Amd 5700 Xt Vs 2070 Super

For those of you that missed information technology, last week we revisited the battle between the current-gen $400 GPUs: the Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce RTX 2060 Super. Since we tested them both at launch near seven months ago, we've seen new drivers, new games and game updates, however we found a very similar situation that tin exist summarized equally a slight performance advantage going the mode of the Radeon GPU, to the tune of 8% faster on average at 1440p gaming.

Coming away from that review ii things were articulate: many of you wanted an update between the 5700 XT and the more expensive RTX 2070 Super, likewise equally the inclusion of DLSS results for the games that support the much improved DLSS 2.0. So today we're going to include both of those things.

To put things in proper perspective before we begin, the RTX 2070 Super is the more expensive GPU starting at effectually $500, while the 5700 XT comes in at $400 and upwardly, making the Radeon at least 25% cheaper.

In improver to the 2070 Super, we've added the original RTX 2070 to the mix every bit many readers were too requesting this. We've tested 35 games in total for this comparison and we'll prove yous DLSS results for the 2060 Super, 2070 and 2070 Super in Command and Wolfenstein: Youngblood.

All tests were conducted using our Cadre i9-9900K GPU exam system clocked at 5 GHz with 16GB of DDR4-3400 memory. We're roofing 1080p and 1440p resolutions although the focus of the give-and-take will be on the 1440p data. Let's get into the results...

Benchmarks

Showtime upwards we have Call of Duty: Mod Warfare. This was a clear win for the 5700 XT over the 2060 Super as it offered 22% more frames at 1440p. Surprisingly, even when compared to the RTX 2070 Super, the 5700 XT is the superior performer, even if it's just by a 5% margin. This is a truly impressive consequence for AMD given how much cheaper the Radeon GPU is.

The 2070 Super is able to pull ahead in Ghost Recon Breakpoint making information technology 7% faster than the 5700 XT at 1440p. Notably though, the one% low functioning in the GeForce was quite a flake better at 16% faster.

The 5700 XT and RTX 2070 Super are neck and neck in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, delivering 87 fps on average at 1440p. The original 2070 and 2060 Super are too a match and it appears as though the increased clock frequency of the 2060 Super cores makes up for having less of them.

Operation was competitive in Gears 5, here the 5700 XT edged alee at 1080p while the 2070 Super managed to push itself into the pb at 1440p past a slim margin. This is another title where the Radeon GPU is able to dial above its weight class.

Moving on to Control, this is one of the games with DLSS 2.0 back up and we'll check out those results shortly. For now here is native 1080p and 1440p performance. The 5700 XT just manages to border out the 2060 Super in Control while the 2070 Super is sixteen% faster at 1440p. This won't fully justify the 25% increase in price, merely mayhap enabling DLSS will help here.

Next upward we have Metro Exodus and here the 5700 XT easily beats the 2060 Super. So much and so that it's able to friction match the 2070 Super besides. Technically the Radeon GPU performs amend in this title with more consequent frame time functioning, for whatever reason the 2070 Super struggled to meliorate upon the 1% low result of the standard 2070 and 2060 Super.

In Resident Evil 3, the 2070 Super is able to edge out the 5700 XT beating it past a 7% margin at 1440p. Here the 5700 XT performs closer to the 2070 Super than it does the 2060 Super, so this is remains a good result for AMD.

Nvidia puts upwardly a much more disarming fight in Doom Eternal, beating the 5700 XT with the 2070 Super by a 21% margin.

Some other game where the 5700 XT only managed to match the 2060 Super is Fortnite using the DX12 mode. Both $400 GPUs average around 90 fps, while the 2070 Super is 17% faster, averaging just over 100 fps.

PUBG is another game where Radeon operation is a chip iffy, performing a tad below the RTX 2060 Super. Frame rates for the 5700 XT relative to the GeForce competition are much worse in this title, here the RTX 2070 Super is 21% faster.

Borderlands iii has become an AMD special, much like what Forza Horizon 4 was for quite some time. It's a major outlier in our testing simply the results are accurate, The 5700 XT is a whopping 32% faster than the 2060 Super and 13% faster than the 2070 Super. Whatever optimizations were done here, clearly they are working.

Finally, we accept Battlefield V, where the 5700 XT is able to match the 2070 Super with an average of 100 fps at 1440p. This is a nifty showing from the $400 Radeon GPU and stellar frame rates for a title that looks so skilful at 1440p.

Functioning Breakdown

Overall you tin can tell the GeForce RTX 2070 Super was faster almost of the time, but considering the difference in price it certainly looked every bit though the Radeon RX 5700 XT kept holding its own. The performance breakup graphs below have the full list of 35 games we tested.

Looking at the full 1080p data outset, the Radeon GPU 5700 is half-dozen% slower than the 2070 Super, suffering it's biggest loses in The Outer Worlds, State of war Thunder, Vermintide ii, Doom Eternal and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

It's besides worth noting that in 15 of the 35 games tested the margin was v% or less.

When testing at 1440p the margin is increased by a single percent, so the RTX 2070 is about vii% faster than the 5700 XT. This is basically the aforementioned margin nosotros observed betwixt the ii GPUs 7 months agone when nosotros outset tested them in a comparing review. There's been some changes to the games used for testing and the margins in a few titles take changed, just at the end of the day nosotros finish upwards with a similar effect.

But what if we enabled DLSS in Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood?

DLSS, Anyone?

Enabling DLSS in Command we see massive gains and please note this is the quality DLSS manner every bit we're running the highest possible DLSS resolution at 1440p.

Frame rates for the 2070 Super were improved by 66% and sixty% for the 2060 Super. This means the 2060 Super is now 48% faster than the 5700 XT while the 2070 Super is an obscene 93% faster.

Taking into business relationship we're talking about comparable prototype quality between the 5700 XT and 2070 Super using DLSS, this is a devastating outcome for the Radeon. The simply problem for Nvidia and current RTX owners is that for now, a mere 4 games back up DLSS 2.0.

We as well tested Wolfenstein: Youngblood and here DLSS has far less affect on performance. This may be because frame rates were already very high to begin with. DLSS 2.0 still takes a certain amount of time to compute and this creates a bit of a bottleneck for college-end GPUs, or in games that don't require loads of rendering ability such as Youngblood.

That's not to say we didn't see a performance uplift. The 2070 Super saw a 17% jump and given we're not seeing any noticeable reduction in prototype quality -- under close scrutiny we'd say it'southward exactly the aforementioned -- this is a large win for DLSS.

The RTX 2060 Super was slower than the 5700 XT without DLSS, enabling information technology in this game allows the GeForce GPU to accept the pb by a 15% margin. The 2070 Super is now too 37% faster, in a convincing win for the green squad with DLSS enabled.

Taking into account those big DLSS-enabled gains in Wolfenstein and Control, the 5700 XT is now nine% slower on boilerplate at 1440p when compared to the RTX 2070 Super.

Obviously, for DLSS to cripple AMD and have a more than meaningful impact for RTX owners, Nvidia needs to drastically improve game support. We're not sure when and if that's going to happen, but for now it'due south an impressive engineering science that works well in the few games nosotros've tested.

What We Learned

Nvidia has washed a dandy task of reinventing what DLSS is and how information technology works. They have without question come a long way from those horribly blurry initial implementations, so kudos to them. The trouble is now game support, we need a lot more than of it, just we believe y'all'll just see DLSS back up in Nvidia sponsored titles (Nvidia GameWorks) and if that is the case, not enough games will meet DLSS back up. The fact that AMD is powering next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft is not an encouraging sign either, but nosotros'll just have to look and see.

When looking at today's pricing, the GeForce costs 25% more with well-nigh cards on retail starting around $520 and upwardly, while we could besides find enough of 5700 XT's bachelor effectually the $400 MSRP or slightly above it for the amend equipped models, which we fully recommend.

In terms of value, the 2070 Super can't reach the levels of the Radeon 5700 XT. But if you prioritize operation then the Nvidia GPU can be the improve choice. For those of you wanting to game at 4K in particular, the 2070 Super is worth spending the actress $100, as the ix% boost information technology offers on average does typically translate into a better gaming experience.

Bottom line, while we retrieve the 5700 XT is somewhat of an obvious choice when compared to the similarly priced 2060 Super, the right selection is less obvious when comparing with the RTX 2070 Super. For nigh gamers targeting 1080p or 1440p the Radeon RX 5700 XT offers the best value, but if y'all're seeking maximum performance at 1440p or beyond, then the 2070 Super might exist worth spending a piddling extra on. Either way yous can't get wrong every bit both GPUs deliver exceptional performance.

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