Wednesday, June 12th 2019
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 to Have Same Memory and ROP Configuration
In a bid to bolster competitiveness of the $379 Radeon RX 5700 (non-XT) against its rival from the NVIDIA camp, the GeForce RTX 2060, AMD is leaving the memory configuration completely unchanged from the faster $449 Radeon RX 5700 XT. The RX 5700 will get 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, with the same 14 Gbps memory speed as the RX 5700 XT. This works out to a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s. In comparison, the $349 (launch price) RTX 2060 only has 6 GB of memory, across a 192-bit wide memory bus. With a memory speed of 14 Gbps, this setup achieves 336 GB/s.
The other area where AMD is reinforcing the RX 5700 is its raster muscle. The RX 5700 has the same 64 ROPs as the RX 5700 XT. AMD carved this SKU out by disabling two workgroup processors (four RDNA compute units), reducing the stream processor count to 2,304. This also turns down the TMU count from 160 to 144. The GPU engine clock speeds are also reduced, with 1465 MHz base, 1625 MHz "gaming clocks," and 1725 MHz boost clocks; compared to 1605/1755/1905 MHz of the RX 5700 XT. The RX 5700 has a typical board power of 180W compared to the 224W of the RX 5700 XT. Custom design cards may even feature just one 8-pin PCIe power input, while some of the premium factory-overclocked designs could use 8-pin + 6-pin configurations.
The other area where AMD is reinforcing the RX 5700 is its raster muscle. The RX 5700 has the same 64 ROPs as the RX 5700 XT. AMD carved this SKU out by disabling two workgroup processors (four RDNA compute units), reducing the stream processor count to 2,304. This also turns down the TMU count from 160 to 144. The GPU engine clock speeds are also reduced, with 1465 MHz base, 1625 MHz "gaming clocks," and 1725 MHz boost clocks; compared to 1605/1755/1905 MHz of the RX 5700 XT. The RX 5700 has a typical board power of 180W compared to the 224W of the RX 5700 XT. Custom design cards may even feature just one 8-pin PCIe power input, while some of the premium factory-overclocked designs could use 8-pin + 6-pin configurations.
18 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 to Have Same Memory and ROP Configuration
Did same with RX 470 Nitro with RX 580 Nitro bios, worked great.
and the reference comes with 2x8pin? sounds quite power hungry for a mid-high end card.
The real question is if we can mod the bios to unlock these.
Price wise they are very close, $379 x $449, whether will be worth or not remains to be seen. So far the difference in performance is 20%. So is it worth the extra $70 for 20% more performance, I'd say yes because every 10% is worth $38 usd and 20% is $76, so the 5700 xt price is justified.
Might if it works.
It was designed from start for TSMC's 7nm with High clocks in mind,so I don't believe it can't OC at least as good as Radeon VII, so with good cooling and AIB big coolers we gonna see 5700XT competing at RTX 2080 league after OC, so the price will be more competitive for users who like to play with their GPU [like Vega56->64].
AMD claims that even with "Gaming clocks" it should be around 10% better then RTX 2070- so with nice OC headroom the RTX 2080 not so far away:
I hope I am not wrong- because then Nvidia gonna milk us even more :-(.
Now, I already see people bringing up Anniversary Edition if it has better binned silicon and swapping coolers on them afterwards - yeah, but that's another $ above its 500$ price point, at which point I honestly don't see why anyone should bother instead of, like, just getting the 2080.
The XT is quite possibly good for what it is - a 2070 alternative if you don't care about basic DXR features like reflections and GI that are getting available across different games. Expecting more than that is, unfortunately, wishful thinking IMO.
Since its the same chip it will likely work