AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Review

It’s lastly time to indicate you what AMD’s new flagship RDNA 3 GPU has to supply.

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX has been broadly anticipated as avid gamers have been readying for a brand new GPU technology, however Nvidia’s new merchandise, whereas quick, are too costly for many to even contemplate. Meanwhile, AMD was touting 50-70% efficiency features for the Radeon 7900 XTX over the earlier 6950 XT flagship once they unveiled the brand new card, which might place it inside placing distance of the far more costly RTX 4090 — no less than for rasterization efficiency — which added to the hype and anticipation of the discharge.

Salivating on the promise of RTX 4090-like efficiency for $1,000, many issues have been mentioned within the ready. However, after AMD’s RDNA 3 announcement we had been fast to notice that if AMD was actually providing efficiency that was near the RTX 4090, the worth will surely be larger (no motive for AMD to go away cash on the desk) — or that ray tracing efficiency have to be actually weak — or AMD was overselling the 7900 XTX’s capabilities for some motive. We’ll discover out which one was it right now.

We have lined the RX 7900 XTX’s specs earlier than, however this is a fast rundown.

The new Radeon is the primary high-performance client GPU to make use of chiplet expertise. Also, AMD has moved to a dual-shader design inside every compute unit, successfully doubling the shader unit rely inside every CU. The top-of-the-line Radeon RX 7900 XTX is coming in at an MSRP of $1,000, whereas the equally named RX 7900 XT will price $900.

The 7900 XTX arrives packing 6144 cores, whereas the XT has been reduce down by 13% to 5376 cores. Boost clocks for the XTX are rated at 2.5 GHz versus 2.4 GHz for XT, whereas the Infinity Cache capability has been set to 96 MB and 80 MB respectively (a 17% discount), providing bandwidth of three.5 GB/s and a couple of.9 GB/s. Both new Radeon graphics playing cards make the most of 20 Gbps GDDR6 reminiscence, however solely the XTX receives a 384-bit vast reminiscence bus for 960 GB/s bandwidth, in comparison with the XT which has been reduce right down to a 320-bit vast reminiscence bus leading to 800 GB/s, one other 17% discount.

AMD’s daring declare through the announcement a number of weeks in the past. Too a lot confidence?

For a marginal 10% low cost, the Radeon 7900 XT does not seem as it will be significantly nice worth on paper, however we’ll have a look at that GPU in a separate evaluate, for now we wish to deal with the XTX. Other noteworthy options of the 7900 XTX is the 355 watt whole board energy (TBP) score, which is larger than the GeForce RTX 4080, however just like the 4080 it does use the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface.

Of course, essentially the most fascinating facet of the brand new RDNA 3 GPU is its use of chiplet expertise. Rather than going all out with an enormous monolithic die, RDNA 3 makes use of a mix of smaller dies in an analogous technique to that of AMD’s newest Ryzen CPUs. This signifies that to get top-end GPU configurations, AMD not must make a single 520 mm2 die like RDNA 2, or strategy the behemoth that’s the AD102 600 mm2 die used within the RTX 4090.

AMD’s RDNA3 chiplet strategy contains two parts: the Graphics Chiplet Die or GCD, which homes the principle WGPs and processing {hardware}; plus a number of Memory Chiplet Dies or MCDs, which embody the infinity cache and reminiscence controllers. On the flagship 7900 XTX, we get one GCD plus six MCDs, whereas the 7900 XT contains a reduce down GCD plus 5 MCDs.

AMD’s structure advantages in a number of methods from the transfer to chiplets. One is that they’ll now break up their GPU design over a number of nodes, decreasing the quantity of costly forefront silicon they want in each GPU. The GCD is constructed on TSMC’s newest N5 node, however the MCDs are constructed on TSMC N6, which is a spinoff of their older and less expensive 7nm course of. This ends AMD’s reliance on needing large chunks of the most recent silicon for each high-end GPU.

The different most important benefit is yields. Large monolithic dies have decrease yields than smaller dies, so at any time when a design could be break up into a number of smaller dies, there is a good probability yields will enhance considerably. AMD has discovered nice success with this strategy on Ryzen, the place fashionable Zen 4 chiplets are about 70 mm2, tiny sufficient that yields ought to be properly over 90%. RDNA3 will not have as a lot of a bonus as Zen 4 because the GCD continues to be comparatively massive in comparison with a CPU, however at 300 mm2 it is half the dimensions of AD102 and simply 60% as massive as Navi 21. That kind of dimension saving may have large implications for yields.

Flanking the GCD are six MCDs about 37 mm2 in dimension, so these are tiny chiplets simply half the dimensions of a Zen 3 CPU core chiplet. Each has a 64-bit GDDR6 controller and 16MB of cache. On a mature node like N6 these ought to have extraordinarily excessive yields, so AMD will profit right here quite a bit despite the fact that they want six of them for the 7900 XTX. All up, whereas flagship Navi 31 RDNA3 GPUs nonetheless want over 500 mm2 of whole silicon, this chiplet strategy break up throughout two nodes ought to scale back manufacturing prices and enhance yields.

Now, it will likely be fascinating to see how this strategy performs out in an precise product. For testing right now all GPUs have been benchmarked on the official clock specs, with no manufacturing facility overclocking. The CPU used is the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 32GB of dual-rank, dual-channel DDR4-3200 CL14 reminiscence on the MSI MPG X570S Carbon Max Wi-Fi motherboard. In whole we have examined 16 video games at 1440p and 4K, so let’s get into the info…

Benchmarks

First up we now have Watch Dogs: Legion, and right here the 7900 XT appears to be like mighty spectacular, cranking out 172 fps at 1440p to make it quicker than not simply the RTX 4090, but additionally the RTX 4080, beating the latter by a 12% margin. Of course, the RTX 4090 is GPU sure right here, but it surely’s fascinating to see that underneath CPU sure situations the Radeon GPU does have a bit extra headroom.

The CPU bottleneck is eliminated at 4K, besides the 7900 XTX was nonetheless 9% quicker than the RTX 4080. Then when in comparison with AMD’s earlier technology flagship half, the 6950 XT, we see a 36% efficiency uplift for the brand new 7900 XTX.

The Callisto Protocol is a brand new recreation that we have added to our benchmarks and it is one the place the 7900 XTX seems to work fairly properly, and please word we’re not utilizing the built-in benchmark for this testing. With 166 fps on common the brand new Radeon GPU was 8% quicker than the RTX 4080 and 50% quicker than the 6950 XT, in order that’s a strong achieve at 1440p.

Then at 4K with the extremely high quality preset which makes use of FSR2, the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 had been neck and neck, making the RDNA 3 GPU 44% quicker than the 6950 XT.

We suppose AMD’s coping with a driver associated difficulty for RDNA 3 in Forza Horizon 5 as a result of efficiency right here wasn’t good. There had been no stability points or bugs seen when testing, efficiency was simply a lot decrease than you’d anticipate. At 1440p, for instance, the 7900 XTX was a mere 6% quicker than the 6950 XT. And that sucks.

This margin improved quite a bit at 4K, besides the 7900 XTX was simply 16% quicker than the 6950 XT, a far cry from the 50% minimal AMD advised. This meant the brand new Radeon GPU was 5% slower than the RTX 4080, so a disappointing end result all spherical.

The 7900 XTX trailed the RTX 4080 at 1440p in Rainbow Six Extraction by a slim margin, making it simply 26% quicker than the 3090 Ti and 36% quicker than the 6950 XT. Although these are some first rate margins, it is quite a bit lower than AMD initially indicated.

Then at 4K, the 7900 XTX falls behind the RTX 4080 by a 9% margin and is now simply 15% quicker than the 3090 Ti, although it was no less than 47% quicker than the 6950 XT.

Far Cry 6 is basically GPU sure at 1440p, so the 7900 XT is ready to match the RTX 4090, regardless of being simply 7% quicker than the 6950 XT. Moving to 4K does alleviate the CPU bottleneck and now the 7900 XTX is 17% quicker than the RTX 4080 and 25% quicker than the 6950 XT.

Although that is an inexpensive margin we anticipate most shall be dissatisfied with what we’re seeing right here relative to the 6950 XT.

The 7900 XTX appears to be like good in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, outpacing the RTX 4080 by an 11% margin at 1440p, although it is a title the place Radeon GPUs historically do very properly and if we flip our consideration to the 6950 XT comparability, the end result it quite a bit much less thrilling as the brand new RDNA 3 flagship is simply 24% quicker.

Interestingly, at 4K the 7900 XTX performs higher relative to the GeForce GPUs than what we noticed at 1440p as right here it matched the RTX 4090, making it 16% quicker than the 4080 and this time 33% quicker than the 6950 XT, which is a good margin, but additionally quite a bit lower than the 50-70% margin AMD advised through the RDNA 3 announcement.

Moving on to Hunt: Showdown the place the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 are neck and neck, delivering simply over 250 fps. That made AMD’s flagship simply 25% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti and 32% quicker than the 6950 XT.

The 4K knowledge is way the identical, as within the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 are on par, although this time that meant the 7900 XTX was simply 14% quicker than the 3090 Ti and 30% quicker than the 6950 XT.

The Outer Worlds makes use of the Unreal Engine 4 which generally favors GeForce GPUs and that’s certainly the case with this title. Although the 7900 XTX was 10% slower than the RTX 4080 when evaluating the typical body price, the 1% lows had been larger for the Radeon GPU and we do see a little bit of this in our testing.

At 4K the 1% lows are extra inline with the typical body charges and right here the 7900 XTX was 9% slower than the RTX 4080 and simply 26% quicker than the 6950 XT.

As we have seen in our current Modern Warfare II benchmarks, this recreation loves Radeon GPUs, and that is definitely true when trying on the 7900 XTX, pumping out an unimaginable 311 fps on common at 1440p. That made it an enormous 42% quicker than the RTX 4080 and 28% quicker than the 4090.

These outcomes are definitely outliers in our testing, however Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 are very fashionable video games, so that is nice information for AMD.

The 7900 XTX even managed to edge out the RTX 4090 at 4K with 193 fps, making it 5% quicker and 35% quicker than the 4080. Moreover, a 43% enchancment over the 6950 XT is spectacular, although given AMD;s announcement you are most likely anticipating this kind of margin to be the norm, if not a worst case situation for the brand new RDNA 3 flagship.

The Hitman 3 outcomes are closely CPU restricted at 1440p with these new subsequent gen high-end GPUs, so the 7900 XTX was in a position to match the 4080 and 4090. Bumping up the decision to 4K confirmed some nice outcomes for the brand new RDNA 3 GPU because it was 15% quicker than the RTX 4080 and simply 10% slower than the RTX 4090. I believe these are the kind of margins that avid gamers anticipating the arrival of the 7900 XTX had been anticipating to be the norm.

Generally Radeon GPUs carry out very well in Horizon Zero Dawn, however I’ve obtained to say the 7900 XTX was fairly underwhelming right here, trailing the RTX 4080 by a 5% margin at 1440p to return in simply 14% quicker than the 6950 XT, yikes.

The 4K outcomes had been quite a bit higher besides we’re RTX 4080-like efficiency, that means the 7900 XTX was simply 26% quicker than the 6950 XT and 16% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti.

F1 22 allows ray tracing by default with the Ultra High preset, and because of this the 7900 XTX is slower than anticipated right here, AMD’s nonetheless properly behind relating to RT efficiency and we’ll look extra at this shortly.

For now, we will see that when enjoying F1 22 utilizing the best high quality preset that the 7900 XTX is 11% slower than the RTX 4080 and a mere 5% quicker than the 3090 Ti. In this instance it’s 55% quicker than the 6950 XT, suggesting that RDNA 3’s ray tracing is improved from RDNA 2.

Then at 4K, the 7900 XTX drops right down to the 3090 Ti with 56 fps on common making it 13% slower than the RTX 4080 and 36% slower than the 4090. A little bit of a wipeout there for AMD. That mentioned, due to using ray tracing it was an enormous 65% quicker than the 6950 XT, so there’s that.

The Cyberpunk 2077 efficiency at 1440p appears to be like fairly good for the 7900 XTX because it was 5% quicker than the RTX 4080, delivering 135 fps on common. That mentioned, when in comparison with earlier technology merchandise it was simply 24% quicker than the 6950 XT and 26% quicker than the 3090 Ti.

The 7900 XTX does stay sturdy on the 4K decision and was in a position to prolong its margin over the RTX 4080 out to 9%, with 70 fps on common. That made it 27% quicker than the 3090 Ti and 43% quicker than the 6950 XT which is a good margin.

The Dying Light 2 outcomes are a bit underwhelming at 1440p because the 7900 XTX was solely in a position to match the typical body price of the RTX 4080 with a lot decrease 1% lows. It was additionally simply 17% quicker than the 6950 XT which is little question a really disappointing end result for these of you with a earlier technology flagship hoping to improve.

The 4K knowledge is extra favorable because the 7900 XTX was 5% quicker than the RTX 4080 and 1% lows look quite a bit higher. That mentioned, the end result relative to AMD’s personal 6950 XT was very disappointing as this new GPU was simply 17% quicker.

Halo Infinite is a recreation AMD ignored for his or her evaluate information, opting to not present efficiency, and that is seemingly as a result of the 7900 XTX may be very weak right here. AMD says they’re trying into it, so it is doable a future driver corrects efficiency, however for now that is what it appears to be like like.

This as soon as pro-AMD title sees the 7900 XTX trailing the RTX 4080 by a somewhat massive 16% margin, making it simply 21% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti and 26% quicker than the 6950 XT — disappointing in comparison with earlier technology flagship elements.

The 7900 XTX shapes up a bit higher at 4K because it was 6% slower than the RTX 4080 and a extra spectacular 24% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti and 35% quicker than the 6950 XT.

Last up we now have Shadow of the Tomb Raider and we had been fairly shocked to search out the 7900 XTX trailing the 4080 by a 13% margin, worse nonetheless this meant it was simply 18% quicker than the 6950 XT.

The margins did enhance somewhat at 4K, it was 6% slower than the RTX 4080 and 25% quicker than the Radeon 6950 XT, so higher, however nonetheless fairly poor total.

16 Game Average

For trying on the 16 recreation common we’ll begin with the 1440p knowledge. On common, the Radeon 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4080 had been neck and neck with round 180 fps on common.

That means the 7900 XTX is 17% slower than the RTX 4090, which for the worth is clearly a fantastic end result, although it is also solely 25% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti and Radeon 6950 XT. It was additionally ~35% quicker than the RTX 3090 and 6900 XT, so for these with earlier technology elements it may not be definitely worth the improve.

Now, at 4K the Radeon 7900 XTX was 20% slower than the RTX 4090, however 4% quicker than the GeForce RTX 4080, so we’re 4080-like efficiency once more. That made the Radeon 7900 XTX 26% quicker than the 3090 Ti and 35% quicker than the 6950 XT.

That’s not almost pretty much as good because the 50% or higher a lot of you had been hoping for. The new flagship was 49% quicker than AMD’s 6900 XT although.

Although we did not go over the 1080p knowledge because it’s largely CPU restricted, we have the averages for you, so let’s take a fast look.

The Radeon 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4080 are mainly on par, however this time the Radeon GPU is simply 6% slower than the 4090, however solely due to the CPU bottleneck. The 7900 XTX was additionally simply 21% quicker than the 6950 XT.

Ray Tracing + DLSS Performance

Now let’s check out ray tracing efficiency, with and with out upscaling. If you recall the Radeon 7900 XTX was 13% slower than the RTX 4080 in our F1 22 take a look at above as the sport allows RT results by default when utilizing the Ultra High preset.

Here with the Ultra High preset however with RT results disabled, the 7900 XTX pumped out 216 fps, making it 13% quicker than the RTX 4080 and 51% quicker than the 6950 XT.

Now with RT + upscaling enabled — FSR 1.0 for Radeon GPUs — the Radeon 7900 XTX was nonetheless 10% quicker than the RTX 4080 utilizing DLSS, however that is hardly an apples to apples comparability. At native 4K, the 7900 XTX was 13% slower than the 4080, however an enormous 65% quicker than the 6950 XT, so there are good features available over earlier technology RDNA 2 GPUs when utilizing ray tracing.

Next we now have Watch Dogs: Legion which does not assist FSR, so upscaling is just obtainable for GeForce GPUs. In brief, utilizing the Very High preset with ray tracing disabled the 7900 XTX was 9% quicker than the RTX 4080 and 36% quicker than the 6950 XT.

With ray tracing set to extremely however no upscaling the 7900 XTX was 19% slower than the RTX 4080 with simply 44 fps on common, however was 52% quicker than the 6950 XT. So some first rate features there for RDNA 3 over RDNA 2, but it surely additionally meant the 7900 XTX was solely in control with final technology’s 3090 Ti when it got here to RT efficiency.

Moving on to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, we see that the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 are neck and neck with 140 fps, making them 27% quicker than the 6950 XT. With ray tracing enabled, however no upscaling, the 7900 XTX rendered 53 fps on common which is mainly the identical efficiency acquired by the 6950 XT, and 27% slower than the RTX 4080, so we now have to imagine that is some form of driver difficulty.

Next we now have Dying Light 2 and till the efficiency seen beforehand in Dying Light 2 which used the ‘High’ preset within the DX11 mode, the ray tracing preset forces DX12 and this appears to interrupt the 7900 XTX.

Using the excessive preset it was 5% quicker than the RTX 4080, however right here with out RT enabled (disabling RT results) that will in any other case be enabled utilizing this preset, the 7900 XTX was 25% slower than the RTX 4080.

With these RT results enabled (the usual untouched ‘Ray Tracing’ high quality preset), the 7900 XTX managed simply 27 fps on common, the identical efficiency delivered by the RTX 3090 Ti and 50% stronger efficiency than that of the Radeon 6950 XT, but it surely was additionally 31% slower than the RTX 4080. So good features relative to earlier gen AMD {hardware}, however not good when in comparison with Ada Lovelace.

The final recreation the place we’re showcasing ray tracing efficiency is Cyberpunk 2077 and right here the Radeon 7900 XTX could not even match the RTX 3090 Ti, with simply 20 fps on common making it 20% slower than the 3090 Ti and 35% slower than the RTX 4080. But it was 54% quicker than the 6950 XT.

With upscaling enabled, or FSR 2.1 high quality for the Radeon GPU, the 7900 XTX was in a position to ship 39 fps making it 44% quicker than the 6950 XT, however 15% slower than the 3090 Ti utilizing DLSS and 33% slower than the RTX 4080.

Power Consumption

Looking at whole system energy consumption the 7900 XTX pushed whole utilization to 468 watts in Dying Light 2, so by way of energy utilization it’s akin to the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. System utilization was 9% decrease than that of the Radeon 6950 XT, however 16% higher than the RTX 4080, making the GeForce the extra environment friendly GPU.

Power consumption between the 4080 and 7900 XTX was extra comparable in Doom Eternal, right here the Radeon GPU pushed system utilization simply 4% larger, although it was additionally simply 4% decrease than the 6950 XT.

Then we now have Hitman 3 and once more the 4080 and 7900 XTX had been very related, mainly comparable with different earlier technology high-end GPUs, excluding the 3090 Ti which was an influence pig.

When locking the body price to 90 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 the 7900 XTX pushes whole system energy utilization 24% larger than that of the RTX 4080, once more confirming that RDNA 3 is not almost as energy environment friendly as Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace structure.

Cost per Frame

Now for the all-important price per body evaluation, we’ll begin with the MSRP’s utilizing 4K knowledge. If all present and former technology GPUs had been to be offered on the MSRP, the 7900 XTX would really be the very best worth deal available on the market, undercutting the 6800 XT by a 5% margin and the 6950 XT by an enormous 32%.

More importantly, it is also a 20% enchancment by way of price per body when in comparison with the RTX 4080.

Now this is a have a look at GPU pricing, utilizing present retail knowledge gathered from Newegg, which shall be a few week outdated by the point you learn this evaluate. The RTX 4080 is presently promoting for no less than $1,270, or $70 above MSRP and for this comparability we now have to imagine the 7900 XTX shall be obtainable for the marketed $1,000, however that is on no account assured.

But assuming it’s, that shall be a 24% low cost by way of price per body when in comparison with the RTX 4080, and as we simply noticed with each on the MSRP the Radeon GPU shall be no less than 20% higher worth.

In right now’s market, it is also barely higher worth than the 6900 XT and 6950 XT, so there’s that, whereas the one merchandise to supply a greater value to efficiency ratio embody the Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT, each of that are considerably slower. So relating to rasterization efficiency (that means, no ray tracing), the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is kind of good by way of worth, no less than relative to the horrible worth RTX 4080, hmm…

Cooling

Before wrapping up testing, this is a fast have a look at thermal and clock habits of the AMD reference graphics card mannequin. Installed inside an ATX case in a 21c room, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX peaked at a sizzling spot temperature of 80c after an hour of gameplay with a peak common die temperature of 67c. This was achieved with a fan pace of 1900 RPM.

The typical working clock frequency was 2275 MHz and the reminiscence operated at 19.9 Gbps, simply shy of the marketed 20 Gbps. Overall, the reference card ran cool and comparatively quiet, so we might anticipate all accomplice fashions to work very properly, and that is one thing we’ll have a look at within the close to future.

All That Hype — What We Learned

Regarding to how hyped the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has been, AMD themselves are largely accountable for this. But simply to ensure we weren’t too off base with this, we polled HUB’s viewers, asking what their expectations had been primarily based on AMD’s RDNA 3 announcement, the place they in contrast the 7900 XTX to the 6950 XT, exhibiting features or between 50-70%.

The majority of you anticipated the 7900 XTX to be no less than 50% quicker than the 6950 XT on common, primarily based on what AMD had mentioned. With 60% of individuals voting 50% or extra, it is clear AMD oversold their new flagship and set too excessive expectations. At 50% quicker than the 6950 XT, the Radeon 7900 XTX can be no less than 10-15% quicker than the RTX 4080, and never a fantastic deal slower than the RTX 4090.

In actuality, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is on common 35% quicker than the 6950 XT, putting it on par with the RTX 4080. AMD’s personal evaluate information confirmed the 7900 XTX to be on common 43% quicker than the 6950 XT, barely extra favorable than our match up, although the video games examined had been totally different. Point is, we expect folks had been anticipating extra and which may result in pointless adverse suggestions from avid gamers. If that is the case, AMD has nobody accountable however themselves.

Putting hype apart then, is the 7900 XTX any good? Minus a number of teething points, which we’ll talk about in a second, we expect it is a first rate product, not unhealthy in comparison with the competitors, however not nice both.

Although the Radeon RX 7900 XTX appears to be like fairly good by way of worth for these primarily in rasterization efficiency, at $1,000, it is not an inexpensive GPU. Sure, it appears to be like fairly good subsequent to the RTX 4080, delivering the identical stage of efficiency for $200 much less, however the GeForce RTX 4080 sucks on the present asking value, and that is not simply us saying it, it is avid gamers at massive as gross sales throughout the globe for the RTX 4080 has been extraordinarily weak.

That’s an issue as a result of in virtually each measurable metric the RTX 4080 is a superior product to the 7900 XTX. The RTX 4080 affords comparable rasterization efficiency, considerably higher ray tracing efficiency, higher upscaling as DLSS is superior to FSR, it additionally makes use of much less energy, and the media engine is best supported. The solely factor going for the Radeon 7900 XTX is the truth that it is 17% cheaper, however when spending $1,000 on a graphics card, do you actually care about $200? Wouldn’t you simply spend the additional cash to get the superior product? If we had been speaking about cheaper price factors, say $600 to $700, the proportion distinction is way the identical, however we really feel somebody seeking to spend $600 would possibly worth $100 much more than somebody spending $1,000 values $200.

We really feel AMD must be coming in 20-25% cheaper, so $900 can be a extra applicable value given what we have seen. That’s the form of low cost the place we will say for many of you the advantages of the GeForce GPU merely aren’t definitely worth the value premium.

After all, if you happen to largely play multiplayer video games, then ray tracing is not too interesting and also you’re after uncooked FPS efficiency, and the 7900 XTX does ship. But at 17% lower than the RTX 4080, it is nonetheless not the apparent selection.

Our time with the Radeon 7900 XTX wasn’t flawless both. We bumped into a number of recreation crashes and we spoke with different reviewers who suffered from the identical form of points. This might merely be a difficulty with prerelease drivers that AMD will kind out in time for public launch, or it might be a style of one thing avid gamers will expertise for weeks or months to return. We additionally ran right into a irritating black display screen difficulty, that required us to disconnect and reconnect the show, the sport did not crash, however the show would flicker and go clean. This was uncommon and solely occurred twice in our testing, but it surely’s price mentioning given the opposite stability points with the evaluate driver.

Overall, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a fairly good GPU, no less than relative to its GeForce competitor, however whether or not or not it is price $1,000 will depend upon how a lot inventory you place in ray tracing efficiency. For these with earlier technology flagships, the 7900 XTX merely will not be definitely worth the improve and whereas it is a large leap ahead from one thing just like the Radeon 6800, it is also roughly twice the worth, so it is not transferring the needle ahead by way of worth. The Radeon RX 6800 and 7900 XTX actually might be members of the identical product household.

Frankly, neither the 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 would have us racing out to purchase one, so we guess we’ll wait round to see what the lower-tier fashions have to supply, however we’re definitely not holding our breath for something superb.

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