Amazon.com: Customer reviews: XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 3xDP HDMI, PCI-E AMD Graphics Card (RX-57XT8MFD6)

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. ;)

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Todd

Great price for performance

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

I bought this to replace my trustworthy but now four year old R9 390 GPU.

So far, it has met or exceeded any expectations I've had for a $400 graphics card. It runs Battlefield V at 120+ FPS at 1440p on a mixture of medium-low settings. Personally, the higher level visual fidelity settings aren't worth the FPS penalties in a first person shooter. If you play single player games, than the highest settings might make more sense.

No issues with the drivers themselves. I always make sure to uninstall previous drivers using Driver Display Uninstaller from Wagnardsoft. It's free and easy to use and it removes all traces of previous drivers from both Nvidia and AMD.

I've run MSI Afterburner with my other GPUS for temperature and performance monitoring as well as custom fan curves, but the custom fan curve causings screen flashing on the 5700 XT. Instead, I set a custom curve in Wattman settings.

Speaking of fan and temps, the default fan curve is designed to run pretty quietly. As such, my GPU heated right up to 80-83C after 20-30 minutes of BFV with an ambient temperature of 75F/23C. Hence, I added a custom fan curve for the fans to ramp up once the GPU hits about 50C. This keeps the temps in the 60-70C range even after a few hours of gaming. A small caveat: the fan curve doesn't always load on startup. I've saved it as a profile and load it, if I notice the card getting too hot. Not a problem with the card, but the AMD software.

Of course, this is a blower style fan and it's much louder than other fan and cooling systems. I wear noise-cancelling headphones and can't hear the fan anyway. It kind of sounds like a turbo charger, to be honest. Obviously, if you have a roommate or significant other and game in your bedroom, it might be problematic.

The only other quirk - and this is a Radeon software issue with my PC configuration, as it did the same thing with my older AMD 390 GPU - is that ReLive (the streaming/recording software that is bundled with the Radeon Adrenalin driver suite) doesn't record or stream sound due to a conflict with Realtek sound drivers. It's a known issue, but doesn't seem to be any closer to getting fixed. I don't stream, but do like to record, so I use Streamlabs OBS for replays. Very little performance hit and the sound works.

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Trevon R. Morris

Fast, great for productivity, Unzipping files much faster.

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

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This card is a beast, and due to me not doing 4K gaming, it is quiet. I had to manually turn up the fans to hear it, but it runs games at max settings 1080p, 1440p, easily. I have barely ever pressured this card. I look forward to many days of fun with this card. AMD did a really good job with this one. Assassins Creed Odyssey seems to not like AMD drivers, but everything else runs smooth. Even Assassin Creed when it actually starts. Black Desert Remastered Mode is just stunning on this card, and the Image Sharpening techniques are awesome. It enhances videos you watch, everything just comes alive, I am satisfied and I know it will run awesome when i get my new monitor.

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Mike

Insanely Fast and Capable Card

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

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I have upgraded from GTX 1070 Hybrid and the difference is significant, but you can easily gather technical data and compare the existing card to the new one, so I'll just focus on a few points that I've seen come up in other reviews and hopefully help you decide if this is the right card for you.

5700 vs 5700X -- Unlike the AMD CPUs where you are paying $50 for the letter (and slighly better stock cooler which you will probably never use) the two variants of the GPU are in fact physically different. Both cards rely on the same Zen 2 architecture but the X variant has 4 more compute units, uses more power and comes clocked slightly higher as a result. You can expect about 15-20% faster performance versus the 5700 version. Is it worth $50 more? That's for you to decide.

There is also an Anniversary edition. Same as the 5700X just factory overclocked, has nice gold accents and comes in a pretty box. Meh...

CrossFire Support -- The 5700 series does not support CrossFire. Instead, it's now up to developers to decide how they program the software and whether or not they use the capabilities found in DirectX 12 to allow two cards to be recognized and used as one compute unit.

So, if you want the 5700X for the raw performance, consider buying two RX580 or RX590 and running them together to get similar performance. This could be a particularly attractive idea if you are not willing to wait for third party implementations of this card and dislike or distrust the reference card design. Or maybe you're going for a particular look or feel strongly about a particular brand. Price for a set of two cards would be compatible at $400, at least as of the time of this review.

Thermals -- I see a lot of complaints about the card running hot. It's a reference card. They all run hot. I have stress-tested this unit and barely breached 80c which isn't a problem. Sure, it runs hot, especially coming from a liquid-cooled and overclocked GTX 1070 which ran very cool, but it's not unreasonable.

I watched the frequency and the card boosted itself to 1900Mhz pretty much the entire time. I've been able to overclock to stable 2100Mhz to 2200 at about 1.35V just to see the limits. The card performed fine. It got up to 90-92c which is getting pretty close to the thermal limit. In the future, I will certainly water-cool it and see how it goes.

There is always some "silicone lottery" that pays into it, but the point is that if you have a well-placed fan configuration and your case is breathing easily then you should not see any heat-related issues. This card is designed to handle the heat it generates under load.

Performance -- This card performs very well. In fact, it might be one of the best performing cards dollar-for-dollar. Compatible Nvidia card would be the RTX 2070S with the 5700X being maybe even slightly faster and costing at least $150 less. It's also only about 10-15% slower than the RTX 2080S but costs almost half as much.

Compatibility -- You can expect some issues early on. That's pretty normal and AMD has been known to be less polished at launch when compared to Nvidia. I have not experienced any issues yet, but I am running this card on X570 motherboard in combination with Ryzen 5 3600 CPU. The motherboard sharing the same chipset family may have something to do with it. It kind of makes sense.

To sum up -- fantastic card, great performance (especially considering the cost). I would recommend it.

Update: Ran into issues with the card. It's unfortunate. See the attached video. I still recommend this card and definitely the chipset, but maybe avoid the reference design. This could be an early production unit. Who knows. The issue is definitely not heat-related. It's never gone above 80c which is not even close to the maximum operating temps. This issue is intermittent and started just a day ago.

Amazon's return policy and customers service are second to none. So, this one is going back and is being replaced by the non-reference model from XFX from Amazon. I hope this time it will be trouble-free.

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gv115

amd needs to learn to code

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

amd did an outstanding job with their new rdna architecture. the hardware on the card is simply top notch and the best amd has produced in a very long time. it has tremendous amount of potential. the best way to describe is that rdna is to amd what maxwell was to nvidia. amd solved their clock frequency problem that gcn. finally able to achieve speeds up into the 2ghz range is not only possible, but practical. power consumption has tremendously fallen. rdna jugs down power slightly more efficiently than nvidia's own pascal and the difference between it and turing is small enough to not make a difference. for the first time in a very long time, amd released a card to uses less power than amd rated it for. at 1.9-2ghz the 5700xt is right on the heels of a 2070 super but $100 less and at 2.1-2.3ghz its on the heels of a 2080 fe. simply outstanding.

but there is a problem, and that's drivers. see my attached photo. green screening during driver installation with 19.7.2 drivers. a bug that gamers nexus talked about that amd apparently "fixed" in a driver. well, I guess it wasn't truly fixed. its back again. the bug, being harmless, and goes away once rebooted, but this bug shouldn't have happened and that's the point. the drivers shouldn't be this buggy. I know people like to say "early adopter" but you know what, first impressions mean everything. my buddies won't ever use an amd card because of nonsense like this. and its getting to the point where I'm seriously considering sending my 5700XT back for a refund myself. Its not fun sitting here feeling like my card is running off of wood screws and glue because with how buggy everything has been.

with 19.7.1 and 19.7.2 drivers I've gotten frequent random black screens, display driver crashed and has recovered warnings (tdr's). from doing normal desktop stuff, simply launching dota underlords, or alt tabbing out of a game to desktop and back even though the game is borderless window mode. event viewer showed them all as warning of amd driver crashes that recovered. I figured I'll DDU and do a fresh install in case anything got corrupted from the tdr's and after duding and installing the drivers I get hit with the green screen bug that gamers nexus talked about that apparently was fixed along with yet another tdr while alt tabbing out of dota underlords. this is just ridiculous. the nonsense amount of issues with the drivers are getting out of hand and this has been a historical issue with amd. this needs to stop. this is killing your reputation. this nonsense is what's hurting people from wanting to adopt amd. please amd, get your act together. give your driver team some love. Or more love. Just do something. early adopter or not is not a valid excuse. there is absolutely zero excuse for this horrible of a driver launch. this doesn't give me hope for the future. having to do X in the radeon settings, disable this, or that is just ridiculous. you shouldn't have to do this nonsense. the drivers should be stable enough that a user can buy a card, set it, and forget it and get along with gaming. not sitting here worrying the card is gonna crash while browsing a website.

as far as I am concerned, the card is defectives because of amd's terrible drivers. a fantastic piece of hardware butchered by terrible software. way to go amd. bravo.

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Kyle

Great Card - Drivers Improving

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

Fantastic card. It's probably the best bang for buck around. A quick overclock using the Radeon software's one-click OC utility got this baby on 2080 performance. For $400. Yeah, that's rock solid.

I max out just about everything on 1440p. Most things run at a clean 144 FPS (I cap it to my monitor's refresh rate) and it's butter smooth. The exception to this are games that are poorly optimized. In those games I just turn down some settings I don't care about to high instead of ultra and I'm back to 60+ FPS no sweat.

The only downside to this card (and it could be because of my older system configuration) is that the drivers have a few stability issues. This is expected as this is a brand new architecture and it's the same across the market. When Nvidia last released a new architecture it was buggy for months. Fortunately, I've seen a new driver update available every 2-3 days since purchasing the card and each one gets more stable. I'd say it's good enough for regular users now to fire-and-forget.

So basically - this new architecture kicks ass and I'm convinced that this arch is to Nvidia what Ryzen was to Intel. A huge threat and the beginning of declining market shares. It overclocks like an absolute beast. If you're into the super high end segment, wait for the new high end version of this architecture. It's confirmed and should be coming fairly soon. If you're a best-bang-for-your-buck shopper, you can't beat this one.

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Jack Kennedy

What I wanted

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019

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As a warning this is my first build, so I don't have much experience to compare it with. However, it runs most games on a 27' 2k monitor at 100+ fps at high or better graphics (bl3, witcher 3, total war warhammer 2, and dota 2). Witch is really all I want. It is rather power efficient as my 550 gold watt pcu is able to power it at a maximum load (with a 3600X). This is a relevant feature as it saved me $40 on a cheaper pcu. I got mine on sale at $289, and at that price I can't knock any stars off.

It is fairly loud under moderate to maximum loads.
It does not appear to be fully seated in my motherboard (it works so idk, also probably motherboard to blame).
I have not tried any overclocking or to flash to a XT, but maybe in the future if it needs the extra power. This will be a perfect card if I can get 3 years out of it.

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Sam

Price to performance is too strong, gotta go with Team Red this time around.

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

I decided to upgrade my old 1050 TI and thought long and hard on either the 5700 XT or the 2070 Super. For weeks I researched, weighed pros and cons, and even asked around for opinions... then AMD lowered their prices. With the 5700 XT at $450, it was a legitimately tough decision picking one of the two. Since dropping to $400 however, it makes little sense paying a $100 premium for a 2-5% performance bump. I had to go with the 5700 XT, and so far I have zero regrets.

Gaming has been great. I paired my new card with an LG 1440p, 144hz monitor. While I can't quite hit 144 fps on most games, I have been consistently getting to 100, which looks absolutely stunning in games. I'm more than happy with the performance.

Regarding some of the major complaints, I've actually have had very few issues with my card. Drivers haven't been as much of a problem as some people have made them out to be. The fan did ramp up once, and it was decently loud, but definitely not loud enough to be heard through my noise canceling headphones.

Some Random information.
There are a bunch of different brands selling this card, but the only difference is the packaging. Partner cards with custom cooling don't come until August, so unless you want a slick looking box (Sapphire's is the best imo) go ahead and order whichever one is in stock at the moment. If you've had success with a particular brand's customer service, that might also be a good reason to go with one over another (in case you have to do a return or something).

XFX says the card requires a minimum of 600 watts, but I've had zero issues running it on a 550 watt Bronze-rated EVGA power supply. I do only have one mechanical drive however (no CD drive), so my computer is less power hungry than the average PC.

This card doesn't come with any cables (which is normal), but it does include a 6-pin to dual Molex adapter, and an 8-pin to dual 6-pin adapter.

In closing, I would highly recommend this card to anyone that doesn't want to pay an arm and a leg for 1440p gaming. If you really don't like blowers and you must have dual or triple fan style, maybe wait for partner cards. I think the card is good enough to warrant a purchase now though and I'm more than happy with the looks and performance of mine.

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Amazon Customer

Great- but too soon.

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

Let me put it bluntly-this card is FAST. Against Nvidia’s 2060 SUPER (same price) the RX 5700 XT is at least around 5-10 percent faster. Plus, the card looks beautiful. One of the best looking ever, in my opinion. It looks much more much more smooth and mild than the sharp edges of the RTX and GTX founder’s edition cards.

Now for the bad. My card came with a bent mounting bracket, but I easily bent or back with my hand. However there is still a slight bend in the metal. Yeah yeah, easy fix, but what really made me knock off a star? Well, the drivers and the cooler. Instead of waiting a week to get everything smoothed out and perfected, AMD rushed this card to the market. The software isn’t as bad as when Vega launched, (thank god) but on certain benchmarks such as Userbenchmark’s Direct3D bench, the card just wouldn’t run. Also, when trying to play War Thunder, the PC reported not haveing a OpenCL 2.0 or higher GPU. But this card is OpenCL 4.6? Wtf?
Also, when under heavy load, the card is hot and loud. Since it’s not a car, it’s not good. Under load this thing will quickly jump to 80C and will slowly climb as you play. The fan will go up to slightly below talking speed. However doesn’t bother me, as I have a headset and don’t plan on overclock it.

All in all, great card. Just don’t buy a reference design. Unlike you love the looks.

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Chris Cady

Great for Linux, Ok for Windows.

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019

Size: Rx 5700 XTVerified Purchase

This review is going to be for both Windows 10 and Linux (Specifically Arch with Mesa) at a 1440P Resolution with Freesync.

First Windows. In-Game the card runs great and is very competitive with a RTX 2070 Super, but that does go back and forth depending on the title. Not really much more to say there. The Card does not support Ray Tracing currently, but the penalty for using Ray Tracing is too high for me to consider it at this time. Now the bad. The Drivers. I don't know who is really at fault when it comes down to this. AMD or Microsoft and their ever changing OS and its driver support. The Drivers randomly crash, Occasionally games randomly freeze with an occasional BSOD, Occasionally weird artifact occurs and goes away with a restart. Fan Curves don't work properly most of the time when you try to override them. Stuttering tends to occur on high refresh rates with FreeSync enabled.

Now For Linux. The card runs beautifully with no issues what so ever. Performance wise for people using proton its pretty much on par and sometimes outpaces Windows. I didn't experience any of the issues I had when bench marking in Windows 10. Now for the bad. The AMDGPU-PRO Drivers that AMD offers are absolute garbage in my testing. Stuttering occurs, artifact occurs, random game crashes. This does only happen with the AMDGPU-PRO Drivers and works perfectly fine on Mesa, using the latest mesa git package, so that would be my recommendation.

The bad all around.
This is a reference card with a blower cooler. It does get hot and it does get loud. So in this aspect I would recommend a partner card.

If your looking into Gaming in Windows I find it hard to recommend until the Driver situation gets sorted out. If your a Linux User, this card is great and I would definitely recommend it.

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