Waiting over 10 years to upgrade your GPU | R9 290 VS 7900 XTX | R7 9800X 3D 5.5GHz

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What would happen if you waited over 10 years to upgrade your graphics card? In this video I will be putting my AMD R9 290, against my AMD RX 7900 XTX to see how things have progressed. All games will be played at 1080p, to give the R9 290 the best chance of compatibility with it's 4GB frame buffer. The CPU of choice is none other than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at 5.5GHz

7900 XTX System Specs
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X 3D
Asus ROG Strix X670E-F Gaming WIFI Motherboard
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 7900 XTX
G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) PC5-48000 (DDR5-6000)
28-37-37-28 1.45V
Corsair H110 280mm AIO.
AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Driver 24.12.1
Corsair HX1000i PSU
Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB
Samsung 860 QVO 1 TB
Pioneer 1TB SSD APS-SL3-1T
Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD 1TB
LG B9 "55" 120Hz 4K HDR Smart TV.
Thermal Take View 71 Full Tower Case
Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2

R9 290 System Specs
CPU = AMD Ryzen 7 9800X 3D 5.6GHz max boost
Motherboard = Asus AM5 Crosshair X670e Hero
Memory = G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) PC5-48000 (DDR5-6000)
28-37-37-28 1.45V
CPU Cooling = ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360
PSU = Corsair RMx Shift 1200W
Case = Corsair 4000D AIRFLOW Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX Case
GPU = Sapphire AMD R9 290 Tri-X 4GB
AMD Adrenalin 22.6.1
SSD : 2x WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4
1xWD Black SN850 1TB NVMe M.2 Pcie Gen4 SSD
MONITOR: LG C3 Evo (42 inch / OLED / G-SYNC compatible / 120Hz display)

Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:16 Cyberpunk 2077
2:02 Deus Ex Mankind Divided
4:22 The Division
7:05 F1 2019
9:49 Rise Of The Tomb Raider

#9800x3d #rx7900xtx #r9290

[BangBuckPCGamer]

Both AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors are overclocked to 5.5GHz max boost. The R9 290 system is always GPU bound, so that 9800X3D barely does any work and rarely uses the boost clock.

[RoyBrown]

R9 290 is one of the greatest GPU's ever made.

[johnmacchione]

This is cool. Last year I went from AM3/750 ti to AM5/7900xtx

[thenerdshark]

It kinda reminds me how I went from an FX 8350/R9 280X straight to a R9 7900X/RTX 4090 lmfao

[wtfskilz]

You will see a greater difference in performance, if you use higher settings.

[slendydie]

I went from an r7 240 to the 6800xt the jump is so huge that you can't even benchmark it :D

[Lunaticohsyou]

Great Video! Great idea! People love this shit! Keep on the good work!

[OneCosmic]

Why is the power draw of 290 so low? I would expect it to pull at least around 300W.

[ProfessorBalance]

Could you put everything on high to see a playable vs nonplayable differences? It looks like to me that R9 290 is still playable.

[Dhrazor]

I'm about to upgrade from a 1070Ti... If the Nvidia pricing is as outrageous as it was with the 40 series I might get a 9070XT instead of a 5080/5070Ti... I'm not going to support Nvidia if it keeps trying to rip off people...

[MarcABrown-ttfp]

These settings seem to represent the 7900xtx extremely poorly.

[meow]

The 9800x3d seems to do badly in the division. Hell even an 8700k gives better FPS.