AMD Radeon RX 5700/ 5700 XT revealed: full Navi specs and analysis

AMD has taken the wraps off its first brace of Radeon Navi products, revealing the RX 5700 and the more powerful RX 5700 XT. Both are based on a new processor known as Navi 10, using the new RDNA micro architecture - with the products designed to outgun Nvidia's RTX 2060 and RTX 2070. The two cards cost $379 and $449 respectively, undercutting their Nvidia counterparts but lacking features including hardware accelerated ray tracing. Both launch on July 7th, alongside AMD's new Ryzen 3000 line of CPUs.

Full specs for the products reveal that the RX 5700 XT uses a fully enabled Navi 10 chip, featuring a total of 40 compute units and 2560 shaders. Peak compute tops out at 9.75TF - significantly lower than the existing Radeon RX Vega 64. However, AMD has massively revamped its compute unit architecture, with a big improvement in performance. The end result is that despite a 24 CU deficit, AMD says that the 5700 XT has a 14 per cent performance lead over RX Vega 64 using 23 per cent less power.

The standard RX 5700 loses some of the finish of the XT's shroud, but cuts elsewhere look surprisingly modest. The 40 CU total in the higher end model drops to 36 in the RX 5700, while typical gaming clocks are dropped by 130MHz. What's interesting here is that both units deliver eight gigabytes of GDDR6 memory, with the same 14gbps modules delivering 448GB/s of memory bandwidth - so there's no reduction in memory throughput here on the cheaper card.

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