Should I exchange my RX 5700?

[Solderben]

A few days a go I was at micro center and got a open box mech RX 5700 discounted to $328 without the rebate. The card kinda runs hot. 

 

-the stock fan speed it runs at 73 C in borderlands 2

 

-In heaven at all high settings running with direct X 11. It reaches 80 C (max temp) at times during the benchmark. 

 

In order to get the temps down I need to set an aggressive fan curve. Is the RTX 2060 which is similarly priced better then this card? I have 30 days to return it.

[LIGISTX]

6 minutes ago, Solderben said:

A few days a go I was at micro center and got a open box mech RX 5700 discounted to $328 without the rebate. The card kinda runs hot. 

 

-the stock fan speed it runs at 73 C in borderlands 2

 

-In heaven at all high settings running with direct X 11. It reaches 80 C (max temp) at times during the benchmark. 

 

In order to get the temps down I need to set an aggressive fan curve. Is the RTX 2060 which is similarly priced better then this card? I have 30 days to return it.

I think the RX5700 gets a few more FPS in most things (I am not totally sure, I would google around for some benchmarks), but for that price its a pretty solid deal. 73c is normal for a GPU, that isn't really anything to worry about at all.

 

RTX has ray tracing tho, which I personally do enjoy.

[Slottr]

Those temps are fine?

[Mister Woof]

You'll want to make sure your hotspot and memory temperature aren't above 90 (despite AMD claiming 110 is within spec lol). Adrenaline only shows GPU Core temperature which isn't hard to keep cool and not as important as the other two metrics. Use something like afterburner/Hwinfo64 to monitor.

 

I don't personally think $328 is a good deal for an open box 5700. I only paid $369 for my 5700xt.

 

You can get your same model new at bestt buy for $339.

 

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-mech-oc-amd-radeon-rx-5700-8gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-black/6374967.p?skuId=6374967

 

As far as performance, the 5700 usually beats the 2060 and is close to the 2060 super. I personally would not choose the RTX 2060 unless I needed NVENC. The card is generally too slow for Ray tracing or dlss to be of any use, so I don't even consider that as a feature.

[martward]

My rtx 2060 runs at the same temperatures, maybe a bit higher, if I don't adjust the temperature limit in MSI Afterburner. 

I wouldn't change it unless you want ray tracing or nvenc.

 

@Mister Woof not sure I agree that ray tracing on the 2060 isn't worth it. I played metro exodus with ray tracing and dlss at 1440p and got 50-60 fps, which is playable. I quite enjoyed the ray tracing in some parts of the game tbh.

[Xkillerpn]

Just do a bit of undervolt and thats it. 

 

Thats cooler is just junk on any model. 

 

5700 is faster then the 2060, in the future if you get a better cooler for it you can flash the 5700xt bios on it and even get better performance.

[Mister Woof]

8 hours ago, martward said:

My rtx 2060 runs at the same temperatures, maybe a bit higher, if I don't adjust the temperature limit in MSI Afterburner. 

I wouldn't change it unless you want ray tracing or nvenc.

 

@Mister Woof not sure I agree that ray tracing on the 2060 isn't worth it. I played metro exodus with ray tracing and dlss at 1440p and got 50-60 fps, which is playable. I quite enjoyed the ray tracing in some parts of the game tbh.

I respect that opinion but for a lot of people 50-60 fps at 1080p for a $300+ GPU isn't really acceptable.

 

But I'm also the guy who will reduce settings to get as close to 120fps + as possible in every title, and 60 fps gives me a headache.