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Powercolor RX 5700 XT Red Devil in review – Force is mass times acceleration

Powercolor sets a decent fragrance brand with the RX 5700 XT Red Devil - both in terms of performance and the massive cooler as well as in terms of price. There is also a Silent BIOS that really honors its name. But I don't want to spoil, I want to test. So it's best to read for yourself.

How are you most likely to annoy your competitors? By impressively showing who has the longest and greatest. And if you then stay a little more subdued in terms of price and can score with features, then a product sells almost by itself. Too much praise in advance? Honor to whom honor is due, but you are right. That will be included in the summary later. Now, as always, the focus is on testing the product.

In order to make the whole thing a little clearer and also to get a little more to the point, I have largely retained the structure of the articles, but now I rely more on tables with a clear presentation of the result values and specifications, which later also ensure a better comparison of the maps among each other.

 

 

Specifications and picture gallery

The design is based on older versions and is new. These include the LED applications on the card and the top with the illuminated lettering and the backlit logo in the backplate. The rest is made of heat sink and plastic, as well as a 3-fan design.

Matching the promised overview of the most important features

Length (outer edge slot panel until end of card) 30.0 cm
Installation height (upper edge PCIe slot up to top of the card) 12.5 cm
Installation depth in front (cooler structure to bottom of the board) 4.57cm
Mounting depth at the rear (board to outside of the backplate) 0.5 cm
Weight 1248 g
Cooler cover Anthracite
ABS injection moulding
LED (logo, strips of light)
Outputs 3x DisplayPort 1.4
1x HDMI 2.0
Specifics Dual BIOS with Silet mode

GPU-Z gives us a first overview of the other technical data:

The table gives a nice overview of the remaining technical data of the current and older comparison models:

Map AMD Radeon
RX 5700 XT
Powercolor RX 5700 XT
Red DEvil
AMD Radeon
Vega 64
AMD Radeon
RX 5700
AMD Radeon
Vega 56
Architecture (GPU) Navi 10 Navi 10 Vega 10 Navi 10 Vega 10
CUDA Cores / SP 2560 2560 4096 2304 3584
(40 CU) (40 CU) (64 CU) (36 CU) (56 CU)
Texture Units 160 160 256 144 224
Texture Fill Rate (Gtexels/s) 304.8 326.2 395,8 248,4 330
Base clock (MHz) 1605 1419 1274 1465 1156
Boost clock (MHz) 1755 (typical)
1905 (max.)
2039 (max.) 1546 1625 (typical)
1725 (max.)
1471
Memory 8 GB GDDR6
14 Gbps
8 GB GDDR6
14 Gbps
8 GB HBM 8 GB GDDR6
14 Gbps
8 GB HBM
Bus width (bit) 256 256 2048 256 2048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 448 448 483,8 448 410
Rop 64 64 64 64 64
L2 cache 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB
TGP/TBP 225 W 250 W 295 W 185 W 210 W
Billion. Transistors 10,3 10,3 12,5 10,3 12,5
The area (mm2) 251 251 495 251 486
Node 7 nm 7 nm 14 nm 7 nm 14 nm
MultiGPU DX12/Volcano DX12/Volcano Cf DX12/Volcano Cf

 

Test system and measurement methods

The test system and the methodology are well known, but since I now test independently here in Germany, the test system has also been upgraded once again without having to take into account the former US colleagues.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview:

Test systems and measuring rooms
Hardware:
Intel Core i9-9900 KF
MSI MEG Z390 ACE
2x 8GB KFA2 HoF DDR4 4000
1x 1 TByte Patriot Viper (NVMe System SSD)
1x Seagate FastSSD Portable USB-C
Seasonic Prime 1200 Watt Titanium Power Supply
Cooling:
Alphacool Ice Block XPX
5x Be Quiet! Silent Wings 3 PWM (Closed Case Simulation)
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut (for cooler change)
Housing:
Lian Li PC-T70 with expansion kit and modifications
Modes: Open Benchtable, Closed Case
Monitor: Eizo EV3237-BK
Power consumption:
non-contact DC measurement on the PCIe slot (Riser-Card)
non-contact DC measurement on the external PCIe power supply
Direct voltage measurement on the respective feeders and on the power supply
2x Rohde & Schwarz HMO 3054, 500 MHz multi-channel oscillograph with memory function
4x Rohde & Schwarz HZO50, current togor adapter (1 mA to 30 A, 100 KHz, DC)
4x Rohde & Schwarz HZ355, touch divider (10:1, 500 MHz)
1x Rohde & Schwarz HMC 8012, digital multimeter with storage function
Thermography:
1x Optris PI640, 2x Xi400 Infrared Cameras
Pix Connect evaluation software with profiles
Acoustics:
NTI Audio M2211 (with calibration file)
Steinberg UR12 (with phantom power for the microphones)
Creative X7, Smaart v.7
own low-reflection measuring room, 3.5 x 1.8 x 2.2 m (LxTxH)
Axial measurements, perpendicular to the center of the sound source(s), measuring distance 50 cm
Noise in dBA (Slow) as RTA measurement
Frequency spectrum as a graph
Operating system Windows 10 Pro (1903, all updates), driver current

 

 

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

Computer nerd since 1983, audio freak since 1979 and pretty much open to anything with a plug or battery for over 50 years.

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