THIS is better - PowerColor Red Devil 7900 XTX

AMD's new 7900 XTX GPUs are looking to be a good alternative to the NVIDIA RTX 4080 in terms of value-to-performance. Let's put it to the test and see if it's enough to dethrone team green's offerings.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 AMD vs. NVIDIA
0:35 Time to unbox
1:17 Accessories
3:17 Testbench
5:10 Shopify!
6:23 Gaming

[AsbestosMuffins]

little known feature, contrary to its name, the LEDs are actually RGB not just red/orange

[prxZen]

Side notes: Dual BIOS options rarely have big effects out-of-the-box. They're mostly presented this way just to provide a pro forma "legitimate" justification to AMD/Nvidia, for deviating from the reference design by adding "dual purpose" on-substrate _hardware_ features. Sold as toggles between low noise and max performance modes. But in practice are explicitly meant to accommodate hard core overclocking, by providing one or more additional discrete bios chips, to serve as safety fallbacks in case a hacked or modified vbios fails to flash properly or won't post. It's a warranty claim, who's liable, plausible deniability thing.

As to the "only 2" DisplayPort (2.1) ports. DisplayPort supports _daisychaining_ of multiple displayport compatible displays. And with 2.1, you can daisychain up to 3x high refresh 4k HDR displas, off a single port from the gpu. Also Radeon does not limit their "ordinary" gpus to max 4 displays like Nvidia's GeForce does.

[Mountain-Man-]

Linus: Buys a huge house and renovates it to meet all his wants.

Also Linus: Continues to work in the unfinished corner of the garage...

[germas]

I have always loved the PowerColor cards all the way back to the absolutely ridiculous HD7990 Devil 13 with dual GPU and 500W TDP on a single 3 slot card. Something interesting about that card, is it has a small LED at the back panel to indicate when their overclocked mode is active.

[minepoko]

Red Devil GPUs have always been a good choice

[Marco_Onyxheart]

A friend of mine has an RTX4090. This 7900XTX also has a completely overengineered cooler. Got to say, I think I like overengineered coolers. It's so silent.

[mrnlce]

Linus saying sorry so much at the end was the most Canadian thing he has ever done.

[AsbestosMuffins]

the red devils tend to have really beefy coolers, my 6700 runs passively most of the time

[frankallen]

For amd cards I always pick up power color because I have never regretted using them. Always more dependable than the reference cards and never had to deal with recalls

[theftking]

I really don't know much about AMD cards, let alone the AMD-exclusive AIBs, but I've been told that if you buy an AMD card, you go either Sapphire or PowerColor. Kinda like how you _usually_ couldn't go wrong buying EVGA cards (RIP).

No idea if this is true; just what I hear people say, lol.

[kbredstar]

i wish there were more videos like this for AMD cards.

[Neoxon]

Oh right, Linus said he would switch to AMD for this generation. That explains why this was filmed at his house.

[thiagotrujilho]

i have a RX 6700XT Red Devil and im pretty happy with it, its crazy silent and very cool operation, even on the Junction temperature, never surpass 75C, with GPU maintaining around 60C at maximum, and the fans are barely spinning at all, even here in Brazil on the summer when its crazy hot, Powercolor Red Devil series is one of the bests AMD cards for now, for me, even better then XFX and Asrock, and close or equal to Sapphire

[elbertliu]

I got a Red Devil 7900 XTX as well and I'm very stoked that you can already pre-order a water block for it from EK. Since AMD allows you to play with voltage maybe there will be a more impressive gain when the card is water cooled.

[legostarwarsrulez]

I have the hellhound, the lower end model of this, and love it to death, wish I could’ve had the red devil but it physically wouldn’t fit in my case, whereas the hellhound just *barely* fits.

[itsdeonlol]

The Red Devil card looks so damn cool!

[jkinze]

I bought this card today! My story is I bought a 6800xt 3 weeks ago @ micro center. Long story short, something was happening with the gpu and Capture One's magical brush (computer generated masking like mask subject in LR and PS). C1 would always crash and destroy my workflow. Went back to micro center and picked this card up. In capture one the magical brush is pretty much instant, and so much more accurate! The red devil 7900 xtx is well worth the $ from my perspective.!

[erichartel]

Why put 3 DP ports on there if only 2 are supported simultaneously?

[wmv]

To me, red devil is best known for making sure all their gpus take up at least one more slot than other oems.

[krzf]

you know we've hit the limits when you need an additional support for your gpu