AMD Radeon RX 5700XT – Why You Need To Wait For The RX 6000 Series

While AMD has been kicking butts and taking names in the CPU market with their Ryzen processors, the same cannot be said for their Radeon series graphics cards. Mind you, since the Polaris launch a few years ago, the GPUs have come a long way, but they’re still not considered the go-to choice for the discerning gamer, mostly due to better offerings present in the market. But that’s about to be a thing of the past, because with the RX 5700XT, AMD has yet again proved, that they are completely on-point when it comes to value for money – And today we’re going to talk just about that.

The RX 5700 XT was launched much after NVIDIA’s RTX 2000 series cards, but that doesn’t mean it can’t hold its own. In fact, not only does it take on the original RTX 2070 that was supposed to compete with, it also does well against the RTX 2060 Super and 2070 Super, the GPUs announced to counter AMD’s RX 5700 and 5700XT.

The RX 5700 XT is based on AMD’s new 7nm RDNA architecture, featuring 2560 Stream processors and 160 Texture Units. It has a base clock speed of 1605 MHz, boosting up to 1755 MHz. Instead of HBM2 memory seen in the Vega cards, the RX 5700 XT comes with 8 gigs of GDDR6 memory running at 14 Gbps. To power the card, it requires one 8-pin connector and one 6-pin connector. On the display end, it offers all the standard features you’d expect from a modern GPU, with three DisplayPorts and one HDMI port. Before we get into more detail, let’s look at the benchmarks.

As you can see from the numbers, when it comes to raw performance, the RX 5700 XT is an absolute powerhouse for high quality 1440p gaming. Whether you’re playing popular titles like GTA 5 and Fortnite, or the latest, graphics intensive AAA games like Metro Exodus and Horizon Zero Dawn, the gaming experience is spectacular, making it one of the best graphics cards available in the market to date.

It doesn’t stop there either, because AMD has also added a horde of other features for all kinds of gamers. One such feature is the Radeon Anti-Lag, which helps in reducing latency, which can be a huge boost for esports performance. There’s also Radeon Image Sharpening, which is a contrast-aware technique rather than a simple sharpening filter, resulting in a much better image without creating any artifacts.

The biggest selling points for The RX 5700 XT’s RTX competitors is NVIDIA’s RTX ray tracing and DLSS upscaling, and while those are great features, the problem is that 90% of the games in the market have no support for them, which means that even at this point, they haven’t really been adopted as widely. So, if the RX 5700 XT can beat the 2060 Super in terms of pricing, it definitely would be the best 1440p choice for gaming, and very well proves why it’s worth waiting for the RX 6000 series launch, which is slated for 28th October. Combine this with the disaster of the launch that has been NVIDIA’s latest RTX 3080 and 3090, it only makes more and more sense to wait for as many options to be available in the market, rather than jumping on the hype and buying potentially disappointing products.