PC World - USA (2019-08)

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76 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

REVIEWS AMD RADEON RX 5700 AND 5700 XT


Codemasters’ buttery-smooth Ego game
engine. We test two laps on the Australia
course, with clear skies.
Nvidia’s RTX Super GPUs blow well past
the Radeon RX 5700 family here, especially at
the more popular 1440p and 1080p
resolutions. But again, AMD’s price cut
changes the tune, with the $350 Radeon RX
5700 surpassing the $350 RTX 2060 in
performance, and the $400 Radeon RX 5700
XT blowing well past the $400 RTX 2060
Super at 1080p and 1440p resolutions.

GTA V
We’re going to wrap things up with a game
that isn’t really a visual barn-burner, but still

tops the Steam charts day in and day out. We
test Grand Theft Auto V ($30 on Humble at
go.pcworld.com/gta5) with all options
turned to Very High, all Advanced Graphics
options except extended shadows enabled,
and FXAA. GTA V runs on the RAGE engine
and has received substantial updates since its
initial launch.
Third time’s a trend. GTA V has
performed better on GeForce hardware ever
since it launched years and years ago, but
now, the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT draw
even with Nvidia’s pricier RTX Super options.
The vastly more expensive Radeon VII is still
a loser here.

POWER DRAW,
THERMALS, AND
NOISE
We also tested the Radeon RX 5700
and RX 5700 XT using 3DMark’s
highly respected Fire Strike synthetic
benchmark. Fire Strike runs at 1080p,
Fire Strike Extreme runs at 1440p, and
Fire Strike Ultra runs at 4K resolution.
All render the same scene, but with
more intense graphical effects as you
move up the scale, so that Extreme
and Ultra flavors stress GPUs even
more. We record the graphics score
to eliminate variance from the CPU.
The Radeon RX 5700 GPUs
achieve higher scores than the RTX
Super duo, even though Nvidia’s

GTA V
(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

90.51

84.93

93.57

90.26

99.16

97.51

98.33

55.27

45.3

53.54

48.13

61.63

60.3

63.24

100.83

98.43

104.81

98.67

105.27

105.88

104.75

1080p 1440p 4K

Radeon RX 5700

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super (FE)

AMVega 64D Radeon

Radeon R X 5700 XT

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super (FE)

AMD Radeon VII
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