter than the red devil, but just as quiet?
*looks up card
Still got a Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC for over 5,5 years and its still going strong in 1080p gaming tbh. Might upgrade next year to a 5700 XT tho, hopefully the price will drop a little bit until then
I want this gpu, but my wallet doesn't.
Mine arrives Monday, oohhhh so exciting!!!
I was going to say I wish my 2080 Ti had replaceable fans, then I remembered I run a waterblock...
Are you trying to impress people?
can a seasonic 620w bronze keep this card up paired with an i7 7700 without black screening? anyone please?
How much Wattage does the I7 pull at full load.... should be at around 150-200W.
The Sapphire Nitro RX5700XT SE runs up to 250W.
RAM and all other parts should equal about 50W too.
So to catch Power Spikings... get a 750W Modular Gold.
Conclusion: after 100,000 5700XT models tested, they are all the same performance wise.
They just look different from one to another.
What do you mean overclocking?
Define overclocking.
Great review, as always! Thanks for covering all these models
After having to return two PowerColor RX5700 XT Dual Fan GPUs for extremely loud coil whine and faulty fans, I've decided to get one of these based on your reviews.
Thanks for the review, I was also hoping for a comparison with the Pulse model.
my current card has both fans missing because they broke and started stuttering and i had no way at all to replace them, when you said how the fans on this one were easily obtained and replaced i ejaculated
What I love about this card is that it doesn't need energy for its fans to work. It just works. ;-)
Whaaat? 0:45
They are wind powered fans ;)
@@Hardwareunboxed Sure they are Steve. We believe you, right guys ? ;-)
All I want to know is why there is always a shortage of these video cards. Is this a controlled shortage where they are purposefully producing a small amount to drive demand? I don't get it. I want one of these, but I'm not going to wait when there are so many comparable choices.
Could you please do a review on the soft power play table for 5700XT? I heard it can make 5700XT performs better than a overlocked 2070super, and head to head to a stock RTX2080. Really interested in that.
I ordered the XFX RX 5700 XT THICC II ULTRA. My selling point was no RGB. I personally hate the whole RGB wave on anything besides the backs of monitors and desktop peripherals.
I live in hot climate where the ambient during daytime easily exceed 30 celcius. Does the temp here directly increased from your ambient? e.g. if 21℃ ambient = 71℃ core, so then does 31℃ = 81℃??? This stuff really changes cards that I would choose to buy.
Can't wait to see Sapphire RX 6900 XT Nitro+
At the moment Red Devil is in stock at PCCG. I won't call that hard to find.
Damn that's sexy. Last gen sapphire cards were my favorite in terms of aesthetic. The sapphire pulse 5700xt was a disappointment so it's good to see this one's looking good
Question for Q&A: How much of the PCIe 3.0 bandwith is used by current gen GPUs roughly (e.g. RTX 2080 Ti in Metro Exodus on Ultra in 1440p)? Is the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 enough for GPU upgrades in the next 3-5 years? Or do you have to change your mainboard in a few years with a GPU upgrade because you need the bandwidth that PCIe 4.0 provides?