Radeon RX 5700 XT

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is AMD's higher-end RDNA 1 graphics card from mid-2019, sitting above the standard RX 5700 in the same lineup. It launched at $399 as a direct competitor to NVIDIA's RTX 2060 Super, and represented AMD's strongest mid-to-high-end offering before the RX 6000 series arrived. Like the RX 5700, it was built on TSMC's 7nm node using the Navi 10 GPU with the full complement of compute units enabled.

The RX 5700 XT carries 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit memory bus, the same configuration as the base RX 5700 but with higher clocks and more shader processors active. RDNA 1 brought meaningful improvements in instructions-per-clock over GCN and introduced the FidelityFX suite for open-source image enhancement. The architecture does not support hardware ray tracing or hardware-accelerated FSR, and there is no AV1 encoding support. Its TDP of approximately 225W is somewhat higher than the standard RX 5700, reflecting the additional performance headroom.

The RX 5700 XT targets 1440p gaming as its primary resolution, delivering playable frame rates in demanding titles at high settings. It also handles 1080p at very high refresh rates for competitive gaming scenarios. Buyers looking for strong rasterization performance from this era — particularly at used market prices — will find it a capable and well-supported card.