It's not a factor for gamers, for now, and 4.0 is only a feature at the moment on new AMD X570-based motherboards. With its Radeon RX 5700 XT, AMD introduces its new graphics architecture, a suite of software improvements, and enough speed for the money to keep 1440p gamers very happy—and competing GeForce cards at bay. With the release of the Radeon RX 5700 XT and its little-brother RX 5700, AMD proves it's back in the GPU brawl. Cards released on RDNA will be fully PCI Express 4.0-compatible, and the spec delivers tantalizing potential throughput improvements (a peak possible throughput of 22Gbps, versus 13Gbps with PCI Express 3.0), on a theoretical level.How much does this matter to GPUs, specifically?
You'll need one six-pin and one eight-pin lead from your power supply, while the back of the double-slot Radeon RX 5700 XT features three DisplayPort 1.4b outputs and one HDMI 2.0 out. Did AMD plan this late price drop all along? You can see it, we can see it: Yeah, that's a big dent. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag. Things come back down to earth in this test, as the RX 5700 XT barely edges out the RTX 2060 Super (its price equal) in standard Time Spy, and trades back a narrow loss against that same card in Time Spy Extreme.

Our last synthetic benchmark is Unigine's 2017 release, Superposition. We imagine these hiccups may be solved in future updates to the driver (which, if you haven't used an AMD card of late, you should know is now called Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition).
AMD cards had arguably less attractive software, but they did their jobs, say, 90 percent as well for 75 percent of the cost. That, according to AMD, leads to an improvement of 1.25 times performance per clock cycle. (The vibe is a bit of both, really.) We tried to overclock the card manually in WattMan, AMD's overclocking tool contained in its driver software, but either the card wouldn't return results as strong as the automated overclocking (a 4 percent increase in frame rates, on average, so take "strong" with a dash of salt), or it would crash outright. Whatever you think of it, it's unlike any card design to date.

Synthetic benchmarks can be good predictors of real-world gaming performance. On this one, it's more or less a wash against the RTX 2060 Super, and the RX 5700 XT trails the RTX 2070 Super by roughly 10 percent across the board. AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super: Which Budget Graphics Card Should You Buy? I mean...is there any midrange card that can't run this game at 100fps-plus? For our testing, I focused some of the effort on the esports aspect of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT with games like CS:GO and Apex Legends, and I also ran the card through the rest of our standard benchmark regimen, which tests a card's abilities to handle AAA games at the highest possible quality settings. PCMag Digital Group. It dropped the price on all three of its new cards only two days before they were due to hit the street: The RX 5700 XT Anniversary Edition fell from $499 to $449, the non-Anniversary Radeon RX 5700 XT (the card I'm looking at here) went from $449 to $399, and the Radeon RX 5700 dropped from $379 to $349. The cryptocurrency boom spurred some temporary manic demand for the last GCN cards, leading to shortages and price distortion for some time, when Nvidia's Pascal was at its peak.