Radeon RX 5700 — Benchmarks & Specs
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Bottom line: how fast is the Radeon RX 5700?
At 1440p (Ultra), the Radeon RX 5700 averages 95 fps in Battlefield V, per Digital Citizen. For local LLM inference it generates 70.7 tokens/sec running llama2:7b at q4_0 under llama.cpp, per knightli.com. In 3DMark Time Spy it scores 8,374 points, per TopCPU.
Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.
The Radeon RX 5700 is a graphics card from AMD. Data on this page draws on 4+ Amazon listings, 8 synthetic benchmark results, 7 community AI inference reports, 14 measured game frame-rate results, aggregated from public benchmark databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench, Cinebench) and the LocalLLaMA community. Read this page when shopping the Radeon RX 5700, comparing it against other graphics cards in your build, or sizing it for a specific workload (gaming at 1080p/1440p/4K, productivity benchmarks, or local LLM inference).
Gaming Performance (measured FPS)
Average and 1% low frame rates by game, resolution, and quality preset. Bars are scaled against the fastest result on this page.
| Game | Resolution | Settings | Relative | Avg FPS | 1% low | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield V | 1080p | Ultra | 116 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-08-01 | |
| Fortnite | 1080p | Epic | 115 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1080p | Highest | 105 fps | 83 fps | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1080p | Ultra | 105 fps | — | TopCPU 2019-09-01 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 1080p | Ultra | 102 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Battlefield V | 1440p | Ultra | 95 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-08-01 | |
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 1080p | Ultra | 91 fps | 85 fps | PCBench 2025-08-07 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 1440p | Ultra | 88 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Tom Clancy's The Division 2 | 1080p | Ultra | 88 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Fortnite | 1440p | Epic | 87 fps | — | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1440p | Highest | 70 fps | 57 fps | Digital Citizen 2019-07-07 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1440p | Ultra | 68 fps | — | TopCPU 2019-09-01 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1080p | Ultra | 62 fps | 48 fps | TechPowerUp 2023-10-15 | |
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 1440p | Ultra | 61 fps | 57 fps | PCBench 2025-08-07 |
AI Inference Performance
Tokens per second under each model + quantization. Higher = faster generation. Bars compare runs across the same model.
| Model | Quantization | Relative | Tokens/sec | VRAM used | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| llama2:7b | q4_0 llama.cpp | 70.7 tok/s | — | knightli.com 2026-04-23 | |
| llama2:7b | Q4_0 llama.cpp | 70.7 tok/s | — | llama.cpp GitHub Vulkan benchmark discussion #10879 2024-09-01 | |
| llama-2:7b | q4_0 llama.cpp | 67.5 tok/s | — | llama.cpp GitHub 2024-03-01 | |
| llama2:7b | Q4_0 llama.cpp | 67.5 tok/s | — | knightli.com llama.cpp GPU ROCm/Vulkan scoreboard 2026-04-23 | |
| Qwen3 1.7B | q8_0 llama.cpp | 22.0 tok/s | 3.1 GB | llama.cpp GitHub 2024-04-12 | |
| Llama 3.2 3B | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 18.0 tok/s | 5.2 GB | llama.cpp GitHub 2024-02-18 | |
| Phi-3.5 mini | q4_K_M ollama | 14.0 tok/s | 4.9 GB | r/LocalLLaMA 2024-03-05 |
Synthetic Benchmarks
Higher is better. Bars are scaled within each benchmark family (multi-thread, single-thread, etc.) so you can compare like-with-like at a glance.
| Benchmark | Relative | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Time Spy | 8,374 points | TopCPU 2019-07-07 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 7,850 points | 3DMark 2023-12-01 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 7,442 points | PCBench 2025-08-07 | |
| Port Royal | 6,200 rays per second | TechPowerUp 2024-01-15 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 3,956 points | TopCPU 2019-07-07 | |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 1,851 points | UL Benchmarks (3DMark) 2024-02-01 | |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 1,851 points | UL Benchmarks / 3DMark 2024-01-01 | |
| Speed Way | 128 frames | Puget Systems 2024-02-28 |
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