XFX - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT RAW II 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card with Zero dB - Black

Great card, bought this a bit over a year ago and it’s still going as strong as ever. 1440p games run at 60fps easily aside from not so great optimized games like cyberjunk. The recent updates to the Radeon software used to control everything about this card is why I’m writing this review I feel it’s finally made the card something recommendable. With the right voltage and frequencies this thing runs at a more respectable temperature than out of the box whilst being overclocked, and the newly added stress test feature will help you to find what gets you the most out of your card, Wish they had that when I was first setting mine up. If you want it to run cool and quiet you can set it to easily, if you want to eek out every ounce of performance you can do that too (there’s a lot of room for overclocking it I might add) The card is definitely massive but whether you like how it looks or not is obviously a person by person basis, do know it’s great if you want to have something sitting on top of it like a figure. There can be some moderate sagging as it is so big and it did concern me a bit in the beginning but now that it’s been almost a year I don’t lose sleep over it as everything’s still perfectly fine (I need to upgrade my motherboard anyways) All in all with how customizable everything about how it runs and the amount of ports it has I think it’s truly great for anybody looking for a decent card. Granted I picked it up for 379.99 so I’d understand some moderate frustration if you were paying over 600 for it. So take a lot of the reviews with a grain of salt, they probably paid a hefty price for it while a lot of its drivers and software weren’t really too great yet. Nowadays though if you see this thicc boy at a decent price I couldn’t recommend it more.

For the curious 1% of machine learning engineers out there that are wondering if this card would work with the Razer Core X and MacOS: yes, it works perfectly. I bought it for university-level deep neural network assignments, and the set up has saved me a lot of time. Together with PlaidML, the runtime of my TensorFlow and Keras models were decreased from hours to minutes. The card has an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector, while the Razer Core X enclosure has 2, 6+2 power connectors. Leaving out one of the 2-pin connectors from the Razer Core X worked fine for me.

I have been using twin GTX 970 cards by EVGA since I first pieced my tower together back five years ago which got me by just fine until Nvidia stopped supporting SLI for my cards & 1080p on my 144hz ASUS monitor suddenly didn't pan out for the latest generation of games. I was recently gifted COD Modern Warfare 2019 & I was finally unable to play a game at my minimum standard of 60fps with all the bells and whistles. So here I am floating between a 2070 Super and the RX 5700 XT as my next card and 1440p HDR as my next tier of graphical enjoyment. After several reviews & some YT videos covering just about everything I needed to know about the current industry & what it came down to for me was a $100+ difference for less than ten percent margin on frame-rates plus Ray Tracing which to me seems to be a nice perk though limited in support right now = not cost effective IMO. It's been a long time since I used a non-Nvidia based card actually since ATI had the All-in-Wonder card series and before AMD took over. I've been eyeing putting together an AMD rig since the new Ryzen processors had been introduced & I figured now might be a decent time to do just that. How I came about buying the XFX brand of RX 5700 XT card is by viewing their portfolio of hardware and reading the reviews offered. I wanted to pick up their newest card which is the XFX RX 5700 XT Thicc III Ultra but my local Best Buy didn't carry it and I needed a card tonight so I can play my gifted game with friends and family so I picked up the XFX RX 5700 XT RAW II. I am sure I will be happy with it even though deep down inside I know what I really wanted was the Thicc III Ultra... oh well. Hahaha!! Included are a couple of pictures of my EVGA Sli cards before & their XFX replacement as evidence to my situation.

This is my second card. The first one didn't work. I returned it, and got a second one. The second one was working great until the fans hit top speed. It started making a noise it shouldn't. I have been in contact with Mark over at XFX, who has been more than just helpful during all of this. He's very knowledgeable and patient with me while trying to make everything work out. New fans on the way, without hassle. Hopefully that fixes it, because the card itself is amazing! I will update once the new fans are installed.

I bought mine in December 2019 for $370. Fantastic card for the price. Fans are a bit noisy under heavy load, but I threw an after market gpu aio and now it’s dead silent. Goes toe to toe with my buddy’s RTX 2070S. It does everything at 1440p. Cyberpunk it gets 30fps on max settings, turning down a couple settings easily holds the locked 60fps I set for the game. Had some driver issues at first, but haven’t any issues for almost a year now.

For the price it is a decent gpu 7253 score Unigine valley ultra settings Out of the box no oc Basic oc is easy along with fan tuning There is one issue I experienced with the aib cooler One of the fans aluminum center stickers was not centered an caused vibration until it flew off at a high velocity I recommend removing them if they are not centered. 30-50fps in flight simulator Drops to 9-20fps over busy high detailed airports And screen fragments randomly about 4 frags in a 7 hour flight

I went from a 1660 Super were I could play everything medium and sometimes High depending on the game to playing most games on the highest settings at 1440p with only a few games on High due to bad optimization. Absolutely the upgrade I was looking for till I can get my hands on a 6800XT. The white glow from the logo looks nice in white and black build as well.

I was looking to upgrade from a GTX 1060 in order to run Battlefield V and Borderlands 3 at high settings on a new 1440p (60Hz) monitor. But NVIDIA's prices for the RTX 2070 Super made me sick to my stomach, so I decided on the comparable Radeon RX 5700 XT. I had originally intended to wait for the Sapphire Nitro+ version of this card, which reviewers seem to fawn over based on its build quality and thermal performance, but this was in store, less expensive, and still performs very well thermally. I can hear the fans when its running, but they don't interfere with gameplay or being able to talk in the room. XFX has done a good job with the aesthetics on this - I don't care for too much RGB. Overall AMD has got a winner with the RX 5700 XT!