AMD Radeon RX 5700 - A Step Down From The 5700 XT

A good alternative that isn’t quite as beefy or handsome as the 5700 XT, for a lower price.

- Jarred Walton

The Radeon RX 5700 is the second of AMD’s new Navi 10 graphics cards, sporting the new and improved RDNA architecture, and playing second fiddle to the RX 5700 XT’s leading role. It’s a story we’ve seen many times—the RX 570 was a modest step down from the RX 580, same for Vega 56 compared to Vega 64. If you prefer the Nvidia side of things, it’s a bit like the GTX 1660 versus the GTX 1660 Ti. Sporting a last-minute price drop, the direct competition is the RTX 2060.

The RX 5700 uses the same Navi 10 GPU as the other 5700 models, but AMD disables four CUs and 256 cores, as well as dropping the boost clock by 180MHz. That’s typical for the second-tier product for any GPU, and the reason comes down to chip yields. RX 5700 cards likely won’t hit the same clock speeds as the 5700 XT, no matter how hard you try to overclock.