An overpriced blower card

At the “Next Horizon Gaming” event at E3 2019, AMD introduced Radeon RX 5700 series, featuring two SKUs: XT and non-XT. Since the name of RX 5000 series came from AMD’s 50th anniversary, the company would simply not miss the opportunity to launch a special edition for this very occasion.

The Radeon RX 5700 series is sticking to silver & red design, as did RX Vega and Radeon 7, but the special edition of Navi-based RX 5700 XT will be black & gold. This card is slightly faster than the reference 5700 XT model. The clock speed has been increased by roughly 80 MHz at the cost of 10W higher typical board power (235W).

The card will also cost 50 USD more than retail RX 5700 XT — 499 USD — which is *a bit* too much for a blower design.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Specifications RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary RX 5700 XT RX 5700 RX 590 GPU 7nm FF Navi 10 7nm FF Navi 10 7nm FF Navi 10 12nm FF Polaris 30 Stream Processors 2560 2560 2304 2304 Texture Units 160 160 144 144 ROPs 64 64 64 32 Max FP32 Compute 10.14 TFLOPS 9.75 TFLOPS 7.95 TFLOPS 7.12 TFLOPS Base Clock 1680 MHz 1605 MHz 1465 MHz 1469 MHz Game Clock 1830 MHz 1755 MHz 1625 MHz N/A Boost Clock 1980 MHz 1905 MHz 1725 MHz 1545 MHz Memory 8 GB GDDR6 8 GB GDDR6 8 GB GDDR6 8 GB GDDR5 Memory Bus 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit Memory Clock 14 Gbps 14 Gbps 14 Gbps 8 Gbps TBP 235W 225W 180W 225W MSRP 499 USD 449 USD 379 USD 279 USD

Source: AMD, Andreas Schilling (HardwareLuxx), Sebastian Peak (PCPerspective)