AMD Announces Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700: The Next Gen of AMD Video Cards Starts on July 7th At $449/$379

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• zodiacfml - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  not really but AMD created well calculated prices for these cards (as usual), making it a dilemma to choose between AMD or Nvidia. the 7nm process has no benefit to the user unless we undervolt or under clock these cards. the price differential can be used if RTX hardware in Nvidia adds value or not.
  AMD has created same old story with their GPUs unlike the Ryzen CPUs

• eva02langley - Thursday, June 13, 2019 - link

  With RTX? Is that a joke? because performance wise, AMD is beating them at mid-range.

• GreenReaper - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  Nothing on the new video codec blocks (Video Core Next++)? I hope they slot AV1 support in before the 2020 APUs. I want to buy something I can at least play streaming video without spinning up the fans for the next 10 years, and it looks like Netflix, YouTube et. al. want to move off patent-encumbered formats as soon as possible.

• levizx - Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - link

  Then you should wait another 2 generations. AV1 hardware acceleration is pretty much essential if you want future-proof.

• Krysto - Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - link

  It would be a HUGE failure on AMD's part of Navi+ doesn't bring at least AV1 decode acceleration to PS5/Xbox Scarlett. But at least some sort of encode acceleration should be in there, too, because game streamers will badly need it.
  
  Without AV1 support, PS5/Xbox Scarlett will not be future-proof basically. You can refuse to believe it all you want, but it's true.

• Meteor2 - Sunday, June 30, 2019 - link

  Absolutely true.

• hubick - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  LG has their 8K SM99 75" HDMI 2.1 TV imminent, which sounds like it might only make you choose between it and a motorcycle, not a house, for the price, so I'd really like to see an HDMI 2.1 card to drive it. AMD fail :-(

• Oxford Guy - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  Keep in mind how small the die is for Radeon VII. People are duped by the inclusion of HBM II. You're not really getting a super-powerful prosumer chip with Radeon VII. You're getting Vega recycled with a small die.
  
  I also think it's lame for people to get too excited over the replacement for Polaris, a midrange product at best that's years old. I wasn't excited about Polaris to begin with. All it was was AMD blasting past the efficiency curve for its LPP on a small die. Big deal.

• Oxford Guy - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  Anandtech should really highlight die size in these reviews like it used to to give people better perspective about what they're really getting and how it compares with the past.

• webdoctors - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  They already have transistor count in the table above, that's sufficient.