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welcome to part two of today's review doubleheader this time focusing on the graphics cards Navi has finally arrived with AMD launching two mid-range cards with GPUs based on seven nanometer process technology the Radeon rx 5700 and the 5700 X T oh and if you're looking for Rison 3000 series CPU coverage I posted that video already earlier today so link is in the description this past week has been dramatic because Nvidia tried to undercut AMD's Navi launch by dropping their archi X 20 series super cards only five days ago Wow is that really just five days ago it seems like a lifetime but AMD had one last trick up their sleeve and it was a last-minute price drop if this tweet from Radeon technologies group boss Scott Kirkland is to be believed this has been their plan all along but what we now have are reduced launch prices with the rx 5700 now going for three hundred and fifty dollars instead of the originally planned to 380 bucks and the 5700 XT going for four hundred dollars instead of four hundred and fifty to sum up these new 7 nanometre graphics cards though they are based on AMD's new rDNA architecture which introduces major changes to the underlying GPU design compared to the previous GCN architecture and they've switched from HBM memory to G DDR 6 while also improving memory bandwidth to 448 gigabytes per second the result is faster more power efficient cards that run much higher frequencies and former Radeon offerings they are also the first PCI Express 4.0 GPS although honestly the increased bus bandwidth won't necessarily help performance in a significant way the two models launching today are referenced designs from AMD and they do look pretty cool although the XT kind of seems to be sucking in its gut a little bit there all the time both require six pin and eight pin power connectors and the Radeon rx 5700 is rated at 185 watts of total board power while the Radeon rx 5700 XT is rated at 225 watts these are blower style coolers which have their use as they eject most of the hot air from the card out the back of your case but we expect to see a third-party designs very soon that should provide better cooling and potentially higher sustains clock speeds speaking of clock speeds let's start our test results with some speed power draw and thermal numbers the 5,700 has a base clock of 14 65 and a game clock of 1625 the AMD's new terminology for what they think the card will run at under load at minimum and they say it could probably go up from there ambi also lists a peak clock but rather than show that I've just replaced it with what I saw as my sustained clock speed numbers and the rx 5700 ran at about 16 50 megahertz once thermals leveled out 5700 XT has a base of 1605 and a boost of 1755 and it pushed up past 1900 megahertz initially before settling down to just over 1800 sustained the powered round numbers are good news for na'vi as well with both peak and average power draw results for the 50 750 700 xt matching or beating the nvidia competition this is a great improvement on previous offerings from the Radeon team only the Archie X 2060 draws less power overall but it also underperformed in the benchmarks as you will see in just a moment finally for temperatures the RT X cards ran cooler across the board in the low 70s versus the 76 and 84 degrees C temperatures that d50 750 700 XT got up too but bear in mind here that for these cards we're looking at dual fan open cooler designs that NVIDIA has made in their founders Edition whereas AMD is still using blower coolers and we'll probably see improved versions of them when third-party partners make custom variants and now let's get into some real benchmarks but first a quick look at my testbed which is based on the as Roxy 390 Taichi ultimate motherboard and an Intel Core i $9.99 hundred k cpu running at 4.8 gigahertz across all cores it is cooled by the new Noctua Nhu 12 8-hour cooler the memory is a kid of g co royal RGB at 30 600 megahertz casa latency 16 and we're running Windows 10 version 1903 which is installed on a 512 K exam son 970 pro m2 nvme SSD the system is powered by an EVGA supernova g3 750 watt power supply and we are using an open testbed not a case also that I mentioned that I benchmarked to 10 GPUs for this video 5 from Nvidia and 5 from AMD including the Vega 56 and 64 and the Radeon seven C's previous gen Radeon GPUs are on the more expensive side and they are being phased out but they do provide a good point of comparison to show how far AMD has come with these new cards that said let's get into the benchmarks we're starting off here with 3d mark there firestrike ultra test which runs at 4k Ultra 3840 by 2160 it's a DirectX 11 test and I have sorted all these benchmarks this is a test where the Radeon seven per forms really really well but bear in mind that will not continue to be the case through the rest of the test the 5700 xt is just beating out the RT x 2070 super here and the RX 5700 is significantly better than vega 56 from last generation and it's coming in just shy of the RT x 2060 super here you can also see why nvidia decided that they needed to update the RT x 2060 to compete with these new navi cards moving on to 3d mark x by extreme the DirectX 12 ultra 4k test here the Radeon 7 has dropped down to a more reasonable score we can see the 5700 XT coming in just shy of the RT X 2060 Super once again and the 5700 which is beating at the Vegas 64 and the Archie X 2060 next is 3d mark VR mark Blue Room which is a virtual reality test for those of you who are into VR just to give you an idea of performance here the RT X cards actually performed very well here taking the top four spots followed up by the Radeon 7 and then the 5700 XT coming in just behind them not necessarily the best showing here for the Radeon cards as they are taking up five of the bottom six spots next we have ashes of the singularity ashes of the benchmark as it is often known running at 4k 3840 by 2160 and i'm running all these tests at 4k then 1440 and then 1080 here at 4k though we can see the arc TX 2080 coming out on top 2070 super following it up and then the 5700 xt not quite matching the RT x 2070 but it does beat out the Radeon seven in this test meanwhile the rx 5700 is beating the Vegas 64 but not quite matching the RT X 2060 super moving over to 1440 and this is the resolution that AMD is aiming the 50 750 700 XT at and the 5700 XT is performing better here just barely edging out the RT X 2070 and coming in in spot number 3 RT X 2070 super is beating it but bear in mind that card costs a hundred more dollars meanwhile the rx 5700 is coming in just shy of the 2060 super and again beating the Vegas 64 finally here at 1080 we have a similar breakdown with D 5700 XT coming in third just behind the 2070 super the x57 just behind the 2060 super and again just barely beating out the vegas 64 next we have shadow of the Tomb Raider running at 4k 3840 by 2160 and the 5700 XT is not quite able to meet the 2070 super in this one but it does beat the 2070 once again so there's yet further evidence of why Nvidia decided to follow up the RT X 2070 with the 2070 super meanwhile the 5700 performing very well here beating not just the Vegas 64 but also the 2060 super that trend continues at 2560 by 1440 5700 got eighty eight point two frames per second compared to the 2060 supers eighty six point seven meanwhile the 5700 XT once again beats the 2070 once again comes in just shy of the 2070 super but only by a few frames per second only here shadow of the Tomb Raider in 1920 by 1080 the top four cards are all pretty neck-and-neck here although we are seeing better 1% low numbers for the Radeon cards versus the RT X cards the XD handily beats to 2070 and the 5,700 is once again coming in ahead of the 20 60 super-bright of 5 at 4k 3840 by 2160 still a very popular game although it is a little bit on the older side its DirectX 11 and AMD cards typically don't do the best in GTA 5 the 5700 XT here is coming in just below the 2060 super followed up by the 5700 both of them are still beating out the RT X 2060 but you do get better performance from both the RT X 2070 and the RT X 2070 super at this resolution at 1440 supposedly the sweet spot for the 5700 cards we're not quite meeting the 2060 super yet again although it is coming in ahead of the Archie X 2060 and you can see some pretty nice gains from last generation if you compare the Vega 56 and Vega 64 numbers finally we have GTA 5 at 1920 by 1080 the 5700 XT jumps up in the charts here to fourth place beating out to 2070 the RX 5700 is still coming in shy of the 2060 super but beating the 2060 next up we have battlefield 5 @ 4k 3840 by 2160 and here the 5700 XT and the 5700 and the Radeon 7 for that matter are actually showing poorer 1% low performance compared to the RT X variants so that might be something to keep in mind 5700 he does beat out the 2070 super here and the 5700 is beating not just the 60 super but also the r-tx 2070 unless you look at 1% Lowe's moving over to 2560 by 1440 again the 1% lows are not looking that great for the radians cards here but the 5700 XT is actually beating the 2080 when it comes to maximum performance so here is probably a good example of the sweetspot 1440 resolution and the 5,700 cards doing well the standard 5,700 is also beating the r-tx 2070 and the Vegas 64 here finally here's battlefield 5 at 1080 and then once again we had the 5700 stepping up and beating not just the r-tx 2070 but also the r-tx 2070 super not bad for a $350 card compared to a $500 card here's overwatch at 4k 3840 by 2160 this is a game that I actually kind of know how to play oh that's that's somewhat besides the point when it comes to benchmark numbers here the 5700 XT is beating the Radeon 7 on the RT X 2070 although coming in shy of the 2070 super raid on 5700 years once again outperforming the RT X 2060 super if we move over to 1440 we have the RT X 2080 on top followed by the RT X 2070 super and then the rx 5700 XT meanwhile the rx 5700 is down there in sixth place just above the RT X 2060 super once again here's overwatch at 1080 the 5700 XT is coming in third here beating the 2070 but not the 2070 super and the RX 5700 is just shy of the 2060 super in this one and handily beats the RT X 2060 my last test is Metro Exodus DirectX 12 running 4k 3840 by 2160 here the RT x 2080 is definitely the fastest in this lineup followed by the Radeon 7 and the Vegas 64 Vega 64 actually performing quite well here followed by the 2070 super and then the 5700 XT meanwhile the 5700 is once again slotted in between the RT X 2070 and the 2060 super moving out of 1440 and the 5700 XT here is still doing quite well although it's not quite meeting the 2070 super unless you look at the 1% low numbers and then the rx 5,700 once again beating the 2060 super not quite beating the RT x 2070 and a final test here Metro Exodus at 1080 and the 2080s on top 5700 XT is in fourth place just above the 2070 5700 is in sixth place just above the 2060 super I wanted to show you guys some overall metrics so here's a performance comparison of pretty much all the cards I tested compared to the Archie X 2060 so if you're looking at the RT X 2060 as a zero point this is the relative performance at 4k 2560 by 1440 and 1920 by 1080 of all the different cards that I tested I did sort these by performance so at 4k we can see the RX 5700 XT performs about thirty point five percent better than the RT X 2060 meanwhile the 5,700 is about seventeen point one percent faster at 1440 the 5700 XT moves up a notch in the rankings twenty-eight point three five percent better than on RT X 2060 meanwhile the rx 5,700 is about fifteen point five percent faster then finally at 1080 the rx 5700 XT is a little over 30% faster and the rx 5700 is about seventeen point five percent faster finally here's a performance comparison with the prices in there - and I have removed some of the cards here just to make it a simpler graph so we're looking at the cards that are going to be available I removed the standard RT X 2070 and 2080 as well as the older AMD cards so we can just look at the RT X 2060 at the bottom which is a hundred percent of performance for 350 bucks if you compare that to the rx 5,700 we're looking at between 15 and 17 percent better performance for the same price so it seems like it's pretty much a no-brainer there for which card you should go for compare the 5700 XT at $400 to the 2060 super and we're again looking at about a 10 to 15 percent performance bump comparatively for the same price the 2070 super is obviously the winner here going between thirty and forty percent faster compared to the RT X 2060 but it is also the most expensive card at $500 so I must say that I am very happy to be closing out this video because this week has been very intense with all of the benchmarking I was very complimentary of AMD's work with Rison 3000 on the CPU side and I am similarly chuffed with these new Navi cards although it's not quite the blow out that AMD served Intel the last-minute price changes were affected though and in particular if you have 350 bucks to spend the Radeon RX 5700 would be the way to go unless you're really really really into ray tracing which would be ok but in my opinion it's not a reason to go with the 2060 over the 5700 in a similar fashion the 5700 XT now looks very good at $400 compared to the 2060 super and would get the recommendation at that $400 price I'm hoping that Nvidia might be considering a price drop on the r-tx 2070 super to give it some better competition although the new navi cards provides some very respectable new options in the mid-range GPU market before they even launched they proved that this new competition is giving us more performance for less money in the form of Nvidia super launch and I'm very happy that the efficiency is there too I will be looking forward to third-party designs when they start coming to market and I think that's going to be a good spot to end this video so hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and let me know in the comment section down below what other uses you'd like to see me put these Navi cards - I don't see I'm going to build or more testing just just let me know in the comment section thank you so much for watching this video though guys I'm gonna go get some sleep we'll see you in the next one