XFX RX 5700 Xt Thicc III Ultra 8GB Boost Up to 2025MHz GDDR6 3xDP HDMI Graphics Card (Rx-57XT8TBD8)

Scalps are grabbing up everything and it's hard to track good deals till I came across this 5700 XT. I am actually quite glad I was pushed to go a different direction then my usual Nvidia route. Radeon has come a long way and this card is perfect for my build. I have just about every game you can think of and this card plays max settings at 1080p, 1440p 60fps+. 4k at 40-45 fps max with a I5 6600k OC 4.2 and just 16GB 1866 DDR3. The only gripe i found out the hard way was this card will not show up till you upgrade to Win10. I was fortunate and had a home edition laying around but i was upset i had to let my Win 8.1 go. There was no driver associated with this card that would go past 17.01 blah blah. So I caved and upgraded to Win 10. Also i need to add the settings and features are so vast associated with this card I am amazed. This also came with Godfall and it plays perfect on 1440p maxed out. I don't care to go pass 60fps and just know this card will run max settings even when you aren't using it 100%. I set it to basically feed it power enough to make my games at least run 60fps and never over so I know this card if you want can exceed that count. Consider purchasing a pilar to help with GPU sag because this card is heavy and it will sag so best invest in one like in my photo that isnt that expensive to make sure your MB is safe and card is safe and level. *Update 11/22/20* Driver Issues Well it took a few days of purchase for the drivers to become an obstacle. With my particular experience with the audio driver issue via connect HDMI to TV. While scouting online looking for a solution in the end there is none. The issue is and varied but mine was audio cuts off randomly and audio driver would just switch off. Utilizing DDU to clean uninstall and freshly put the newest recommended driver, it worked but then went right back to it. Did all the same troubleshooting as suggested online but nothing. Never had this issue with RTX or GTX if that. *Solution* The only way to break this endless cycle of audio issues was to plug via AUX cable into the MB and directly plug into my sound bar system. This locks and enables use of Realtek driver on the MB. Every since I have had no issue. On another note this card is amazing minus the audio issues. This can play 95% of my library 4k max 60fps+ while I can monitor my utilization is only at 70-85% this was set on purpose because I am using a I5 6600k on a Z170 MB. This card is future proof for awhile. *Noise & Heat* I can't hear the fans and they wont spin until it gets under heavy loads. The system is auto and works perfectly. XFX has come a long way from when I last had their card back in the day and I am glad I got the chance to try them out again. Heat is amazing, the highest I have monitored this was 74c this was under heavy loads. My CPU usually goes up to 47c. The power is not even that high and it will adjust accordingly but I have noticed it take as much as 230w which is nothing. I do need to mention I am not utilizing 100% too and don't need too either.

After hearing of driver issues, I held out until they were fixed. I wanted a card that would do me good for awhile, and as I play on 1080p 144hz, I knew this would be the card. Some say it is overkill, perhaps they are right but if I ever go to 1440p I know I'm ready, monitors are expensive, especially 1440p 144hz!) You can feel quality when you hold it in your hand. Metal backplate, so it's stiff, a little heavy but it doesn't sag too bad, maybe a few degrees. Kinda gives me a Cadillac vibe with the grill. As a note, I use Proxmox as my host operating system, with a windows virtual machine with vfio to pass through the GPU and game. I have had to tinker to get it to work, but it is working with no issues, plenty of guides online. The performance has been nothing short of amazing, especially when you consider the price is $400. Zero blue screens or driver issues, junction temperature is staying at 70°C under full load, and the noise is acceptable. I personally don't care how loud a card is, *as long as the cooling if effective*. Changed the default can curves up much higher, starting at 40% at idle, going to 90% at 100°C. As such I've not seen this card go over 72°C. The fans at 100% are a bit loud, but it's not obnoxious. I am very happy with the cooler design and that XFX refreshed this card, and made it longer. I think that really helps with the temps. Even more pleasing as I am concerned about longevity, a bigger cooler keeps things colder and thus the heat stress at Bay. I had a 1660 super, but found frame rate in games to be lacking at times, which in turn had to lower detail levels. Ultra everything is a breeze for this card, I haven't gamed on PC in many years, so much so I am used to Xbox 360 graphics. The immersion and high refresh rate just make the experience so much better. Sure it's not a 2080, but I feel like I'm getting the performance of a 2070, very close to it (partner has one). I am impressed with the drivers and utilities. AMD has done a great job, with Nvidia, you have to get other utilities to do what AMD includes, like undervotling or fan curves. Room for improvement, but it has won me over so far. Buy with confidence, I love this card. Edit: I should mention those temperatures I listed were at MINIMUM case fan speed, I turned my fans up to max, (10x 140mm cheapo fans @1400rpm) and this card only hits 55C even with an over clock.

Hardware no doubt is a beast. This baby gives you stable 60fps on Horizon Zero Dawn on 1440p - yes that game that had horrible optimization(this is written on august 2020). Modern Warfare(2019) multiplayer all maxed out gives me 80-100+ fps depending on the map. Cooling is nuts, out of the box the card runs at 2195Mhz core clock and the massive 30+cm heatsink just vibes check the temperatures into mid 70s on a not so aggressive fan curve. Now the elephant in the room: the drivers. Im currently running adrenalin 20.8.3 which is the recommended driver at the moment. No issues at all, no bsods, no game crashing, no black screens all stable and able. Pretty happy with the purchase decision I made especially since im coming from the gtx 980 ti which in itself is a hotbox as well. XFX has done it. This is the card that was supposed to be. Live and learn i guess

Una gran gráfica a un precio excelente, vengo de unaRTX 2060 que devolví ya que no estaba contento con su rendimiento (bajones de FPS repentinos y algún que otro glich gráfico). Los drivers han mejorado bastante aunque he de decir que la aplicación a veces no va del todo fluida, tuve que personalizar la curva del ventilador ya que la gráfica alcanzaba temperaturas de 80ºC y la temperatura de la unión 100ºC, sino le pones la curva personalizada el ventilador no pasa de 2000 r.p.m, con lo cual es bastante recomendable hacer la curva personalizada. Decir que no he hecho pruebas de estrés y que las temperaturas que muestro son mientras juego al Warzone en multijugador. La estética de la gráfica me ha gustado mucho, tenéis que tener cuidado sino tenéis una caja grande porque puede que no os quepa, en mi caso al conectarla al PCIe prácticamente estaba muy bien sujeta, no he tenido que usar el refuerzo que viene con mi caja.

Allora, come da titolo premetto due cose: 1) Sono stato fortunato ad acquistarla quando il prezzo era ancora quello di lancio (ovvero 450 euro). Ora viene venduta a quasi 700, e per quel prezzo, non comprate assolutamente; 2) Ero partito con l'idea di sfruttare l'estensione per il reso dato che sono in attesa di una 3080 da ottobre (sigh) ma mi sono trovato talmente bene (e la 3080 ancora non si vede, doppio sigh) e restituirla entro i termini massimi ma sono rimasto talmente soddisfatto che alla fine la terro' comunque per darla o ad un amico o montarla sul mio pc "mulo" a casa dei miei genitori. Venendo alla recensione vera e propria, la scheda e' una bomba. Come tutte le 5700xt in circolazione va undervoltata tramite il software proprietario di amd adrenaline. Ho vinto la famosa "silicon lottery" con questa scheda, dato che riesco mantenendo un clock di 2ghz, a fare un undervolt stabile a 1060 mv (contro i 1200 factory). Il tutto si traduce in temperature minori (circa 6 gradi sul chip e ben 18 gradi sul junction) mantenendo le ventole a circa il 35/40% attorno ai 17/1800 rpm (e il tutto si traduce in circa 35/40 dbA di rumore... praticamente inaudibile). Per quel che riguarda gli fps non mi dilunghero' troppo, ci sono 54057 benchmarks in rete. Io ho un monitor 1440p a 144hz e riesco a giocare a tutti i giochi piu' pesanti come Metro Exodus, Horizon Zero Dawn (tranne cyberpunk, ma quella e' una storia a parte) a circa 70 fps con dettagli ultra (e' anche vero che ho un discreto pc, ryzen 5800x, 32 gb di ram) ma tranquilli che i 60 li toccate sicuri anche con processori meno performanti. A 1080 non fatevi problemi, tutti i giochi gireranno tranquillamente a 90/100 fps a meno che non siate "bottleneckati" dalla vostra cpu. Che aggiungere. Grande acquisto, specialmente vedendo il prezzo a cui viene venduta ora... che ladri e che brutta situazione che si e' creata per il pc gaming. Mah, speriamo in tempi migliori. Se per caso riusciste a trovarla attorno alle 450/500 non fatevi remore ed acquistatela. Non ne andrete delusi.

I'd heard bad things about the THICC II but after reading a little about how XFX had got their act together with this card I decided to go for it, especially as it's the cheapest 5700 XT with this kind of factory overclock. I will say it took a little setup to get things exactly how I wanted - initially it was idling at over 50 degrees which was caused by the memory clock staying at maximum when running it through a 144Hz monitor. After tweaking the display settings in the Radeon driver software I now have it consistently below 40 degrees. The fans don't spin at all when it's idle. I'm finding myself really impressed by this card. Load temperatures after 2hrs sustained 100% usage haven't tipped over 73 degrees in a reasonably well-ventilated case, which means no throttling. Like any big card it gets a little blowy at this sort of temperature but I'd say it's definitely on the less obnoxious end of the noise scale. More like an air conditioner than a jet engine. One possible negative to note is that it gets VERY saggy. If you look at my picture you may notice I've built a little tower of lego to hold up the far end of the card. I don't think I can hold this against it too much. It's long and it's heavy, and long and heavy cards tend to sag. If that worries you, it's easily solvable. Also, the blue LEDs at the power connectors may be off-putting to some. I fixed this by making my RGB setup blue-y so it blends in. I don't know if they can be turned off. Solid card overall!

I have been building my own PCs since 2003, and have never had this bad of an experience with any of my previous Nvidia GPUs. I have tried every single solution available on the internet, from AMD and from forums. But I still have issues with this GPU in every single game I play. I have tried putting the fans to permanently run at 100%, and still the GPU overheats at less than 50% load. I have tried DDUing the Driver and used every single driver AMD released since the GPU was released. I have also tried Underclocking, Overclocking, Undervolting, Overvolting, and even putting a big desk fan next to the open PC case. The GPU always crashes, and at random time intervals, so sometimes it feels like the problem is solved, only to appear at the most undesirable moment (like today in a competition ACC race) The Drivers are terrible, every update I have more issues with the GPU, I have now tried for months to get the darn GPU to run stable without crashing, sometimes one problem gets fixed with a driver update, only for another problem to appear. There are plenty of users out there with the same problem and still AMD cannot get a decent working driver released, or provide a good explanation of what to do to get the drivers from crashing. Also note, there are people who have been using this card with no problems, which begs the question what the cause is of the card/driver timeouts. Could be some incompatibility between some software/hardware/bios settings combinations that causes the problems with the GPU and the driver, could be a bug in all the drivers, or it could be an intermittent HW failure caused by some components running at the edge of their specified operating ranges. Bottom line is, this card is very very temperamental and will cause issues for very weird and silly reasons unless you are one of the lucky few.