**Comparing Custom RX 5700 XT Cards: Performance and Design**

In this review, we'll be comparing three custom RX 5700 XT cards from MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte. We'll take a closer look at their performance, design, and features to determine which one comes out on top.

**Performance Comparison**

When it comes to performance, the difference between these custom cards is relatively small. According to our testing, MSI's gaming acts run about 5% faster than the reference card. However, this gain may not be noticeable in real-life usage. Gigabyte's gaming OC performs similarly to MSI's, but with a slightly higher power target and more power consumption. Asus' card takes the lead in terms of performance, but its price tag is significantly higher.

**Thermal Performance**

One area where all three cards excel is in thermal performance. They are all much cooler than their reference counterparts and feature decent cooling systems to keep the components at a safe temperature. However, there is some variation between the three cards. MSI's larger dual fan card performs similarly to Gigabyte's smaller triple fan design, but with more power consumption.

Asus' card offers two options: it can run cooler than MSI's card at comparable noise levels or warmer and quieter. This flexibility is a major advantage of Asus' design. However, the differences are not drastic enough to make one card significantly better than the others in terms of thermal performance.

**Software Comparison**

When it comes to software, there are some significant differences between the three cards. Gigabyte's RGB Fusion software has been criticized for being outdated and causing syncing issues with custom builds. Amazon's Mystic Light software is slightly better, but still has its limitations. Amazigh's UI is nicer, but the underlying performance is not significantly improved.

**RGB Syncing Issues**

Syncing RGB effects can be a frustrating experience, especially when trying to set up complex effects or sync multiple components. Gigabyte's software often refuses to recognize certain cards or effect timings, leading to frustration. Asus' software has fewer syncing issues, but still encounters some problems occasionally.

**Price Comparison**

The prices of these custom RX 5700 XT cards vary depending on the region and retailer. In the Netherlands, the reference RX 5700 XT costs around €429, while Gigabyte's gaming OC sells for €459. Asus' card is currently being sold for €549 in our region, which is a significant premium over the more affordable options.

In the US, the prices are similar, with Gigabyte's gaming OC selling for around $500 and Asus' card priced at $539. While both cards offer better performance than the reference RX 5700 XT, spending significantly more on either one may not be justified unless you're looking for additional features or improved cooling.

**Conclusion**

Ultimately, all three custom RX 5700 XT cards are very similar in terms of performance and design. The choice between them will come down to personal preference and regional pricing. If you prioritize a more affordable option with better thermal performance, Gigabyte's gaming OC is an excellent choice. If you're willing to spend more for improved cooling and a slightly higher performance, Asus' card may be the way to go. MSI's gaming acts offer a balance of performance and price, making it a solid mid-range option.

However, if you're looking for the absolute best performance and are willing to pay a premium, either of the top two cards will deliver. Just keep in mind that the differences between them are relatively small, and there may be other factors to consider when making your decision.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys not here and today I'm going to talk about some custom Radeon rx 5700 XT graphics cards so I read the reference card back in July when it actually came out and my conclusion back then was that it's a great chip to consider if you're looking for some high frame rate Full HD gaming or some high setting quad HD gaming but the reference card was just running too hot and too loud for my taste so I was really waiting to see how the custom cards will do in this field now three months later we have the MSI aces and gigabyte card to compare to the reference card and I'm gonna talk about some things that you need to consider when buying a graphics card and that is the design of the card a performance efficiency price and some of the extra features like software for example I'm not gonna compare the chip to some other chips if you're interested in that you can check out my review from July I'm gonna leave a link somewhere up here and if you don't have time to watch another review the bottom line back then was that the reference card was a bit faster than the artex 2060 super and it was a bit slower than the r-tx 2070 super so let's see how these custom cards compared to the reference card as well as to each other let's go this video is brought to you by the coarser IQ 4 65 X RGB case that offers solid performance but also a lot of RGB as it comes with three ll 120 addressable RGB fans and an RGB controller by default check it out using the links in the description below when it comes to design the gigabyte gaming OC is by far the most modest of the three it's not much longer or taller than the blower style reference designs meaning that you should be able to fit it in most cases which is a very nice plus even though it is a bit smaller it still has a decent heatsink three fans as well as the backplate included so it still looks like a decent powerful GPU in your system the neutral colors also mean it will be easy to mix and match most other parts with which is also nice plus four gigabytes and the RGB is limited to the logo only MSI's gaming X model might only have two fans but it is a lot bigger than a gigabyte card you will need two and a half slots to fit this one due to the really big heatsink which thankfully they didn't cover with plastic on all sides keep in mind it is a lot taller too which might be an issue in some smaller form factor cases the design itself is new and it's a step away from the gaming ex models on the RT X cards I don't really care for the front side with the red details but I do like the two-tone backplate and I think it looks good from the side too with the RGB logo I still I'm not sure why they brought back red details in this all RGB era it is just a piece of red plastic so you can remove it if you want but I do hope that next time Amazigh sticks to something a bit easier to match with your other hardware now for Asus I personally think they got a design right the artistic design is not really new anymore but why change something that works well it is large enough to look impressive but not too large to cause problems in the typical ATX case and a neutral color scheme with lots of RGB details makes it very easy to match with most other components now they included some extra features as well there is a physical switch to toggle between performance and quiet mode I'm gonna test both there is a LED off switch if you don't care for RGB and you get an extra addressable RGB Heather and 2 PWM fan headers which work based on your GPU temps in case you're wondering each of these cards offers 3 display ports and one HDMI port which is similar to the reference design ok so let's go over the performance average sustained clock speed over a longer stress tests showed MSI scarred slightly ahead of aces and gigabyte a bit behind that oddly enough we average the higher speed using the Asus card in its quiet mode than what it was in performance mode although the difference was very tiny these results translate in aces being about 2 percent faster than gigabyte averaged over several benchmarks and MSI is 1% further than aces when it comes to raw performance it is important to remember that this can vary strongly from sample to sample and even when testing several of the same graphics cards we can see the differences up to 5% in performance so the fact that MSI's gaming acts run a bit faster here doesn't guarantee that yours will run faster too and even if it does 3% improve performance is really nice but it's actually impossible to really notice in real life now we do see the higher clocks come in at power cost both MSI and Asus seem to have higher power targets and the cards use a bit more power than gigabyte needs for its slightly more modest OC when comparing thermals and noise the first thing you should notice is that they all do really well and are much much better than the reference card they're on much cooler and all include decent cooling of the theorems and memory as well the second thing is that between them the differences are actually quite small MSI's larger dual fan card performs fairly similar to gigabytes smaller triple fan design but don't forget it uses a bit more power for that small performance increase and asus basically gives you two options it can run a bit cooler than msi at comparable noise levels or run a bit warmer and be noticeably quieter honestly there is no real right or wrong here all three cards are actually doing quite well so whichever one you pick it will be both fast and fairly quiet speaking of right or wrong let's talk about software because here we see some really big differences now all three software packages have some simple things like the boost control and fan control that work really well but when we get to RGB control is where we usually run into problems now gigabyte in particular has a lot of work to do when it comes to their RGB fusion software which just feels outdated and trying to sync a complete gigabyte RGB build has been frustrating more often than if you just want to do a rainbow RTB effect or you want to do one color for everything you will be completely fine but just don't expect much more now Amazigh does a bit better with a slightly nicer UI but to be honest the bottom line doesn't change all that much trying to have everything synced in Amazon mystic light has also given me enough problems often when it comes to effect timing or getting compatible memory to sync properly so honestly my advice will always remain the same just set it to RGB rainbow unicorn or something similar or sync everything to one color and leave it at that so does this mean that Asus wins well actually they're not getting off the hook easy either while their UI is definitely better and syncing issues are less frequent they still do exist sometimes as I was trying to set the are to be effects on a Strix card to show you guys how it looks or a sync actually refused to recognize the card so I couldn't do anything and here's the Strix card using the default breathing red effect alright let's talk about the prices of these cards and surprisingly they're actually quite different depending on where you live now here in the Netherlands of reference rx 5700 XT would cost you around four hundred and twenty nine euros now the gigabyte gaming OC at 459 becomes a no-brainer considering it's faster cooler and a lot quieter making it an obvious choice if you're going for an affordable custom rx 5700 XT while I'm his ice card really did well and was a bit faster I do think forty euros more for that is a bit too much now let's talk about the asus card that is currently being sold for five hundred and forty nine euros in our region and i honestly think it's impossible to justify spanning 19 euros more on an RX 5700 eckstein now arguably asus is the best-looking card it is the most efficient and it has some nice extra features built-in but it is way too close to a custom r-tx 2070 super card which will offer an actual performance boost now if we look at the u.s. price saying it will make a bit more sense gigabyte is again a really sensible buy if you're keeping an eye on your money but spending 40 euros more for Asus is not that bad considering what Asus brings to the table i haven't seen the msi card in the US yet but considering how well it did I would say it makes sense as long as it's only a bit more expensive than gigabyte but offers a reasonable saving over the ROG model that does have a better feature set all right so the good news is that all these custom cards are very very similar in performance and if you opt for any of these you will not be making a mistake it will all come down to which design do you like the most and what is the pricing in your region now that's it for today thank you so much for watching let me know in the comments down below what do you think about this review and about these custom cards don't forget to subscribe give me thumbs up and see the next one bye youhi guys not here and today I'm going to talk about some custom Radeon rx 5700 XT graphics cards so I read the reference card back in July when it actually came out and my conclusion back then was that it's a great chip to consider if you're looking for some high frame rate Full HD gaming or some high setting quad HD gaming but the reference card was just running too hot and too loud for my taste so I was really waiting to see how the custom cards will do in this field now three months later we have the MSI aces and gigabyte card to compare to the reference card and I'm gonna talk about some things that you need to consider when buying a graphics card and that is the design of the card a performance efficiency price and some of the extra features like software for example I'm not gonna compare the chip to some other chips if you're interested in that you can check out my review from July I'm gonna leave a link somewhere up here and if you don't have time to watch another review the bottom line back then was that the reference card was a bit faster than the artex 2060 super and it was a bit slower than the r-tx 2070 super so let's see how these custom cards compared to the reference card as well as to each other let's go this video is brought to you by the coarser IQ 4 65 X RGB case that offers solid performance but also a lot of RGB as it comes with three ll 120 addressable RGB fans and an RGB controller by default check it out using the links in the description below when it comes to design the gigabyte gaming OC is by far the most modest of the three it's not much longer or taller than the blower style reference designs meaning that you should be able to fit it in most cases which is a very nice plus even though it is a bit smaller it still has a decent heatsink three fans as well as the backplate included so it still looks like a decent powerful GPU in your system the neutral colors also mean it will be easy to mix and match most other parts with which is also nice plus four gigabytes and the RGB is limited to the logo only MSI's gaming X model might only have two fans but it is a lot bigger than a gigabyte card you will need two and a half slots to fit this one due to the really big heatsink which thankfully they didn't cover with plastic on all sides keep in mind it is a lot taller too which might be an issue in some smaller form factor cases the design itself is new and it's a step away from the gaming ex models on the RT X cards I don't really care for the front side with the red details but I do like the two-tone backplate and I think it looks good from the side too with the RGB logo I still I'm not sure why they brought back red details in this all RGB era it is just a piece of red plastic so you can remove it if you want but I do hope that next time Amazigh sticks to something a bit easier to match with your other hardware now for Asus I personally think they got a design right the artistic design is not really new anymore but why change something that works well it is large enough to look impressive but not too large to cause problems in the typical ATX case and a neutral color scheme with lots of RGB details makes it very easy to match with most other components now they included some extra features as well there is a physical switch to toggle between performance and quiet mode I'm gonna test both there is a LED off switch if you don't care for RGB and you get an extra addressable RGB Heather and 2 PWM fan headers which work based on your GPU temps in case you're wondering each of these cards offers 3 display ports and one HDMI port which is similar to the reference design ok so let's go over the performance average sustained clock speed over a longer stress tests showed MSI scarred slightly ahead of aces and gigabyte a bit behind that oddly enough we average the higher speed using the Asus card in its quiet mode than what it was in performance mode although the difference was very tiny these results translate in aces being about 2 percent faster than gigabyte averaged over several benchmarks and MSI is 1% further than aces when it comes to raw performance it is important to remember that this can vary strongly from sample to sample and even when testing several of the same graphics cards we can see the differences up to 5% in performance so the fact that MSI's gaming acts run a bit faster here doesn't guarantee that yours will run faster too and even if it does 3% improve performance is really nice but it's actually impossible to really notice in real life now we do see the higher clocks come in at power cost both MSI and Asus seem to have higher power targets and the cards use a bit more power than gigabyte needs for its slightly more modest OC when comparing thermals and noise the first thing you should notice is that they all do really well and are much much better than the reference card they're on much cooler and all include decent cooling of the theorems and memory as well the second thing is that between them the differences are actually quite small MSI's larger dual fan card performs fairly similar to gigabytes smaller triple fan design but don't forget it uses a bit more power for that small performance increase and asus basically gives you two options it can run a bit cooler than msi at comparable noise levels or run a bit warmer and be noticeably quieter honestly there is no real right or wrong here all three cards are actually doing quite well so whichever one you pick it will be both fast and fairly quiet speaking of right or wrong let's talk about software because here we see some really big differences now all three software packages have some simple things like the boost control and fan control that work really well but when we get to RGB control is where we usually run into problems now gigabyte in particular has a lot of work to do when it comes to their RGB fusion software which just feels outdated and trying to sync a complete gigabyte RGB build has been frustrating more often than if you just want to do a rainbow RTB effect or you want to do one color for everything you will be completely fine but just don't expect much more now Amazigh does a bit better with a slightly nicer UI but to be honest the bottom line doesn't change all that much trying to have everything synced in Amazon mystic light has also given me enough problems often when it comes to effect timing or getting compatible memory to sync properly so honestly my advice will always remain the same just set it to RGB rainbow unicorn or something similar or sync everything to one color and leave it at that so does this mean that Asus wins well actually they're not getting off the hook easy either while their UI is definitely better and syncing issues are less frequent they still do exist sometimes as I was trying to set the are to be effects on a Strix card to show you guys how it looks or a sync actually refused to recognize the card so I couldn't do anything and here's the Strix card using the default breathing red effect alright let's talk about the prices of these cards and surprisingly they're actually quite different depending on where you live now here in the Netherlands of reference rx 5700 XT would cost you around four hundred and twenty nine euros now the gigabyte gaming OC at 459 becomes a no-brainer considering it's faster cooler and a lot quieter making it an obvious choice if you're going for an affordable custom rx 5700 XT while I'm his ice card really did well and was a bit faster I do think forty euros more for that is a bit too much now let's talk about the asus card that is currently being sold for five hundred and forty nine euros in our region and i honestly think it's impossible to justify spanning 19 euros more on an RX 5700 eckstein now arguably asus is the best-looking card it is the most efficient and it has some nice extra features built-in but it is way too close to a custom r-tx 2070 super card which will offer an actual performance boost now if we look at the u.s. price saying it will make a bit more sense gigabyte is again a really sensible buy if you're keeping an eye on your money but spending 40 euros more for Asus is not that bad considering what Asus brings to the table i haven't seen the msi card in the US yet but considering how well it did I would say it makes sense as long as it's only a bit more expensive than gigabyte but offers a reasonable saving over the ROG model that does have a better feature set all right so the good news is that all these custom cards are very very similar in performance and if you opt for any of these you will not be making a mistake it will all come down to which design do you like the most and what is the pricing in your region now that's it for today thank you so much for watching let me know in the comments down below what do you think about this review and about these custom cards don't forget to subscribe give me thumbs up and see the next one bye you\n"