Page 51 - PCWorld (September 2019)

solution for just
$9 more. (Nine!

Dollars!) More
feature-packed

custom Radeons
are no doubt on
the way, but the

Sapphire Pulse
RX 5700 nails the
basics, moves

the goal posts
forward

with Trixx Boost,
and easily earns
our Editors’

Choice award
RX 5700, unless you happen to find one on on the back of its outstanding value
sale for well under $300 (which can proposition.

occasionally happen [go.pcworld.com/sale]). Highly, highly recommended.
The only reason to opt for a $400 GeForce

RTX 2060 Super (go.pcworld.com/rspr) over Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700
Sapphire’s card is if you want to invest in
real-time ray tracing, as Nvidia GPUs alone PROS
• Excellent gaming performance.
contain hardware devoted to accelerating
• Cooler and quieter than reference designs.
those tasks. The technology’s only available in • Dual-BIOS for performance or acoustic focus.
• PCIe 4.0 compatible.
a handful of games at the moment, though it’s
CONS
coming to several top-tier games (like
• Plastic shroud.
Cyberpunk 2077 and Doom Eternal) over the • No dedicated ray tracing hardware.
• Trixx Boost feature not available at launch.
next year.
BOTTOM LINE
AMD knocked it out of the park with the The Radeon RX 5700 already provided stunning

Radeon RX 5700. Sapphire’s budget- value for 1440p gamers. Sapphire’s custom Pulse RX
5700 builds atop that for just $9 more, and pushes
friendly spin on it is also a home run, performance even further with its excellent Trixx
Boost upscaling.
offering several extra features and niceties
$359
as well as a much-improved cooling

SEPTEMBER 2019 PCWorld 51