Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT

Sapphire's Radeon XT 5700 XT Pulse is the company's mid-level custom design for the Radeon RX 5700—the "Nitro" will be released at a later point in time. The Pulse comes with a redesigned PCB, a better cooler, and is overclocked out of the box. Thanks to the factory overclock, the card achieves a 1% performance improvement over the AMD reference design, 2% at 4K, which really isn't worth mentioning. At 1440p, AMD's Radeon VII flagship is only 7% faster than the Sapphire Pulse, and the RTX 2070 Super is 10% ahead. Compared to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2070, the Sapphire card delivers 3% higher FPS.

It's been a while since the Radeon RX 5700 XT launched, and all vendors have had their custom designs out for a while. Now it looks like a second round of new designs that are more refined and tweaked to the max are incoming. The Sapphire RX 5700 XT Nitro+ Special Edition is such a model. Sapphire took the extremely successful Nitro+ and bumped up the clock speeds for both GPU and memory. With a maximum boost clock of 2035 MHz, the card is the fastest air-cooled RX 5700 XT on the market; only the watercooled PowerColor Liquid Devil is clocked higher. What is unique to the Nitro+ SE is that its memory is overclocked, too.

...There's little to criticise if you want to go down the AMD Radeon route.

Sapphire's Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ looks great; it introduces a fresh new style for the series. The cooler is dominated by straight lines with black as the primary color and some silver accents. The RGB functionality has been improved, too, by adding more control options to Sapphire's TRIXX software. Out of the box, Sapphire has overclocked their card to 1905 MHz rated Boost. This translates into a 3% performance improvement over the AMD reference design, which is similar to other Navi custom designs, but the differences are in the single-digit percentage range, which probably isn't enough to base your buying decision on.

With the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE graphics card, Sapphire has put together a great AMD RX 5700 XT package. The performance is already convincing in the factory overclocked state and the well-dimensioned cooling still has the graphics card under control easily and quietly. We also achieved very good overclocking rates and even these weren’t too much for cooling. great! If you don’t want to deal with settings, you can use the default mode without a guilty conscience. After our test, we can recommend all others to overclock the GPU and RAM in order to tickle the graphics card a little more. On the software side, there aren’t too many experiments, because Sapphire concentrates on the essentials without unnecessarily messing with popular all-rounders such as the MSI Afterburner. A thing for itself is as always the aRGB lighting, but if you like: rgb: you won’t be disappointed with the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE … or if you are a Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX5700 XT 8G owner – without SE – you might be inspired to buy the aRGB fans 😉 The only downer is the price. Here, when compared to all RX 5700 XT graphics cards with lighting, Sapphire has the highest price at the time of the review! Hopefully, Sapphire will make some improvements at the price. Overall, the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE deserves with this good result our OCinside.de purchase tip award 08/2020!

Mit der Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE Grafikkarte hat Sapphire ein tolles RX 5700 XT Paket geschnürt. Die Performance überzeugt bereits in dem Werksseitig übertakteten Zustand und die wohl dimensionierte Kühlung hat die Grafikkarte dennoch spielend und vor allem leise im Griff. Wir erreichten außerdem sehr gute Übertaktungswerte und selbst diese waren nicht zu viel für die Kühlung. Super! Wer sich nicht weiter mit Einstellungen beschäftigen möchte, der fährt ohne schlechtes Gewissen gut mit dem Default Modus. Allen anderen können wir nach unserem Test empfehlen, GPU und RAM zu übertakten, um noch ein wenig mehr aus der Grafikkarte zu kitzeln. Softwareseitig gibt es nicht zu viele Experimente, denn Sapphire konzentriert sich auf das Wesentliche, ohne sich unnötigerweise mit beliebten Allroundern wie dem MSI Afterburner anzulegen. Eine Sache für sich ist wie immer die aRGB Beleuchtung, aber wer :rgb: mag, der wird mit der Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE voll auf seine Kosten kommen … oder lässt sich nun als Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX5700 XT 8G Besitzer – ohne SE – vielleicht zum Nachkauf der aRGB Lüfter begeistern 😉 Der einzige Wermutstropfen ist der Preis. Hier liegt Sapphire im Vergleich aller RX 5700 XT Grafikkarten mit Beleuchtung am Markt preislich zum Testzeitpunkt am höchsten! Bei dem Preis wird Sapphire hoffentlich noch ein wenig nachbessern. Insgesamt verdient sich die Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G SE mit diesem guten Gesamtergebnis unseren OCinside.de Kauftipp Award 08/2020!