Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700

Worth a shout at £365?

Back in August, we got our first look at a custom Navi graphics card in the form of Sapphire's RX 57

The wait for custom Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards was worth it. The Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 and its new Trixx Boost feature deliver great value for a mere $9 markup over reference designs.

Forget the blower fan on the reference design, this is the sort of RX 5700 card you should buy.

AMD's board partners are coming online with custom PCBs, oversized coolers, and overclocked frequencies. Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT is first out of the gate, addressing the reference card's thermal challenges.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse is equipped with a factory overclock and features a much better thermal solution than the AMD reference design. The card not only runs a lot quieter as temperatures are better than on any other RX 5700 XT we've tested so far, and idle fan stop is included, too.

Sapphire makes some of the best custom cooled AMD cards on the market. The Sapphire Nitro comes to mind. However, the Nitro isn't the only card is Sapphire's

The Radeon RX 5500 XT plays in the video-card zone AMD knows best: budget gaming at 1080p. It's solid and close, but slightly inconsistent performance in the early going allows Nvidia's latest line of GeForce GTX Super GPUs to edge it out.