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Is my system good enough for an RX 5700 XT?

noahvt
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Hi!

 

Just ordered a Gigabyte RX 5700 XT gaming oc and I'm worried about bottlenecks at the moment. Before I made the purchase I looked things up and it seemed like it would be fine but I'm kind of having doubts.

 

I have 2 Xeon E5-2680v2's running at 2.8ghz (turbo 3.6ghz) for a total of 20 cores and 40 threads. I also have 128gb DDR3 ECC memory running at 1600mhz.

 

Everything will probably be fine but the older hardware and slower memory worries me a bit. Would I be able to fully utilise the RX 5700 XT with this setup?

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Depends really on what you're trying to do?

 

If your focus is gaming then the current setup really doesn't make a whole lot sense but if you're doing hardware acceleration stuff then it's fine... though do have in mind as is older Vega cards performs better on OpenCL.

 

Radeon 7 still is leagues better on any workstation task.

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2 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Depends really on what you're trying to do?

 

If your focus is gaming then the current setup really doesn't make a whole lot sense but if you're doing hardware acceleration stuff then it's fine... though do have in mind as is older Vega cards performs better on OpenCL.

 

Radeon 7 still is leagues better on any workstation task.

My main focus would be gaming. The system is an older Dell server that I use for homelab stuff that I also use for gaming so I wouldn't have to spend more money on a desktop. Electricity costs a lot over here and it would cost too much to have 2 power hungry systems around. Currently I'm using a 1050ti but it really struggles as it basically gets no decent airflow and it has to take care of in home streaming as well. CPU usage seems to be about 30% when the GPU is maxed out with the 1050ti.

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If you already ordered it, test it out and see if it meets your needs, if not you can always return it. If your goal is gaming then it's far from ideal (your system will be a bottleneck to the card) but that doesn't mean it won't work.   

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