Sapphire RX5700XT Nitro+: More efficient than a 2060? It's possible! - Test Metodology and Configuration

Test rig

PC fans and pump are always at 100%, Windows is set to High performance mode. All games and benchmarks are installed on the SSD. There’s no antivirus. Everything is updated to the last version.

As to eliminate as many variables as possible from the tests, all fans (case, CPU cooler and 5700XT) have been set to the max. The undervolt is done on Wattman (from 19.2.2 drivers, the last ones during tests). Latest Windows 10 1909 version has been installed from scratch on the SSD. Every driver, software and game has been updated to the latest version. The antivirus has been disabled. Windows 10 has also been set with “Maximum performance” power plan. Power draws, frequencies and temperatures have been captured with GPU-Z. Every test was repeated 3 times, if some results were abnormal that test was discarded and then repeated again.
I used two settings: Stock and UV+MEM (2000MHz-1060mV core, 1880MHz GDDR6).

Every game test has been run at 2560x1440 Virtual Super Resolution (VSR, which means rendering at 2560x1440and then downscaling to Full HD) with every setting maxed out except motion blur (disabled for personal preferences).
This 5700XT sample wasn’t neither a great undervolter (many of them are stable at 1000-1010mV) nor a great memory overclocker (again, many of them are stable with the maxed-out slider in Wattman).
Unfortunatley, since there wasn’t enough time and I was constrained by the games my friend wanted on his PC, I chose a synthetic benchmark (Unigine Superposition) and 3 games (Far Cry 5, Forza Horizon 4 and Tomb Raider 2013. Unfortunately, from a test point of view, all games are optimized from Radeon cards (especially Forza Horizon 4). I’d have preferred some more variety though…