Gaming PC build Radeon RX 5700 XT Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB, Ryzen R5 1600X, 32GB performance review

According to the top 1000 recommended requirements for PC games a PC with a Ryzen R5 1600X processor, a Radeon RX 5700 XT Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB graphics card and 32GB RAM is better performing than 794 games from that list. The main hardware in this PC puts the Ryzen R5 1600X as a bottleneck component. If this was upgraded then the system could increase the number of games it could run to 987 at recommended requirement.

This PC’s performance can be benchmarked against todays most popular game, Resident Evil 8. In summary, 1440p resolution shows itself to be the optimum performance vs visuals for the Radeon RX 5700 XT Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB. While it can certainly get a strong 1080p Ultra of 55 FPS, if you want to move up to 1440p on Resident Evil 8 then we can see 1440p Low setting getting 111 FPS or the Medium returning 87 FPS. Change graphics settings up to High for 59 FPS and then Ultra gets 42 FPS.

2nd most popular game: Grand Theft Auto VI - In summary, 1440p resolution shows itself to be the optimum performance vs visuals for the Radeon RX 5700 XT Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB. While it can certainly get a strong 1080p Ultra of 55 FPS, if you want to move up to 1440p on Grand Theft Auto VI then we can see 1440p Low setting getting 111 FPS or the Medium returning 87 FPS. Change graphics settings up to High for 59 FPS and then Ultra gets 42 FPS.

3rd most popular game: Age of Empires IV - In summary, if you are looking to play Age of Empires IV in Ultra then you have come with the right graphics card. The Radeon RX 5700 XT Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB can chew through the graphical performance needs of the game with relative ease. 1080p Ultra will return 81 frames, then the larger screen resolution of 1440p can deliver 62 FPS, with the 4K resolution seeing 37 FPS in Ultra as well.