The High Point of RDNA 3 | Radeon RX 7900 XT

Testing the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB graphics card in 11 popular and demanding games in 2024, at 1440P and 4K, using an average gaming PC.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT is perhaps the best value model in the RX 7000 series. The lower end models don't offer much performance over their predecessors, the XTX can still be a bit pricey for a Radeon, and the GRE is practically a reheated RX 6950 XT. At £650 it's not exactly cheap, but it offers more VRAM, improved ray tracing and new features like Displayport 2.1 and AV1 support - but its numerical predecessor, the RX 6900 XT, is one of the best value GPUs on the used market right now. Can the 7900 XT justify its price over the old RDNA 2 model?

Thanks to Scan Computers for providing the Saphire Pulse model for review. Pick one up for yourself here:

Track names: "Neon Nights", "Hotline" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 RX 7900 XT vs. 2024
00:51 The Story of the RX 7900 XT 20GB
02:18 Test System
03:14 Gaming Benchmarks
03:18 Ghost of Tsushima
04:04 Horizon: Forbidden West
04:48 Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga
05:40 Alan Wake II
06:38 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
07:39 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
09:00 Resident Evil 4 Remake
10:06 The Last of Us Part 1
10:52 Forza Horizon 5
12:00 Starfield
12:59 Cyberpunk 2077
14:15 RX 7900 XT vs. 6900 XT (and 6950 XT, I guess)

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[IcebergTech]

Inb4 the obligatory "bro fell off" comments

[youraveragejoephoto]

Absolutely love my 7900xt, it’s such a beast

[khizrrehman]

nobody noticed the smooth transition at 10:04 lol

[joekoch]

Great video! Good insight onto how the card holds in 2024.

[zarko]

Can’t believe your test system is almost identical to my gaming pc. Down to the cooler lol.

[djmaye]

intro title gunshot sound fx are back, it's a good day

[arizonaranger]

Wake up babe, Iceberg tech just uploaded

[Pieteros]

I have 7900gre.. very good performance and acceptable price . Power cosumtion while not low is also acceptable . Drivers 100% stable, no issues both Linux and windows .

[mraltoid]

Someone loan this man a massively overclocked 7900GRE to see how they compare...

[darkbaron]

I upgraded from RX 5700 XT to RX 7900 XTX. The card has been an absolute beast tearing through 1440p and later through 1440p UW as well.Huge jump in raw perfomance and Raytracing perfomance has been fantastic as well.

[DynamoNED]

Ah, the Freudian slip at 1:42... Priceless. Nicely done.

[snakeplissken]

Imo the biggest problem for the 7000 series was the mere existence of the 6000 series.
While not the best the 6000 series has just some very solid cards in the lineup.

[dragonsoldier]

I bought a 7900XT but i havent put it in my rig. Gonna be fun to see the performance uplift from my gtx 970

[fizzisoda]

I got one used off Amazon Warehouse for about $600. Best purchase ever.

[kacperjestfajny]

rx7900xt owner here
I agree, it felt like a best option from current market, especially for the price (35% cheaper than xtx and at the point of buying there were no SUPER 4000 series and my rx costed around normal 4070 at the time).

What a wonderful peak of AMD graphics.
And it was cheap too.

[HetZieltje]

Slight correction, -20 co does not mean 20mv, its afaik an arbitrary number and every co is ~3-5mv

[OrionCV]

its a shame AMD got greedy and decided to price it only $100 below the XTX at launch, trying to get people to buy the XTX instead shot this card in the foot, but right now its at a good price

[brick]

I’m running a 7900GRE right now and love it

[Azureskies]

My issue with my 7900XT is the power consumption while playing games that are really "easy" to run (older games such as Oblivion). There is something wrong (or something they had to do to make it work anyway) with the memory controllers being on the MCDs that require the GDDR VRAM to be run at full speed which makes your GPU automatically use a little less than 100watts no matter how easy it is on the GCD.

For example I'll be playing Oblivion with the GCD running at like 300 mhz using 15 watts while the memory is clocked to 2500mhz using its normal ~95 watts for a combine 100+ watts. There is zero reason a game such as Oblivion would need the memory to be run at 2500mhz but chiplets on a GPU have their disadvantages.

It seems to have to do with games or emulators being run in full screen mode and not windowed, in windowed mode those things make the RAM clock down to 909mhz which is still around 50 watts but it is still much better than keeping it in full screen.

At the end of the day I'm happy now that the drivers have been fixed for the 7900XT but there are downsides.

[toasty]

6:51 bruh i litterally didnt notice that he said "Avatar: Frontiers Elite 2" the first time around.