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 with the final naming being 5700 and 5700XT, something AMD vowed never to do again starting with the HD 3000 series, and the fact that the review sites found AMD's reference cooler to be, as usual, barely adequate, we're going to have to wait until September to find out if AMD is still relevant, with custom editions coming in August, then about a month to make sure prices won't spike up again, which AMD has shifted to "free" games to counter instead of rebates.
The really sad thing is, with the 5700 and 5700 XT now taking the place at the upper end of the mid range, places formerly held by the RX 580 and RX 590, the upper end of the mid range market has increased from $230 and $280 to $350 and $400, and they still require playing at 1920x1080 to hit minimums of 60fps in many games. That's not a great thing for a company which, according to the Steam Hardware Survey, commands less than 15% of the market compared to nVidia's 75%...
Well, they changed the shroud a little bit on the 5700XT, so that it looks damaged or dented. The performance per dollar still favors AMD, according to the one review I watched.
I don't see the market share changing anytime soon. As far as I am concerned, I wish I never switched back to an Amd GPU. I picked a freesync monitor that doesn't work so great with NVidia as it has very slight stutter, while being much smoother with Amd. I should have just paid the gsync tax, and stuck with NVidia's overpriced products. It's amazing how Amd fails at the simplest things like getting profile loading to consistently work. So now I must use Afterburner, just to remove that aggravation. Then there's the 1 minutes shutdown time. Sorry didn't mean to turn this into an amd rant 
I will say that I think amd does older game compatibility better than nvidia.
It honestly surprises me the HD 5970 never had this happen, that thing would get about to the melting point of tungsten...
There is always this Several of Arctic Cooling’s existing coolers support AMD's Radeon RX 5700 cards | PC Gamer :
Or this: EK-Vector Blocks Engineered for AMD Navi GPUs - Cooling - Press Release - HEXUS.net
More details here: https://www.ekwb.com/shop/quantum/gpu-blocks/vector-rx-navi
Both are lots of additional cost and time that you have to consider versus waiting for a Navi GPU with decent fans, quiet cooler and backplate with working BIOS and Drivers.
I hope new AIB Cards come with dual BIOS just in case any required BIOS Updates go wrong.
Have seen them mention that the 5700 XT's maximum junction temperature reached throttling temperature, but haven't seen one that said it shut down on them, but I've only looked at a couple. It reminds me of the Radeon HD 5970 fiasco where the reference cooler left one bank of VRMs untouched, leading to issues. Sadly as we all know custom cooled cards will be more expensive than the reference edition, so I'm not expecting significantly less expensive prices until 2021 when Navi's replacement is due, and sadly we are already starting to see the reference edition cards increase in price over SRP, and to add insult to injury sites are clearing out their 2070 inventory before the 2070 Super arrives, so on top of existing rebates they have instant savings, cutting the price difference to as little as $20, though that's a custom edition against a reference edition. AMD is going to have to act fast else Navi will quickly slip into irrelevancy.
Here is the way to remove the dent on the top side of the RX5700XT GPU at least - the one on the side seems to be nothing to do with airflow and the fins on the rear of the GPU seem to be "dummies": AMD RX 5700 XT Tear-Down: Inside the Vapor Chamber - YouTube
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colesdav wrote:
Here is the way to remove the dent on the top side of the RX5700XT GPU at least - the one on the side seems to be nothing to do with airflow and the fins on the rear of the GPU seem to be "dummies": AMD RX 5700 XT Tear-Down: Inside the Vapor Chamber - YouTube
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When I saw this pic I laughed. It made me think of wanting to smash a hammer on my RX 5700 XT like Billy Mays. Man I love those YouTube Poop videos they made of him and his infomercials.
Really sad how he died too, bumped his head getting out of an airplane which ruptured an aneyuerism.
black_zion wrote:
Really sad how he died too, bumped his head getting out of an airplane which ruptured an aneyuerism.
He still lives on in the funny videos made, people sharing the real commercials and well if you saw him how could you forget him .....
RIP Billy
Definitely can say the people loved him. Even if he sold you crap you wanted to buy it.
Looks like the fan for one of the Reference R9 290X LB Edition cards:
