Overclocking the Radeon RX 5700 XT: 2.1 GHz on Liquid Cooling

[Rankdropper84]

I'm not an AMD GPU fan.

But:

I'd be way more receptive to their cards if they offered the most powerful cards with a built in closed-loop liquid cooler like my 2080Ti FTW3 hybrid.

I specifically DID NOT want a build that looked like "a circus toilet" and I think there's a lot of other potential buyers who want an RGB-less solution that they can trust not to overheat during long gaming sessions. I didn't want to install my own plumbing and I prefer the 0-maintenance, warrantied performance of my tower's closed-loop CPU cooler and my GPU's as well. And the best part is the overclocking software perfectly supports and recognizes the radiator/pump/fan.

first its not fair to compare a non reference aftermarket stacked card to a lowly reference card. cmon man! lol

Sorry you bought a junk closed loop cooler. weak pumps that are designed to fail if even a small bit of air hits the loop. Yeah I prefer my gpus to work with zero issue 24/7 with no chance of my expensive component overheating because of a blown pump. I mean who seriously buys a watercooled gpu just so it doesnt "overheat on long gaming sessions"? Im gonna wait for some nice non reference 5700 setups with more power plugs for OCing (seriously this is im sure why the damn things have a hard limit lol, the power plug can only output so many watts despite raising the limit and overdrawing the pcie port I would bet under load) with a nice RELIABLE cooling solution with fat heatpipes and hopefully 3 fans. 6pin connectors can pull 75watts to a max of 150w with 75w being from pcie port. an 8 pin can pull 150w with 75w also from the pcie. so a single 6+8 pin can pull 300w assuming amd devoted a full 75w through the pcie port which I doubt after the rx480 pcie power draw conundrum. from looking at techpowerspot it seems to be limited to 48w through the pcie although more testing needs done with puts the absolute max of this card for power draw at 273w. if peak power at stock clocks and stock fan curve is 202w peak (per techspot using furmark then its safe to say that throwing volts at this gpu to OC beyond what amd says it can do is a fair reason for the hard cap on this articles claimed mhz limit. not to mention the fact that im sure as always amd didnt put the best OCing components on a ref card that runs 80+c in stock form to prevent dumbasses from blowing up the gpu. either way dont get your info from this website clickbait website it seems lol.

 

[Adhmuz]

When I was a teenager, we'd jack up the rear of our car, put huge tires, 4bbl carbs, headers and stuff like that. Today, kids just "overclock" their computers because they know nothing about cars

"Liberty insurance was there at 1 O'clock in the morning, when my son had a flat tire...(switch to son & friend standing by the side of the road, one saying to the other...is this a lug wrench"

So primarily you're speaking for your son? And thus assume most "kids" can't work on cars?

I understand I might fall into a minority for what you'd consider "kids" but I not only overclock my PC, but surprise surprise, also work on my cars. I've rebuilt and changed my suspension, fit wider tires, changed my exhaust, air intake, brakes, general maintenance, you know, stuff like that.

 

[mailpup]

So primarily you're speaking for your son? And thus assume most "kids" can't work on cars?

He was referring to a Liberty Insurance commercial, likely tongue in cheek, not his own kids necessarily. I'm guessing you either haven't seen the commercial or don't recall it.

 

[PetrolHead]

Old cars didn't have an ECU. Unless you meant todays kids.

I did. p51d007 said "Today, kids..." and that's what my "they" referred to.

 

[PetrolHead]

first its not fair to compare a non reference aftermarket stacked card to a lowly reference card. cmon man! lol

Hardly the point of the article. This was mainly a comparison between the stock reference 5700 XT and a water cooled, overclocked 5700 XT. Whatever the other cards were, the results of the overclock were disappointing. And other than the cooler, is there any reason to call the reference card lowly? Reference Vegas had decent PCB design and changing the stock cooling to something else nad tweaking the settings - as has been done here with the 5700 XT - resulted in a capable graphics card.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

I'm not an AMD GPU fan.
But:
I'd be way more receptive to their cards if they offered the most powerful cards with a built in closed-loop liquid cooler like my 2080Ti FTW3 hybrid.
I specifically DID NOT want a build that looked like "a circus toilet" and I think there's a lot of other potential buyers who want an RGB-less solution that they can trust not to overheat during long gaming sessions. I didn't want to install my own plumbing and I prefer the 0-maintenance, warrantied performance of my tower's closed-loop CPU cooler and my GPU's as well. And the best part is the overclocking software perfectly supports and recognizes the radiator/pump/fan.

The 2080 Ti standard version has an MSRP of $1200.00
The RX5700 XT's MSRP is $400.

So you're looking at 3 times the price difference. Maybe when AMD makes a $1000+ card, they can add features like closed loop liquid coolers.

 

[Enthusiasst]

When I was a teenager, we'd jack up the rear of our car, put huge tires, 4bbl carbs, headers and stuff like that. Today, kids just "overclock" their computers because they know nothing about cars

Just because you can bolt stuff together doesn’t mean you know about cars, the way you usually did things you would mess up pinion angle have uncontrollable wheel hop, weight transfer all off and have the jetting completely wrong so the car was an uncontrollable mess off the line and horrible street manners. At least these kids are smart enough to do actual research on how to do something right using empirical data to back up there results before doing silly mods just because “cool kids are doing it”

 

[Ludak021]

Is there a chance that Navi puts a lot of data through the PCIe bus and thus is bottle necked by PCIe 3.0?

Yes, it's everyone else's fault.

 

[Lionvibez]

When I was a teenager, we'd jack up the rear of our car, put huge tires, 4bbl carbs, headers and stuff like that. Today, kids just "overclock" their computers because they know nothing about cars

Cars and modding them are a far more expensive hobby than computers.
So the barrier for entry is much higher with cars so kinda apples vs oranges.
Not to mention the most of the cars out now have less and less parts you can just go in and replace because of all the computers etc.

 

[Evernessince]

Yes, it's everyone else's fault.

My post comes from genuine curiosity to check all the bases. It does not assign blame. If that's what you assumed, you assumed wrong.

 

[TyrantRex]

AMD finally made it (with OC) to ~1080Ti performance...2 1/2 years later. *Golf clap*

 

[dbhood]

AMD finally made it (with OC) to ~1080Ti performance...2 1/2 years later. *Golf clap*

Yea those AMD scrubs... they even forgot to MSRP the thing at $699. Geeze.