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oh right sorry it's been a long couple of weeks

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first AMD announced their new Radeon and verizon products were released yesterday

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and then NVIDIA decided they were going to announce super on the second and

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well let's just say i've been putting in some extra hours

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but it was well worth it the new Radeon rx 5700 series is nearly as interesting

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as the new 3rd gen ryzen processors a ridge wallet is a sleek way to keep

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wallet bulge down thanks to its compact frame and rfid blocking inner plates use

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free worldwide shipping

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first the cards themselves we've got three skus available at launch the

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mid-range rx 5700 is positioned to compete directly against team green's

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rtx 2060 while the higher end rx 5700 xt

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with four extra compute units was being pitted against the rtx 2070 but now that

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card is out of the picture so the real rival there ends up being the rtx 2060

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super finally there is a limited edition 50th

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anniversary rx 5700 xt with a gold trimmed shroud and an 80 megahertz clock

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boost for an extra 50 personally i'd buy an extra game but

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everyone has different priorities powering the rx 5700 series is a new

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seven nanometer core design AMD is calling rdna

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compared to the previous generation gcn based cards like vega our dna features

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native pci express 4.0 support along with gddr6 as standard not hbm2 as a

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result of the latter point availability should improve over vega and the

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financial break-even point for emd should be far lower giving them more

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mobility in terms of pricing an important point we'll get to later on

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for now i want to nerd out a little bit the new compute units are core to the

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performance and efficiency gains AMD claims with the rx 5700 series

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and ultimately may be a point of contention for AMD fans because of what

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it implies about the AMD fine wine technology

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see a GPU typically does its work in batches to make a long story short each

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of AMD's older gcn compute units can work on up to four batches at a time and

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wouldn't you know it each batch is sized to be evenly divisible by four thanks to

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the magic of parallel processing that means it can complete one batch per

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cycle if four cues are active simultaneously which is where AMD's

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traditional strength in compute comes from the problem with this approach

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comes about when there's fewer than four batches to work on simultaneously which

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frequently occurs in games as processing demands rise and fall depending on

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what's on the screen so if you end up having one batch getting processed at a

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time it could take up to four times longer to complete than it otherwise

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would and even worse it's not because the GPU is overworked but rather because

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there's so much of it sitting idle optimizing games and drivers to help

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prevent this is somewhat complex and also where many of those fine wine

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improvements come from our dna compute units on the other hand use two cues

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each capable of handling batches at twice the rate of gcn in a single cycle

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which means each compute unit in the new architecture can handle the same amount

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of work as before but with only half the potential for performance loss in an

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unoptimized scenario all while being easier to optimize for AMD capitalized

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on this new design by combining it with a few other tweaks that help smooth out

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the rough edges which altogether makes for a far more streamlined and optimized

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rendering engine for games with the obvious downside for AMD fans being that

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fine wine as we know it may be a thing of the past along with the hardware

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AMD's launching a host of new features some of which are novel and while others

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are well let's get into it Radeon's multimedia capabilities got a

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substantial boost this generation with support for the new visually lossless

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display stream compression technique that enables the new cards to output up

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to 8k60 off of a singles connector with

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no chroma subsampling that's pretty sick

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less cool sick and more sick is the new Radeon media engine that

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combines encoding and decoding into one place on paper you've got the ingredients for

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a really versatile card but our test

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recordings were disappointing at the same CPU usage and bitrate nvenk

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completely wipes the floor with it with many of the smaller details of our

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recording just completely getting lost on AMD

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ouch perhaps the most interesting of the new

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features is what AMD is calling anti-lag

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it's a little difficult to explain exactly the tl dr is that you can think

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of it kind of like a v-sync for your CPU

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but unlike vsync it actually lowers input lag

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it achieves this by having the CPU only tell the GPU to work on frames as soon

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as they're needed meaning that while frame rates might drop by a few

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percentage points with it on the time taken to display each frame

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and thus the input lag is reduced Linus

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is caught the high speed camera bug so let us know in the comments if you want

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to see this put to the test and i'll pass the feedback along i'm sure he'll

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be down for any excuse to play with the fandom again finally there's the feature

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that's interesting for all the wrong reasons the new open source fidelity fx

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framework you can think of this a bit like graphics tweaking packages like reshade

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or sweet effects but virtually for free

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contrast adaptive sharpening is what AMD chose to show off for now and

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really i could take or leave it some things look decent like the road in

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motion example in f1 2019 but others look really tacky like their borderlands

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example the good news is that it comes without a performance penalty so if you do like it

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you can toggle it on for all dx9 12 and vulcan titles via the Radeon image

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sharpening feature bringing us finally to benchmarks

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since i've been on such a time crunch for this release i'm reusing the GPU

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bench i built up for the NVIDIA super video which thankfully means i can also

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reuse some of those numbers that's the one benefit to product

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launches this close together there's no time for driver updates

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AMD's off to a good start in gaming though the rx 5700's performance has it

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competing well against even the rtx 2060 super and at times its bigger brother rx

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5700 xt overtakes even the far more expensive rtx 2070 super

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titles with hair works like metro exodus gave us lower performance on Radeon but

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the new lineup still remained competitive against its direct competitors typically sitting above

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their overall performance levels not a great look for NVIDIA right now

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considering super was supposed to be a giant middle finger to AMD as for

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productivity AMD is still strong but a

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bit more of a mixed bag than usual for instance for longer renders in

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blender both new cards beat out the rtx 2070

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but then in shorter ones both of them lost even to the non-super rtx 2060.

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we thought that was pretty weird sort of interrupt future Anthony here you might

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have noticed something strange about this blender result look

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at the 2070 super it's way out of line

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well i re-ran it a bunch of times on all the cards and even though the 2070 super

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isn't that far ahead of the 2070 and other tests here we are

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still investigating this one okay on to the video then luxmark has team red and

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team green trading blows again depending on the workload

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both AMD cards steal the show in catia and solidworks even from the rtx 2070

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super and as for the rest of spec view perf we've got another mishmash of wins

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and losses for team red and team green with the deltas being high enough that

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depending on your workload you might opt for one over the other one last bit of

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performance testing pci express 4.0

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we weren't expecting much in terms of performance uplift here and that's

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exactly what we got at least with these workloads i mean

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some games see a couple of extra frames and these spec view perf numbers are a

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little bit higher but that's about it as for thermals

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well the good news is it could be worse but the bad news is that it's only true

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because it hasn't caught fire yet the rx 5700 seems fine but it looks like there

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are some early teething issues with the rx 5700 xt that caused our unit to boost

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itself into oblivion and overheat eventually shutting down under certain

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conditions like sitting in a game menu for too long

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these kinds of lapses in qa testing are exactly why we get upset when

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manufacturers like AMD rush things to market rather than

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waiting until they're fully cooked pardon the pun the lightest maybe say

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that anyway assuming they can squish this bug and tame the beast the value

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proposition is an interesting one on the one hand NVIDIA's rtx 2070 non-super is

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probably going to be a pretty good deal in the near future as stores get rid of

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stock to make room for super but the rtx 2060 super being a slower

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card plays into AMD's hand here they targeted their rx 5700 xt at the

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2070 and it's now priced like a 2060 super

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it may not win on all fronts and if NVIDIA's objectively better software and

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feature suite mean nothing to you then the rx 5700 series

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often manages superior performance per dollar in gaming and for productivity it

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trades blows enough that it'll be worth it for many especially Linux and apple

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users who enjoy superior driver support from AMD

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so early adopter issues aside it's not the

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groundbreaking industry shaker upper that ryzen 3rd gen is where AMD

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dismantled Intel's entire consumer product lineup

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but it's worth buying which is honestly more than we expected given how much of

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AMD's GPU division has defected to Intel in the last couple of quarters one thing

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that concerns us though is where do they go from here it's tough to

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see how AMD will release a higher end card with this architecture without

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resorting to liquid cooling and five nanometers is unlikely to tame

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the inferno but today's a happy day

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