The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange Market
by Ryan Smith on July 7, 2019 12:00 PM ESTGrand Theft Auto V
Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come. As an older DX11 title, it provides a glimpse into the graphically intensive games of yesteryear that don't incorporate the latest features. Originally released for consoles in 2013, the PC port came with a slew of graphical enhancements and options. Just as importantly, GTA V includes a rather intensive and informative built-in benchmark, somewhat uncommon in open-world games.
The settings are identical to its previous appearances, which are custom as GTA V does not have presets. To recap, a "Very High" quality is used, where all primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, except grass, which is at its own very high setting. Meanwhile 4x MSAA is enabled for direct views and reflections. This setting also involves turning on some of the advanced rendering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but not increasing the view distance any further.
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WaltC - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
All FIXED--had to come back and correct the record. I used the "clean" install method from the 19.6.3's--and all is well so far with the 19.7.1's, I am delighted to say...;) Couldn't leave it hanging like that. I should have done that the first time, because it is a new driver set of greater size and feature support (for the 5700's)--yes, mea culpa! How many times is it the last thing I try that *works*? (utterly rhetorical)...Arrghghghg! Only thing out of the ordinary I saw were some funky desktop colors that vanished with the initial reboot after installation--running fine now!WaltC - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Drivers need, it would seem.ksec - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Thanks. It is good enough for me as it is. Technical Details could be another article. But the Number of Performance, Price in Percentage does the job.IGTrading - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Thank you for the good work Ryan and thank you for not awarding some ridiculous silver "award" to Radeon of your colleagues did with Ryzen 3000 :)Ryan Smith - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
So it's noted, I'm the one that suggested the Silver award. I'm as equally culpable for that as I am the lack of an award here.jospoortvliet - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
Fwiw both decisions were prudent if you ask me. Ryzen 3 changed the the entire direction CPU performance was taking - for over half a decade we had incremental improvements at best. Now the triplet price/performance/power is completely upended by the new generarion zen. While the new radeons are interesting they are nowhere near as market-moving...jakky567 - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Does it have VP9 10 bit? I know Raven Ridge does. It's nice for YouTube hdr.Ryan Smith - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
Yes.crashtech - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
Well, the Compute portion is still bare-bones. Do these cards just not run on the omitted applications?alfatekpt - Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - link
Why no 1660 TI included in this benchmark?