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Radeon RX 5700 XT bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 50 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (60th percentile). Paired with a Core i3-8350K it lands near 59 fps at 1080p and 7 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsRDNA · 2019
ArchitectureRDNA
Shading units2,560
Boost clock1,905 MHz
Memory8 GB
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s
Board power225 W
Released2019
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i3-8350K, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 59 97% Balanced
2560 x 1440 35 98% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 21 99% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 7 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i3-8350K 59 1.5%
Core i3-9100 60 3.4%
Core i3-9100F 60 3.4%
Core i3-9300 60 5.6%
Core i3-9320 60 7.7%
Core i3-8300 54 8.8%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i3-8350K
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 14 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 49 OK
Counter-Strike 2 95 OK
Baldur's Gate 3 35 8.1 GB needed
Red Dead Redemption 2 22 9.4 GB needed
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 19 10.8 GB needed

Who a Radeon RX 5700 XT is actually for

This is mainstream 1080p hardware. At that resolution it is usually the component doing the limiting, which is good news for pairing — it will not be held back by a modest processor, so there is no need to spend heavily on the chip beside it.

Pushing it to 1440p is possible in lighter titles, but expect to drop settings in demanding ones.

8 GB is this card's real limit

8 of the 16 titles we model exceed 8 GB at 1440p and high settings. On this card memory, not shader throughput, is the thing that will make modern games stutter. Texture quality is the setting to lower first, and it usually costs less visual fidelity than the alternatives.

A note on age

Released in 2019, this card is 7 years old. Beyond raw speed, older hardware misses features newer engines increasingly assume — mesh shaders, hardware ray tracing, and the newest upscalers. A modern title may run worse than these numbers suggest, or refuse to launch, for reasons the model cannot see.

Where it sits

Ranked 50 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: TITAN Xp, Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. Just below: Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB, Radeon RX 6700. Full method on the methodology page.