Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsGo for it!
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2019
This card is great. I finished my build about two weeks ago and I’m loving this setup. I’m gaming in 1440p pegged at 144hz in every game at ultra settings. My FPS counter often reads much higher, in the 300’s or even higher. The test results in the two pics included were run in Rainbow Six Siege at Ultra settings. Rainbow six siege does have some issues with graphical anomalies in the top left corner from time to time, but I’m fairly certain that’s an issue with that particular game since I’ve had a few other goofy hiccups in that game that aren’t related to the GPU. I’ve not experienced any issues with any other game/video. I’m running stock and clocking around 1800-1900 while sitting at a steady 76-79 degrees under load. Blower is running around 2000-2100rpm in game. It’s really not that loud, even without headphones on. If you’re planning to run this card stock as an average gamer, I’d say go for it. No need to wait for partner cards. I haven’t had any driver issues and wattman is user friendly. Benchmarks are all consistently showing fantastic performance and I believe this card will only get better with updated drivers and support. At $400 this is the best bang for your buck imo. I’ve included some pics, but they really don’t do it justice.
(Edit) I’ve been running my PC for about 3 weeks now and I’ve most definitely encountered some bugs. Mostly driver related, so I figured I’d post here and everywhere else I can think of to let people know what I’ve learned. If this can help anyone out, I’ll be happy. I was experiencing crashing about 30 minutes into games, artifacts in the top left corner (where the Radeon overlay is) of certain games, black screens and an overall stressful situation. I dove deep into it as much as I could, and even though I’m not an IT expert I was able to get my system stable and looking/performing great. So here’s what worked for me:
-Turned of enhanced sync.
-Changed the PCIe16 GPU slot on my x570 board from PCIe 4.0 to 3.0
-Clean Deleted drivers in safe mode and installed latest 19.7.5 drivers from AMD website. I also found some other unwelcome services like idle buddy running on my PC during all of this, so I went ahead and got rid of those too.
-Updated BIOS. Ihave a gigabyte x570 Elite board. Updated to version F4j
-Disabled RAM overclock XMP profile 1 in BIOS. (I’m not sure if this is GPU related, but I was wondering if my default memory overclock was unstable)
After going ahead and doing all of these things based on tons of online research I’m happy to say I haven’t crashed, noticed any artifacting or experienced any black screens or other issues. I’m not sure if one of these things fixed the issues, or a combination. I’m fairly certain that this is just a rough launch for these cards and once drivers are a little more mature we’ll see much less annoying issues, and maybe be able to you enhanced sync! I’m just happy I’m back to running 1440p pegged at the 144fps my monitor can display. This card really is great, it’s just experiencing some growing pains. If you’re thinking of RMAing, whatever you decide is you’re prerogative. But if you’re an AMD fan, or just love the performance to price ratio of the 5700xt, be patient and try to enjoy the troubleshooting. It’s part of owning a PC, or so I’m told. ;)