Powercolor custom rx 5700 hits stores

PowerColor Launches RX 5700 Red Devil and Red Dragon Graphics Cards

As detailed above, PowerColor has decided to give the same treatment to both the RX 5700 XT and the RX 5700, which will be available as part of their Red Devil and Red Dragon series, with the exception of the Red Devil Limited Edition, which It is identical to the standard 5700 XT Red Devil, but it comes packaged in a premium retail box with included RGB mouse pad.

Red Devil has been slightly redesigned, and while it still has a strong 2.5-slot heatsink + triple fan design, it does come with RGB lighting and a 1.5mm backplate. The cooler itself has five heatpipes and offers 30% more heat sink area, which should significantly improve not only cooling performance, but also reduce noise. Other standout features include a 12-layer PCB design with 10 VRMs using DrMos, high polymer caps, and a Dual BIOS option with a silent BIOS and an OC.

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Looking at the specs, the Powercolor RX 5700 series custom cards come with slightly higher clocks compared to AMD reference cards, so the 5700 XT Red Devil runs at 1770 MHz base, 1905 MHz in mode gaming and boosts up to 2010 MHz for the GPU. On a similar note, the RX 5700 Red Devil runs at base 1610MHz, 1725MHz Gaming, and boosts to 1750MHz.

The situation is similar with the Red Dragon series, though it does come with a dual-slot / dual-fan solution with 100mm fans and a 5-pipe heat sink, these come with a slightly higher clock. The 5700 XT Red Dragon works at 1795MHz as a base clock and boost up to 1905MHz, while the 5700 Red Dragon works at 1720MHz as a base clock and boost up to 1750MHz.