Friday, January 31st 2020

ASUS Revises RX 5700-series TUF Gaming with Axial Tech Fans and New Heatsink Underneath

ASUS today rolled out the TUG Gaming X3 Radeon RX 5700-series EVO graphics cards. These include the SKUs "TUF 3-RX5700-O8G-EVO-GAMING" for the RX 5700, and "TUF 3-RX5700XT-O8G-EVO-GAMING" for the RX 5700 XT. The two cards feature certain design tweaks over the original TUF Gaming RX 5700-series graphics cards that were criticized by tech reviewers for bad cooling performance. The updated TUF Gaming EVO cards feature an entirely different aluminium fin-stack heatsink from the one in the original TUF Gaming cards, which offers better contact with the various hot components on the PCB.

ASUS also updated the ventilation of the cooler, with three Axial-Tech fans replacing the conventional fans on the original. These fans feature impellers that are webbed at the edges, so air is guided axially (through the heatsink), and some of it isn't bled laterally. The fan in the center is slightly smaller than the ones on its sides. Clock speeds are unchanged between the two revisions, with up to 1720 MHz game clocks and up to 1750 MHz boost clocks for the RX 5700 model, and up to 1795 game clocks and up to 1905 MHz boost clocks for the RX 5700 XT model. Both cards feature a software-based "OC mode" that dials up clock-speeds by roughly 70 MHz. ASUS will replace the original TUF Gaming with the new EVO cards at current prices.
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27 Comments on ASUS Revises RX 5700-series TUF Gaming with Axial Tech Fans and New Heatsink Underneath

#26
ratirt
cdawallPerformance is eclipsed by a mild OC on a 1080Ti from 2 years ago. This is not impressive to me. I wait impatiently for the higher tier cards since the 2080(ti) didn't impress me either they were only minor improvements over the 1080Ti.
It may be not impressive but this 5700XT was never to compete with anything higher than 2070S 2070. So if it is not impressive for you ok. But you can't judge the card of the value or how good the performance is when it was never to compete with the top card. Your take on the performance is individual but the tier this card was meant for is not 2080 nor 2080S so the performance justification is not correct in my eyes.
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cdawall
where the hell are my stars
ratirtIt may be not impressive but this 5700XT was never to compete with anything higher than 2070S 2070. So if it is not impressive for you ok. But you can't judge the card of the value or how good the performance is when it was never to compete with the top card. Your take on the performance is individual but the tier this card was meant for is not 2080 nor 2080S so the performance justification is not correct in my eyes.
The fact that AMD doesn't sell a top tier card is a larger frustrations than I can express in words. The lack of competition has pushed nvidia prices for mediocre products to the moon. So, yea as a consumer I consider the 5700 to be a complete pile of trash.
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