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AMD have just released their Zen to CPUs and on top of that they've also released a brand new architecture of graphics cards on seven nanometer this is the Navi architecture of cards with two SKUs in the product lineup that being the RX 5700 and also the rx 5700 XT today here on the desk we've got the 5700 which is coming in at 349 u.s. dollars in Australia it's priced in at 549 AUD and we'll talk about the price performance a little bit later in the conclusion but with this release quite a few things have happened first of all I'm sorry that I'm late to do this review for you guys my super samples here actually came in super late so that held up things in terms of reviewing also had some personal stuff that I had to sort out behind the scenes and on top of that there was all this driver controversy with pre-release drivers for both sides being a little bit buggy so I decided to hold off and here we are now testing the post retail release driver so this means I can give you guys the retail experience if you were to buy one of these cards put it in your computer today and see how it performs against these two super cards now although the r-tx 2060s in 27 years will be in today's benchmarks I'm gonna be focusing this review as per the title on this card in particular here the 5700 so without further ado let's roll those benchmarks for you both 1080p and 1440p numbers and then get back to the desk and see what has unfolded here so the gaming benchmarks in a nutshell at 1080p and 1440p showed that this card right here the 5700 is actually pretty good value for money if you're comparing it to especially the RT x 2060 at the same price point and even trades blows sometimes with the RT X 2060 super which comes in $50 more expensive now one thing that the gaming benchmarks will quickly go through the titles one by one here we can see with Apex legends this was a shining star for the new navi graphics cards where this was literally coming close to at 1080p the r-tx 2080 and so I had to read test this a few times because I couldn't believe what my eyes was seeing stepping up to 1440p did lose a little bit of performance but it was great to see that 3 under $50 card was competing very hard in this particular title now you've also got anti lag which is another feature that I took a look at when I was over in the USA if you haven't seen that video I'll put the link up here where basically it can help shave off a few milliseconds and make you even more competitive which in a game like Apex Legends I'm guessing you will want to have now next out up here we had dirt rally too and we can see that 5,700 is beating the 2060 at 1080p and then tying at 1440p which was an interesting trend especially when we look at apex Legends where the performance was kind of not scaling as well and went from 1080p to 1440p with the 5700 though Crysis 3 was the only game where the 2060 beat the 5700 the movie wrote of Tom Clancy's the division 2 this was one of the three titles that we tested here today where I've seen a few things change in these games and that is the Nvidia cards are now running better on DX 12 and we'll see this with shadows of the Tomb Raider and also another title strange Brigade with something different altogether is happening with that game but at DX 12 1080p in 1440p the 5700 is slotting right in between the 2060 super in the 2060 again showing pretty good value for money when compared to the 2060 directly and then movie elder shadows of the term raider it actually tied with the 2060 super at 1080p which was really good to see and then 1440p is slightly lost which does take a little look at the scaling of these cards and we see that this card is performing its best at 1080p gaming and then we a strange brigade I saw something interesting with this title where the game ran better on both AMD and NVIDIA on the Vulcan Engine where as opposed to the DX 12 we're getting slightly less FPS on the AMD side but on the nvidia side we're actually getting significantly less FPS so testing these out both on Vulcan show that 20 60 super did come quite a bit ahead of the 5700 but then they 5700 still managed to edge out that of the 20 60 standard edition but looking at the power consumption figures I decided to test at Apex legends at 1080p and we can see here that basically it's gonna vary from game to game especially since this title did show the most FPS for the 5700 so it's utilizing that GPU in a perfect sense and so I guess this game would use off a little bit more power on the new Navi cards and other games but we see here it's pretty much slotting right near a 2060 in terms of power consumption that's overall where I'd put it especially since I did test a few settings in dirt rally to for example the power consumption was about 20 watts less and we'll talk about the overclocking of this car because it relates directly to dirt rally to where we can see that the auto OC and the software does work pretty well but when we manually overclocked it we only got one extra fps and it became very unstable and we also were using up an extra roughly 25 Watts over the auto OC and the fan speeds of course I set them to 100% so I want to get the most out of this GPU possible and the thing is the software I don't think is ready for overclocking quite yet and there's a few things that aren't ready for this graphics card for instance the Radeon image sharpening it does look pretty good and I'll show you guys a comparison here you can pull it up in 4k on YouTube because I did capture it on my 4k capture card where we got 1080p and then we've got 1080p Radeon image sharpening and then we've got 1440p on the monitor and we can see that the image sharpening does give out a different look I wouldn't call it necessarily better than the 1080p image but it does give out more clarity and you really didn't lose any FPS at all when I test this in stranger Gaede I only lost one FPS 1080p versus 1080p but here's the problem with radio and image sharpening when I had this strange Brigade the whole system just shut off on the lost benchmark I did wear the fan speeds were then getting locked out and so there's a still a software bug and that's a dangerous thing to happen especially on a retail driver where if you're turning on radio and image sharpening and your whole card is just pretty much safety switching off you have the risk to damage the hardware which is not a good thing for AMD nor is it a good thing for the consumer that then has to waste time and I are made the cards so that was the second of the software problems on top of the overclocking when I manually Oh seated as well as locking in the auto Oh see if I alt tabbed out of a game for example things would just lock up the whole system so there are a few bugs that are out there and I do warn you guys that it is an initial release of a whole new architecture for AMD so I think in a couple of months this thing will be working absolutely fine but if you want to buy this graphics card right now then I would recommend not sort of tweaking around with the settings or overclocking at this point in time especially if you're not familiar with overclocking they speaking of the overclocks themselves the power consumption and the fan noises what we could see here is that the otto OC was doing a good job but we still got eight decibels higher of noise because the fan speeds were ramping up higher and that did keep the temperatures a little bit lower than the default settings honestly it did start to get a little bit annoying and a hundred percent fan speeds was just simply unbearable on this card so if you really wanted to overclock at this point in time I would recommend just locking in the auto OC until the software compatibility is improved also the last thing with Radeon image sharpening what I did turn this on it disabled the audio coming out of the DisplayPort so that was a little bit surprising - now the final thing to talk about with these cards is the encoder onboard that is the VCE encoder and for this I decided to take a look at a pass boxes video if you guys haven't seen that I put a link up here where he did an in-depth comparison between the latest in video codec versus this codec here even versus the rx 580 codec and then versus the software implementation and he found with a grading system known as V math that the rx 580 was very similar so if you are serious about streaming then you may wish to check out that video where the Nvidia Co was coming out on top and before we move over to a conclusion we'll quickly go over the card in terms of its physical attributes and that is at the back it's got three display outs one HDMI 2.0 out as well as a simple clean gunmetal gray aesthetic and requiring an 8 plus 6 pin on the back of the cut it weighs in just over one kilogram and you don't get a backplate included and now here we are with the 5,700 and recommendation time the conclusion on this is at 349 USD it's bringing competition to the market if you look at the raw gaming benchmark numbers it's showing that the power consumption is good as well as the FPS is good overall beating out that of an RT X 2060 at the same price and the plus side of this is we looked at apex legends if that's any indication of how much extra AMD can get out of na'vi then that will spell good times for the next couple of years in terms of bettering the architecture optimizing the drivers for new games and extracting the absolute most out of this card but as it stands as of this day this is a retail release driver and there are some bugs worth mentioning the overclocking is a little bit broken at the moment and also things like turning on Radeon image sharpening had my whole system shut off so if you were to buy this card right now I'd seriously recommend only just getting it putting it in your system and not tweaking any of the software anything just playing your games for now and then waiting maybe a month once all the bugs are ironed out can have a little bit of augmented fun with your 5700 and no I don't mean sexually but ultimately with the 5700 the price performance is there I will be taking a look at the 5700 XT so hopefully by the time I get that review out for you guys I'll take a closer look at the overclocking and also the extra feature set involved and see if those bugs are ironed out and another thing too is that the aftermarket board partner cards will be hitting the scenes a little bit later this is the only model currently available so I'd like to see the custom solutions with jeweled fans even triple fan solutions coming out and seeing how much better they can overclock as well as getting it backplate and stuff like that because I will say before I get on out of here that the build quality of the 20 60 in the 2060 super especially the founders editions are superior to that of the 5700 even though it does have better price performance there are things that were sacrificed to get that price performance but with that said I hope you guys enjoyed today's review of AMD's new navagrahas card if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and also stay tuned be sure to hit that sub button ring the bell because we will be taking a look at these super cards in their own dedicated review very soon and without aside I'll catch you in the next Tech video very soon he's out for now bye you