Sapphire 11293-03-40G Radeon Nitro+ Rx 5700 Xt 8GB Dual DP OC (UEFI) PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card

Sapphire 11293-03-40G Radeon Nitro+ Rx 5700 Xt 8GB Dual DP OC (UEFI) PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card

Sapphire 11293-03-40G Radeon Nitro+ Rx 5700 Xt 8GB Dual DP OC (UEFI) PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card

the Sapphire Nitro+ rx 5700 XT there's a big old box and it's a big old card it's already my machine guy was so excited when it came I just wanted in there so let's go check out what the Nitro+ is all about running the new AMD rDNA gaming architecture using the seven nanometer processor the Sapphire and 9000 plus rx 5700 XT has 2560 stream processors that run a boost clock of up to two thousand and ten megahertz a game clock of 1905 and plus eight 

gigabytes of gddr5 to four screens with two display ports and two HDMI 2.0 it's a VR friendly card and requires two eight pin power connectors and we suggest a 650 watt power supply so the Nitro plus is equipped with the trikes cooling solution not only does it look great but it's incredibly efficient at keeping your car cool under heavy loads the trio set up each has dual ball bearing fans - into your optimal airflow with two larger fans rotating anti-clockwise and the 

smaller fan in the middle running clockwise every little small detail on this call is to increase air flow and keep noise levels to a minimum with the intelligent fan control it always ensures your graphics card is always in perfect balance between these states like a lot of the other cars that sapphire juice you can easily switch out the found with the initative Quick Connect van system this allows you to replace a fan head yourself without having to send the whole card back for

 repairs but there is an optional upgrade designed specifically for the Nitro+ oryx 5700 XT that offers clear fan heads with a RGB for more personalization these obviously pair up with the other AGP our features on the cartas is the bat pad and the logo there's also a three pin header on the tail of the car to help sync up your motherboard of the other led throughout your case to give you even more customization options while it's a given that rock-solid performance 

together whether a bust cooling solution is the primary objective when designing cards in the Nitro+ series sapphire also appreciates that many gamers take great pride in their gaming rigs from a visual perspective showcasing their components in shiny RGB filled cases with tempered glass windows while a great deal of care has been put into the aesthetics to make this car feel like a chameleon to fit into any environment without compromising the car's performance and functionality sapphire aims for incredibly high reliability in all of their cards DNA with long 

life capacitors use protection a robust PCB vrm cooling and memory cooling solutions designed to keep one of the hottest parts of the next generation card under control with industry-leading as solutions so five also improved on the dual BIOS which which you can find on the side of the card that allows you to switch from performance mode the silent mode and now into software mode as well this allows you to be able to switch your bios settings in the Trix software and 

saves you having to open up your case each time that you perhaps want to switch to your different BIOS settings exploring more than newly enhanced ric software update with its deceptively simple interface you can check out the overview of your card specs monitor your hardware performance run fan checks an able and change your led themes in the nitro glow options and with the tricks boost tab increased game performance by downscaling multiple 

resolutions by using the percentage slider of course you'll lose some image quality but downscaling at high resolutions such as 4k or 1440p by 15% your hardly see the difference most of the time it's very hard unless you're really pixel peeping on your screen to see if there's much of a difference but what I can tell you is that you'll definitely feel the performance boost when running around in your favorite games also if you have a keen eye for details you can 

always turn on the radio and image sharpening tool to help pop-out those subtle details and it works brilliantly when you've downscaled a resolution as well it's compatible with DX 9 and DX 12 games and this incredible tool almost has zero performance loss meaning you can just simply leave it running and enjoy those extra details without having to worry about losing any extra frames as many of you already know increasing frame rate is one of the best ways of 

reducing input latency and having a low input latency is what makes gaming feel responsive and ultimately more immersive Radeon anti-lag is a driver level feature that also works to help reduce any input latency by up to a full frame which could work out as much as 16 point 7 milliseconds when playing around at 60 FPS while 16 milliseconds may not actually seem like a long amount of time you have to remember that many gamers will spend an awful lot of money just to shave off a tiny amount of input latency such as knocking off a couple of milliseconds by 

going with a high-end monitor picking up an expensive Gaming Mouse to knock off a couple more and yet in many cases were able to shave off many times the amount of lag simply by flipping a switch on the radio and overlay jumping into some gameplay benchmarks now I loaded up the most recent Gears of War game number five and turned up the details that ultra and then got testing I first wanted to test out the three standard resolutions 4k 1440p and 1080p 

and here you can see some really decent results at 4k we've got 38 frames at 1440p 73 frames per second and at 1080p 105 I then downscale all of those resolutions by 15% on the tricks software and then ran the benchmark again and at 1836 P which is the 4k downscaled resolution we got 51 frames then we've got 12 24 P we've got 91 frames per second and at 916 P we've got a hundred and ten frames per second as expected with a sapphire Nitro+ 1080p and 1440p gaming no problems whatsoever this card murders it for K resolutions are also 

incredibly manageable thanks to the AMD feature set alongside with the Trix boost software these incredible tools give you a lot of room to maneuver and as always something that's in your back pocket in case you need it as well it's fantastic I really recommend you investigate those all sets a lot but if you get this card also the Triax cooler is fantastic it maintains great performance on long gaming sessions I think the hottest I got the car too is certainly three 

degrees but maintained at low level noise as well at the same time I still haven't heard the card over my case fans probably need to get those replaced speaking of that case features and also customization in there with the colored themes is absolutely fantastic in the nitro glow you can really tweak out the software to fit this into anything that you're going for and because of the clean sleek design of the card it would fit in pretty much most cases anyway without any RGB 

but the fact that you have those customizable options in there especially the replaceable fans of the a RGB 2 you really got a lot to play with on this card with customization and going for the right theme for you all I would say is just investigate the size of the car before buying because it is quite a big car - make sure to check out the dimensions of that always do your homework 

always research and look at other people's reviews before buying as well and I thoroughly enjoy playing on this card and I look forward to getting a new case pretty soon so I can match it with this card and make it all look shiny and pretty too.


it's been a few GPU launch cycles since board partners really cared to invest heavily in to AMD video card designs and and these cards for as competitive as some of the GPS have been haven't been particularly exciting we've gotten a lot of refreshes in the last few years but that's changed with navi sapphires our RX 5700 XC Nitro+ is on our bench for review today as one of the most physically imposing kitted out RX 5700 xt models we've yet seen with a reported MSRP of 

theoretically baseline we're looking to see whether the price hike is worthwhile over not only other partner models but also over the RT x-series cards that hover mark today we're reviewing the sapphire Nitro+ in depth for noise thermals overclocking power and more before that this review is brought to you by be quiet and it's straight power 11 series power supplies the straight power 11 PSU is shipped from 450 Watts up to a thousand Watts accommodating most of the gaming PC build requirements you'd encounter and focuses on 

delivering a higher quality power supply that doesn't sacrifice on efficiency or stability noise is also a heavy point for the straight power 11 using a 135 millimeters silent wins 3 fan that can spin as low as 200 rpm for quieter low load operation learn more at the link in the description below this is a sapphire nitro plus it is a higher end card from the 5700 xt line it's quite large and we're gonna have separate teardown on this one and it deserves a standalone piece because it is a as stated very kitted out it's got a lot of interesting features and my cooler design on the 

board so we're gonna do a separate review talking about all that today we're focusing heavily on the unmodified and unopened thermals acoustics and power targets because power targets are a big deal and a big separator on these partner cards this when I was a triple bios which typically you only really want a dual V BIOS dual v BIOS is as you work more and more with video cards you start to appreciate it because it gives you this safety in that if you want to try something if you get interested in modern or store overclocking with BIOS mods things like 

that you're gonna flash it on there and there's no real risk of damage because as long as you don't flash all three of them or all two of them in the case of dual of you buyers you always have a backup you can always fix it and you can restore both be bios's this one's got three which is exiting the point of necessity and just getting into being excessive but we'll test all three of those just for their stock behaviors it does give you some room to play if you want to try a couple of 

different mods on if you get into maybe competitive benchmarking stuff like that but it does also have a practical use it's just that getting into this class of cards obviously more expensive and as you encroach upon territory of a twenty somebody super or r-tx cards you start deviating from the comparison that really would it would matter for the most part which is how does it do versus other partner model fifty-seven rx tees and drawing closer to the comparison of but should you just buy something that's a bit more expensive still and get more performance


 so we'll talk briefly about that today the big thing though is that thermals and noise especially with these larger coolers you'll be able to drive down the noise level at a given temperature and so that's something that's important to look at so it's a triple axial fan card it's got a triple v bios and then it's supposed to be and it's got a  RGB fan add-on which we don't have here but once you're doing that you're really a you've basically priced it out to a completely different tier of card 

 so anyway let's get through all the testing will look pretty detailed at the thermals and do some line graphs on frequency behavior then we can talk about overclocking and if it's actually worth it there almost have been getting trickier to measure even with 40 DB a noise normalized thermal testing varying maximum power budgets on each card make the comparisons imperfect and so a card which draws 220 watts will be disproportionately hot when compared to a card draw in two hundred watts even with the same noise levels before getting into thermal 

testing we need to look at power consumption of each B BIOS on the Sapphire Nitro+ there are three of them we're using GPU only power draw for this so this doesn't count memory power consumption and vrm efficiency losses we're just looking at GPU here's a chart showing the Sapphire I'd show power limits for each of the three V BIOS options ignored the hard downward spikes these are reporting errors and have no bearing on the actual results for the default V bios position the leftmost one power consumption runs at about 220 watts constantly 

this is higher than most of the 5700 XT cards actually all of them that we've measured so far and for the most part that's a good thing that means more overclocking Headroom in theory or more clocking Headroom in general over or not the middle V bios measured the lowest of the three plotting at about 195 watts average and closer to competition the rightmost V bios also plotted at about 220 watts for reference if we look at an average DV a power graph to best understand the different cards on the market the Sapphire Nitro+ is the most power hungry of 

these models meaning that it has more power allowance for boosting the clocks without software or powerful a table modifications the MSI evoke only has 1 V bios and that V bios runs at 200 watts average EMA size of oak is roughly equivalent to one of the V biases for sapphire also at nearly 200 watts and the Sapphire 5700 xt pulso cv bios is also in this range the gigabyte gaming OC runs a bit lower at 190 watts average with the reference card the lowest measuring 179 watts average GPU only our next test will look at 40 DB a noise normalize 

thermals but there are a few explanations first as always testing methodology is defined a bit more in the article below but the basics are that this testing allows us to better look for efficiency of cooler designs by eliminating the ability for coolers to blast their way to the top of the charts with it louder or faster fans it's not exactly a fair comparison if there's a 60 DB a cooler doing better than a 40 DB a cooler obviously and so we normalize them the downside of this is that power really should also be considered because the Nitro has a V BIOS that pulls 

220 watts and another that pulls about 195 200 will measure both the 195 watt version will be directly comparable to every other partner model tested thus far well the 220 watt version will pull more power than the others thus running warmer noise measurements will be taken with a DB meter at 20 inches away in a room with a noise floor of 26 DB romanian temperature is measured second a second and AC is controlled to 21 degrees Celsius with offset modifiers 

applied if necessary deviation and ambience is less than plus or minus one degree Celsius and humidity is controlled to approximately 45% starting with noise normalized GP thermals then we'll be looking at both the edge and junction temperature where the latter is a measurement to the hottest spot on the die with the former being a measurement of the literal edge temperature of the dice one of the cooler parts configured to roughly the same power target as the competition each power target is plotted on the left axis the Sapphire Nitro+ is easily the most 

efficient cooler on the chart Sapphire manages an impressive seventy two point five degree Junction temperature winning the chart by a longshot it's not even close the next best is a set of four cards all around the 81 to 83 degree range edge temperature is nearly the same as the Gigabyte rx1r xt that we tested but edge temperature is less important than junction temperature as junction is what dictates boosting Headroom and a potential thermal limiter for 

overclocking that's said with the TJ Max of 110 degrees this is a non-issue for all of the non-reference cards on this chart Sapphire has a massive incredible lead in this chart and if you're wondering why that would even be relevant if we're operating at levels where lower thermals don't really grant any advantages keep the following in mind Sapphire could be run instead at lower noise level still perhaps at 32 to 35 DBA in our bench while still retaining equivalent 

thermals to other coolers that might be louder like 40 DBA this offers a noise advantage although at the obvious cost of wealth more money that's for the 220 watt Nitro+ version it's managing the same thermals as the pulse the modded evoke and the gigabyte card but while pulling 10% more power this is why if you just measured that without accounting for the power difference it really wouldn't look like that impressive of a cooler the sheer mass of the Nitro alone is helping here not to mention the increased cooling capabilities provided by the triple axial design GTD our six and vrm Moss testing is next for GGG our six thermals the Nitro Plus 

at 200 watts again comes out ahead of everything else in fact the Nitro is so far ahead that it's 220 watt V by experience is the next best one on the chart despite the 10% increase in power consumption to the core at 200 watts noise normalize thermals place the nitro at 68 degrees G DDR 6 temperature with the 220 watt option at 70 degrees followed by gigabytes previous chart leading 70 4.7 degree results at the end of the day as we stated in the gigabyte review the actual 

difference is sort of irrelevant once you get down to the top three quarters of this chart everything below the pulse and thermals is and below meaning up on this chart is distant enough from exceeding comfortable thermals that they'd all do fine there's no real benefit from running mosfet or GD r6 a couple degrees or even 115 degrees cooler when all the results are already so far from the maximum permissible values and you're probably cooling based on 

GPU anyway these don't behave like GPUs there's no additional butene Headroom if a mosfet is cold or if a memory module is cold although there is potential for damage if it runs too hot but in this instance too hot means 125 degrees Celsius and above on MOSFETs or about 105 110 degrees on the GD are six modules and caps of course we're rated a bit lower but they don't really get that hot on video cards keep in mind that sticking any of these cards in a case will 

raise the effective T ambient from 21 degrees to maybe the mid 30s in our environment or worse if you're in a warmer ambient and that's assuming a well cooled case and maybe a light CPU load if you're the type of person who prefers to run the card stock and without controlling fan speeds we've got some testing with the cards left to auto to govern their fan speeds for out-of-the-box thermals so have fires thermals look a lot worse than the 40 DB a result one left to auto control but that all comes down to how the fan curve is written the end result is that the 

Nitro+ ends up mid-pack with the right v bios which about eighty eight point six degrees Junction with the last V bios predictably next door and the lower 200 watt v bios ends up at about 91 degrees Junction but with quieter fan speeds this chart certainly tells a different story from the other and if a reviewer tested only with all the settings it make the nitro look a lot worse than reality dictates we'd suggest setting a custom fan curve for the card if you're going 

to buy one although these temperatures are acceptable they're too warm for a cooler this good and it comes down to how the fans are programmed in v bios well plot fan behavior now with the leftmost V bios the fan ramps to about 1230 rpm or roughly 37 to 38 DBA initial ramp is much harder hitting about 1500 rpm but it calms down they're after the middle of eubiose which sticks closer to 1000 rpm and acts as a more silent option matched it's 195 watt power 

draw at 1000 rpm this card produced about thirty-six point five to thirty six point seven DBA of noise at twenty inches in our bench the RPM is fairly fixed otherwise with no meaningful fluctuations to speak of as for the full acoustic scale the range is 36.4 DBA to fifty nine point seven DBA with our measurement we're in the final ten percent fan of pwm doesn't really move the RPM at all or much but this is an AMD driver issue that's consistent on all cards it's not a sapphire then two of the 3v by OSA stick closer to the 1200 rpm mark with one closer to one 

thousand rpm running at 40 DBA puts you at around 1400 RPM for a point of reference to the previous charts there's plenty of headroom to scale up for heavier overclock and without using crazy cooling so this card may be a good candidate for power play tables frequency responses last before talking overclocking for frequency response we saw the higher power target via bios options hitting about 1960 megahertz with the lower 195 watt power budget configuration 

running at around 1900 megahertz again a point of reference the msi evoke not shown here but we have the data in our review holds between 1940 and 1960 megahertz so we'll need to look at some overclocking to further differentiate needs on to performance and overclocking results briefly again the focus is not on gaming performance here because they're all pretty much the same this one's a bit different it's special but most of the 57 hard XD is one of the 2070 supers 

all those cards within a given GPU skew most of them are going to be basically identical to each other this wouldn't be different though so this card had a particularly strong memory with no issues achieving a 9 50 megahertz memory set and will need to use power play tables later to see if we can push things further this would actually be a really good liquid-nitrogen candidate and we'll see if we can get the L&T pot mounted on it because the frequent the memories are so 

good we're not clear obviously on why that is most the time it's just luck of the draw it could be the IMC it could be the memory cells probably the IMC and whether or not sapphire does any real bidding here we're not sure but it's probably luck of the draw core frequency seemed to succeed at a set frequency between 21 20 and 21 40 megahertz which is really good that's the max that AMD will allow basically it's pretty damn close for the 5700 XT you can do more with

 power plate tables definitely and if you're into that sort of enthusiast tweaking we absolutely recommend it it might be something we'll do separately if there's enough interest in it and do a separate content piece on we've done it before but this card might be worth doing it again please note that this is not the same though as get frequency in this chart you're looking at the labeling is set that's the number we typed in the number that comes out is always a bit different 

you can see that in the time spot results some of the overclock scaling down on the Nitro+ is looking pretty good it's actually the 2070 super and the rx-7 hardac see reference model are added here for points of reference the 2070 super managed a significantly stronger memory score and gt2 than all of the 5700 X T's and that's a significant portion of where it's higher scoring is coming from because gt2 weights pretty heavily so this indicates that Navi is still 

stuck on memory clocks although the 5700 XC nitro did encroach upon the total score of the 20 so d super not shown here because blow out the chart but the weighted scores are 10 won 8-1 points 10,000 won 81 for the 2070 super and 98 48 points to the Nitro+ establishing a lead for the super of about 3.3 percent won the super is stock overclocking it would get you more obviously well the fifties or 100x the reference under the quad nitrogen we scored 10 6 8 7 or 70 

3.2 FPS gt1 and 58.8 FPS GG 2 lagging behind a gt2 really hard there because the our reference model is stuck about 900 915 megahertz memory Nitro+ is the best on-air overclock we've yet used for the 5700 XT although it remains to be seen how much of that is from luck of the draw again your mileage will vary not may vary but it will vary that said we're really happy with this particular card and it's a fantastic candidate for ln2 and for PowerCLI tables hopefully that's 

true for all of them but we can't say shout of the Tomb Raider at 4k the 5700 I've seen nitro with the stock V bios ends up at forty nine point eight FPS average ranking roughly tied with the 27 super reference card are about 2 points percent ahead of the Evoque and further ahead of the 5200 icy poles over o'clock in the Nitro+ but just past a 1080 TI FTW 3 and equivalent to the Radeon 7 that distance from the r-tx 2080 gain overclocking the 2070 super puts it past the 

Nitro+ OC to be fair at 1440p the Nitro+ runs about tied with RT x 2070 super and gtx 980ti holding a lead over the RX 2200 xt pulse is 85 PS result about 5.5 percent that's a much larger game then we'll see elsewhere and is absolutely a noteworthy one just don't expect to repeat everywhere in GTA 5 at 4k there are 6700 xt Nitro+ stock V BIOS Landers performance at 50 point 5 FPS average ranking it as roughly equivalent with the other 5200 XT cards on the chart 

there's no meaningful gain at stock overclocking the card manually to a set frequency not the same as get again of 21 40 megahertz and 9 50 megahertz memory the Nitro plus ends up at 54 FPS average positioning at not distant from the 2070 super the 2070 super reference card 7 FPS results maintains a lead of approximately 5.9 percent over the overclocked 5700 XT although the 2070 super could be further overclocked to keep that distance jumping to 61 0.6 FPS average here granted a gain of about 14% over the hybrid 5700 XT with an overclock the

 Nitro+ manages the lead of 3.6% at 1440p vr x 5700 xt Nitro+ performs at 102 FPS average positioning that equivalent to the Evoque and the charts with the lows within the wider error of low performance the Nitro plus ends up about 1% over the reference rx 2 D 1 or XT or sapphire pulsar x57 r xt when either is that it's 100 FPS average overclocking boosts it notably to 107 a gain of 5 percent of the stock Nitro+ this also ties it with an overclock to 2017 super-sorry non super non a die card which was among the worst 2070 models before being 

discontinued twice and video discontinued the non a model which this is that was the only a most RP model at the time and then also discontinued the 27 t the RT x 2080 maintains a lead of about 7% and strange brigade with DX 12 and at 1440p the 5700 i've seen Plus runs at about 128 FPS average passing the 5700 XC pulls by 2.6 percent and the pulse is a card that we were pretty happy to recommend previously it said well overclock is Nitro puts it about tied with the stock 20 Sony super and 20 80 while overclocking the super allows it to leapfrog again typically 

these partner board reviews we're assuming that you already have decided you want the GPU that comes on the board that be the 5700 XT here and that's because we leave most of the gaming benchmarks and the baseline stuff to the initial reference design review where we look more at gaming performance than anything else so in these reviews we assume you already want it and all we really care about is comparison from one of that model versus the next but 

here because this is getting so expensive not that  is particularly high but it's encroaching on 2070 super territory you can find them a lot of the partner models , so should you buy it is a tough question to answer when considering RTX versus the other rx models here's what we think if you are looking at an Rx 57 or XT and you're definitely gonna buy one of those you just don't know which one this is by far the best cooler that we've yet tested on those 

models there's a lot more we haven't tested but it's unlikely that many will compete directly with the performance all of this quarter you can tell by looking at the design as as I mean it's pretty obvious that it's gonna be one of the best performers for cooling it costs more but from strictly a standpoint of 5700 T's the reason you buy this aside from having some additional power to play with an overclocking although you can do that through soft power play tables mind you but if you watched our stream with Joe that's a massive pain and they're not 

particularly fun to work with so you get a bit more power out of the e bios you have some more flexibility on cooling you can push the cooling harder and get more clock Headroom potentially sort of like competitive or a an enthusiast overclocking standpoint we can recommend the card it's good for that from a cooling standpoint if you are really neurotic about noise and you just you can't stand noise a benefit of these larger designs is that you can drive the fan rpm down 

quite low and still have better or equivalent thermals to a lot of the the less beefed up designs the smaller cards especially so the point where you can you basically can't hear the fans over anything else in the system so that's a benefit too and you do pay for that an extra bucks versus the other models like the pulse or something but those are the main benefits if you don't care about either of those things probably not worth it but if you're interested in an enthusiast just kind of hacking around with the card especially with BIOS mods because you've got 

backups here or you really enjoy the idea of having a tunable fan curve to the point where you still have good thermals on the device but you can drive down the noise to be below your system ambient noise or system case fan noise stuff like that it's good it's just those are the primary reasons so we do like the design the cards well done it performs very well it is superior and the charts for thermals especially noise normalized the auto settings are a bit they're a bit soft we think that Sapphire probably should have gone more aggressive with the fan curve on that but 

that's nothing you can't solve by just setting your own fan curve or potentially flashing view bios if they release updates versus the 20 70 super that is more difficult it's basically you'll you have potential for more gaming performance from a twenty seventy super if you're willing to spend the extra money and you're not that distant from it so then it just becomes a question of would you rather buy a lower and twenty seventy super that is going to be a bit louder on average and not have as good of a cooler design comparatively but will have more Headroom 

for a high-end gaming performance or would you rather buy the high-end 5700 XT get all the quality of life features but then lose a bit of the gaming performance and that's going to come down to basically what monitor you have what refresh rate are you trying to hit what resolution is you trying to hit and if this is priced at it's not unreasonable it's just at the high end and we like seen high-end cards because they're fun they're fun to work with and there's definitely 

buyers for them so good job sapphire on the design card as well it's we don't really have any complaints about it it's just it becomes really difficult on the price and I have a hard time picking aside between the options but hopefully all that helps you and if it doesn't and just look at all the data and decide on your own make up your own mind you have enough information 
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Sapphire 11293-03-40G Radeon Nitro+ Rx 5700 Xt 8GB Dual DP OC (UEFI) PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card

 the sapphire pulse card which regard the lights and the MSI evoked OC card which were you rather didn't like and today we're going to look at sapphires higher-end card at the Nitro+ which is launching today and it's coming in with higher clocks higher power and a bigger cooler compared to the pulse card so it's going to be pretty interesting to see what it can do pricing is still a little up in the air but we reckon it's going to come in at 4 for 9 in the UK and 

that looks like it's going to take on the power color at red devil directly so it'll be an interesting comparison when we get to that review which would be very very soon now as for the Nitro+ card the initial impressions are pretty good the build quality is really rather nice it's very solid very weighty it's around about 1.1 kilograms it's got a nice slide aluminium backplate and a generally sort of tone neutral aesthetic that's quite an important point to note because for this 

card Sapphire has actually included some addressable RGB lighting for the logo here the edge of the backplate and also the back of the back plate on this logo here so it's going to be a pretty good-looking quite a bold card and they also have a little connector here which allows you to hook it up to a motherboard or addressable RGB control as you can see size-wise it is a bit of a beast it comes in over 300 millimeters long it's 135 millimeters tall and it does take up three 

slots they call it a 2.3 slot design but obviously on your motherboard you're going to need three slots to accommodate it but other than that let's look at the specs looking at the clock speeds the Nitro+ card is the fastest we've seen so far with a voltage frequency curve that is clearly shifted quite far compared to reference and even compared to the pulse however these are the same reported clocks as power colors were a devil so sapphire isn't alone in targeting at this level of 

performance as usual there's no memory overclock but the core overclock is expected to drive up power consumption by a substantial 40 watts compared to reference so let's hope that the big cooler can cope with that power limit in mind it's not really a surprise to see that Sapphire has changed from a 6 pin 8 pin combo to a jaw 8 pin combo now this gives the card technically 375 watts of available power so plenty to cope with that increase TDP they've also deviated 

from the reference design in terms of the display outputs because they're using two HDMI and two DisplayPort instead of the three one split now the reason for this is to do a VR it means you can have a VR headset and an HDMI display connected at the same time not a big 0 but useful for a certain subset of users the other thing they've included that wasn't on the reference design but was on the pulse is a bios switch now this is actually a 3-way switch instead of 2 which it 

was on the pulse it comes with a performance by us which is the default a silent mode and then a software control mode which allows you to tap into the tricks software that sapphire also provides here's what the difference between the performance and silent biases actually looks like we're comparing GPU only power here not total board power hence why we've moved from 265 watt to 220 watt but a 25 what difference here is still substantial and you'll see how this 

plays out shortly now I've already mentioned the a RGB lighting but something else to note is that these three fans can actually be upgraded to a RGB fan so if you want to add a bit more RGB to it you can and that comes with all three fans and sapphi is still using its quick disconnect system which I'll show you in a minute and this makes it really easy to swap the fans in and out I think this is a pretty good feature because it 

means that if you want that extra RGB you can have it but if you don't want it you're not paying over the odds just to have a feature that you don't need or want but that said we're going to tear the card down now and take a closer look at the cooler and the PCB so starting with the fans you can see obviously it's a three fan design you've got two 95 millimeter fans on the outside and a middle 87 millimeter fan in the middle which spins in the opposite direction to 

the other two as a means of trying to reduce turbulence between them the airflow comes out the top and the bottom of the card so it's going to come towards your motherboard and a lot of its going to end up in your case now as I mentioned they do have the quick disconnect feature on the fans which means you just need to take out one screw here and each fan can come out nice and easy now I think this is a really cool feature it's not like everyone needs to do fan 

maintenance from time to time but it is perhaps one of the more likely components to fail so if it ever does you know it's an easy way to deal with it and also if you want to take the argb upgrade that Sapphire offers it's a very easy method to install I should also mention that this card does come with a zero rpm fare mode and so below sixty degrees or so you're going to see the fans turn off completely it's a feature that we do like to see but if you don't want to do it you 

can probably play around with a fan curve in what man and keep the fans running at all times , right so with the cooler off we can see what's going on underneath so they have a large copper contact plate using thermal paste and it looks like they've got pretty good contact this is feeding five separate heat pipes connected to two different fin stacks one small and one large and this larger one is also calling the MOSFETs of the GPU VRMs directly via some thermal 

padding the heat pipes are nickel plated giving them a nice consistent shine and Sapphire isn't really wasting any volume as far as we can see so it looks like it's filling out the card nicely making use of all of that space now as you can see on the PCB there's a separate calling heatsink for the memory and this is one of the largest memory coolers we've ever seen and it's its separate decoupled from the main cooler but it's still gonna benefit heavily from the airflow 

especially of the fan over here so a whip that off and you can also see what's going on under there. so with that removed we can see that it's being used to call all eight of the GDR six modules as well as actually the MOSFETs of the remaining vrm so the two for the memory and the one for the memory bus here now MSI if you happen to be watching this is the size of memory pod you should be using on your card you can see that it offers full coverage for each 

of the GDR six chips so this is a really good design from sapphire a quick read on the PCB sapphire has moved from seven to eight power phases a slight upgrade not really a big deal and it's also using its black time and chokes which come with a range of claimed improvements not going to be really opinions those it's not really possible so that's all you really need to note let's crack on with the testing the clock speed plot shows that this is the fastest 5700 XT we've looked 

at so far which is to be expected from the on paper numbers sapphire is very close to the msi evoke OC here but overall it does maintain a higher average clock speed that is in the 1920 5 megahertz range though this is going to vary from card to card and is not set in stone especially as our labs are not temperature controlled we've also plotted the silent bios which is at roughly reference card levels or just above while clock data is interesting performance is what really counts and while 3d marked will only ever be an indicator its granularity is useful for 

demonstrating the likely impact of average clock speed differences especially between cards with the same GPUs and here it really isn't very much it's games that really counts however and as usual we're limiting what we've shown for the sake of your time and our sanity the card blitz is through 1080p so we're focusing on 1440p but the full suite can be found on the website metro is our first and toughest game and a 99th percentile result of 36 FPS here pretty much 

guarantees smooth gameplay in the vast majority of titles performance here is great for AMD as its 15% faster on average than an overclocked r-tx 2060 Super even though the difference between these two cards is only 6.5 percent overall shadow of the Tomb Raider shows how little real-world difference there is between the various partner cards overall the Nitro+ is less than 1% quicker than msi CFO Cosi and about 1.5 percent faster than the original pulse card the 

average difference over reference is thankfully a bit more at 5% the card maintains 60fps consistently in the division too but a look at the average performance makes it clear that Nvidia Hardware does better here across the full selection of games the r-tx 2070 super maintains a 4.5% lead over sapphires Nitro+ card the last game we'll show you is total war 3 kingdoms which is again in video centric the r-tx 2060 super founders Edition for example is within 1 FPS 

of the Sapphire Nitro+ but overall the latter card is faster by a healthy 12% even though we're looking at total system power consumption here the figures still scale nicely we have clock speeds and performance truth told na'vi isn't very efficient when it comes to increasing clocks so this is the price you pay with higher over clocks that said there is a very clear difference between performance and silent bios with the latter reverting to reference levels of power in 

terms of temperature the Nitro+ seems to target around 70 degrees which gives it a difference over ambient here of 48 degrees this is very healthy and a massive improvement on reference and even though it's not as aggressive as the MFI card the difference in fan noise is astounding fan speeds hovered between 1400 and 1500 rpm which is really rather quiet on this triple fan cooler the other good news is that vrm and memory temperatures are lower than the other 

cards despite the quieter fans illustrating the effectiveness of sapphires cooler design what's also interesting is that when you switch to the silent bios you actually see a reduction in temperature and this is primarily because of the lower power consumption this means that throughout the card temperatures go down and this includes the vrm and memory so you're getting a quieter and cooler card by switching to this bios obviously you're then running 

without the overclock but in terms of real-world performance it doesn't actually add a huge amount and if you're happy with the reference performance this could be a viable alternative to the performance bios we weren't able to add anything to the clock curve when overclocking but simply raising the power limit to the maximum value of 150 percent was enough to see a decent increase in clocks we had the memory at 935 megahertz the equivalent of just under 15 gigabits 

per second this gave us an improvement of 4 to 5 percent we technically managed better results from sapphire pulse and MSI evoke OC samples but really the silicon lottery is going to play the biggest part in determining how well you get on the main thing to remember is that overclocking on Navi is heavily power limited as this graph demonstrates more power means more heat so if you want to overclock and don't want to water call focus your attention on the best caller designs rather than chart-topping results from individual and possibly pre-selected 

samples so there we have it now Sapphire already had a pretty good card with the pulse but with the nitro plus I'd say it now has an excellent one obviously is a huge improvement over the reference design but even compared to the pulse it is slightly faster and it's quieter and cooler as well and it also implements and tasteful a RGB lighting with the option to control it via motherboard and also upgrade the fans to match it's also very well made and it has a properly 

implemented multi BIOS solution and we also like that it has the zero rpm fan mode so really it's quite hard to fault if I had to nitpick you know the size is going to be a bit problematic for some users and I'd also say that it would be kind of nice if they labeled the BIOS is in terms of positions but again very minor detail and one other thing would be perhaps increasing the warranty to three years in the UK to match MSI so that just leaves the pricing to discuss and as 

we said at the start this should come in , which is hopefully something that the retailers are going to be able to stick to now in the UK it's going to be interesting because that's actually only ten pounds more than the pulse Cod retails for so probably a pretty easy temptation for users to just spend a little bit more and get the higher power card that's also going to put it directly in competition with the power color Red Devil which is the card that 
we're going to be reviewing next.

Sapphire 11293-03-40G Radeon Nitro+ Rx 5700 Xt 8GB Dual DP OC (UEFI) PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card

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