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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 CHACOSThe 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 (hencetheir 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’veIMAGE: BRAD CHACOS