Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs. GeForce RTX 4080, 50+ Game Benchmark @ 1440p & 4K

foreign [Music] box today I've got another Mega Benchmark video for you this time comparing the new Radeon RX 7900 XTX head to head with the GeForce RTX 4080 in 54 games though some of the titles have been tested using multiple different configurations so in total we have 62 game tests and I've been reliably informed that that is quite a few so we should probably get into it but before we do today's sponsor spot is brought to you by msi's GeForce RTX 40 series of graphics cards and the Epic PC case gear unboxed 49er gaming PC aka the Balin PC during a recent live stream we built our video editor bailen the ultimate gaming PC which he's been using to mostly play Warzone 2 and fortnite and has been loving the Blazing fast performance and the best news being you can now own the Balin PC now the key component that enables this PC to blast through the latest and greatest games with ease is the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 gaming X Trio 24 gigabyte graphics card supporting all the standard art tx40 series features such as Ray tracing DLS S3 and nvank with av1 encoding the Balin PC is also armed with an Intel Core i913 900k processor on the MSI MPG z790 carbon Wi-Fi ddr5 motherboard so for more information please check the links in the video description okay so for this testing I've got my hands on the truly massive gigabyte auris RTX 4080 master and I believe this is the largest graphics card on the market right now I've certainly not seen anything bigger it's currently retailing for at least 1350 us so a 12 and a half percent above MSRP which doesn't sound too bad though it is 150 premium but given the size and weight it kind of feels like you're at least getting that difference in the cooler then for comparison we have the gearbot auris 7900 XTX Elite and unfortunately gigabyte isn't offering a master version for the 700 XTX but even so the aorus elite is still a beast and I'm sure many of you would argue a more practical product in terms of dimensions and weight pricing for this particular model is unclear as it's yet to go on sale at least at the retailers I checked but I'd guess around 1100 us will be the asking price for this one now for testing the CPU used is the ryzen 7 5800x 3D with 32 gigabytes of dual rank dual Channel ddr4 3200cl14 memory on the MSI MPG x570s carbon Max Wi-Fi and as usual we'll be going over the data for about a dozen tiles before jumping into the big breakdown graphs and the resolutions of interest for this one are 1440p and 4K so let's get into it starting with fortnite which has recently been updated to use the Unreal Engine 5.1 and is the first game to do so here we're using the DirectX 11 API with the Epic quality preset and I do realize anyone playing this game competitively with the goal of actually winning will be using competitive quality settings or something very similar and that's generally a mix of Epic and then low quality options but for the sake of this one which we are focusing on GPU performance I'll be using epic exclusively so in our DirectX 11 test the 4080 was 15 faster at 1440 pan 12 faster at 4K yet the Radeon GPU did deliver slightly better one percent lows which is quite interesting as this wasn't the case for previous builds of the game now where things get messy is when we introduce DirectX 12 which is required if you wish to take advantage of the new Unreal Engine 5.1 Technologies the problem is though DirectX 12 breaks fortnite it seems that it always has and this is a specially noticeable in the fast-paced build fights where this test was conducted the RTX 4080 for example saw an almost 50 reduction in frame rate 1440p when compared to the dx11 results using these same quality settings we're also looking at a 40 hit for the 7900 XTX simply by switching from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12. so that's got to be bad for Ray tracing now the main reason for using DirectX 12 and fortnite is so you can enable Lumen and nanite technology which I have to say does look amazing having said that though neither technology is particularly well suited to a game like fortnite as it makes it harder to spot enemies and therefore survive the round the frame rates are also horribly low especially at 4K high-level players will have a very hard time defeating much less skilled players when limited to just 45 FPS which is why competitive Gamers typically Target over 140 FPS for example anyway what's really interesting here is the fact that the ray tracing performance in fortnite which is one of the best examples of rtfx in any game right now at least in my opinion sees the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 neck and neck in fact the Radeon GPU actually does a better job here with rt Lumen and Nano enabled so this is certainly a very surprising result another competitive shooter is Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and for this testing I'm using the built-in multiplayer Benchmark as it is useful for measuring GPU performance but not so much for CPU performance and for this testing I'll be looking at frame rates using both the basic and Ultra quality presets at 1440p with the basic settings we see that the 7900 XTX is 42 faster than the 4080 and 35 faster at 4K so that is a brutal beat down here by the Radeon GPU and these are the kind of results we've come to expect from Modern Warfare 2 and War Zone 2 when comparing Radeon and GeForce gpus and the margins remain much the same with the ultra quality settings here the 700 XTX was 40 faster at 1440p and 35 faster at 4K both are impressive gains and both will be very noticeable when gaming especially the 4K results though competitive Gamers will certainly appreciate and enjoy the massive uplift at 1440p another game where I tested different apis is The Witcher 3 wild Hunt complete edition starting with the DirectX 11 data I found the game ran exceptionally well using either GPU with the ultra quality settings allowing for over 250 FPS at 1440p and well over 100 FPS at 4K so a great experience here no frame starters no issues now moving to the DirectX 12 API the game mostly ran well though I did experience some crashing while testing performance overall though was down when compared to what we saw using DirectX 11. so objectively dx12 is offering a worse experience than dx11 here but dx12 does allow you to enable Ray tracing and with the ultra RT preset enabled the game ran like crap sure it looked pretty nice but we went from well over 200 smooth frames per second at 1440p to well under 100 FPS the RTX 4080 played reasonably well with 66 FPS on average and one percent lows of 48 fps it wasn't amazing certainly not a 1200 experience but it was playable the 700 XTX on the other hand that was a stuttery mess completely unplayable and just a bad experience both sucked at 4K so you will need to use some sort of upscaling Technology here Metro Exodus has long been hailed as a great showcase for race racing and while I think the rtfx here are quite nice I wasn't all that convinced that it was an impressive showcase given how hard performances hit on previous generation Hardware here we're running the standard version of the game without RT enabled and the performance is amazing both gpus rendered over 270 FPS at 1440p and over 150 FPS 4K both were buttery smooth the game looked really great played well so a great experience all around now here's the enhanced Edition of the game with raytracing enabled and I've got to say the 1440p results are still quite good yes the performance hit is massive but these new high-end gpus still managed well over 60 FPS at least at 1440p for 4K you will want some kind of upscaling Technology especially with the 700 xdx but overall the results are quite good as this is an RTX tile though the 4080 has a massive Advantage with rt enabled pumping at 42 more frames at 1440p and 51 more at 4K so a significant difference to what's seen in fortnite using RT Lumen and nanite Now by default we test f122 with Ray tracing enabled as this is the default setting for the ultra high preset the 700 XTX still performs well but ultimately the RTX 4080 does perform better delivering 12 greater performance at 1440p and 14 more at 4K in my opinion though Road tracing does very little to improve the image quality f122 and most are probably best turning it off doing so improves the performance of the RTX 4080 at 4K by 200 and 32 and then 302 for the 700 XTX of course if you're happy playing the game at 4K with around 60 FPS then maybe RT will be worth enabling but I suspect for most of you the performance hit here simply can't be justified and if true the 700 XTX is the superior performer in this title now playing the rift breaker using the ultra quality visual settings provided very little challenge for these high-end gpus both easily push past 300 FPS 1440p and over 170 FPS 4K which is significantly more performance that anyone needs to play this game well that being the case the game is worth playing with Ray tracing enabled as performance of both gpus is still excellent and the shadow detail in particular is much more impressive even the 7900 XTX produced well over 200 FPS at 1440 being over 100 FPS at 4K so although the RTX 4080 was 16 faster both did deliver a similar experience next we have Warhammer 40 000 dark tide using the Autodesk Stingray engine and this one appears well optimized for both AMD and Nvidia gpus as the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 delivered virtually identical performance using the high quality preset we're looking at comfortably over 100 FPS on average at 1440p and 60fps at 4K moving on to a plague Tower Requiem here we are again using the highest quality preset in doing so sees the 7900 XTX outperforming the RTX 4080 to the tune of a 21 margin at 1440p and 10 at 4K so a clear win here for the Radeon GPU though both did deliver excellent performance given the visual quality settings here we have the Callisto protocol and this is another new game where the 7900 XTX is able to best the RTX 4080 winning by an 8 margin at 1440p and three percent at 4K that said it's the substantially better one percent lower performance that really gets the radio and GPU over the line here improving one percent lows at 1440p by 20 and then 11 at 4K the last game will look at the individual results for is World War Z aftermath and the reason I'm going to include this game is because I think it's an example where AMD will be able to improve performance with future driver updates traditionally Radeon gpus have performed very well in this title the 600 XT for example comfortably beat the 12 gigabyte 3080 yet here the 1700 XTX gets wrecked by the RTX 4080 with the GeForce GPU delivering a staggering 64 more performance at 1440p and 26 more at 4K so again this is a title where I expect AMD will find quite a bit of extra performance with a new driver update probably before too long okay so we've taken a detailed look at just a few of the 54 individual games tested so now it's time to compare the GeForce RTX 4080 and Radeon RX 7900 XTX across all of the games I've spent the past few weeks benchmarking and we'll start with the 1440p data here we have the data for all 62 test configurations squeezed into a single graph showing us that on average the 7900 XTX was just one percent slower than the RTX 4080 across a massive sample of games of course we have a number of Road tracing enabled titles here this is just everything I tested for this video now at the 4K resolution the 7900 XTX is actually one percent faster than the RTX 4080 so in other words performance overall was again pretty much identical the 700 XTX suffers its worst losses in Metro Exodus enhanced Edition and The Witcher 3 using RT meanwhile it enjoyed its greatest wins in Modern Warfare 2 using the basic or Ultra quality settings with solid winds in Borderlands 3 death stranding Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla it's worth noting that for 42 of the 62 configurations tested here so almost 70 percent of the data we're looking at single digit differences between these two gpus now when it comes to thermals the results will vary depending on the model used for this comparison we had the gigabyte Aura 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 looking at the aorus master RTX 4080 we find one installed inside an ATX case with the doors closed with an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees that after an hour of playing Hitman 3 we saw a peak hotspot temperature of 77 degrees with a peak average GPU temperature of just 63 degrees the memory also peaked at 58 degrees and to enable these temperatures the fans spun at 1930 RPM and generated 38 decibels of noise meanwhile the cores typically clocked at 2745 megahertz with the memory running at 22.4 gigabits per second so a good result overall now the gigabot aurus elite 7900 XTX is a very cool customer peaking at just 72 degrees for the hot spot with an average GPU temperature of just 58 degrees the vrm temperature peaked at 75 degrees and it was the memory that ran the hottest of all hitting 90 degrees which is significantly hotter than the memory used by the RTX 4080 though we are comparing gddr6 with gdr6x the aorus elite 700 XTX also ran quieter at 37 decibels and that's surprising given that the total system usage was much higher for the Radeon GPU at 555 Watts opposed to 465 Watts with the RTX 4080. finally the 7900 XTX typically clocked its cores at 2 690 megahertz with the memory operating at 19.9 gigabits per second okay so that's all for the Benchmark data let's make a few conclusions now when I reviewed the RTX 4080 back in mid-november wasn't terribly impressed from a value perspective performance wise I'm sure the 4080 was great but twelve hundred dollars US didn't really excite me and in the end concluded that we really needed to wait for the 700 XTX before making any concrete conclusions on December 13th we finally got to see what the 7900 XTX was all about and overall I'd say it's a decent product at least relative to its GeForce competitor but whether or not it's worth the one thousand dollars US will depend on how much stock you place in stuff like Ray tracing performance basically I felt in a nutshell the 7900 XTX did a good job of matching the RTX 4080 in terms of value but ultimately found that that was pretty underwhelming given that without a direct competitor I already felt the 4080 represented quite poor value so now we just have a radiant alternative to a product that I was none too excited about I've been thinking quite a lot about the 7900 XTX in my own review and why I found it so underwhelming of course it's easy to point to amd's Arduino 3 announcement which over promised claiming performance and efficiency gains that simply weren't replicated by any reputable reviewers but it is more than that if we think back to my Radeon RX 5700 XT reviews that was a product that I very much liked and deemed excellent value and the margins were kind of similar the 5700 XT was 20 cheaper than the 2070 super so 100 saving and it offered a similar level of performance to its GeForce competitor meanwhile the new 7900 XTX is 16 cheaper than the RTX 48 and again it does offer a similar level of performance while saving you two hundred dollars but the situation with the 700 XTX is quite different firstly the 2070 super was a decent product it killed off the Radeon 7 at least for gaming and it was worth recommending at 500 because it essentially offered what was previously 800 performance with the RTX 2080. so for the 5700 XT to come in and offer a similar level of performance but at a lower 400 price point well that was quite impressive moreover the RTX brand of features wasn't nearly as strong three years ago dlss support and image quality wasn't what it is today and very few games implemented rtfx well so neither technology was a strong selling point for GeForce gpus making the cheaper 5700 XT all the more appealing the 7900 XTX on the other hand is competing with a far worse value product in the RTX 4080 and while the Radeon GPU is cheaper it's generally inferior when it comes to stuff like Ray Tracer performance it still laxo upscaling competitor to the widely supported dlss it sucks down quite a bit more power and driver support certainly isn't nearly as mature with a few strange niggles here and there still I'd say worst case the 7900 XTX matches the value of the RTX 4080 and most of you tell us you'd purchase it over the GeForce GPU at least Based on data from a recent poll I also think moving forward Ray tracing performance might be less of an issue at least if what we're seeing in fortnite is anything to go by sure there'll always be RTX titles sponsored by Nvidia where Radeon gpus get slaughtered that's just how the game seems to be played but overall I think amd's Ray tracing performance is now in a pretty good place at the end of the day I don't think you should purchase either of these products at their current msrps so one thousand dollars for the 1700 XTX and 1200 for the RTX 4080 but it does seem like most of you are more interested in the cheaper 7900 XTX and I can certainly get on board with that but I'll be a lot happier if we see a price drop in the near future as for the gigabyte auris models they both performed exceptionally well cool and quiet is the name of the game here the only challenge Beyond availability is squeezing them into your case especially the aorus master anyway that is going to do it for this massive Benchmark comparison if you enjoyed this content and appreciate the work that went into it then please do hit the like button for us and if you'd like more Hardware box goodness then check us out over at floatplane or patreon signing up to either of those will get you access to exclusive monthly live streams Discord server q and A's and behind the scenes content so yeah if you're interested check it out but if not that is perfectly fine and I would like to thank you for watching this video I'm your host Dave see you next time [Music] thank you foreign

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Published: Mon Jan 02 2023