Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse Review – Navi with certain vibrations

1 - Intro and Overview 2 - Tear Down: PCB and Cooler 3 - Benchmarks 1920 x 1080 Pixels 4 - Benchmarks 2560 x 1440 Pixels 5 - Benchmarks 3840 x 2160 Pixels 6 - Power Consumption and PSU Recommendation 7 - Temperatures, Clock Rate, Thermal Images 8 - Fan Speed and Noise 9 - Conclusion and Bottom Line

The title sounds funny? I’ll come back to that, I promise. But first, we’ll look at the exterior and data of the dual BIOS card. At least that’s where Sapphire didn’t save money. Compared to the already tested Red Devil by Powercolor and the Evoke by MSI (including the efficiency mod), the Pulse has to make a lot of effort. But always nice one after the other…

In order to make the whole thing a little clearer and to get to the point a little bit more, I have kept the structure of the articles to a large extent, but now I rely more on tables with clear representation of the result values and specifications, which later also guarantee a better comparison of the cards among themselves.

Technical data and picture gallery

The design is based on older Pulse versions and is not really new. Sapphire has probably done without LEDs for reasons of cost. This isn’t really a disadvantage, as there are enough interested people for a darkroom in a closed case. If you don’t have a transparent side panel: here’s a card without a squeaky colorful photon gun.

Front

Back

Bottom

Top

Slot Panel

End

ISO

Box

Matching the promised overview of the most important features:

An initial overview of the further technical data of both BIOSes is provided by our MorePower Tool. First the similarities, which are the same in both settings:

Now let’s get to the power and the voltages, where there are some slight differences. On the left the OC (Standard) BIOS 1 and on the right the silent version from BIOS 2:

There are hardly any differences with the fan settings, only the target temperature is set somewhat lower with the silent variant:

Die Tabelle gibt noch einmal einen schönen Überblick über die restlichen technischen Daten der aktuellen und der älteren Vergleichsmodelle:

Test system and measurement methods

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

The summary in tabular form offers interested parties a quick overview: