No doubt in response to NVIDIA's surprise reveal and launch of its new RTX Super cards. With the launch of the first 7nm graphics cards, the Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT, AMD dropped the price of both just days befor launch.

Where now the Radeon 5700 has a local price point starting from $549 AUD, and the beefier Radeon 5700 XT a starting price of $629 AUD. With the XT's price dropping by around $100 this positions both cards as cheaper alternatives to the new RTX 2060 Super ($690.00 AUD) and the RTX 2070 Super ($860.00 AUD). In fact pricing puts the nearest competitor as the standard RTX 2060 ($599.00 AUD). Which after the new Super reveals can be found for a lot cheaper.

Either way the mid-range market for graphics cards is certainly a very interesting one - with a lot of competition. We're currently in the process of reviewing the the new Radeon 5700 series from AMD but in the meantime several reviews have been appearing online - where it seems both the price-drop and the performance factor in to AMD delivering a great pair of GPUs - albeit one without support for raytracing.

AnandTech

So how does AMD’s first example of RDNA stack up? For AMD and for consumers it’s much needed progress. To be sure, the Radeon RX 5700 series cards are not going to be Turing killers. But they are competitive in price, performance, and power consumption – the all-important trifecta that AMD has trailed NVIDIA at for too many years now.

By the numbers then, the Radeon RX 5700 XT holds an 11% performance advantage over its nearest competition, NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 2060 Super. Similarly, the RX 5700 (vanilla) takes a 12% advantage over the RTX 2060 (vanilla). So NVIDIA was right to shift their product stack last week in preparation for today’s AMD launch, as AMD is now delivering the performance of what was last week a $500 (USD) video card for as little as $350 (USD).

Guru3D

It is good to see AMD back on track with some mainstream to high-end positioned Radeons. 7nm, a new architecture, GDDR6 the specs all tick the right boxes. Seen from Polaris AMD made a HUGE step forward in performance. In fact, NAVI sits at the Vega performance level.

Both Radeon RX 5700 cards show good, in fact, super strength at Quad HD resolutions in that 2560x1440 realm of resolutions. Games like Battlefield V will make you aim, shoot and smile. As always comparing apples and oranges, the performance results vary here and there as each architecture offers advantages and disadvantaged in certain game render workloads. Battlefield V and Metro: Exodus skyrockets for NAVI. So you'll be seeing wins and losses in perf compared to team green. AMD has got the right amount of graphics memory applied, the right type this time as well as 8GB GDDR6 graphics memory running over that 256-bit bus at 14 Gbps, is done right. The new architecture does show strength and IPC increase, especially seen from Polaris the results are pretty amazing.

Digital Foundry

What the products lack in forward-looking innovation, they make up for with solid performance. By tweaking its pricing, AMD's new graphics cards make a lot more sense in the post-Super world. The RX 5700 was always pitched against RTX 2060, and with price parity, users have a choice: they can opt for a product that delivers improved performance and an extra two gigabytes of memory, or they can instead bank on the Turing architectures next-gen features such as hardware accelerated ray tracing. It's an unenviable choice when we know that ray tracing features will be a part of the new consoles, but the here and now benefits with the RX 5700 are clear.