MSI RX 5700 XT Evoke OC Review

1. Introduction2. MSI RX 5700 XT Evoke OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Clock Speed13. Temperatures14. Acoustics15. Power Consumption16. Overclocking Part 117. Overclocking Part 218. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

We got our first look at a custom Navi graphics card last week, courtesy of Sapphire's RX 5700 Pulse, and today we are following that up with a review of MSI's RX 5700 XT Evoke OC. The first thing you will notice about the card is its eye-catching ‘champagne gold' shroud, but the Evoke OC also ships factory overclocked with a dual axial fan cooler. Priced at £439.99, is this the Navi card to get?

We've seen some gold-themed graphics cards before – MSI's own RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z comes to mind – but I have never seen a card that is entirely gold. MSI says the RX 5700 XT Evoke OC is ‘champagne' coloured, and it's certainly a unique colour scheme for a graphics card.

The dual fan cooler and four heatpipes should keep the core cool, though, so temperatures and acoustics will hopefully be much improved over the reference card. Clock speeds have also been given a slight boost over reference, with the Evoke's game clock rated at 1835MHz, 80MHz higher than the reference design.

	RX 5700	RX 5700 XT	RX Vega 56	RX Vega 64	Radeon VII
Architecture	Navi	Navi	Vega 10	Vega 10	Vega 20
Manufacturing Process	7nm	7nm	14nm	14nm	7nm
Transistor Count	10.3 billion	10.3 billion	12.5 billion	12.5 billion	13.2 billion
Die Size	251mm²	251mm²	486mm²	495mm²	331mm²
Compute Units	36	40	56	64	60
Stream Processors	2304	2560	3584	4096	3840
Base GPU Clock	Up to 1465MHz	Up to 1605MHz	1156 MHz	1274 MHz	1400 MHz
Game GPU Clock	Up to 1625MHz	Up to 1755MHz	n/a	n/a	n/a
Boost GPU Clock	Up to 1725MHz	Up to 1905MHz	1471 MHz	1546 MHz	1750 MHz
Peak Engine Clock	n/a	n/a	1590 MHz	1630 MHz	1800 MHz
Peak SP Performance	Up to 7.95 TFLOPS	Up to 9.75 TFLOPS	Up to 10.5 TFLOPS	Up to 12.7 TFLOPS	Up to 14.2 TFLOPS
Peak Half Precision Performance	Up to 15.9 TFLOPS	Up to 19.5 TFLOPS	Up to 21.0 TFLOPS	Up to 25.3 TFLOPS	Up to 28.1 TFLOPS
Peak Texture Fill-Rate	Up to 248.4 GT/s	Up to 304.8 GT/s	Up to 330.0 GT/s	Up to 395.8 GT/s	432.24 GT/s
ROPs	64	64	64	64	64
Peak Pixel Fill-Rate	Up to 110.4 GP/s	Up to 121.9 GP/s	Up to 94.0 GP/s	Up to 98.9 GP/s	115.26 GP/s
Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB HBM	8GB HBM	16GB HBM2
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	410 GB/s	483.8 GB/s	1 TB/s
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit	4096-bit
Board Power	185W	225W	210W	295W	300W

Other than that tweak to clock speed, the core spec of the MSI Evoke OC is unchanged from stock. We have 40 Compute Units (CUs) and 2560 stream processors, while the 8GB GDDR5 VRAM runs at its stock speed of 14Gbps. Despite the increase in core frequency, total board power is still rated at 225W, as per the reference design.

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