AMD Navi RX 5700 XT Game FPS Benchmarks, Specs, Prices compared To Nvidia RTX 2070

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Today is launch day for AMD’s latest graphics cards, the AMD RX 5700 & the RX 5700 XT. These two cards are built on the long awaited Navi 7nm process architecture, which has been reportedly chosen as the foundation of the next gen consoles, PS5 and the Xbox 2, which is in itself quite the vote of confidence.

Its certainly a shame that today’s launch, which is one of the first big AMD graphics card launches in a while, has been purposefully confused by the competition, who released a sneaky set of cards of their own. But that is the nature of the industry and meant that AMD responded with pre-launch price cuts for both Navi cards. So while unsportsmanlike, thats a win for us gamers despite being a bit over shadowing.

Its all about finding the best deals for gamers, so cutting straight to it, the question on everyone’s lips is going to be, do these two new Navi based AMD graphics cards deliver better price to performance than whatever their counterparts can offer?

We have also covered AMD RX 5700 XT Vs RTX 2070 Super Price to Performance

What graphics cards does the AMD RX 5700 XT compete against in the Nvidia range?

AMD has positioned their RX 5700 XT against Nvidia’s RTX 2070 and their RX 5700 is placed to compete against the RTX 2060. Now its always like comparing apples with oranges when you get Nvidia and AMD cards side by side, but the elephant in the room is that the new Navi cards dont offer ray tracing technology. This new effect was introduced in the RTX Nvidia cards to offer realistic lighting and reflection effects. To counter this AMD’s RX 5000 Series cards have their own Radeon Image Sharpening and Radeon Anti-Lag.

What is AMD’s Radeon Image Sharpening Feature?

This new Navi architecture feature returns lost graphics clarity, in-game, due to other post-processing graphics enhancing effects.

What is AMD’s Radeon Anti-Lag Feature?

This new in-game graphics technology is largely a boost for competitive play. It will reduce response time between a player input and the action carried out on display by up to a reported 31%.

So AMD Navi is not without its juicy tech, but really, what a gamer is most interested in is two things. First, how many frames per second am I going to get in my favourite game if I use AMD’s new RX 5700 XT instead of the Nvidia card and then how much do I have to pay for that compared to the Nvidia equivalent?

When does the AMD Navi Radeon RX 5700 XT release date?

Both of the new Navi-powered graphics cards launch on July 7th 2019.

What is the AMD Navi Radeon RX 5700 XT launch price?

The launch price of the Navi architecture based Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card was $399 and its weaker partner card, the RX 5700’s release price is $349. But that price was not the RX 5700 Navi card’s originally intended launch price.

The more powerful Navi RX 5700 XT graphics card was intended to have a launch price tag of $449, and its weaker launch partner card, the RX 5700, was going to be a little less at $379. But Nvidia pushed through a cheeky early release of their RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super to draw away some of the attention from these AMD RX 5700 XT releases. Which totally worked as here we are talking about Nvidia again.

Speaking of which here’s some more information on those two Nvidia cards, in case you want a gaming performance reference.

RTX 2070 Super benchmarks | RTX 2060 Super benchmarks

RX 5700 XT Vs RTX 2070 Super Price to Performance

What is the game clock for AMD Navi Radeon RX 5700 XT?

Both RX 5000 cards use the new Navi 10 GPU, which is built with new RDNA graphics architecture. First off the RX 5700 XT has 8GB GDDR6, 2,560 cores, and a game clock speed of 1,755MHz. Whereas the weaker RX 5700 has the same 8GB GDDR6, 2,304 cores and a Game Clock of 1,625MHz.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT performance

The RX 5700’s are both targeting a specific Nvidia RTX card. The RX 5700XT is up against the RTX 2070 and then the RX 5700 is taking on the RTX 2060. As this is AMD’s data release its no great surprise that AMDs selected gaming benchmarks came in a bit ahead of the GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 GPUs.

RTX 2070 Super 8GB First Benchmarks

AMD RX 5700 Tech Specs & Launch Prices

	Radeon RX 5700	Radeon RX 5700 XT	Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
GPU	AMD Navi 10	AMD Navi 10	AMD Navi 10
Lithography	7nm FinFET	7nm FinFET	7nm FinFET
Compute units	36	40	40
RDNA Cores	2,304	2,560	2,560
Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	448GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s
Boost clock	1,725MHz	1,905MHz	1,980MHz
Game clock	1,625MHz	1,755MHz	1,830MHz
Base clock	1,465MHz	1,605MHz	1,680MHz
Transistors	10.3bn	10.3bn	10.3bn
Die size	251mm2	251mm2	251mm2
TDP	180W	225W	225W
Price	$349	$399	$449

For comparison & tech reference, below you can see the current Nvidia RTX tech specs.

Check out the rest of the RTX Super lineup

	GeForce RTX 2060	GeForce RTX 2060 Super	GeForce RTX 2070	GeForce RTX 2070 Super	GeForce RTX 2080	GeForce RTX 2080 Super	GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GPU Architecture	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing
GPU	TU106	TU106	TU106	TU104	TU104	TU104	TU102
Process Node	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF
CUDA Cores	1920	2176	2304	2560	2944	3072	4352
Tensor Cores	240	272	288	320	368	384	544
RT Cores	30	34	36	40	46	48	68
Core Clock	1365 MHz	1470 MHz	1410 MHz	1605 MHz	1515 MHz	1650 MHz	1350 MHz
Boost Clock	1680 MHz	1650 MHz	1620 MHz	1770 MHz	1800 MHz	1815 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory	6GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	11GB GDDR6
Memory Speed	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz	15.5 GHz	14 GHz
Memory Interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	352-bit
Memory Bandwidth	336GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s	496GB/s	616GB/s
TDP	160W	175W	175W	215W	215W	250W	285W
Power Input	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Founders Price	$349	$399	$599	$499	$799	$699	$1199
Normal Price	$349	$399	$499	$499	$699	$699	$999

AMD RX 5700 XT Performance

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 1080p

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 1440p

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 4K

AMD Navi RX 5700 XT 8GB Vs Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB

AMD Navi RX 5700 XT 8GB Vs Nvidia RTX 2060 Super 8GB

AMD Navi RX 5700 XT 8GB Vs Nvidia RTX 2070 6GB

AMD Navi RX 5700 XT 8GB Vs AMD Navi RX 5700 8GB

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Here are the latest frames per second results comparing a wide variety of game frames per second across the Nvidia RTX 2060, RTX 2070 and the AMD RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. We then break those figures down into a dollar cost per frame per second. So we can see what sort of game performance we are going to get for our cash money. Then at the bottom of the spreadsheet you will see our average costs per second across all the tested games and then the overall average dollar cost per second for the AMD RX 5700 XT compared to the other three graphics cards.

First off we will look at the 1080p screen resolution frames per second results for the 4 tested graphics cards.

1080p RX 5700 XT dollar price to performance game analysis and comparison to RTX 2060 and RTX 2070

1440p RX 5700 XT dollar price to performance game analysis and comparison to RTX 2060 and RTX 2070

4K RX 5700 XT dollar price to performance game analysis and comparison to RTX 2060 and RTX 2070

Conclusion and Gamer Insight

Thats quite a lot of game FPS and cost analysis data to digest, but put simply these new AMD cards are coming out fighting. They are topping a lot of the frame rate charts above and delivering them at a better cost per frame rate as well. However, it is definitely a good job AMD lowered their launch prices, because they have to now compete against the new RTX Super cards and Nvidia have put them out to give a much tougher price to performance fight. We have also published another article that does a similar deep dive into a comparison between the Nvidia Super cards versus the AMD RX 5700 Navi’s to see how they stack up, so pop over there to see that FPS to $ analysis as well.

Drop your comments in the section below and be sure to pop back here as our FPS results above will change as even more data is compiled.