Will you buy a RX 5700 Or RX 5700 XT?

Zernath · 6 Jul 2019 at 11:11

vapor matt said:
just waiting to see if the VII will drop in price, if so I will buy one for another rig. 5700XT compute will not be near the VII

I don't think it will drop much, as stock is limited, and AMD does not have an equivalent to sell at the present time.

KungFuSpaghetti · 6 Jul 2019 at 11:48

humbug said:
You're right they do have it and yes it's pretty good, i'm impressed with it, lot's of options and manual tweaks, i used the sharpen option and it does exactly that, it also turns up the colour intensity and brightens the image, a bit like fake HDR but it does a good job, it makes games look really good.

The only problem is it only works with "Compatible games" last night i got a chance to test it, first Insurgency, i forgot about it with that, then a quick round of Left4Dead, it worked, really improved the image quality, then 2 hours of Stellaris, that's when it said "only works with compatible games" Star Citizen, same thing again, didn't work, out of curiosity FarCry 3, again didn't work.

Great feature, makes a real visual difference, but seems to depend on nVidia adding it to individual games on a game by game basis.

I've only tried it on a couple of games so far but for the small performance sacrifice the visuals are a big improvement... can't believe I've only just found out about it lol

humbug · 6 Jul 2019 at 11:53

KungFuSpaghetti said:
I've only tried it on a couple of games so far but for the small performance sacrifice the visuals are a big improvement... can't believe I've only just found out about it lol

I'm the guy that never reads the manual....

muon · 6 Jul 2019 at 12:16

Well a 5700XT is even more a no brainer for me now.

Was going to buy it anyway until nvidia had their Super release. At that point the 2060 Super or 2070 Super became the better buys.

This price drop brings it convincingly back ahead in terms of perf/$.

gpuerrilla · 6 Jul 2019 at 12:52

muon said:
Well a 5700XT is even more a no brainer for me now.

Was going to buy it anyway until nvidia had their Super release. At that point the 2060 Super or 2070 Super became the better buys.

This price drop brings it convincingly back ahead in terms of perf/$.

If they throw in a three game bundle too it could be a major turn in the tables!

Space Monkey · 6 Jul 2019 at 13:51

What's the expected UK price for the 5700XT?

easyrider · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:06

Space Monkey said:
What's the expected UK price for the 5700XT?

£399

Space Monkey · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:06

easyrider said:
£399

Thanks

Martini1991 · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:07

Space Monkey said:
Thanks

It's more like 380-385.

That's what $400 converted with tax is.

Martini1991 · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:08

Th0nt said:
If they throw in a three game bundle too it could be a major turn in the tables!

*If* there's a game bundle then it's a winner for me

easyrider · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:09

Martini1991 said:
It's more like 380-385.

That's what $400 converted with tax is.

Then early adopter tax

andybird123 · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:13

Nice to see AMD at least trying to get back in the price/performance fight.

gpuerrilla · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:34

Martini1991 said:
*If* there's a game bundle then it's a winner for me

It would be making it hard for me to not sneak this upgrade from a vega 56 too!

Martini1991 · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:35

andybird123 said:
Nice to see AMD at least trying to get back in the price/performance fight.

Need another $50 off for that I think.
These are better than Nvidia in price/performance but that's not saying much

varkanoid · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:36

The 5700 and 5700XT sections are up on the website and when you click on them it goes to a Vega 64

muon · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:37

Martini1991 said:
Need another $50 off for that I think.
These are better than Nvidia in price/performance but that's not saying much

Why?

You want them to fight an invisible competitor?

JediFragger · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:38

Martini1991 said:
*If* there's a game bundle then it's a winner for me

Borderlands 3 would be nice :cool:

Martini1991 · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:38

muon said:
Why?

Because it's still pretty poor price/performance overall but so are Nvidia

muon · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:39

Martini1991 said:
Because it's still pretty poor price/performance overall but so are Nvidia

Why do you get to define what good price/performance is? Who are you?

It's good enough for me (by being much better than nvidia) and many other people.

Martini1991 · 6 Jul 2019 at 14:40

muon said:
Why do you get to define what good price/performance is? Who are you?

It's food enough for me and many other people.

I don't really know how to respond to this.