PCWorld – August 2019

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XT: Blazing new trails

AMD’s latest graphics cards contain numerous cutting-edge technologies, and an all-new

“RDNA” architecture that fixes previous Radeon drawbacks. BY BRAD CHACOS

The Radeon RX 5700 and

Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics

cards represent a fresh start

and a bright future for AMD,

brimming with technologies that have never

been seen in GPUs before.

The Radeon RX 5700 series are the first

mainstream GPUs built using the bleeding-

edge 7nm manufacturing process (hence

their July 7 launch). They’re the first graphics

cards packing the ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 interface.

They’re the first graphics cards crafted with

AMD’s all-new “RDNA” architecture, which

delivers a massive power efficiency boost that

Radeon’s been needing for years. They’re

packing fresh display technologies to enable

4K, 144Hz monitors without the need for

messy chroma subsampling. They’ve

IMAGE: BRAD CHACOS