# AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt/

6 people recommended AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

4 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Every GPU That Mattered”.

**Verdict:** Runs games well for years, especially on Linux, and is cheap second hand. Early driver problems and slow driver support were the common caveat.

Summary written by Claude from 14 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Lasted years without problems (3 comments in the sample): "I'm not aware of (nor have I experienced) any stability issues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673252)) "I see no reason it won't make it to 2030 at this point." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543203)) "the longest lived GPU I've owned by a very wide margin" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672497))
- Runs every game well (2 comments in the sample): "The RX5700 XT GPU is super cheap second hand right now and I've been able to play every game I want" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262513)) "all of my games run flawlessly on Linux with great performance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129120))
- Good Linux experience (1 comment in the sample): "Never had any Linux-related problems." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673107))

## What people warn about

- Launch driver problems and slow fixes (3 comments in the sample): "I had an RX 5700XT at launch, that was about the most painful… but 6mo later it worked fine..." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755906)) "I had to reinstall an older version. This stayed an issue for months with no communication from AMD." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099277)) "didn't deliver proper 5700XT support until it was outdated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498259))
- Weak at ray tracing (2 comments in the sample): "RDNA1 isn't good for a whole lot, even flagship RDNA2 cards are a stretch for many things." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686056)) "AMD cards were incapable of RT at the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672554))
- Abandoned ROCm and slow support (1 comment in the sample): "AMD for ages claimed my card (5700xt) would be getting rocm but just abandoned it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472842))

## Other graphics cards people recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090/): 88 recommend, 26 mixed, 18 criticize
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090/): 73 recommend, 26 mixed, 34 criticize
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000/): 58 recommend, 15 mixed, 19 criticize
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus/): 43 recommend, 4 mixed, 29 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt/ (6 recommend, 1 mixed, 6 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.