Thursday, August 1st 2019
Custom-design RX 5700 XT to Start at $399: PowerColor
AMD's add-in board (AIB) partners are preparing to launch custom-design Radeon RX 5700-series graphics cards leading up to mid-August, 2019. Although it wouldn't take dates, PowerColor revealed that its custom-design Radeon RX 5700 XT cards would start at USD $399. This is the same price at which all AIB partners sell AMD's reference-design RX 5700 XT.
PowerColor's parent company, TUL, has designed custom-design Radeon graphics cards for recent entrant ASRock. It's fairly possible that PowerColor's $399 RX 5700 XT will bear physical resemblance to ASRock's RX 5700 XT Challenger with differences in the form of color-scheme, cooler shroud, and decal designs. Nearly all AIB partners could have custom-design RX 5700 XT cards starting at $399, but innovating pricier, beefier premium designs that have superior cooling solutions, such as the ASRock Taichi. It will be very interesting to see what factory-overclocked speeds they ship with.
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AMD Radeon RX (Twitter)
PowerColor's parent company, TUL, has designed custom-design Radeon graphics cards for recent entrant ASRock. It's fairly possible that PowerColor's $399 RX 5700 XT will bear physical resemblance to ASRock's RX 5700 XT Challenger with differences in the form of color-scheme, cooler shroud, and decal designs. Nearly all AIB partners could have custom-design RX 5700 XT cards starting at $399, but innovating pricier, beefier premium designs that have superior cooling solutions, such as the ASRock Taichi. It will be very interesting to see what factory-overclocked speeds they ship with.
20 Comments on Custom-design RX 5700 XT to Start at $399: PowerColor
Yeah, i said it.
My guess; minor overclocking with better-than-referens thermals and noise for the 399$ models. The models that would cost more will be 5-10% faster and may reach 1080ti-2070S for much better price.
I find it very interesting that Nvidia's catch-up products launched a few days later but with actual aftermarket cards already available, while the 5700's did technically launch earlier, but no one in their right mind is going to jump on a blower cooler. It's a shame, if AMD had enough stock and enough decent cards to make a push in July, they could have snatched up quite a few sales. At this point, the dust has already settled and anyone that was trying to get one of the new cards ASAP are already enjoying their Nvidia card. Hopefully they don't screw up the 5800 launch.
It will just be extra eye candy for screenshots, which the Pascal cards can now do anyways.
Also it really isn't hard for AIBs to make non-reference Super cards given they are physically the same as existing designs.
They've kinda always been lower low end.
I mean their Vega Red Devils managed to keep the card under 70C in Furmark.
It ran cooler than the XFX RX480 GTR I had, that is for sure.
Also don't be so quick to forget the complete disappointment from the enthusiast crowd when AMD shipped the Fury X with a CLC water cooler. Cool, quiet, and already pushing the power budget. None of the AIBs could do anything with that but slap a sticker on it and include some games/promo codes.
They just generally aren't great... Not garbage by any means... Just not great.
You have YouTube reviews with the V56 and 64 by Gamers Nexus. Red devil cards teardown. Go and look. Buildzoid also did something in that regard so go and look what Powercolor has to offer.
I got V64 Red Devil and it runs like crazy temps never go beyond 70 but that's after swapping thermal pads and grease but still. Not to mentioned I'm still running my CPU with air cooler. Got to install that water I bought few days ago. :)
"as a needed feature for next-gen multiplatform games"
Wut? And by the time of next-gen multiplatform games, a more capable RT card will be out.
The Red Devil ran at same temperature as the nitro but actually quiet! Both overclocked about the same.. Liked so much that my next card was the Vega 56 Red Devil... what a beast of a card.
I'm pretty sure that all these people that posted that PowerColor is low end, never had a card from them...
Obviously brands have lower end models that are budget and meant to be priced lower which means you can't expect much premium.
Heck even Asus messed up on the Z390 line up, and no one says they are low end right?
I have looked at a few of these announmcements and, unless I glossed over something, these are basically similar to EVGA SC or EVGA Black type cards. None of the announcements have referenced a custom PCB, beefier VRMs, faster memory or anything else that would suggest better performance. It would seem that the "custom" refers only to a better cooler. This should certainly take the edge off the +16C and double noise compared to AIB 2070s. I'm sure that they we will run cooler and quieter, perhaps even cutting those numbers in half.
However, as the reference cards are not being thermally limited in any way, I don't see anything that's to be gained performance wise. Am I missing something ?
Still if they can cut the sound and thermal differences at least in half, what we are basically seeing is a price cut AMD easting the extra cost associated with the AIB 5700XT's at $400 and the AIB 2070s at $430 - $450.
Feel bad for the folks who just installed their $400 blower cards while folks who chose to wait and not jump on the bleeding edge will be getting a card of substantially more value.
I was a bit confused about the XBox 3 month pass thing as a combo ($45 value ?) on a PC GFX card .... is an XBox pass of any value to a PC gamer ? What about the games ?
AMD offers Devil May Cry 5 with a $40 *value* assigned to it .... and nVidia is offering an $89 combo of Control One and Wolfenstein Youngblood for a supposed $90 value. being unfamiliar with all. curious as to how folks see the relative value of these offerings.