MD unveiled its new Radeon RX 5700 line of graphics cards with 7nm chips at E3 last month, and with just days to go before they launch on July 7th, the company has announced new pricing. In the "spirit" of competition that it says is "heating up" in the graphics market -- specifically NVIDIA's "Super" new RTX cards -- all three versions of the graphics card will be cheaper than we thought.
The standard Radeon RX 5700 with 36 compute units and speeds of up to 1.7GHz was originally announced at $379, but will instead hit shelves at $349 -- the same price as NVIDIA's RTX 2060. The 5700 XT card that brings 40 compute units and up to 1.9GHz speed will be $50 cheaper than expected, launching at $399. The same goes for the 50th Anniversary with a slightly higher boost speed and stylish gold trim that will cost $449 instead of $499.
That's enough to keep them both cheaper than the $499 RTX 2070 Super -- we'll have to wait for the performance reviews to find out if it's enough to make sure they're still relevant.
AMD fires back at 'Super' NVIDIA with Radeon RX 5700 price cuts
Well I did the unthinkable, and I bought a RX 5700 XT. Used all my credit card reward points, and the $25 gift card my parents gave me for my birthday, and got it down to about what I may get for my Fury Nano.
Well, here's the thing, I wasn't going to wait a week. 2 hours later, and $100 more expensive...Although it does come with the added benefit of an extra 1 year warranty through my credit card.
Did have to make some compromises since I have an X370 motherboard and this is a 3 slot card...It cost me my media drive, but everything on it was already on my NAS, so I didn't -really- need it, and it cost me my sound card, but integrated chips have come a long way and I don't really need it, and I had to choose between my external WiFi card (AC1300) and running my games Samsung 960 Pro at x1 or my integrated WiFi card (AC600) and running my drive at x4, so I chose the former. A new motherboard would solve these issues, but I'm waiting on the Ryzen 4000 series.
So far the only issue is that, due to new Microsoft rules the nVidia Control Panel has to be downloaded through the Microsoft store, which is abysmally slow. I haven't yet been able to see if my FreeSync monitor works properly with the card yet. I do have until the end of April to return it with no restocking fee, so I'm not going to jump in with the GeForce Experience yet, just sticking with the control panel.
After some testing using Superposition, it doesn't matter if it runs at 3.0 x16 (top) or x8 (bottom), scores would be within the margin of error, so got my media drive back and games drive back at x4. Something to note is how QUIET this card is. Under 45*C the fan doesn't spin, and even under the Superposition benchmark it never approached 70*C and the fans are inaudible. New ambient noise level where I sit is now 27dB, down from 33dB...Maybe in a few years when I'm set to replace this one, Radeon will be back on par or superior with a driver set which makes sense and just works.
I took a quick look at running Superposition on Palit RTX2080 OC and RX Vega 64 Liquid - Both running at PCIe 3.0x8.
System = Ryzen 2700X running at 4.3GHz.
Here are the 4K Numbers for the Palit RTX 2080 OC just FYI:
(1). Palit RTX 2080 OC 1815MHz GPU CLK and 7000 MHz Mem - these are the stock clocks on this GPU.
(2). Palit RTX 2080 OC 1815MHz GPU CLK and 7342 MHz Mem (~ <+5% OC) .
(3). Palit RTX 2080 OC 1835MHz GPU CLK (+20MHz) and 7342 MHz Mem (~ <+5% OC) .
Interestingly dropping the Ryzen 2700X CPU down from 4.3GHz to 3.6 GHz makes very little difference to the scores.
Here is the result from RX Vega 64 Liquid undervolted and I set the HBM2 Overclock of 1120MHz versus default 945MHz.
In other words this is about as good as it gets with teh RX Vega 64 Liquid for me.
The reported power draw is very high with this benchmark.
I think the PCIe situation is already starting to get resolved. The Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master motherboard is a good example of this, with the placement of the M.2 slots allowing for a triple slot cooler GPU in the first slot without impinging on any of the other slots. This of course is helped by PCIe 4.0 allowing for the necessary bandwidth to support 3 M.2 slots, and hopefully something which will be adopted by more manufacturers on X670 motherboards, as most others only have 2 slots, and because cards which were traditionally PCIe x1 based, such as WiFi and sounds cards, are being either integrated into the motherboard proper or moved to M.2 format, reducing the need for x1 slots. This of course on top of the number of M.2 slots reducing the need for PCIe x4 adapter cards for NVMe drives as well as the reduced price of high capacity drives, and the death of multiple GPU consumer setups eliminating the need for more than two GPUs.
Don't think I'll be able to sell my Fury Nano...would you buy a card which looked like this? 4 years ago a candle spilled into the top of my case, and this was part of the result. Fully functional, but looks like it caught fire.
Well, I just took the plunge on this too. You don't keep a computer nerd cooped up with old hardware. I was going to wait until the Ryzen 4000 series since Lisa Su touted a huge improvement over the 3000 series, but I have a feeling that it's not going to be compatible with X300 series motherboards. Also, there hasn't been a peep about them since CES outside the laptop market, so I'm not sure when they will be released.
That's what I've been doing, the main problem are the stickers. Probably going to end up keeping it since there's no way it'd sell.
Alrighty, did that, and listed it for sale.
3DMark11 is now deprecated and the advanced edition is free, so I think I'll make it my new GPU OC stability test program, just set it to loop. Amazing the difference between using it on my FX-8350 years ago and this Ryzen 1800X...
Anyway, the Fury Nano still holds its own, if AMD didn't drop performance updates so quickly and throw everything into the RX 400/500 series, who knows how it would be doing today...Most certainly better than the RX 580 which outperforms it...
https:\\www.3dmark.com/3dm11/13763882
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/13763922
This is free on Steam. You need a Steam account. Click on The Download Demo Button in Lower RHS of the screen.
You can run 3DMark Firestrike tests for free last time I tried...
I went ahead and bought it, can't believe I did, but thanks to Covid-19 I'm saving a ton on eating out. Going to take forever to download it, satellite is overloaded...
Also, the RX 590 is quite past its prime. Doom External's requirements were released today, and the RX 590 barely meets the minimum requirements. Not going to play at 1920x1080 60fps with the detail levels raised much. Do note how they do not list AMD RX 5000 series GPUs.
Here's a bit of interesting news. TomsHardware cited a review done by Chinese review site Expreview (review source cited in the article) and their review of the RX 590 GME. Not only is the RX 590 GME significantly slower than the 590 (up to 19%), but it also costs more than the RX 5500 XT (in China)...Which begs the question: WHY did AMD release it?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-rx-590-gme-benchmark-results
ajlueke wrote:
I posted this some 4 years ago, this is 2020 and Navi is a year on now
Navi2 is where all the interest is now
