


Games that once favored Nvidia’s GeForce architectures now perform much better on the Radeon RX 5700.

The underlying tweaks helped AMD finally draw equal to Nvidia’s impressive power efficiency. This card was the first GPU built using 7nm process technology and AMD’s new “RDNA” graphics architecture (which was since trickled down to the Radeon RX 5500 XT and RX 5600 XT). AMD stuffed the card with 8GB of ultra-fast GDDR6 memory, which should be enough for 1440p-resolution gaming for years to come. In such cases, bumping a couple of visual settings from Ultra down to High or Very High should do the trick. There are games where it does fall a few frames short: Some titles, like Metro Exodus, have especially strenuous high-end graphics presets designed to bring modern hardware to its knees, in Crysis-like fashion. The Radeon RX 5700 has no problem clearing the 60-frames-per-second gold standard in the vast majority of modern games.
