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The Radeon RX 5700 XT Owners Thread.
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Just checking to make sure. All you need to do now is test it and see what happens.
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I hear you regarding the simplicity, that's how I'd work a setup like that too. But right now, the current setup simply isn't working, even though before on a previous card it did. So the issue becomes accept it as it is, or work a non-ideal solution in. Oh, remember to get some black tape too, since most of hte HDMI Optical Splitters I've found have this annoying BRIGHT LED that can blind a person 15 meters away, so if you do go this route, tape that LED over.
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Well my Sapphire Pulse 5700XT has been dispatched and will be delivered tomorrow. I'm still on the 18.12.1. drivers so I'll have to DDU those and install the latest drivers which I'm not looking forward to TBH. I'll have a play with it over the weekend re under volting/overclocking and see what happens. I'm off all next week so I'll probably do a fresh install of Windows at some stage as I should have done this when I got my Ryzen 2700 to replace my 7700K. Bit lazy I suppose which I'll rectify next week.
I read the Igor Labs more power tool guide and he admits the fan curve in the latest drivers is plain broken and are very poorly designed so I think I'll just ignore wattman and tinker with the Trixx software which is what I did with my Fury card. Talking of my Fury card I found the receipt for £435.16 dated 7th Sept 2015 and I paid £439.99 for the Pulse card. I also paid £449 for my Vega 64 card on launch day in 2017 so the AMD prices have stayed fairly static if you ignore Radeon VII which wasn't supposed to be released anyway.
I read the Igor Labs more power tool guide and he admits the fan curve in the latest drivers is plain broken and are very poorly designed so I think I'll just ignore wattman and tinker with the Trixx software which is what I did with my Fury card. Talking of my Fury card I found the receipt for £435.16 dated 7th Sept 2015 and I paid £439.99 for the Pulse card. I also paid £449 for my Vega 64 card on launch day in 2017 so the AMD prices have stayed fairly static if you ignore Radeon VII which wasn't supposed to be released anyway.
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Now it says peak 3164MHz lol.
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How have they stayed static when the 5700XT's not in the same tier as the Vega 64 and Fury X
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How have they stayed static when the 5700XT's not in the same tier as the Vega 64 and Fury X
Absolutely. The Fury card was pitched against the 980, the Vega card against the 1080 and now the 5700XT against the 2070 Super (similiar to the original 2080). So I would say all three are definitely in the same tier. Not sure if the Nvidia prices have done the same.
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The 5700XT's a mid range GPU. It's not the Vega 64 successor.
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As an owner of a Vega 64 Ref card, Vega 64 was really a mid range card disguised as a high end card and TBH without having to tweak it it was an absolute **** of ****. AMD flogged GCN to the death. Now with RDNA we can start again. Let's see where it takes us my Pulse arrives tomorrow and it will out perform my Vega 64 so what's not to like.
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There was nothing mid range about Vega 64. It's twice the size of the 5700XT and had HBM.
Its default setting was absolutely crap, no doubt about it. But it was a high end card.
I like the 5700XT, but it's not high end.
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The 5700XT beats Vega 64 by a good margin so what is your problem? If Vega 64 was high end no matter the size of the die who gives a ****? HBM had that with my Fury as well and it did nothing at all and TBH I was disappointed with that but life goes on. ATM, excluding Vega VII which shouldn't have existed the 5700 XT is AMD's fastest card. Why can't you see that?
High end has to be defined relatively...there is only 4 cards that are faster (2070s(marginally)/Radeon 7(marginally)/2080s/2080ti). So with more below it than above it by that alone it can't be in the middle pack
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I think it's high end, all down to cost, £400 is high end, £600 mental. Anything above this price is just irrelevant, if they added another 0 onto the 2080ti price there would still be peeps buying the hof se edition at 1.6x the reference price. It's too high up the fishy ladder. Sad times when compared to the cpu killing amd is doing, they need to move quicker on the gpu side
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@lordhawkwind I have a problem running Strixx software. It just appear in a system tray for a second and then it dismiss and with Afterburner I can't change a vcore. Watman is relatively ok. The "bug" with fan curve appear only in idle and if you want to lower rpms. It just has no effect and you must change it when gpu is used.
Anyway I have found a new sweet spot for my Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse:
core clock speed: 2000Mhz (avg game clock is +-1910Mhz)
vcore: 1080mV
memory: 900Mhz (1800Mhz effective)
core temp: max 70°C in Time spy
power consumption: peak was 220W, avg was 195W
fans: 30% - still quite
Time spy score: +- 9140 graphics score
So I have higher performace than with a stock setting (+-300 points in Time spy) with lower temps and consumption. Lowering core clock speed lowers performace and lowering vcore makes the card unstable.
Anyway I have found a new sweet spot for my Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse:
core clock speed: 2000Mhz (avg game clock is +-1910Mhz)
vcore: 1080mV
memory: 900Mhz (1800Mhz effective)
core temp: max 70°C in Time spy
power consumption: peak was 220W, avg was 195W
fans: 30% - still quite
Time spy score: +- 9140 graphics score
So I have higher performace than with a stock setting (+-300 points in Time spy) with lower temps and consumption. Lowering core clock speed lowers performace and lowering vcore makes the card unstable.
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I'd class anything above 150 as mid range, above 300 and your getting into high end graphics cards, above 500 and it's almost certainly enthusiast grade. Above 1000 is complete lunacy.
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You've said that AMD pricing hasn't changed.
It has because the 5700XT is the Polaris replacement at a much higher price.
The fact it performs better than a Vega 64 doesn't change that. A 7870 performed better than a 6970 but the 7870 was still mid range and the 7970 was the actual replacement as one glaring example of a die shrink.
I've never once said anything negative about the 5700XT or it's performance. But it's not the Vega 64 replacement.
If we judged the 5700XT as a replacement for the Vega 64 it would be one of the worst die shrink upgrades of all time. But we don't, because it's not a replacement for the Vega 64.
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High end has to be defined relatively...there is only 4 cards that are faster (2070s(marginally)/Radeon 7(marginally)/2080s/2080ti). So with more below it than above it by that alone it can't be in the middle pack
Before the 5700XT and supers you'd have the 2060 in about that same bracket.
Would you call the 2060 high end?
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This would make the 2060 high end.
At during the mining boom this would have seen the 580 go from being universally classed as mid range to high end.
Enthusiast and high end used to be the same thing as well.
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I also have this issue with a reference sapphire 5700xt linked to my LG tv 49inch. Sometimes the sound is fine. Sometimes it will cut out very say 20 seconds or so. I think I have a 3m cable hdmi
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It turns out I've actually got a 7.5M cable.
I'm going to order a coax cable and just plug myself direct to amp for my PC.
A chew on but a quick fix.