AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT launch date, worth, specs, and efficiency

The new AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 graphics playing cards would be the first to make use of the AMD Navi GPUs primarily based on the RDNA structure. And they’re coming actual quickly, July 7, to be exact.

Continuing AMD’s historical past of releasing a pair of playing cards primarily based on the identical GPU silicon on the similar time, it’s also dipping into its ATI heritage to re-introduce the XT suffix. We had hoped it would go the entire silicon enchilada and introduce the XTX, Pro, and GT variations into the RX 5700-series… although there may be time to flesh out the whole vary down the road.

The two new playing cards are being parachuted in to tackle Nvidia’s Turing-based RTX playing cards, with the RX 5700 XT taking goal on the RTX 2070 and the straight RX 5700 going shader-to-shader with the RTX 2060. And judging by the – inevitably rigorously picked – benchmark efficiency that AMD has launched into the wild each the Radeon playing cards have the body price edge over the GeForce GPUs. How will Nvidia react – Super new chips, decrease costs, each?

It’s trying clear that Nvidia should do one thing, as the brand new Radeon GPUs are set to ship AMD a pair of graphics playing cards that may genuinely compete with their rivals, and past simply the entry and decrease mainstream ranges.

Though when you had been one of many individuals who believed the “RTX 2080 for $250” rumours excreted over the past six months or so, and railed towards Nvidia’s excessive costs, then you definately may be just a little dissatisfied by the truth that AMD is sustaining the brand new GPU pricing established order with the RX 5700 XT and RX 5700.

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT launch date
The two new Navi-powered graphics playing cards will launch on July 7 this yr, alongside AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 processors. It’s going to be a busy month and an entire lot of stress on these TSMC 7nm manufacturing strains.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT worth
The present top-tier Navi GPU will go on sale within the RX 5700 XT with a reference worth of $449, whereas the RX 5700 is rather less at $379. Compared with the RTX 2070’s MSRP of $499, and the RTX 2060’s $349, it’s clear AMD is seeking to match relatively than topple Nvidia’s excessive pricing technique.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT specs
The two new playing cards each use the identical Navi 10 GPU, constructed utilizing the brand new RDNA graphics structure. The RX 5700 XT has 2,560 cores, 8GB GDDR6, and a typical gaming clock pace of 1,755MHz, now known as Game Clock. The RX 5700 has 2,304 cores, the identical 8GB GDDR6 reminiscence, and a Game Clock of 1,625MHz.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT efficiency
Given that each the brand new playing cards are aiming particularly on the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 competitors it’s not an enormous shock to see each Radeon playing cards nearly outperforming the GeForce GPUs in AMD’s chosen gaming benchmark figures.

When is the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT launch date?

AMD lastly unveiled the July 7 RX 5700 XT launch date on the finish of the Next Horizon Gaming occasion at E3 this yr. Scott Herkelman completed off his Radeon RX 5700-series presentation with the pricing for the brand new RX 5700 XT and straight RX 5700 reference playing cards, whereas additionally nailing down July launch date.

But that’s going to be the identical dayAMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors will go on sale, providing the primary 7nm Zen 2 processors out there alongside the primary vaguely inexpensive 7nm graphics playing cards too.

There is a pricier RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition too – positively not a Founder’s Edition – however we don’t know if that doubtless restricted version will go on sale on the similar time.

AMD is clearly assured that it’s got the manufacturing functionality to nail each new product launches on the similar time. TSMC’s 7nm capability should have been working additional time within the run as much as this summer time, or else there are going to be loads of unhappy Red crew followers unable to purchase into one or the opposite new PC applied sciences.

We’ve not heard something about potential provide points, but it surely wouldn’t be the primary time a giant GPU launch has been scuppered by issues round provide…

How a lot will the AMD RX 5700 XT value?

We have the MSRP for each the brand new Navi graphics playing cards, with the RX 5700 XT priced at $449, whereas the RX 5700 is about to value $379. There may even be that 50th Anniversary Edition of the RX 5700 XT, sporting gold trim and with Dr. Lisa Su’s initials scrawled on it. It is about to be the quickest model of the XT card too, providing basically a manufacturing unit overclocked possibility for $499.

The fascinating level in all that is the relative pricing close to Nvidia. Much has been product of the Turing era’s frustratingly excessive worth tags, and we wholeheartedly agree. We had been hoping AMD would flip this round and make a stand on GPU pricing, however sadly it appears to have opted to put the 5700-series in the identical artificially excessive worth/efficiency bracket.

But, whereas the RX 5700 XT has an MSRP that’s $50 lower than the RTX 2070, the RX 5700 is definitely priced larger than the price of a reference-clocked RTX 2060. While they appear to be outperforming their GeForce competitors, they’re not essentially outpricing them.

At launch there’ll solely be the reference-clocked RX 5700-series playing cards, with manufacturing unit overclocked, third-party variations more likely to come not less than a month after the preliminary July 7 launch date.

We don’t know what kind of worth premium these can have hooked up, nor do we all know simply what the quantity and availability of the brand new GPUs might be – and that may have an enormous impression on the real-world pricing of the RX 5700/XT playing cards. Scarcity will inevitably drive up pricing… keep in mind how a lot RX Vega 64 and Vega 56 playing cards had been retailing for within the months after the primary few playing cards had been bought out?

What are the Radeon RX 5700 XT specs?

The Navi era of graphics playing cards is the primary to come back with the brand new RDNA GPU structure. The RadeonDNA design is the alternative for the long-lived Graphics Core Next (GCN) structure that’s been powering AMD GPUs because the darkish ages. Well, 2012, in any case…

The Navi 10 chip is the inaugural RDNA GPU, and powers each the RX 5700 XT and the RX 5700 playing cards. The 9.75 TFLOPS XT model makes use of the complete Navi 10 specification, with 40 RDNA twin compute models (CUs), cut up between 4 processing clusters, and two shader engines. With that you simply get the whole 2,560 core spec, with 64 ROPs, and 160 texture models.

There has been a little bit of a change led to relating to the reporting of GPU frequencies, with the introduction of the Game Clock. This is actually the standard clock pace that the GPU will function at throughout gaming, and is distinct from the a lot larger Boost Clock of the Navi playing cards. It’s much like the Peak Engine Clock notion that AMD launched with the Radeon VII.

It feels just a little extra sincere, although does imply that AMD can nonetheless get the doubtless largely unattainable 1,905MHz Boost Clock into the specs sheet with impunity…

 

The 7.95 TFLOPS Radeon RX 5700 comes with two fewer twin compute models (for cut-down RDNA GPUs AMD should lower them out in twos) which leads to 36 whole compute models and subsequently 2,304 cores. The Base, Game, and Boost clocks are additionally set relatively decrease than the higher-spec RX 5700 XT, however it will likely be fascinating simply how near its larger sibling’s efficiency it will probably get with a little bit of considered overclocking.

It’s additionally obtained the identical 64 ROPs, however fewer texture models at 144. But each playing cards have the identical reminiscence configuration, utilizing 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, operating at 14Gbps, and providing 448GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth.

In phrases of energy, each playing cards are utilizing a mix of 8-pin and 6-pin energy connectors, with respective TDPs of 225W and 180W for the RX 5700 XT and RX 5700.

What’s the RX 5700 XT’s gaming efficiency like?

The finest means to consider the 2 new Radeon RX 5700-series GPUs is when it comes to the Nvidia GeForce GPUs they’re being put up towards. The RX 5700 XT is focusing on the RTX 2070 when it comes to straight gaming body price efficiency, and on the entire seems to be prefer it has managed to only squeeze previous the competitors.

There are a couple of outliers, resembling Metro Exodus and Battlefield 5 the place the XT manages to get 15% and 22% larger body charges than the RTX 2070, however for probably the most half you’re taking a look at gaming efficiency that swings between 6% quicker or 1-3% slower than the GeForce GPU.

The different level that AMD is making an attempt to make in its messaging in regards to the new RX 5700 XT card is that it permits a real step up in high quality too. Comparing it with the RX Vega 56 card AMD demonstrates how the RX 5700 XT can give you both a transfer as much as ‘Ultra Quality’ gaming at over 60fps, or a step up in decision from 1080p gaming to 1440p.

Taking Monster Hunter and Dirt Rally 2 as its high-performance examples, AMD reveals that with the RX Vega 56 you’re getting beneath the 60fps line utilizing the best high quality settings in-game, however the RX 5700 XT will get you over that efficiency line. It does the identical for Apex Legends and PUBG for the 90fps degree when it comes to aggressive on-line games.

The 1440p slide is maybe extra telling, nevertheless, because it demonstrates that the brand new card isn’t simply providing the identical degree of gaming efficiency at 1440p because the RX Vega 56 delivers at 1080p, it truly exceeds it. The weirdly scaled graphs don’t actually make it clear by how a lot the efficiency improves, so whereas the bar on Civ VI may look spectacular, it’s nonetheless solely going to be a couple of share factors distinction.

I do discover the positioning of the RX Vega 56 towards the RX 5700 XT just a little odd on condition that the $449 price ticket of the brand new card and the unique $499 MSRP of the RX Vega 64 may make it extra of a related comparability. Though with the RX Vega 56 beginning out life as a $399 card, and the brand new Navi GPU sitting straight in between them, you may make the argument for both comparability.

But AMD can be focusing on 1440p gaming for the marginally lower-spec RX 5700 card too. Here AMD is straight positioning it towards the RTX 2060, and seemingly comfortably beating it too. There are fewer outliers in efficiency phrases right here, however the place they do seem it’s the occasions the place efficiency is nearer to Nvidia which seem to be the anomalies.

On common you’re trying on the RX 5700 being round 10% faster than the RTX 2060, utilizing the best-performing API for each GPUs in every benchmark. So if DX12 was quicker for each that was the API used, but when DX11 was quicker the benchmark was run with that API.

It is value noting, nevertheless, that by the point the brand new Navi-based playing cards are out within the wild, we’ll in all probability have the complete particulars of the brand new Nvidia RTX Super cards. We’ve already heard largely confirmed rumours about what the brand new sequence will supply, and it appears doubtless that crew GeForce will tune each the refreshed RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 playing cards to make sure they outperform their respective Radeon competitors… and doubtless with designs on a really comparable worth level too.

That’s the profit, for Nvidia, of releasing tremendous high-priced graphics playing cards if you don’t have any competitors – if you do you’ll be able to simply lower costs to match. Whatever occurs, although, it’s us PC players that win out in such a head-to-head GPU scrap.

Bring it on.