**A Review of the Cheapest RX 5700 on the Market: A Surprise Package**

In our latest review, we took a look at the cheapest RX 5700 available on the market. This card seemed like an affordable option for gamers looking to upgrade their system without breaking the bank. As it turned out, this was a great purchase decision. The card performed exceptionally well in various tests and proved to be a valuable addition to any gaming setup.

**Initial Impressions**

Upon first inspection, we noticed that the RX 5700 seemed like an old-school GPU compared to newer models like the RX 6000 series. However, as soon as we started testing it out, we realized that this was not necessarily a bad thing. The card's noise levels were surprisingly low, even in gaming situations. We had expected a more powerful GPU to produce some heat and noise, but instead, the RX 5700 remained remarkably quiet.

**Gaming Performance**

In our tests, the RX 5700 performed admirably. We ran various games at different resolutions and frame rates to see how it would hold up. The card's performance was consistent across the board, with no major issues or bottlenecks. Even in games that were known to be GPU-intensive, like Metro Exodus, the RX 5700 handled them with ease. We were impressed by its ability to maintain high frame rates even at 1440p and 2160p resolutions.

**Driver Issues**

However, we did encounter one issue during our testing process - a strange fullscreen glitch that caused the game to run in an unsupported resolution. This problem seemed to be related to the driver software, as it didn't occur when we were running games through the display port. We assume that this is a known issue with the Navi 10 GPU and are working on resolving it.

**Power Consumption**

Another aspect of the RX 5700's performance was its power consumption. During our tests, we found that the card consumed around 160 watts of power when gaming. This is significantly lower than other GPUs like the Vega 56 or even the older GTX 1080 Ti. We're not surprised by this, as the RX 5700 has been designed to be more power-efficient.

**Conclusion**

Overall, our experience with the cheapest RX 5700 on the market was extremely positive. Despite initial reservations about its performance, we were pleasantly surprised by its capabilities. The card's low noise levels and high gaming performance make it an excellent choice for anyone looking to upgrade their system without breaking the bank. While there are still some issues related to driver software, these should be resolved in future updates.

**Gaming with the RX 5700**

We couldn't resist ending our review with a few more tests of the RX 5700's capabilities. We played through the opening level of Metro Exodus and were impressed by its performance. The game ran smoothly at high frame rates, even at 1440p resolution. This is a testament to the card's ability to handle demanding games.

**Future Testing**

We'll be continuing our testing with this GPU in another video, where we'll explore its compatibility with other components in our new personal rig. We're excited to see how it performs alongside the latest CPUs and other peripherals. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting project!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to another video and what is another episode of Sunday Tech Talk today the tech we're talking about is this this is the Radeon RX 5700 and it was the cheapest one I could find on the market it's a second-hand car from the Amazon warehouse deal with section of the Amazon site and I paid 272 pounds for it around 50 pounds cheaper than you can expect to find one of these brand-new now some of you would probably rather pay the extra for a brand new card and peace of mind but you know I'm a here on this channel I like to take risks I like to purchase second-hand hardware just for the thrill of it because it always intrigues me as to what we get in the box whether anything's missing how bad is the car damaged both externally and internally and is everything working as it should sometimes I like to take these risks so that you don't have to anyway for those of you who watched yesterday's video you've already seen this in action but a reboxed it again for reconstructive purposes and today I want to talk about what I actually got with this buy and explore some of the things that I've heard about the RX 5700 is it all that loud is this one particularly now is that why it got returned who knows but let's get it open check it out and yeah so immediately I noticed that the box was a little beaten up which is sometimes the case regardless of item condition it seems to me a compromise one must accept around my hometown when expecting an Amazon delivery I don't think they drop the parcels off by van they just kick them out the door of the Midway Depot and all the way down the m2 let's open up the box then now it seems we have all all most of the original accessories I don't have anything to compare it to but the msi thank you card drivers and installation manual are all here under the foam padding we have the RX 5700 itself I really like reference design style cards with the blower fan I know they can be notoriously loud and run warmer than other multi fan counterparts but I guess they just remind me of older hardware which I still very much enjoy it seems like blower style coolers are a design standard turned tradition the card itself is in like-new condition with a small scratch on the front even the camera struggles to pick up and we've got all the connection protections still in place that's the name I give those little rubber bits that go in the HDMI in display ports this card is based on the Navi 10 GPU and from what I've read in other reviews it seems to be ideal for those wanting a decent 1440p gaming solution up there with the likes of teen greens RTX 2060 super I think for the money the 5,700 seems like a good card that is my 5,700 a good card well let's put it in the test system and find out you know the deal used graphics cards are a riskier purchase I'm always willing to absorb the loss if anything goes wrong as it's part and parcel of having a tech channel but you should always read return policy details and any warranty info carefully Amazon tend to be very good with returns every time I've had an issue it's always been resolved in a timely fashion but the whole return refund and replaced thing will depend on where you buy from with that sort of disclaimer out of the way let's see if the card works as it should the first thing I did was head over to AMD's website to download the latest available drivers for my operating system in this case windows 10 if a GPU initially works the moment you plug it into your system then the next test of its condition is the driver installation I've had a few cards fail specifically after installing the drivers so initially it seems as though everything's fine and then BAM black screen luckily our 57-hundred surpassed this test with flying colors and all seems as it should thus far some reviewers said the card was very noisy other said it wasn't too bad I've got mine in this little Coolermaster case which doesn't have the best breathing room so the card is probably a little warmer than it would be in a big ATX enclosure a warmer card of course means higher fan speeds when I doll the card sits at 34 degrees with the default fan speed of 24 percent this is how it sounds from 30 centimeters away a reading taken much closer than you'd actually sit from your system it's quite at 30 decibels and in fact I could hear the rising stock caller whirring up over the noise of the GPU fan but it's not as quiet as an aftermarket card that would use software to stop the fans altogether at low temps I then ran the heaven benchmark ultra settings and observed a maximum temperature of 70 degrees with an increase in noise 244 decibels it's audible but not annoying and from what I can tell it seems about right in comparison to what other reviewers say luckily there's no oddities so far with this secondhand offering and I don't think these sort of noise levels would have been the reason that someone sent it back so all seems well with the card so far and now we must check out the gaming performance in all honesty I experienced a strange fullscreen glitch with this GPU yesterday but one that seemed to be resolved since I reinstalled the card in a different system when choosing fullscreen the card would try and run the games in a strange and unsupported resolution something like 2401 by 1863 as a result the monitor sent out a no signal message I have read about some driver issues so it's not an isolated case but this could have been the reason why the original owner returned it after all the last thing someone wants to see when they fire up their favorite game is a black screen I run a few games at various resolutions just to try and see if I could replicate this issue and of course to check out performance of the card starting with battlefield 5 here at 4k with dx12 and as you can see the 5,700 does a nice job as I switched a 1440p I was getting closer to the dreaded 1080p test which was the one that caused the issue yesterday but so far at these higher resolutions the card seems to be doing a decent job and we haven't run into any graphical issues here however making that switch to 1920 by 1080 once again replicated the issues I faced yesterday I thought I had eradicated the issue here but I guess not because everything else is fine I have to assume that at this point it could just be a driver problem or a problem with the HDMI port as this resolution through the display port worked just fine it's still relatively early days after all even setting a custom resolution to try and force the GPU to maintain 1080p through HDMI didn't work anyway the same thing occurred at 1080p in every other game - but the 1440p and 2160p performance remained fine and consistent I'll be carrying out full benchmark tests with both this card and the rise in the CPU in another video because I want to talk about the system I built and why I built it in more detail as well as how I saved some money here and there I still try to squeeze in a few tests today though despite my awful driving in dirt rally - the card still performed as it should at this point I'm pretty much convinced it's a driver problem it's still early days for Navi 10 this is probably the newest GPU I've owned as well to be honest and I haven't seen many about on the used market yet but certain outlets like Amazon or other online retailers can sometimes provide an opportunity to save a few quid on returned or open box items I'd like to reiterate that for peace of mind I'm sure many of you would rather spend the extra but just know that it's not impossible to find deals on even the newest of hardware though it certainly won't be for everybody with all that said and done I hope you enjoyed this look at what seemed to be at the time of purchase the cheapest rx 5700 on the market a card that I'm very happy with and one that surprised me in terms of specifics like noise levels for example some reviews led me to believe that this was going to be a very loud card but I found that even under gaming situations it really isn't extremely audible at all it seems quieter than the 1080 G one that I previously owned and it also seems quite a bit quieter than the Vega 56 as well and it consumes far less power something like 160 watts on average when gaming I don't even like to think about what the Vega was doing to my electricity bill now I couldn't resist ending the video without throwing in Metro Exodus here I'm playing through the opening level and of course the framerate may differ depending on where you are but I just had to test this out as Metro Exodus seems to be the game at the moment in terms of how it pushes GPUs and CPUs to their limit you can see that the risin 5 is handling it just fine and the GPU even at 1440p here is running at 95 to 100% most of the time that's totally normal it just means that we are getting the most out of our graphics card here and I'd say that the CPU is a good pairing for it however I'll have more on that tomorrow when I run a few more benchmarks with these two in my new personal rig so all that's left to say is I hope you enjoyed this video leave a like on it if you did leave a dislike if you didn't let me know if you would have purchased one of these cards at this price point or what else you'd go for would you opt for the 20 60 something like that subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see you all in the next onehello everyone and welcome to another video and what is another episode of Sunday Tech Talk today the tech we're talking about is this this is the Radeon RX 5700 and it was the cheapest one I could find on the market it's a second-hand car from the Amazon warehouse deal with section of the Amazon site and I paid 272 pounds for it around 50 pounds cheaper than you can expect to find one of these brand-new now some of you would probably rather pay the extra for a brand new card and peace of mind but you know I'm a here on this channel I like to take risks I like to purchase second-hand hardware just for the thrill of it because it always intrigues me as to what we get in the box whether anything's missing how bad is the car damaged both externally and internally and is everything working as it should sometimes I like to take these risks so that you don't have to anyway for those of you who watched yesterday's video you've already seen this in action but a reboxed it again for reconstructive purposes and today I want to talk about what I actually got with this buy and explore some of the things that I've heard about the RX 5700 is it all that loud is this one particularly now is that why it got returned who knows but let's get it open check it out and yeah so immediately I noticed that the box was a little beaten up which is sometimes the case regardless of item condition it seems to me a compromise one must accept around my hometown when expecting an Amazon delivery I don't think they drop the parcels off by van they just kick them out the door of the Midway Depot and all the way down the m2 let's open up the box then now it seems we have all all most of the original accessories I don't have anything to compare it to but the msi thank you card drivers and installation manual are all here under the foam padding we have the RX 5700 itself I really like reference design style cards with the blower fan I know they can be notoriously loud and run warmer than other multi fan counterparts but I guess they just remind me of older hardware which I still very much enjoy it seems like blower style coolers are a design standard turned tradition the card itself is in like-new condition with a small scratch on the front even the camera struggles to pick up and we've got all the connection protections still in place that's the name I give those little rubber bits that go in the HDMI in display ports this card is based on the Navi 10 GPU and from what I've read in other reviews it seems to be ideal for those wanting a decent 1440p gaming solution up there with the likes of teen greens RTX 2060 super I think for the money the 5,700 seems like a good card that is my 5,700 a good card well let's put it in the test system and find out you know the deal used graphics cards are a riskier purchase I'm always willing to absorb the loss if anything goes wrong as it's part and parcel of having a tech channel but you should always read return policy details and any warranty info carefully Amazon tend to be very good with returns every time I've had an issue it's always been resolved in a timely fashion but the whole return refund and replaced thing will depend on where you buy from with that sort of disclaimer out of the way let's see if the card works as it should the first thing I did was head over to AMD's website to download the latest available drivers for my operating system in this case windows 10 if a GPU initially works the moment you plug it into your system then the next test of its condition is the driver installation I've had a few cards fail specifically after installing the drivers so initially it seems as though everything's fine and then BAM black screen luckily our 57-hundred surpassed this test with flying colors and all seems as it should thus far some reviewers said the card was very noisy other said it wasn't too bad I've got mine in this little Coolermaster case which doesn't have the best breathing room so the card is probably a little warmer than it would be in a big ATX enclosure a warmer card of course means higher fan speeds when I doll the card sits at 34 degrees with the default fan speed of 24 percent this is how it sounds from 30 centimeters away a reading taken much closer than you'd actually sit from your system it's quite at 30 decibels and in fact I could hear the rising stock caller whirring up over the noise of the GPU fan but it's not as quiet as an aftermarket card that would use software to stop the fans altogether at low temps I then ran the heaven benchmark ultra settings and observed a maximum temperature of 70 degrees with an increase in noise 244 decibels it's audible but not annoying and from what I can tell it seems about right in comparison to what other reviewers say luckily there's no oddities so far with this secondhand offering and I don't think these sort of noise levels would have been the reason that someone sent it back so all seems well with the card so far and now we must check out the gaming performance in all honesty I experienced a strange fullscreen glitch with this GPU yesterday but one that seemed to be resolved since I reinstalled the card in a different system when choosing fullscreen the card would try and run the games in a strange and unsupported resolution something like 2401 by 1863 as a result the monitor sent out a no signal message I have read about some driver issues so it's not an isolated case but this could have been the reason why the original owner returned it after all the last thing someone wants to see when they fire up their favorite game is a black screen I run a few games at various resolutions just to try and see if I could replicate this issue and of course to check out performance of the card starting with battlefield 5 here at 4k with dx12 and as you can see the 5,700 does a nice job as I switched a 1440p I was getting closer to the dreaded 1080p test which was the one that caused the issue yesterday but so far at these higher resolutions the card seems to be doing a decent job and we haven't run into any graphical issues here however making that switch to 1920 by 1080 once again replicated the issues I faced yesterday I thought I had eradicated the issue here but I guess not because everything else is fine I have to assume that at this point it could just be a driver problem or a problem with the HDMI port as this resolution through the display port worked just fine it's still relatively early days after all even setting a custom resolution to try and force the GPU to maintain 1080p through HDMI didn't work anyway the same thing occurred at 1080p in every other game - but the 1440p and 2160p performance remained fine and consistent I'll be carrying out full benchmark tests with both this card and the rise in the CPU in another video because I want to talk about the system I built and why I built it in more detail as well as how I saved some money here and there I still try to squeeze in a few tests today though despite my awful driving in dirt rally - the card still performed as it should at this point I'm pretty much convinced it's a driver problem it's still early days for Navi 10 this is probably the newest GPU I've owned as well to be honest and I haven't seen many about on the used market yet but certain outlets like Amazon or other online retailers can sometimes provide an opportunity to save a few quid on returned or open box items I'd like to reiterate that for peace of mind I'm sure many of you would rather spend the extra but just know that it's not impossible to find deals on even the newest of hardware though it certainly won't be for everybody with all that said and done I hope you enjoyed this look at what seemed to be at the time of purchase the cheapest rx 5700 on the market a card that I'm very happy with and one that surprised me in terms of specifics like noise levels for example some reviews led me to believe that this was going to be a very loud card but I found that even under gaming situations it really isn't extremely audible at all it seems quieter than the 1080 G one that I previously owned and it also seems quite a bit quieter than the Vega 56 as well and it consumes far less power something like 160 watts on average when gaming I don't even like to think about what the Vega was doing to my electricity bill now I couldn't resist ending the video without throwing in Metro Exodus here I'm playing through the opening level and of course the framerate may differ depending on where you are but I just had to test this out as Metro Exodus seems to be the game at the moment in terms of how it pushes GPUs and CPUs to their limit you can see that the risin 5 is handling it just fine and the GPU even at 1440p here is running at 95 to 100% most of the time that's totally normal it just means that we are getting the most out of our graphics card here and I'd say that the CPU is a good pairing for it however I'll have more on that tomorrow when I run a few more benchmarks with these two in my new personal rig so all that's left to say is I hope you enjoyed this video leave a like on it if you did leave a dislike if you didn't let me know if you would have purchased one of these cards at this price point or what else you'd go for would you opt for the 20 60 something like that subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see you all in the next one\n"