https://tpucdn.com/review/alan-wake-2-performance-benchmark/images/performance-1920-1080.png
In other games not using advanced current gen featuresets, the 5700XT performs equal to the RTX 3060 or 2070 Super.
So yeah, while it starts, it’s basically unplayable on this card. Turing, RDNA1’s older competitor, is still going strong.
the dev already said they implemented both, it sounds like the fallback pipeline just isn’t really something they want to support. The dev said it was buggy and significantly slower and has to use more VRAM to emulate the mesh shading