PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil Review: Custom Navi Arrives

Name: PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil
Brand: PowerColor

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, August 15, 2019, 04:00 AM EDT

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the latest addition to the Tomb Raider franchise, which takes protagonist Lara Croft back to her explorative “tomb raiding” roots in a deep origin story. The game, however, was updated and enhanced with new gameplay and combat mechanics. The game engine was updated as well, and offers DirectX 12 support, along with some stunning visuals, including support for some ray tracing technologies. The benchmark outputs a handful of different results; we're reporting the GPU performance and 95th-percentile numbers using the game's "highest” quality graphics preset...

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

DirectX 12 Benchmarks

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

Once again we see the PowerColor RX 5700 XT Red Devil outrunning AMD's reference card and only a small delta separating the OC and Silent BIOS modes. Overall performance is good here, but ultimately trails the GeForce RTX 2070 Super by a bit at both resolutions.

The 95th percentile frame rates tell the same story with the dual modes of the PowerColor RX 5700 XT Red Devil performing similarly, and the card finishing just behind the RTX 2070 Super.

Strange Brigade

DirectX 12 (Or Vulcan!) Benchmarks

Strange Brigade is a third-person action game set in Egypt in the 1930s that takes gamers on an various adventures to explore ruins, solve puzzles, and uncover valuable treasures, while also blasting through an array of un-dead enemies. This game has both DirectX and Vulcan code paths and makes use of Asynchronous Compute as well. We tested Strange Bridge with its Ultra graphics preset with A-Sync compute enabled at a couple of resolutions.

Strange Brigade

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The Strange Brigade benchmark has the GeForce RTX 2070 Super outgunning the PowerColor RX 5700 XT Red Devil at both resolutions, but by relatively small margins. And this time around the PowerColor RX 5700 XT Red Devil in OC mode was a touch faster than the reference card, but popping it into SIlent mode dropped performance enough for it to slot in behind the stock 5700 XT.

Render times in Strange Brigade jibe with the average frame rate data and show the PowerColor RX 5700 XT Red Devil -- at least when in OC mode -- churning through the workload a touch faster than AMD's reference card.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, GPU, Powercolor, navi, red devil, 5700 xt

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com