AMD RX 5700 XT Gaming Benchmarks in 2026

RX 5700 XT delivers higher <a href="https://comicvibe.com/gaming-phones-are-finally-as-obnoxious-as-gaming-pcs/” title=”Gaming Phones Are Finally As Obnoxious as Gaming PCs”>gaming performance than the RX 6600 but comes with increased power consumption and compatibility limitations.

With GPU prices continuing to rise, finding an affordable graphics card has become a challenge. For buyers who cannot find a reasonable deal in their local used market, AliExpress has become another option for sourcing older GPUs. However, buying a used graphics card from an international marketplace comes with questions about its condition, history, and performance.

To see whether these GPUs are worth considering, we picked up an ASUS ROG Strix RX 5700 XT from AliExpress and compared it with the RX 6600. The RX 5700 XT was available at a reasonable price, considering that it had to be shipped internationally. Although it wasn’t the best value on the used market, it gave us a chance to examine the card and test its performance across several games.

Inspecting the AliExpress ASUS Strix RX 5700 XT

As soon as we received the RX 5700 XT, we noticed that its temperatures were quite high. After opening the graphics card, we found the thermal paste hadn’t been replaced, so we replaced it. However, the rest of the card looked somewhat unusual. The thermal pads looked good, and the components and other parts of the graphics card appeared relatively clean.

The back of the card also had a brown tint, suggesting it may have sat in the sun for some time. This makes the graphics card’s history questionable, especially when buying one from AliExpress. Despite these concerns, the RX 5700 XT worked properly and delivered performance across the games we tested.

RX 5700 XT was a competitive graphics card when AMD released it. It comes with 8GB of VRAM, which isn’t the most desirable capacity today, but it’s still enough to run many games, especially at 1080p. However, moving up to 4K introduces some limitations that become more noticeable in certain titles.

We tested the ASUS Strix version, although another brand, Milsy, offered the RX 5700 XT at a lower price at the time of testing. One difference between the RX 5700 XT and RX 6600 is their architecture. The RX 5700 XT uses RDNA 1, while the RX 6600 uses RDNA 2. This also affects their support for newer technologies, including FSR 4 upscaling.

In raw performance, RX 5700 XT delivered about 20% more performance than RX 6600.

RX 5700 XT reached 122 average FPS compared to 102 average FPS on the RX 6600. The 1% lows were also strong across both cards at 1080p. When FSR 4 was enabled, the RX 6600 produced a better image. However, this came with a performance trade-off compared with the RX 5700 XT using FSR 3.1. RX 5700 XT averaged more than 188 FPS, while the RX 6600 averaged around 139 FPS.

At 4K, we tested both graphics cards on low settings. With FSR 3.1 Performance mode enabled, the RX 5700 XT went from 35 average FPS to 92 average FPS, making the game much more playable. The RX 6600 managed only 26 average FPS in the same comparison. However, enabling FSR 4 Performance on the RX 6600 improved image quality compared with FSR 3.1.

At 4K, the difference became easier to notice, although the card delivered around 52 average FPS. This leaves you to choose between higher FPS and better image quality. You can also turn off the FSR 3.1-to-FSR 4 conversion on the RX 6600 through the drivers if you prefer. We previously tested FSR 4 on a budget system with a Ryzen 3 3100 and RX 6600, and the results showed the GPU handled the technology without requiring a high-end processor.

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