Customers are positive about the MECH OC AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card's performance in gaming, especially at 1440p resolution, and its price point. However, customers are negative about the high temperatures and resulting fan noise produced by the card. Some users also reported issues with drivers.
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Performance
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Noise
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Blown away by AMD
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I downgraded from an Nvidia MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio and.. Well, I can't really call it a downgrade. Actually an upgrade.
Out of every game I've tested today, I get about 10 more fps with this card. The biggest difference is in Red Dead Redemption 2. On my 2080 I averaged around 60 fps, but with this card I average 88 fps.
I don't know if I just got lucky and got a super good card, but I had no problems installing the drivers, and the increase in game performance is phenomenal.
I'm very happy with my decision to switch from Nvidia.
My only complaint is that this card is very loud, but I think my fans may just be a little loose. I've seen other reviews state that the card is very quiet.
Out of all the cards I've owned (RX 570, GTX 1070 TI, GTX 1080, and RTX 2080), this is the only one I would say is worth every cent. Exceptional performance at half the cost of my RTX 2080.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Fps
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Temperature
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great card
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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First off, make sure you DDU your old drivers before you install this card, that will save you from having the majority of the problems listed in many of the other reviews.
Stock out of the box, my card boosted to 1993mhz with the latest Adrenalin drivers and has not given me a single issue, it does get warm, but I wouldn’t say hot, it does run much cooler than my previous RX580.
I rate this card a solid 10 out of 10, the Navi GPU and RDNA is going hurt Nvidia...
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Temperature
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Needs undervolting
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Pros:
Came with Resident Evil 3, Monster Hunter: World + DLC, and 3 months of Xbox game pass. Crazy good value.
Faster than my old 2070 in all games I play.
Cons, but not really:
Need undervolting to stay cool, I posted a picture of my settings. I didn't lost any fps by doing this. By doing this the card uses less power, which will result in lower temps.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing!
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After I installed the drivers and all that fun stuff I jumped right into gaming with graphics settings on ultra and it ran great.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Graphics card
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great graphic card
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
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Great graphic card so far play all my game with zero problems and love msi design
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
RIP Card Costs 2021
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
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Glad I picked this up for $399 before the tariffs affected everything.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best graphic card
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Mi kid is so happy by the performance of this graphic card.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price
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Ray tracing, Temperature
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
No problems here!
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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The biggest issue with the 5700 series were the AMD reference card thermals and the MSI Evoke. True it's possible you might want to check the thermal pads on the MSI 5700 series but this one had no issues. I run my games at 1440p & 60-144hz were applicable. Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Control, Borderlands 3, Destiny 2, Final Fantasy XV, Sekiro all ran at a smooth 60+ frame rate and thermals never spiked above 72'C for me. Evil Within 2 however, 85'C on high, but this title is known to be poorly optimized. Killing a few settings got it back to a stable 75'C. I have had no issues with AMD drivers since 2014, applications worked smoothly and no BSODs whatsoever. This card is a good alternative to the Powercolor Red Dragon, but I would still recommend that or the Sapphire Nitro. Price per performance is amazing on this card vs the 2070 Super, Ray tracing is still available through patching in some games but ultimately not worth the additional 100-170$.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Noise, Temperature
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Don't be scared off by the bad reviews.
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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I came so VERY close to purchasing a 2070 Super despite really not wanting to. The 2070S is honestly neck and neck with this card (winning in some, losing to it in others.. plus AMD cards age better so I'd call them equal performers overall) outside of RTX which I personally don't buy into but the 2070S costs more than this card by sometimes $100+.
I've always been an AMD guy and wanted to stay that way but the countless bad reviews on the 5000 series Navi cards scared me. Reports of BSOD's, black screens / flickering, crashing and such galore. That alone made me hesitant to buy this card.. I'm glad I didn't listen to that and bought it anyway.
I have not had ONE, SINGLE, PROBLEM out of this card. The reviews on this specific card calling it hot? Even under the heaviest loads I've had it under it didn't break 63-65C at the most with the stock fan curve settings. Loud fans? An absolute lie, a literal untruth because I've seen the fans get up to 75-80% and can't even hear them. Issues outside of this specific card such as what I mentioned above? I've experienced none of them, I did a full wipe of the previous drivers I had installed for my 590x Fatboy via DDU (removed the AMD folder and everything.. FULL wipe) which is always good practice, then simply found the newest recommended (not experimental) driver on the AMD website via the manual card selector.. installed it and viola. Card was up and running great with no issues experienced since.
I want you to know I'm not a light gamer, running 1080P games from 4-5+ years ago like some people do despite buying powerful current-gen hardware. I've been using this across both 1080P Ultrawide and 1440P resolutions on very high to ultra settings on top of running actual GPU benchmarks multiple times.
Monster Hunter World, AC Odyssey, The Witcher III, RE2 Remake, RE3 Remake, Sekiro, Tekken 7, Forager, The Outer Worlds, Factorio, UnderRail, Kenshi, Resident Evil 7, Vermintide 2, Fallout 4 and Metro Exodus are the games I've had running using this card so far (with many more to come) and some of these games are pretty hard graphical performance hogs at higher settings.. especially MHW, AC Odyssey and Metro Exodus. I've had both great performance at very high / ultra settings AND great stability using this card. My temps are great, as I said I haven't even set up a custom fan curve. I'm even running a mild overclock (beyond the stock one) and I've still had great temps, nor have I ever experienced the fans ramping up as being 'loud' like multiple reviews stated. This card is a beast, for 1080P UW, 1440P and 1440P UW it knocks everything out of the park and I'd wager for 1600P and 4K it's still a solid performer depending on your settings / the age & optimization of the game.
For the $380-$430 price range this card most commonly sits in, you can't beat it. It's an absolute banger of a performer, with the performance getting better and better as the drivers flesh out. If there were stability issues with them in the past, those are gone as long as you wipe properly. Use either DDU or the tool AMD offers themselves and you won't have any problems out of this card running the newest drivers. This particular brand of the card is great too, the stock OC can be bumped up slightly with no issues and the thermals are great. Fans don't make audible noise either as I said.
I have no clue what was going on with the cards owned by the people who wrote reviews saying this card was hitting 85C-90C+ temps with extremely loud fans.. that has been the polar opposite of my experience. The stability issues also have not even ONCE been a problem for me. This GPU is paired with an i5 9600K 6-core CPU running a mild OC, 16GB's of 2,433mhz DDR4 RAM on a fairly basic LGA 1151 MSI mobo all powered by a 700W Thermaltake PSU with the OS being Windows 10. As I've said many times now and will say one final time.. this card is the best value at this price range and as long as you don't venture out of the 1080P-1440P range it will remain a solid performer for years to come on higher settings. If you like the sound of that, buy it.. don't be scared off by the reviews like I almost was.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Size
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Temperature
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Another great card with little flaws.
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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So this card is amazing is short and it weight is very light. Easy card for any ITX and mATX build. The card works great, temps seems to be find but occasionally playing games the temps will go up on it. Might need to increase fans speed using MSI Afterburn fan curve for cases that don't have the best cooling. However, the card runs anything I trow at it. The card is pretty quiet and no RGB for those that hate RGB or want a plain black out setup.
I only had a few issues so far with black screen and forcing me to turn off the system just to recover my pc back. I have done DDU drives removal and re-install them fresh. So far is working great so we will see.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Fps, Performance, Price
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Noise
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great results
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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I got this specifically for WoW:shadowlands. It never slows. Frames stay about at 60fps when in high demand. I’ve seen it as high as 99fps at low demanding times. The software is awesome and easy to use. Very customizable. Only bad thing I have to say it’s a little noisy when it’s working hard but most of the time it’s pretty quiet. All in all can’t beat the price. Came with 2 $60 games for free.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price
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Temperature
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Requires tweaking to keep it happy
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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- excellent mining value for money as compared to Nvidia 2080ti. Etherium 45Mh/s out of box.
- gd 2k gaming
- poor out of the box experience in terms of thermal management. Temps hit 100 deg C under folding 100% load. Need to manually bring down freq to 1750 gclk and undervolt. This is true for xfx raw 2 as well
-dual gpu Radeon bsods windows 10 after 48hr
Working well nothing made it possible to go back hence returned
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No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Noise
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good card but one big issue
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
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Performance wise this is a great card that pushes all of my games at medium to ultra settings well over 60fps at 1440p. The only issue I have with this card is the noise level. This card is loud. It's like having a jet engine sitting on my desk. I use headphones 100% of the time and can hear this card with my headphones on at volume. If you put you PC under the desk or behind you may not have any issues but if you put it on your desk close to you it will be an issue.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Drivers
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Powerful GPU, limited by driver & stability issues
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Posted . Owned for 9 months when reviewed.
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Since RDNA2 is yet to release, and the Radeon VII has been discontinued, the RX 5700 XT represents AMD's top-flight desktop graphics card at the time of writing (July 2020).
This card is honestly the best value at its price point ($300-$400), which is impressive, because this segment of the market is extremely competitive:
- Beats the 2060 Super by high single-digit %'s while remaining $50 cheaper
- Loses by high single-digit %'s to the 2070 Super, a card that costs at bare minimum $500
- Wipes the floor with the 1660 Ti/Super, Nvidia's entry-level Turing cards, offering slightly better performance/dollar and a clear upgrade path for builders looking to replace those cards
Despite its great value, I wouldn't recommend purchasing this particular card, because it seems to have deep and abiding stability issues that go beyond the particular card that I purchased. Any Catalyst/AMD driver releases beyond 1.9.2 for me, and 1.9.7 for many owners that I've read about and personally talked to, seem to cause horrible stability issues that mainly involve forced restarts and black screens upon launching any 3D application or game.
Even when downgrading to earlier releases, these issues remained, albeit with lower frequency. This means that I was never able to properly play new games with drivers meant for them, so my frames suffered as a result. These crashes were *not* the result of thermal stress, but simply poorly written drivers: When a game crashes on launch with the temps rock bottom at 32 Celsius, the crash isn't because the fans don't work, despite what your friendly neighborhood MSI tech support agent will insist.
I RMA'd the card with MSI and still continued to have the same problems, and tried it with an array of different motherboards, and still ran into the same set of problems every single time. I can only deduce from this that I and the hundreds of other owners across the Internet are either extremely unlucky, or this card is simply poorly made and/or poorly supported by AMD.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Well rounded.
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
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This card does the job well enough but that's about all it does. I prefer Nvidia cards because i think they have better support. This card will run most current games at 1080p - some at 1440. Don't expect to break into 4k gaming with this card. For the price, its OK. Nvidia just announced the 30 series cards. Consider spending a little more money for real power if that's what you're looking for. All in all - the 5700 is a well rounded card that gets the job done but don't expect to be blown away.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Noise
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Decent card, but noisy with bugs...
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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The card is currently working well for me, but at times doesn't like to play nice with my monitors after i put my computer to sleep. Unfortunately, there was a known bug that persisted for months involving black screens making the card useless for gaming. Unfortunately I experienced this issue, despite a clean scrub of my old Nvidia drivers. I was eventually able to find a work around re-installing the drivers and disabling all hardware accelerators in the programs I use. I still experience the occasional crash, but it has been few and far between as of now.
The second issue i am experiencing with this card is noise. It is very loud in comparison with other cards. I suspect a personal fan curve would resolve this issue but I haven't experimented with it yet. It's unfortunate that these two things have caused some hiccups. Outside of them, the card works really well. I think you would do better going with the gigabyte card, as the noise wouldn't be a problem. I originally planned to do this but had to take the best option I could find given the pandemic and dwindling supplies at the time.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Size
Cons mentioned:
Noise
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic performance for price
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
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Purchased for my daily usage PC. Really quiet in low demand mode, fans run louder when running demanding graphics applications / games. Nice mid size video card, higher end performance, quieter performance. No overheating issues in my experience.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Temperature
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Its Good
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Its a solid graphics card. Tenfold upgrade compared to my old GTX 1050 Ti. Just one slight problem. It has the tendency to crash, and I think I have pinpointed it to a heat issue with my build. Its most stable drivers are from 2019, but overall still a nice card.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Fps, Performance
Cons mentioned:
Temperature
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great card
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Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
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This card perform extremely well. Thermal are a bit high but not at crazy temps to be worried about. Average 160+ fps on games at ultra setting. I did liquid cooled it and it perform even better now.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Price
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Noise
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good for Price but definitely will be upgrading
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Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.
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It is a great product for its price point. Middle ground. It can get loud at times when loading up portions of games but works well most of the time. I will definitely be upgrading though.