The Power Color Liquid Devil: A Water-Cooled 5700 XT That Falls Short of Expectations

In our latest review, we put the Power Color Liquid Devil to the test as one of the most expensive 5700 XTs on the market. Priced at $599, this water-cooled beast promises to deliver exceptional performance and features that set it apart from its competitors. However, after putting it through a series of benchmarks and tests, we were left feeling underwhelmed by its performance.

One of the main issues with the 5700 XT is its architecture, which makes it difficult for AMD to compete with Nvidia's offerings in terms of raw performance. The problem is that $599 puts you deep into the most expensive 27T Super cards that are out there, and even the 27TS Super Founders Edition card beats this one non-overclocked. When overclocked, however, the Liquid Devil does manage to keep pace with the 2070 Super Founders Edition in synthetic benchmarks like Fire Strike.

But when we moved on to game testing, such as in Far Cry 5, a different story unfolded. Even with the added power of a water block and custom BIOS from AI B's, the Liquid Devil struggled to match the performance of the 2070 Super Founders Edition non-overclocked. This is not entirely surprising, given that the 5700 XT has already been beaten by the 27TS Super in terms of raw performance.

Adding a water block to the 5700 XT does make it a great enthusiast card for die-hard AMD fanboys, but its price point still puts it in a tier where it can't compete with Nvidia's offerings. The person who would run out and buy this card is likely someone who is strictly loyal to AMD and refuses to consider Nvidia products. However, for performance enthusiasts who want the best bang for their buck, the Liquid Devil falls short.

AMD needs to step up its game if it wants to compete with Nvidia in the high-end graphics market. The 5000 series cards are not yet living up to their promises, and we need more stream processors crammed into these GPUs to make them truly competitive. Until then, the Liquid Devil remains a niche product that only appeals to those who want the latest and greatest water-cooled cooling solutions.

In terms of value, the Liquid Devil is definitely one of the most expensive 5700 XTs available on the market. At $599, it's a significant investment for a card that can only go as fast as AMD's architecture allows. The fact that it does overclock well is a plus, but not enough to make up for its performance limitations.

One thing is certain: if you're looking for a graphics card that offers exceptional cooling and warranty protection, the Power Color Liquid Devil may be worth considering. However, for those who prioritize raw performance above all else, there are better options available. The 2070 Super Founders Edition, for example, remains one of the top-performing cards on the market, even with its non-overclocked performance.

For enthusiasts who want to take their card to the next level, however, the Liquid Devil offers a unique solution that's worth exploring. With its custom BIOS and water block pre-installed, this card is designed to provide the best possible cooling experience for AMD GPUs. While it may not offer the same level of raw performance as Nvidia's offerings, it does offer a compelling value proposition for those who want the latest and greatest in cooling technology.

In conclusion, our review of the Power Color Liquid Devil has left us feeling underwhelmed by its performance. While it offers exceptional cooling and warranty protection, its price point and performance limitations make it difficult to recommend for anyone but the most die-hard AMD enthusiasts. As we wait for AMD to develop more powerful GPUs that can compete with Nvidia's offerings, this card remains a niche product that only appeals to those who want the latest and greatest water-cooled cooling solutions.

How do you feel about graphics cards that are more expensive than their competitors due to added features like water cooling? Do you think it's worth spending extra money for these premium products, or do you prioritize raw performance above all else?

Sound off in the comments below and let us know your thoughts.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso we've got a new graphics card to take a look at here from power color this is while you guys already seen this one this is a 5700 XT Red Devil the Red Devil series has always been their top and air-cool triple fan best Bend highest clocking most power draw cards that they've got this is like their top of the line well until today because now we're taking a look at the new 5700 XT liquid devil it's basically the Red Devil but less red and more liquid building upon their highly popular H series cases the new H 210 i5 10 i5 10 elite and 7/10 i from NZXT offer a sleek yet functional chassis for pc enthusiasts ample interior space and air flow make the h series the perfect choice for both air cooling as well as water cooling while the intelligent features offer integrated temperature monitoring and lighting controls seamlessly to learn more about the H series chassis from NZXT for your next build head to NZXT comm so this right here is actually a 5700 xt i almost said founders edition it's a reference card but with an ek waterblock on it so basically we took the basic blower cooler off and installed our own block and reuse the factory backplate on there because it doesn't mount up and it looks really good but you know what this still has the inherent drawbacks of not being necessarily the most bin do you play the lottery the silicon lottery you never know what you're gonna get sometimes you win sometimes you lose but what you also have to do then is incur the cost of a water block and then you void your warranty potentially to a power colors done it what the liquid devil is they basically took like I said all their top tiered bin CPU silicon and then made a whole nother graphics card out of it now the reason why I'm taking out the red double here is I want to compare the PCBs because I'm not entirely sure if it's just a red devil with a water cooler or a router block slapped on it now one other thing I want to point out to right now is you guys have been messaging me asking where my coverage of the 39 50 X is AMD had very limited quantity of those and they've sort of dispersed them and unfortunately I guess we didn't win the the Welo review named and it wasn't our name that's okay because we are gonna be covering the thread Ripper stuff which we're really excited about because I think Phil and I might both be making the switch back to AMD for our studio systems and we're gonna see what happens when you take a 32 core monster and just brute force your way through editing but that's coming up in a future piece of content so this is your liquid devil right here and this is a collaboration with EK so EK EK water blocks but as you can see they have gotten custom covers and stuff on them which are very much part of the aesthetics we've got o dye packs okay so obviously you're gonna be and not the kind of dye pack that goes in like say a bank robbery so if you are building a loop from scratch they already include dyes unless you've already kind of figured out what it is you want to do and you already have dyes then you don't have to use those so here it is right here you can see it's definitely an EK water block you can tell by the terminal right there it's got a nice backplate as you can see it's just got a brushed devil logo there it's got a nice gunmetal and black it's matte finish it's not crazy or gaudy or in-your-face but we've got to do the obligatory peel are you ready you know 10 phase power delivery system versus 7 phases found on the reference design it's got two BIOS it's got the OC BIOS so no matter what you're getting over clocks and it's got the Unleashed BIOS now you might be asking yourself what's the difference between OC and Unleashed I mean OC almost sounds like it's Unleashed as it is well the difference here is the power limit so we've got up to 230 watts power draw on the OC bios and 270 watts on the Unleashed considering the fact that it's water-cooled card you're only gonna be using a NEWater loop I can't see myself or can't see anyone using the OC BIOS just use the Unleashed having multiple BIOS I guess could be good for recovery and stuff like that if you ever have an issue but cards like this I feel like just just ship with one BIOS the fast one that's all that matters this is the same exact same PCBs found on the Red Devil you've got two eight pin power plugs that are required the bios button for the red devil though is a silent bios versus an OC bios so that has to do with fan rpm obviously with this guy here increases our power limit which is gonna get us better clocks speaking of clocks it is advertised as up to 2070 megahertz so I'm really curious to see how that goes here's a size comparison so you can see it is a shorter but taller graphics card meaning probably better compatibility in terms of small form-factor cases if you have the depth to handle the taller card plus the terminal so what I do now is we've got to go ahead and mock up a loop for this thing real quick and then we are going to be doing some overclocking and temperature testing because the 5700 XT what the reference cooler was definitely a furnace but that was more so the coolers fault the the aftermarket boards with the even the fan coolers have definitely been doing a really good job so let's go ahead and mask now let's make it purple also too as you can see we have some nice red glowing LEDs they are not set to remove puke out of the box but there is additional software you need to download from power color if you want to change the colors on this we're not going into that we covered that on the red double card if you're curious about that and how about that software works or with the different modes look like you can go watch that video but that's kind of a good thing and a bad thing regarding this card already is if when you when you add another block to a card that's card you be control you get a pigtail that comes out of it like we have with already on card our reference card then you can plug it into a motherboard header or a splitter or whatever control it with whatever software you want missus y hora or whatever you know third party that you're using is when it's baked in like this it's being controlled to the PCI Express then you've got to run whatever proprietary software there is so heads up there's probably another piece of argue B software you have to add to your computer if you want to control the colors on this unless you're just going for a red theme then it's already done which is kind of funny consuming it's a blue box that I think they should have maybe done blue to keep things consistent but that's just a minor little right there so we are gonna go ahead and use afterburner for this because it works just as well and it's just a supporter with AMD graphics cards we can see right off the bat we have core voltage control right here which goes all the way up to 1.3 volts where I leave that right where it's at power limit it maxed out at an additional 50% power limit as we already said at the beginning of this there are two different power limits on this card based on the BIOS 234 OC or 274 unleashed we are obviously on the Unleashed bios at least that's where I make sure I didn't switch it again yes we are on the Unleashed so that's important and then I like that they made the print on that nice and big so you can actually read it and not need to get like a microscope to read it like some of the brands do 2084 it's where it's kind of set to allow it to go this number right here is not a hard cap with AMD it is not like nvidia where you are controlling an off set with AMD you're giving it a target with AMD you're not guaranteed to get that target because it has other things that has to consider like voltage and temperature and power draw the memory clock is still sitting at 875 which I think might actually be reference and that our fan is set to 100 cuz that's default out of the box so let's go ahead and see what we're getting right now let's go ahead and load up some superposition actually no we're gonna do heaven first so right away it went to 2030 for megahertz and you can see it sort of bouncing around our edge temp and our junction temperature at 35 and 48 is a 30ml by 240 radiator with two fractal design case fans on here these are not even the highest static pressure fan you can put on here they're also only running at 70% if I'm not mistaken that bleed these are 12 or 1300 rpm fans they are not the fastest but I've always said a 120 millimeter worth of radiator per component if factory and 240 per overclock so if you're gonna overclock your part go that least a 240 so I'm kind of sticking with that methodology I've always sort of adopted and they've got a EK tower res right there which is about a d5 and a reservoir built into it running just distilled water with some diet so it's not even a like a premix or anything like that when you're dealing with water because it has a massive thermal capacity it takes time for it to fully reach its maximum temperatures as the temperature of the loop increases so will the graphics card temperatures so we're gonna let this run for 10 10 minutes is usually good enough for a single component like this and then once we see that line plateaus then we'll see those temperatures are maybe will play if the fan speed a little bit but what I want to see is what the maximum overclocked achievable is gonna be on this so let's go and let the temperatures max - max maximum whoa alright so here's how long the test was running our temperatures have pretty much leveled out looks like our max edge temp is 45 and our max Junction temp was 59 now that's that's peak it is still running up 400% and we didn't lose any clocks as you can see right there that's amazing I wish that was always the case but we didn't lose any clocks there so our temperatures though are realistically more around 44 to 56 or so but what I'm kind of curious about right now is what happens if I increase the power limit just increasing the power limit with as I do to our clock absolutely nothing okay so it says up to 2070 and as you can see it sets the 2084 right now we're getting 20 34 so I'm not sure now if that's voltage limit or if that's gonna be it's not power limit it can't possibly be power limits what if I make that randomly 20 100 maybe this is we are kind of moving a whole curve up so it's not really the same as like GPU boost on in video but we are actually creating a curve increase so if I apply that at 2120 50 so we went up it looks like a whole table there 21:20 now one of the things that's different if you do this through the actual global watt man is you can set a minimum target as well which we can't technically do with afterburner so by not being able to set a minimum is allowing it to still have room to kind of fluctuate the core clocks as you're kind of seeing right here but we also found this by locking the minimum and the maximum we got a lot of crashes that way so I'm just kind of seeing what afterburner is capable up here I want to see if we can hit 2,100 oh wow I wanted right to 2150 once I hit 2200 there so it seems to be staying about 50 below that but there's 2150 let's do 2120 I won't see where it's gonna crash man oh wow I dropped down significantly right there it was at 20 oh I went backwards when you reduce the numbers the clocks go down with it so the slider will go past it but 2200 we're kind of maxing out right there 2700 oops not see it why let me go past 2200 so it's kind of a fall slider all right what about memory memory is one of the things that's super hard for overclocking on AMD but because the memory is also being cooled by the waterblock because it is touching the memory we might be able to get a pretty decent overclock on the memory here go straight to 950 AMD memory tends to give you artifacts like all over the screen is something ah zap duh and you'll get it within video cards too but for some reason the way it just the logic works between the memory and the die or the GPU die is you tend to get a lot more artifacts that you can kind of recover from which is kind of nice so 950 is already significantly higher than we got with our reference card anything over like 9 9:25 was like an instant crash and then 950 is where it's capping us right there see if I go 960 like 1975 and hit apply because we're back to 950 so we've maxed out the sliders at least an afterburner now let's see what happens to the temperatures if we bring down the voltage and if we can maintain stability at 2200 target at 950 target for the memory what happens if it rains down to like 1,100 because that was that oh yeah I might have gone a little too aggressive look if the core clock is stable and the memory is stable at the voltage out of the box and the temperatures are really good there's no reason to really touch the voltage all right so we know we can get 2150 out of that can't we make it through our testing suite right now with 1440p I'm not gonna do 4k I'm just curious as to where the stacks up at 1440p this would be the ultimate 1440p gaming card you could probably do some 4k gaming on this with like medium mix of medium high settings maybe but I still I think 1440p would be definitely ultra settings kind of the sweet spot for this car so we just went through all of our benchmark so at least for 1080 and 1440 I know si was only able to 1080 I decide to do 1440 as well actually no the other way around I said I was gonna do 1440 I decided to do 1080 because it's still the dominant resolution now look here's the bottom line this cart cost 599 dollars that's a lot of money and and I know so the usually a block costs a hundred bucks or full cover blocks sometimes 120 130 depending on which brand you go with EK is a premium brand and therefore with it is going to be a bit of a premium price point now it's better than the Red Devil obviously because it's water-cooled and the fact that it's water-cooled meant our temperatures were amazing you saw our edge temp and our junction temperatures well our max junction temperature if we take a look at the chart right now because it's still up for when we ran all these tests our max junction temperature was 69 and that was gonna be that's staring like some of the really in intensive tests we did like 1440 while overclocked so still less than 70 degrees for our Junction template temperature on here on a graphics card that we've seen get pretty darn hot another test when like specially the factory cooler now here's the thing that makes this kind of difficult this is the best AMD currently has to offer if you look at the CPU side of stuff they've really caught up to Intel and surpassed them in terms of core density at the same price point versus Intel when it comes especially when it comes to mainstream and then thread gripper is just like that's just encroached entirely on their xeon market let alone like the high performance desktop what we've learned here is that the graphics card division really needs a higher tier card than the 5700 xt because the problem is that $599 puts you deep into the most expensive 27t super cards that are out there and the 27 TS super founders edition card was actually beating this card non overclocked this card overclocked versus a non overclocked 27t super which is going to be one of the slowest cards of the bunch especially you know considering what you put better cooling on anything and you get your custom bios and stuff from the AI B's and you start getting these faster cards this Oh 1 and fire strike in Far Cry 5 well fire strikes just a synthetic benchmark that really doesn't paint the picture which is why we do game testing as well in Far Cry 5 at one by one and two fps non overclocked versus overclocked again versus a 2070 super founders Edition non overclocked so adding a water block to a 5700 XT makes it a graphics card that is I feel although a great enthusiast card for diehard AMD fanboys it puts it in a price tier that it can't compete so it's a it's a good card and I and I definitely applied power color for for sticking with their devil series which has always been among the best AMD products that you can buy for grip for Radeon it's just it then becomes very difficult for me to say yeah you should definitely go out and buy this card I feel like the person that would run out and buy this card is the person that is just like I will never own an Nvidia product I do not want Invidia plant plain and simple and there are people out there that are that are that feel that way about certain brands and that's fine it's your money you spend it where you want but if you are a performance enthusiast and you were just going I don't care green/blue Intel obviously or red AMD I want the best performance I can get for my money this doesn't beat a twenty seventy twenty seven super and I know if you can still get twenty 70s I think they're actually bringing them back now and Vidya is bringing back the 2017 on super because you know why not I guess so what we need to see AMD is not a 5500 we need a fifty nine hundred we need a card that can compete with the twenty eighty series we we need more stream processors crammed into these guys and they promised that those graphics cards are coming in the future at least that's what they've said it's like they're really likening the 5000 series graphics cards to that of Rison and that it this is the first tier product and it's going to only get better in the next couple years well right now at $599 the liquid devil is definitely the most expensive 5700 xt that you could buy probably one of the most well thought out and well built the problem is it can still only go as fast as Amy's architecture will allow and that's where it's being held back yeah I was hoping I was hoping for more and it definitely overclocks well but as you could see even our core we we can't go beyond 2200 and you gonna make up for that distance and that gap between the 2070 super with core speed and unfortunately even 2150 it's not enough so that has been it that is our look at the power color liquid devil the best water-cooled 5700 XT that you can buy with the warranty and a waterblock pre-installed whether or not it's worth it to you though only you can answer that so guys hopefully you've enjoyed this video hopefully it taught you something sound off in the comments below how you feel about this how do you feel about again hey using the turn mid to your card but in terms of what you can spend this truly is in the middle because 1,200 bucks for twenty atti $600 for this guy you can't buy a card for zero but that would still be the middle right so how do you feel about these cards that are more expensive than their competitors and slower for the sake of like water cooling and stuff like that I've always said never water cool a graphics card if it means that the money you would spend on the water cooling keeps you from buying the next top to your card or the next higher to your card you don't have one of those with AMD so that's kind of why this sort of exists so how do you feel about that sound off in the comments below and as always guys thanks for watching you know I smells goodso we've got a new graphics card to take a look at here from power color this is while you guys already seen this one this is a 5700 XT Red Devil the Red Devil series has always been their top and air-cool triple fan best Bend highest clocking most power draw cards that they've got this is like their top of the line well until today because now we're taking a look at the new 5700 XT liquid devil it's basically the Red Devil but less red and more liquid building upon their highly popular H series cases the new H 210 i5 10 i5 10 elite and 7/10 i from NZXT offer a sleek yet functional chassis for pc enthusiasts ample interior space and air flow make the h series the perfect choice for both air cooling as well as water cooling while the intelligent features offer integrated temperature monitoring and lighting controls seamlessly to learn more about the H series chassis from NZXT for your next build head to NZXT comm so this right here is actually a 5700 xt i almost said founders edition it's a reference card but with an ek waterblock on it so basically we took the basic blower cooler off and installed our own block and reuse the factory backplate on there because it doesn't mount up and it looks really good but you know what this still has the inherent drawbacks of not being necessarily the most bin do you play the lottery the silicon lottery you never know what you're gonna get sometimes you win sometimes you lose but what you also have to do then is incur the cost of a water block and then you void your warranty potentially to a power colors done it what the liquid devil is they basically took like I said all their top tiered bin CPU silicon and then made a whole nother graphics card out of it now the reason why I'm taking out the red double here is I want to compare the PCBs because I'm not entirely sure if it's just a red devil with a water cooler or a router block slapped on it now one other thing I want to point out to right now is you guys have been messaging me asking where my coverage of the 39 50 X is AMD had very limited quantity of those and they've sort of dispersed them and unfortunately I guess we didn't win the the Welo review named and it wasn't our name that's okay because we are gonna be covering the thread Ripper stuff which we're really excited about because I think Phil and I might both be making the switch back to AMD for our studio systems and we're gonna see what happens when you take a 32 core monster and just brute force your way through editing but that's coming up in a future piece of content so this is your liquid devil right here and this is a collaboration with EK so EK EK water blocks but as you can see they have gotten custom covers and stuff on them which are very much part of the aesthetics we've got o dye packs okay so obviously you're gonna be and not the kind of dye pack that goes in like say a bank robbery so if you are building a loop from scratch they already include dyes unless you've already kind of figured out what it is you want to do and you already have dyes then you don't have to use those so here it is right here you can see it's definitely an EK water block you can tell by the terminal right there it's got a nice backplate as you can see it's just got a brushed devil logo there it's got a nice gunmetal and black it's matte finish it's not crazy or gaudy or in-your-face but we've got to do the obligatory peel are you ready you know 10 phase power delivery system versus 7 phases found on the reference design it's got two BIOS it's got the OC BIOS so no matter what you're getting over clocks and it's got the Unleashed BIOS now you might be asking yourself what's the difference between OC and Unleashed I mean OC almost sounds like it's Unleashed as it is well the difference here is the power limit so we've got up to 230 watts power draw on the OC bios and 270 watts on the Unleashed considering the fact that it's water-cooled card you're only gonna be using a NEWater loop I can't see myself or can't see anyone using the OC BIOS just use the Unleashed having multiple BIOS I guess could be good for recovery and stuff like that if you ever have an issue but cards like this I feel like just just ship with one BIOS the fast one that's all that matters this is the same exact same PCBs found on the Red Devil you've got two eight pin power plugs that are required the bios button for the red devil though is a silent bios versus an OC bios so that has to do with fan rpm obviously with this guy here increases our power limit which is gonna get us better clocks speaking of clocks it is advertised as up to 2070 megahertz so I'm really curious to see how that goes here's a size comparison so you can see it is a shorter but taller graphics card meaning probably better compatibility in terms of small form-factor cases if you have the depth to handle the taller card plus the terminal so what I do now is we've got to go ahead and mock up a loop for this thing real quick and then we are going to be doing some overclocking and temperature testing because the 5700 XT what the reference cooler was definitely a furnace but that was more so the coolers fault the the aftermarket boards with the even the fan coolers have definitely been doing a really good job so let's go ahead and mask now let's make it purple also too as you can see we have some nice red glowing LEDs they are not set to remove puke out of the box but there is additional software you need to download from power color if you want to change the colors on this we're not going into that we covered that on the red double card if you're curious about that and how about that software works or with the different modes look like you can go watch that video but that's kind of a good thing and a bad thing regarding this card already is if when you when you add another block to a card that's card you be control you get a pigtail that comes out of it like we have with already on card our reference card then you can plug it into a motherboard header or a splitter or whatever control it with whatever software you want missus y hora or whatever you know third party that you're using is when it's baked in like this it's being controlled to the PCI Express then you've got to run whatever proprietary software there is so heads up there's probably another piece of argue B software you have to add to your computer if you want to control the colors on this unless you're just going for a red theme then it's already done which is kind of funny consuming it's a blue box that I think they should have maybe done blue to keep things consistent but that's just a minor little right there so we are gonna go ahead and use afterburner for this because it works just as well and it's just a supporter with AMD graphics cards we can see right off the bat we have core voltage control right here which goes all the way up to 1.3 volts where I leave that right where it's at power limit it maxed out at an additional 50% power limit as we already said at the beginning of this there are two different power limits on this card based on the BIOS 234 OC or 274 unleashed we are obviously on the Unleashed bios at least that's where I make sure I didn't switch it again yes we are on the Unleashed so that's important and then I like that they made the print on that nice and big so you can actually read it and not need to get like a microscope to read it like some of the brands do 2084 it's where it's kind of set to allow it to go this number right here is not a hard cap with AMD it is not like nvidia where you are controlling an off set with AMD you're giving it a target with AMD you're not guaranteed to get that target because it has other things that has to consider like voltage and temperature and power draw the memory clock is still sitting at 875 which I think might actually be reference and that our fan is set to 100 cuz that's default out of the box so let's go ahead and see what we're getting right now let's go ahead and load up some superposition actually no we're gonna do heaven first so right away it went to 2030 for megahertz and you can see it sort of bouncing around our edge temp and our junction temperature at 35 and 48 is a 30ml by 240 radiator with two fractal design case fans on here these are not even the highest static pressure fan you can put on here they're also only running at 70% if I'm not mistaken that bleed these are 12 or 1300 rpm fans they are not the fastest but I've always said a 120 millimeter worth of radiator per component if factory and 240 per overclock so if you're gonna overclock your part go that least a 240 so I'm kind of sticking with that methodology I've always sort of adopted and they've got a EK tower res right there which is about a d5 and a reservoir built into it running just distilled water with some diet so it's not even a like a premix or anything like that when you're dealing with water because it has a massive thermal capacity it takes time for it to fully reach its maximum temperatures as the temperature of the loop increases so will the graphics card temperatures so we're gonna let this run for 10 10 minutes is usually good enough for a single component like this and then once we see that line plateaus then we'll see those temperatures are maybe will play if the fan speed a little bit but what I want to see is what the maximum overclocked achievable is gonna be on this so let's go and let the temperatures max - max maximum whoa alright so here's how long the test was running our temperatures have pretty much leveled out looks like our max edge temp is 45 and our max Junction temp was 59 now that's that's peak it is still running up 400% and we didn't lose any clocks as you can see right there that's amazing I wish that was always the case but we didn't lose any clocks there so our temperatures though are realistically more around 44 to 56 or so but what I'm kind of curious about right now is what happens if I increase the power limit just increasing the power limit with as I do to our clock absolutely nothing okay so it says up to 2070 and as you can see it sets the 2084 right now we're getting 20 34 so I'm not sure now if that's voltage limit or if that's gonna be it's not power limit it can't possibly be power limits what if I make that randomly 20 100 maybe this is we are kind of moving a whole curve up so it's not really the same as like GPU boost on in video but we are actually creating a curve increase so if I apply that at 2120 50 so we went up it looks like a whole table there 21:20 now one of the things that's different if you do this through the actual global watt man is you can set a minimum target as well which we can't technically do with afterburner so by not being able to set a minimum is allowing it to still have room to kind of fluctuate the core clocks as you're kind of seeing right here but we also found this by locking the minimum and the maximum we got a lot of crashes that way so I'm just kind of seeing what afterburner is capable up here I want to see if we can hit 2,100 oh wow I wanted right to 2150 once I hit 2200 there so it seems to be staying about 50 below that but there's 2150 let's do 2120 I won't see where it's gonna crash man oh wow I dropped down significantly right there it was at 20 oh I went backwards when you reduce the numbers the clocks go down with it so the slider will go past it but 2200 we're kind of maxing out right there 2700 oops not see it why let me go past 2200 so it's kind of a fall slider all right what about memory memory is one of the things that's super hard for overclocking on AMD but because the memory is also being cooled by the waterblock because it is touching the memory we might be able to get a pretty decent overclock on the memory here go straight to 950 AMD memory tends to give you artifacts like all over the screen is something ah zap duh and you'll get it within video cards too but for some reason the way it just the logic works between the memory and the die or the GPU die is you tend to get a lot more artifacts that you can kind of recover from which is kind of nice so 950 is already significantly higher than we got with our reference card anything over like 9 9:25 was like an instant crash and then 950 is where it's capping us right there see if I go 960 like 1975 and hit apply because we're back to 950 so we've maxed out the sliders at least an afterburner now let's see what happens to the temperatures if we bring down the voltage and if we can maintain stability at 2200 target at 950 target for the memory what happens if it rains down to like 1,100 because that was that oh yeah I might have gone a little too aggressive look if the core clock is stable and the memory is stable at the voltage out of the box and the temperatures are really good there's no reason to really touch the voltage all right so we know we can get 2150 out of that can't we make it through our testing suite right now with 1440p I'm not gonna do 4k I'm just curious as to where the stacks up at 1440p this would be the ultimate 1440p gaming card you could probably do some 4k gaming on this with like medium mix of medium high settings maybe but I still I think 1440p would be definitely ultra settings kind of the sweet spot for this car so we just went through all of our benchmark so at least for 1080 and 1440 I know si was only able to 1080 I decide to do 1440 as well actually no the other way around I said I was gonna do 1440 I decided to do 1080 because it's still the dominant resolution now look here's the bottom line this cart cost 599 dollars that's a lot of money and and I know so the usually a block costs a hundred bucks or full cover blocks sometimes 120 130 depending on which brand you go with EK is a premium brand and therefore with it is going to be a bit of a premium price point now it's better than the Red Devil obviously because it's water-cooled and the fact that it's water-cooled meant our temperatures were amazing you saw our edge temp and our junction temperatures well our max junction temperature if we take a look at the chart right now because it's still up for when we ran all these tests our max junction temperature was 69 and that was gonna be that's staring like some of the really in intensive tests we did like 1440 while overclocked so still less than 70 degrees for our Junction template temperature on here on a graphics card that we've seen get pretty darn hot another test when like specially the factory cooler now here's the thing that makes this kind of difficult this is the best AMD currently has to offer if you look at the CPU side of stuff they've really caught up to Intel and surpassed them in terms of core density at the same price point versus Intel when it comes especially when it comes to mainstream and then thread gripper is just like that's just encroached entirely on their xeon market let alone like the high performance desktop what we've learned here is that the graphics card division really needs a higher tier card than the 5700 xt because the problem is that $599 puts you deep into the most expensive 27t super cards that are out there and the 27 TS super founders edition card was actually beating this card non overclocked this card overclocked versus a non overclocked 27t super which is going to be one of the slowest cards of the bunch especially you know considering what you put better cooling on anything and you get your custom bios and stuff from the AI B's and you start getting these faster cards this Oh 1 and fire strike in Far Cry 5 well fire strikes just a synthetic benchmark that really doesn't paint the picture which is why we do game testing as well in Far Cry 5 at one by one and two fps non overclocked versus overclocked again versus a 2070 super founders Edition non overclocked so adding a water block to a 5700 XT makes it a graphics card that is I feel although a great enthusiast card for diehard AMD fanboys it puts it in a price tier that it can't compete so it's a it's a good card and I and I definitely applied power color for for sticking with their devil series which has always been among the best AMD products that you can buy for grip for Radeon it's just it then becomes very difficult for me to say yeah you should definitely go out and buy this card I feel like the person that would run out and buy this card is the person that is just like I will never own an Nvidia product I do not want Invidia plant plain and simple and there are people out there that are that are that feel that way about certain brands and that's fine it's your money you spend it where you want but if you are a performance enthusiast and you were just going I don't care green/blue Intel obviously or red AMD I want the best performance I can get for my money this doesn't beat a twenty seventy twenty seven super and I know if you can still get twenty 70s I think they're actually bringing them back now and Vidya is bringing back the 2017 on super because you know why not I guess so what we need to see AMD is not a 5500 we need a fifty nine hundred we need a card that can compete with the twenty eighty series we we need more stream processors crammed into these guys and they promised that those graphics cards are coming in the future at least that's what they've said it's like they're really likening the 5000 series graphics cards to that of Rison and that it this is the first tier product and it's going to only get better in the next couple years well right now at $599 the liquid devil is definitely the most expensive 5700 xt that you could buy probably one of the most well thought out and well built the problem is it can still only go as fast as Amy's architecture will allow and that's where it's being held back yeah I was hoping I was hoping for more and it definitely overclocks well but as you could see even our core we we can't go beyond 2200 and you gonna make up for that distance and that gap between the 2070 super with core speed and unfortunately even 2150 it's not enough so that has been it that is our look at the power color liquid devil the best water-cooled 5700 XT that you can buy with the warranty and a waterblock pre-installed whether or not it's worth it to you though only you can answer that so guys hopefully you've enjoyed this video hopefully it taught you something sound off in the comments below how you feel about this how do you feel about again hey using the turn mid to your card but in terms of what you can spend this truly is in the middle because 1,200 bucks for twenty atti $600 for this guy you can't buy a card for zero but that would still be the middle right so how do you feel about these cards that are more expensive than their competitors and slower for the sake of like water cooling and stuff like that I've always said never water cool a graphics card if it means that the money you would spend on the water cooling keeps you from buying the next top to your card or the next higher to your card you don't have one of those with AMD so that's kind of why this sort of exists so how do you feel about that sound off in the comments below and as always guys thanks for watching you know I smells good\n"