Amazon.com: Customer reviews: PowerColor Red Dragon AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB AXRX 5700XT 8GBD6-3DHR/OC

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019

I like the design of this card, and comparative reviews show that it has good cooling on the GPU and Memory. So far, it is working exactly as I had hoped, I'm getting WAY more FPS in games at 1440p than ever before, and it is running nice and cool. Apparently there were some serious bugs with the drivers when the 5700/5700XT first came out, and so far those all seem to be fixed. No game I have played has had ANY issue, Xcom 2, Apex Legends, CS:GO, Outer Worlds, Dishonored 2, Fallout 4, Doom 2016, Deus Ex, have all run great getting expected frame rates and no problems.

I understand this and many other 5700xt's are getting bad reviews because of driver issues, but that is NOT the fault of the card and thankfully most driver issues now seem to be resolved. If you have issues I highly recommend trying the 19.1.x driver version as that was always stable for me.

I will update this review if I have *any* unexpected issues with the card, but so far its working perfectly, and very good performance for the price.

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Tommy J

Card works best with two separate cables for pci-e power

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2020

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I'm able to play most games at 1440p at 120fps+. It's giving me the framerates I need to play at high/max settings at 1440p, and a definite performance improvement over the GTX 980Ti I was using previously.

I bought this card as an upgrade from an aging nVidia GTX 980Ti. I have a ASUS ROG Strix X470-I Gaming ITX motherboard, 32GB of DDR3200 CL16 RAM, a AMD Ryzen R7 2700X, and a 1440p FreeSync display (LG 32GK650F).

I needed a card that would fit in my Fractal Design Node 304 case, and many other 5700XT cards were too long to fit into the case and would block back of the power supply. This card is taller than most cards, but it's not as long as the other 5700XTs on the market, so it's able to fit into the Node case better. The Node case has a built-in mesh cutout on the side of the cover next to the GPU slot and that lets the dual fans on this card get cool air.

Since I started using this 5700XT card, I had issues with the graphics driver crashing during long gaming sessions. AMD doesn't have the best reputation for their drivers so I thought it would eventually get fixed in a driver update. But as the weeks passed by and new drivers came out, it continued to randomly crash and I was regretting switching over to an AMD card. I starting to think about returning or selling this card.

I didn't think I'd be the only one with this issue, so I searched some forum posts on Reddit and the usual tech websites. I saw that AMD recommends a 700W power supply for these cards, 600W minimum ( https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/radeon-rx-5700-series-quick-start-guide-en.pdf ). My power supply is a 550W Seasonic Focus Gold+, which is just below AMD's minimum guidance. This suggested to me that the 12V pci-e cable was sagging in voltage and that maybe was what was contributing to making the card crash. On my previous card, the 980Ti, I just ran a single cable that had daisy chained 6 + 2 pci-e connectors and that supplied power to the two pci-e power connectors (one is 8 pin, the other is a 6 pin). The single cable was good enough for my old 980Ti, I thought would work with this new card.

I managed to dig up a second pci-e 8 pin power cable and I attached it in parallel with the other pci-e cable going to this 5700XT card. After I gave each pci-e power connector its own cable, the card has been rock solid despite being on a slightly undersized power supply. The extra cable is now allowing the card to get the power/voltage it needs. It's Ohm's law: as the amperage goes up, the voltage goes down. The load is now split across more wires and there's naturally less resistance and less of a voltage drop. I'll have to remember this for future builds.

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Khristopher

Very Good Performance, but I'm concern for the temperatures

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020

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Well I bought this card as a upgrade from RX 570 for a huge performance boost, and it performs! Frame-rate almost double, 1440p is well doable above 60fps and it run more quiet. Unfortunately, this card runs really HOT. A bit of research says they generally run this hot under load, but it concerns me with the lifespan of this card. I would recommend adding additional case fans to your case especially at the top because this could possibly affect performance on other components like the CPU. Other than the heat, it a performs close to a RTX 2070, some sources saying even a little better.

If you can get past the heat problem this runs really well. Most games are a breeze with this card especially at 1080p. Streaming with x264 at 1080p on Apex Legends is well playable within a 90-110fps average on High Setting with a Ryzen 7 2700. The H264/AVC encoder is somewhat usable for recording, although I would still recommend using x264 with a 6 cores or more CPUs. The Power consumption under load on this card at most went to 209 watts and you'll be fine a 650 watt power supply. The fans produce less sound compared to my rx 570 under load, and everything is untouched such as the fan curve, overclocking, and power limit, this is all done using the OC Bios. Undervolting may be considered viable option.

AMD's drivers have definitely improved over time, I've had issue with the rx570 due to drivers that would cause crashes with some game, but they happened way less frequently now and the same with this card. Sure, its not perfect, sometime my entire system would lock up and I would get a "no signal" error with the monitor, my keyboard lights would shut off, the only solution is a restart, something to be weary of. Other than that, theres really no stability issues then. Also installation of the card will work fine with the AMD Radeon software for upgrades. Software is well usable but still needs more patches.

Overall, for $400, this card had great price to performance. AMD had improved their software, and this card's only dual slot. The design in minimal and it fairly quiet even with the OC Bios. The only real complaint I have with card is the heat, its needs to be handle better, but it may be trying to live up to it's name.

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Travis

Go GREEN or go home.

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2019

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I'd like to start off by saying I REALLY gave this card a chance. I've had around 10 different Nvidia cards since I started PC gaming, all of which have given me 0 problems at all, aside from one that was DOA, which happens. This card is amazing in a benchmarking scenario, great scores, value for money, temps are great. As soon as I play any game I get stutters, freezing and FPS drops of 40+. When people say Radeon drivers are horrible, they're downplaying it, they are a DISASTER. I need to go in and tweak EVERY setting possible in Adrenaline to get a smooth gaming experience, but why? I got this card to save some money and enjoy some great performance, which I can only achieve by spending extra time messing with things that for some reason AMD has not figured out. Another really annoying note, the memory clock runs at max if your screen is over 120hz, and is a confirmed issue from AMD, so enjoy the extra power draw from that!

I popped in a 2070 Super, which I spent a total of$70 more than this card on, and wow. Coming from a GTX 1080, the 5700XT gave me a nice boost in benchmark performance, but nothing else. Honestly, if you NEED to save the $70-$100 on your GPU and are willing to compromise, sure this card would do it for you, at the expense of even more time tweaking settings you have no business needing to change.

In short, fork over the extra cash and get a Nvidia card. Pop that thing in and watch it go, optimized drivers, great performance and no hassle.

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John

Excellent Graphics Card

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020

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First off, I was a little hesitant to pick this GPU, there are hundreds on the market and while building a PC for gaming this was obviously the most important part of my setup. Some people complained about driver issues, I updated mine off their website as soon as I could and haven’t had any issues at all.

So far I have about 10 hours of play time on Destiny 2 and I was blown away. Even with the settings on medium it looks incredible, super smooth gameplay, and I haven’t experienced any sort of issues with this card.

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Daniel

Sadly AMD has broken drivers, and this card is overheating for me

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2019

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Card arrived today (19th December 2019) it is working so far for me, at first look very good card.

Update (23rd december 2019)
well, i changed my mind and changed the rating from 5 to 3 stars only, this card was made to be compared to the RTX 2070 Super for a lower price with lower performance by a few percentages. sadly this card overheating and reaching over 50C junction when idle and then PC freezing. i checked at the AMD control panel and the AMD panel reported that the fans is spinning but it was not spinning at all, thats a problem with the AMD drivers and already reported by many customers. also on load i noticed strange electricity sounds coming out of the card. the heating issues really annoying. i'm returning it.

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Alex Blair

Incredible Value, Almost No Noise

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019

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Being one of the cheaper RX 5700 XT's on Amazon, my expectations weren't high. Thankfully, they were met and exceeded. It performs incredibly well for its price, and it is super quiet. I get up to 70 degrees celsius in most games maxed out at 1080p (I don't have a 1440p monitors just yet), and the fans barely rise above 1500 RPM. This card can not only hold its own, but it can also compete with higher end variants of the 5700 XT. I highly recommend this one. It has a nice backplate too.

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Amazon Customer

Great GPU and a Good Price

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2019

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This card works amazingly. I had no problems whatsoever. This provided really good performance, thermals, and reduced noise over my last GPU. Installation was very easy as I only had to download the drivers and I was off and going. I can't say enough about this GPU. I've been using it since October and it works great.

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Sam K.

Disappointing freezes

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019

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It is a shame that AMD still can't get their stuff together with drivers. This thing has the potential to be a power horse. However, unless you turn off a bunch of settings like "Enhanced Sync", close all other apps/windows, and run games in fullscreen mode, you will continually be frustrated by games freezing up. Black screen game freezes should be the exception, not the norm. Everything is running at stock speeds, power supply is 100W more than recommended, using 16GB or RAM, and cpu/gpu/case temps are normal.

I haven't attempted to redeem the digital codes because I intend to return the card as defective.

==UPDATED==

Taking the review from 2-4 stars. Downloaded the latest non-WHQL drivers (19.10.2) and it seemed to fix many of the stability issues. Still need to run everything in full-screen mode and keep "Enhanced Sync" disabled, but it hasn't crashed while playing since this latest driver update.

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Amazon Customer

Almost perfect

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2020

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First I want to say how awesome this card is for its value and performance. The form factor is great, it's able to go 0 rpm fans on idle, and does not overheat on heavy use even in a small form factor case (77-79C with 30C ambient temperature).

The incredibly disappointing thing which is causing me to ultimately return this card is that the card I received has a very annoying coil whine when the fans are on low rpm. Apparently, there are a lot of reports about this issue but it seems many other reviewers are not experiencing it so mine must be an outlier and defective.

If your case is far from you (under the desk, for example) or you frequently use a headset, or perhaps a small high pitched whine doesn't bother you, then you should be fine. But for me, I've adjusted my fan curves for a near silent operation since my PC is on the desk next to me, and the coil whine every few minutes is so obvious and high pitched that I wasn't able to ignore it even when I tried.

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