$400 GPU King: Radeon RX 5700 XT vs. GeForce RTX 2060 Super

Nosotros've got yet another big game criterion for you, this fourth dimension comparing the GeForce RTX 2060 Super to the Radeon RX 5700 XT. A week agone we compared the standard RX 5700 (non-XT model) to the RTX 2060 Super, that is a $350 Radeon GPU vs. a $400 GeForce GPU.

Even though nosotros made this difference abundantly clear and focused on toll per frame when drawing comparisons, some of you lot were genuinely interested in why that comparing was made and felt the 5700 XT would have been a amend matchup given the identical pricing. Fair enough. Coming from that article however, information technology should be said, information technology was the more affordable AMD GPU that offered the meliorate value past a slim margin. Per our decision, nosotros don't believe ray tracing support is a strong selling point for the RTX 2060 Super as it's but not powerful enough to accept full reward of the feature.

In an effort to please everyone however, hither's an apples to apples comparison of the 2 top $400 GPUs currently in the market. We await these GPUs to remain among the most interesting mainstream graphics cards you lot can buy these holidays and across. With enough criterion information, if pricing fluctuates considerably in the months to come y'all volition ever accept this guide to choose the right GPU for the games y'all like to play the near.

There won't be any surprises here, so we'll quickly blast through the results before getting to the large breakdown graphs where we can await at all 41 games tested.

Representing AMD we have the PowerColor Scarlet Devil 5700 XT and for Nvidia we have the MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X. Our Core i9-9900K GPU examination rig has been used, overclocked to 5 GHz every bit usual, featuring 16GB of DDR4-3400 memory. All testing took identify at 1080p and 1440p.

Benchmarks

We'll start with Borderlands 3 and given this is a title where the 5700 trounce the 2060 Super, information technology should come as little surprise that the XT is even faster, beating the GeForce GPU by a 25% margin at 1440p.

The Gears 5 results are a flake interesting, at 1080p the 5700 XT is 14% faster than the standard 5700, but at 1440p it was just 9% faster. We suspect memory bandwidth is the outcome at the college resolution. Whereas the XT was 24% faster than the 2060 Super at 1080p, it was only xv% faster at 1440p, though that's even so a decent margin.

The 5700 was on par or slower than the 2060 Super when testing with Ghost Recon Breakpoint, just the XT model has a clear performance reward, offering 12% more than performance at 1080p and a whopping 25% more at 1440p.

Hither we see a 12% performance boost for the XT over the standard 5700 when testing with Forza Horizon iv. That meant information technology was 21% faster than the 2060 Super. We see a similar performance margin at 1440p too, hither the Radeon 5700 XT beat the GeForce by a nineteen% margin.

Moving on to World War Z and given the 5700 was already faster, this one's an like shooting fish in a barrel win for the 5700 XT as it crush the RTX 2060 Super by 26% at 1080p and 1440p.

The 5700 XT offers 13% more functioning at 1080p and 17% more at 1440p. Another easy win for AMD in Battlefield Five.

In Apex Legends the margins are much tighter. There's only 5 fps in information technology at both tested resolutions, but the 5700 XT remained on summit.

AMD is dominant in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, then if you're after maximum fps the 5700 XT is the fashion to become at the $400 toll point offering ~xxx% more performance at 1440p.

F1 2022 saw the 5700 and 2060 Super deliver comparable performance at both tested resolutions and this allowed the XT model to provide 11% more than frames at 1080p and 15% more at 1440p.

In The Witcher 3, the 5700 XT was 9% faster at 1080p and 8% faster at 1440p against the RTX 2060 Super. It likewise offered considerably stronger 1% depression functioning at the college resolution.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood serves another instance where the RX 5700 was slower than the 2060 Super, just the XT model is able to correct that, winning by a vi% margin at 1080p and 8% at 1440p.

We recently published an all encompassing Fortnite Season 2 criterion roofing a wide range of GPUs. These are the results for the 5700, 5700 XT and 2060 Super, i of those rare instances where the GeForce GPU matches the 5700 XT.

Strange Brigade has been a strange game for AMD. For a long fourth dimension they dominated this title but now information technology's Turing-based GPUs from Nvidia that offer more consistent operation. The 2060 Super was slower than the 5700 XT when comparison the boilerplate frame rate, merely it did offer improve 1% depression performance. Overall, the gaming feel was much the same using either GPU.

The 5700 XT makes up a lot of ground on the 2060 Super in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and despite being a footling slower at 1080p, the Radeon GPU takes over at 1440p by a slim margin.

Even when testing with Project Cars 2, a game that typically favors the green squad, the 5700 XT is able to crush the 2060 Super. This time past an xi% margin at 1080p, and merely 6% at 1440p.

Last we take a look at Globe of Tanks where the 5700 XT is able to edge out the 2060 Super, though it's a little down at 1440p when looking at the i% low operation.

Full Game Breakup

That wasn't close. Yet we're keen to see how the 5700 XT and 2060 Super stack across all 41 games. Consider the GeForce was just ~4% faster than the standard 5700 in our contempo comparison.

At 1080p, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super was ~9% slower on boilerplate against to the Radeon RX 5700 XT. Non only that, but the 5700 XT was the more consistent performer, coming up short in only three of the games tested. The 2060 Super won by more than a 5% margin in a single title. Meanwhile, information technology was slower by more than a 5% margin in 28 of the 41 games tested. It was also slower by a 10% or greater margin in 20 games. A disarming win for the 5700 XT.

The 1440p results pigment much the same motion picture, in fact nosotros'd argue the 5700 XT looks improve here despite the average dropping by a percent. The 2060 Super was at present at best but iii% faster, with insignificant wins in two titles and matching operation in iii more than titles.

For the rest of the pack, the RTX 2060 Super was slower by a 10% or greater margin in 17 of the 41 games tested.

Here's a quick expect at cost per frame and every bit you lot can meet in terms of value the 5700 and 5700 XT are the same using our 1440p data. In other words, at 1440p you'll be paying an xi% price premium for the RTX 2060 Super over either of the 5700 series GPUs. Then at 1080p the 2060 Super costs 12% more than per frame over the 5700 and ten% over the 5700 XT.

Wrap Upwards: Buy Radeon for the raw functioning, buy GeForce for...

If you lot're looking for maximum value it's the Radeon RX 5700 serial that delivers. As you just saw the 5700 XT offers at least 10% more bang for your buck when compared to the RTX 2060 Super. Value-wise it's an open and shut example, become the 5700 XT and enjoy the extra frames, or save a piddling coin and become the non-XT model which can exist tuned up for 5700 XT-similar performance.

With that said, what are some of the reasons why you might opt for the RTX 2060 Super instead?

For 1 the 2060 Super consumes less power, and it'll reduce total system consumption by at to the lowest degree ten%, but it's also x% slower. Non exactly an efficiency improvement there, and don't wait to notice that difference on your power bill, but typically you're looking at a 25% reduction in consumption for the graphics carte du jour itself, and that means most 2060 Super cards will run cooler and quieter. Brand sure you pick upwardly a model that comes well equipped out of the box. Both the MSI Gaming X and PowerColor Red Devil run very quiet.

Another reason yous'd buy the 2060 Super would be for video encoding, either equally a content creator or every bit someone who streams gameplay and you want your graphics carte to do the heavy lifting. Nvidia's encoder is significantly ameliorate in terms of quality and right now it'south a lot faster. You're looking at a 25-35% performance uplift over the 5700 XT in applications such every bit DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere. So while the focus of this feature was on gaming performance, if your needs become across just gaming, the 5700 series might non be the best choice.

AMD tin certainly improve Navi'southward video encoding performance, but they'll need to work on that at the driver level and we're not confident we'll see that jump any time soon.

Speaking of drivers, this is the 3rd and concluding reason why you might exist meliorate off with the RTX 2060 Super. We've seen numerous reports from declared 5700 serial owners complaining well-nigh driver issues. We've run into very few of these and overall it'southward difficult to say how widespread these issues are and what the cause is. At to the lowest degree based in our own feel, AMD's current driver back up doesn't give us enough reason to 2d approximate recommending either the 5700 or 5700 XT.

On the gaming side, the RTX 2060 Super also has the advantage of ray tracing support, at least on paper. In reality though, the list of ray tracing-enabled games is very curt, just most importantly, the performance in those games is horrible. Nvidia says the best implementation of this applied science so far tin can be seen in "Control" and we'd generally agree with that.

Thing is though, at 1080p you won't even average 60 fps using a 2060 Super with loftier-quality ray tracing. DLSS can help here and the DLSS implementation used in this game does look expert, it too doesn't use the Tensor cores which is mildly amusing, merely at least information technology'southward not a blurry mess and with DLSS enabled y'all tin push over 60 fps at 1080p, so that'southward something.

Those wanting to play Command at the more suitable 1440p resolution for a $400 graphics bill of fare, you lot'll be lucky to meet over 50 fps with DLSS enabled. It's all the same playable but non exactly the experience we're subsequently with a semi-premium graphics card buy. In short, the 2060 Super is a little over lxx% faster with ray tracing disabled and while the effects do wait squeamish, they simply aren't worth that kind of operation hit in our opinion.

Bottom line, had Nvidia introduced the 2060 Super at the same $350 cost point every bit the original RTX 2060, it'd be a clear win for the greenish squad, but for pure gaming y'all're just better off with a Radeon 5700 series graphics card.