Hm. I could give the Kisak PPA a try with my 19.10 on the secondary drive... lm-sensors on my 18.04 doesn't do any harm either. Maybe it wasn't lm-sensors at all but some completely different. That's what I meant above with the "instabilty".

For those owning a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 card, does it have zero fan function?
If so, does it work out of the box with the amdgpu driver?

Prices for the RX 5700 are dropping at the moment, which makes it tempting to get one.

Quoting: PlintslîchoPrices for the RX 5700 are dropping at the moment, which makes it tempting to get one.

Cheers for that info. Had my eyes on the Nitro card, and it hasn't decreased in price (probably a little up tbh), but I see the 'normal' Sapphire XT is down a little bit.

Still concerned about the driver issues, though, since I'm not on a bleeding edge stuff. From what I can tell (I'm on Mint 19.2 still), I don't have access to 5.5 yet (nor 5.4), so would have to rely on the 5.3 kernel.

Keep hoping for an actual sale, but doesn't look like any stores here are interested in that. :(


As an aside, when are the new Nvidia cards out? Maybe that will push the AMD price down a bit more?

My experience so far with the 5700 XT.

Not a single problem on stock Arch and Windows 10.
Performance is stellar (okay, I'm coming from a HD 7950).
I can drive anything in 1440p with maximum details so far and still have high stable framerates.

Using still my 11 years old be-quite 550 W power supply (paired with a Ryzen 7 3700X).

Quoting: PangaeaCheers for that info. Had my eyes on the Nitro card, and it hasn't decreased in price (probably a little up tbh), but I see the 'normal' Sapphire XT is down a little bit.

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As an aside, when are the new Nvidia cards out? Maybe that will push the AMD price down a bit more?

Yeah, the prices haven't come down by a wide margin. The cards still cost more than 300 EUR/USD where I live. But the aforementioned Sapphire card has come down by 10 to 20 EUR and the MSI Radeon RX 5700 MECH GP OC currently costs only a little more than 300 EUR, which is why I'm looking a little closer now at these cards again.

Unfortunately, my preferred model, the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 Red Dragon, has become more expensive at the same time.

Don't know what's up next at camp nVidia. But apparently nVidia has dropped the price for their RTX 2060 card to bring it closer to AMD's new 5600 cards and maybe that will have an effect on the current AMD lineup as well.

Quoting: sub[...] Using still my 11 years old be-quite 550 W power supply (paired with a Ryzen 7 3700X).

Thanks for the info, that's good to read. It's exactly the same setup that I'm currently running.

Anyway, I'm not really in need of a new GPU and frankly, getting one would only mean burning money. My RX 570 still gets all the things done that I throw at it (at high or ultra settings at full HD). But as I said, the RX 5700 is tempting at the current price level.

Quoting: PlintslîchoFor those owning a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 card, does it have zero fan function?
If so, does it work out of the box with the amdgpu driver?

Yes, and it does work out of the box. My GPU fans are not spinning right now. I've got the XT, but I think it works the same on the non-XT.

Thanks tuubi.

Quoting: PlintslîchoFor those owning a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 card, does it have zero fan function?
If so, does it work out of the box with the amdgpu driver?

Prices for the RX 5700 are dropping at the moment, which makes it tempting to get one.

Yes, it does. It often stops fans for me under low load. GPU temperature at that point can be around 50°C. When it goes above, fans turn back on.

You can also define your own fan curves with radeon-profile if you want.

Last edited by Shmerl on 18 January 2020 at 11:46 pm UTC

Quoting: PlintslîchoFor those owning a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 card, does it have zero fan function?
If so, does it work out of the box with the amdgpu driver?

Prices for the RX 5700 are dropping at the moment, which makes it tempting to get one.

When working on the desktop my Sapphire's Pulse RX 5700 fans don't turn.

If anyone in EU is looking for Navi cards on sale, see:
https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-Sapphire-Radeon-RX-5700-XT-Pulse-8G-GDDR6-HDMI-TRIPLE-DP-OC-W--BP--_1324347.html

Last edited by Shmerl on 27 January 2020 at 1:23 am UTC