Gigabyte vs Aorus RX 5700 XT – head to head comparison!

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RX 5700 XT Gaming OC3. Aorus RX 5700 XT4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)16. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)17. Clock Speed18. Temperatures19. Acoustics20. Power Consumption21. Overclocking22. Closing Thoughts23. View All Pages

Overclock settings for the Gaming OC (left), overclock settings for the Aorus (right)

When manually overclocking these cards, I wasn't sure what to expect as both use essentially the same PCB – though the Aorus does have 2x 8-pin power connectors instead of 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin. In the end, both cards could comfortably hit 1900MHz on the memory (15.2Gbps), but we could only push the Gaming OC to 2110MHz on the core when the Aorus hit 2150MHz.

Average clock speed under load

This saw the Aorus run about 60MHz faster in our average clock speed testing as it hit 2050MHz. The Gaming OC came in just shy of that 2GHz mark.

Games

Unsurprisingly, the Aorus still ran faster in our 3DMark benchmarks and in some of the games we retested at 1440p, but the Gaming OC closed the gap significantly to the point where both cards were performing at essentially the same level. In all three games we re-tested, the manual overclock was enough for both 5700 XTs to surpass stock 2070 Super performance.

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