RTX 4080 Killer? Radeon RX 7900 XTX Review & Benchmarks

foreign [Music] books today is the day we finally get to show you what amd's new flagship rdna3 GPU has to offer the long anticipated Radeon RX 7900 XTX this has to be one of the most hyped product releases of the year which could be a bad thing as products rarely live up to the hype so I guess we'll see a month ago AMD touted 50 to 70 performance gains for the 79 XTX over the 6950 XT and then it plays it within Striking Distance of the much more expensive RTX 4090 for rasterization performance and we saw many online commentators create mock-up graphs showing exactly that so the internet went into a Fizz salivating the promise of RTX 4090 light performance for a thousand dollars US and sure we all knew it would only be for rasterization performance but that's what most of you really care about anyway so it was still very exciting Tim though was quick to note that if AMD was really offering performance that was close to the RTX 4090 that the price would be much higher as amd's not your 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the link in the video description okay so I'm not going to dive into all of the specs I assume that most of you have already watched our rdna3 news video which covered all that information and if you didn't feel free to check it out but look in summary the 7900 XTX is coming in at an MSRP of a thousand dollars US while the very similarly named 7900 XT that'll cost nine hundred dollars the XTX version packs 6144 cores while the XT model has been cut down by 13 to 5376 cores boost clocks for the XTX are rated at 2.5 gigahertz while the XT has been dropped by four percent to 2.4 gigahertz and then we see that the infinity cache has been dropped from 96 megabytes to 80 megabytes so there's a 17 reduction there dropping the bandwidth from three and a half gigabytes per second to 2.9 gigabytes per second now both models do utilize 20 gigabits per second gddr6 memory but while the XTX receives a 384-bit wide memory bus for a bandwidth of 960 gigabytes per second the XT has been cut down to a 320 bit wide memory bus resulting in 800 gigabytes per second so another 17 reduction there so just a 10 discount the 700 XT doesn't appear as though it's going to be particularly Great Value based on the paper spec and we'll look at that part in tomorrow's video for now we want to focus on the XTX version other noteworthy features of the 700 XTX is the 355 watt total board power rating Which is higher than that of the RTX 4080 but like the 4080 it does utilize the pcie 4.0 times 16 interface of course the most interesting aspect of these new rdna3 gpus is its use of chiplet Technology rather than going all out with a massive monolithic die rdna3 uses a combination of smaller dies in a similar strategy to that of amd's latest ryzen CPUs this means that to get those top end GPU configurations AMD no longer needs to make a single 520 millimeter square dial grader like they did with our DNA 2 or approach the Behemoth that is ad-102 a 600 millimeter square die that is used by the RTX 4090 amd's rdna3 chiplet approach includes two components the graphics triplet dial gcd which houses the main wgps and processing Hardware plus multiple memory chiplet dies or mcds which include the infinity cache and memory controllers on the flagship Savion XTX we get one gcd plus six mcds while the 7900 XT features a cut down gcd plus five mcds amd's architecture benefits in multiple ways from this move to chipler technology one is that they can now split their GPU design over multiple nodes reducing the amount of expensive Leading Edge silicon they need for every single product the gcd is built on tsmc's latest 5n node but the mcds are built on tsmc n6 which is a derivative of their older and less costly seven nanometer process this ends amd's Reliance on needing huge chunks of the latest silicon for every high-end GPU the other main advantage is yields put simply large monolithic dies have lower yields than smaller dies so whenever a design can be split into multiple smaller Dives there's a good chance the yields will increase substantially AMD has found great success using this approach on their ryzen CPUs where modern's N4 chiplets are about 70 millimeters squared so tiny enough that yields would be well over 90 percent rdna3 won't have as much of an advantage as N4 as the gcd is still relatively large compared to a CPU but at 300 millimeters Square it's still half that of ad102 and just 60 as large as an rv21 so that sort of size saving will have big implications for yields flanking the gcd are six mcds about 37 millimeters squared in size so these are tiny chiplets and are just half the size of a Zen 3 CPU core triplet each has a 64-bit gddr6 controller and 16 megabytes of cache and on a miniature node like n6 these should have extremely high yields so AMD will benefit a lot here even though they need six of them for the 7100 XTX pull up while Flagship Navi 31 arduino3 GPU still need over 500 square millimeters of silicon this chiplet approach split across two nodes should reduce manufacturing costs and increase yields so it'll be very interesting to see how this approach plays out and we're here to do just that now for testing all gpus have been tested at the official clock specification so no Factor overclocking and the CPU used is the ryzen 7 5800x3d with 32 gigabytes of dual rank dual Channel ddr4 3200cl14 memory on the MSI MPG x570s carbon Max Wi-Fi in total I've tested 16 games at 1440p and 4K so let's get into the data first up we have Watchdogs Legion and here the 7900 XT looks Mighty impressive cranking out 172 FPS at 1440p to make it faster than not just the RTX 4090 but also the RTX 4080 beating the ladder by a 12 margin of course the RTX 4090 is CPU bound here but it's interesting to see that under CPU bound conditions the Radeon GPU does have a bit more Headroom now the CPU bottleneck is removed at the 4K resolution but even so the 700 XTX was still nine percent faster than the RTX 4080 then when compared to amd's previous generation Flagship part the 6950 XT we see a 36 performance uplift for the new 7900 XTX the kalistoi protocol is a new game that we've added to our benchmarks and it's one where the 7900 XTX appears to work quite well and please note I'm not using the built-in Benchmark for this testing with 166 FPS on average the new Radeon GPU was eight percent faster than the RTX 4080 and 50 fast and the 6950 XT so that's a solid gain at 1440p then at 4K with the ultra quality preset which does use fsr2 the 700 XTX and rtx48 it went neck and neck making the rdna 3 GPU 44 faster than the 6950 XT now I think amd's dealing with a driver-related issue for rdna 3 and Forza Horizon 5 because performance wasn't that good here I should clarify that there was no kind of stability issues or bugs seen when testing but performance was much lower than what you'd expect to see at 1440p for example the 700 XTX was just six percent faster than the 6950 XT so that kind of sucks the margin did improve a lot at 4K but even so here the 700 XTX was just 16 faster than the 6950 XT and this is a far cry from the sort of 50 typical result that AMD was suggesting in their announcement this meant that the new Radeon GPU was five percent slower than the RTX 4080 so a disappointing result all round here we see that amd's new Rd and A3 GPU trailed the RTX 4080 at 1440p and Rainbow Six extraction by a slim margin making it just 26 faster than the 3090 TI and 36 faster than the 6950 XT again although those are some decent margins it's a lot less than what AMD initially suggested or indicated then at 4K the 700 XTX falls behind the RTX 4080 by nine percent margin and is now a mere 15 faster than the 3090 TI though it was at least 47 faster than the 6950 XT Far Cry 6 is largely GPU bound at 1440p so the 700 XTX is able to roughly match the RTX 4090 despite being just seven percent faster than the 6950 XT moving to 4K though does alleviate the CPU bottleneck and now the 700 XTX is 17 faster than the RTX 4080 and 25 faster than the 6950 XT and although that is a reasonable margin I expect that most will be disappointed with what we're seeing here relative to the 6950 XT despite it being quite an impressive margin over the RTX 4080. the new Rd and A3 GPU looks quite good in Assassin's Creed Valhalla outpacing the RTX 4080 by an 11 margin at 1440p though this is a title where Radeon gpus traditionally do very well and if we turn our attention to the 6950 XT comparison the result is a lot less exciting as here the 7900 XTX is just 24 faster interestingly at the 4K resolution the 700 XTX performs better relative to the GeForce gpus than what we saw at 1440p as here it matched the RTX 1490 making it 16 faster than the 4080 and this time 33 faster than the 6950 XT which is a decent margin but also a lot less than the 50 to 70 percent margin AMD suggested during the Arduino 3 announcement moving on to hunt Showdown where the 7800 XTX and RTX 4080 are neck and neck delivering just over 250 FPS that made amd's Flagship just 25 faster than the RTX 390 TI and 32 faster than the 6950 XT the 4K data is much the same as in the 700xt and RTX 4080 are on par though this time that meant the 700 XTX was just 14 faster than the 390 TI and 30 faster than the 6950 XT the outer worlds uses the Unreal Engine 4 and this game engine typically favors GeForce gpus and that's certainly the case with this title still although the 700 XTX was 10 slower than the RTX 4080 When comparing the average frame rate the one percent lows were higher for the Radeon GPU and we do see a bit of that in our testing all of that said though at the 4K resolution the one percent lows are more in line with the average frame rates and hit the 700 XTX was nine percent slower than the RTX 4080 and just 26 faster than the 6950 XT now as we've seen in our recent Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 benchmarks this game loves Radeon gpus and this is certainly very true we're looking at the 7900 XTX where it pumped out an incredible 311 FPS on average at 1440p and that made it a massive 42 faster than the RTX 4080 and 28 faster than the 40 90. these results are certainly outliers in our testing but Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 are very popular games so this is great news for AMD the 7900 XTX even managed to Edge out the RTX 4090 at 4K with 193 FPS making it five percent faster and then 35 faster than the 4080. moreover a 43 improvement over the 6950 XT is very impressive though again given amd's announcement you will probably expecting this sort of margin to be more of the norm if not a worse case scenario for the new arduino3 flagship The Hitman 3 results are heavily CPU Limited at 1440p with these next-gen gpus so the 700 XTX was able to match the 4080 and 40 90. bumping up the resolution of 4K showed some great results for the new Arduino 3 GPU as it was 15 faster than the RTX 48 and just 10 slower than the RTX 4090 again I suspect these are the sort of margins that game is anticipating the arrival of the 700 XTX were expecting to be more of the norm generally Radeon gpus do perform really well in Horizon zero Dawn but I've got to say the 700 XTX was quite underwhelming here trailing the RTX 4080 by a five percent margin at 1440p to come in just 14 fast in the 6950 XT yikes the 4K results were a lot better but even so we're looking at RTX 4080 light performance meaning the 7900 XTX was just 26 faster than the 6950 XT and 16 faster than the RTX 39 ETI Now f122 by default does enable Ray tracing with the ultra high preset at least for Hardware that supports it so this is why the 700 XTX is slower than expected AMD is still well behind when it comes to RT performance and we'll look more at that shortly for now though we can see that when playing f122 using the highest quality preset for the 700 XTX is 11 slow in the RTX 4080 and a mere five percent faster than the 3090 TI that said in this example it is 55 fast on the 6950 XT suggesting that rdna 3's RT support has improved from rdna 2. then at the 4K resolution the 700 XTX drops down to the 39 ETI with 56 FPS on average making it 13 slower than the RTX 4080 and 36 slower than the 4090 so it is a bit of a Wipeout here for AMD that said thanks to the use of RT it was a massive 65 fast on the 6950 XT so there's at least that cyberpunk 2077 performance at 1440p looks quite good for the 700 XTX as here it was five percent faster than the RTX 4080 delivering 135 FPS on average that said when compared to previous generation products it was just 24 faster than the 6950 XT and 26 faster than the 3090 TI the 7100 XTX does remain strong at the 4K resolution and in fact was able to extend its margin over the RTX 4080 out to 9 with 70 FPS on average that made it 27 faster than the RTX 3090 TI and 43 farther than 6950 XT which is a decent result I've got to say the Dying Light 2 results are a bit underwhelming though at 1440p the 700 XTX was only able to match the average frame rate of the RTX 4080 with much lower one percent lows it was also just 17 faster than the 6950 XT which is no doubt very disappointing for those of you with a previous generation Flagship hoping to upgrade all that said though the 4K data was a bit more favorable this year the 700 XTX was five percent faster than the RTX 4080 and the one percent lows were a lot better the result though relative to amd's own 6950 XT was again very disappointing as the new GPU was just 17 faster Halo infinite is a game AMD skipped over for their review guide opting not to show performance and that's likely because the 700 XTX is very weak here AMD says they are looking into it though so it's possible a future driver corrects performance but for now this is what it looks like so this once Pro AMD title sees the 7900 xgx trailing the RTX 4080 by a rather large 16 margin making it just 21 faster than the RTX 39 HDI and 26 faster than the 6950 XT so very disappointing compared to previous generation Flagship parts the 7900 XTX shapes up a little bit better at the 4K resolution as here it was six percent sold in the RTX 4080 and a more impressive 24 faster than the 3090 TI and 35 faster than the 6950 XT last up we have shot of the Tomb Raider and I was quite surprised to find the 700 XTX trailing the 4080 by a 13 margin worse still this minute was just 18 faster than the 6950 XT the margins did improve a little at 4K here it was six percent slower than the 4080 and 25 faster than the 6950 XT so better but still quite poor overall alrighty so now it is time for the 16 game average data and we'll start at 1440p here we see that on average the 700 XTX and RTX 4080 were neck and neck with around 180 FPS on average that means the 7900 XTX is 17 sold in the RTX 4090 which given the price is obviously quite a good result though it's also only 25 faster than the 3090 TI and 6950 XT it was also just 35 faster than the RTX 3090 and 6900 XT so for those of you with previous generation Flagship parts that might not be worth the upgrade now looking at the 4K data the 700 XTX was 20 slower than the RTX 4090 but four percent faster than the RTX 4080 so again we're looking at 4080 light performance and that made the 700 XTX 26 faster than the RTX 30 90gi and 35 fast in the 6950 XT so not nearly as good as the 50 or greater many of you are hoping for that said it was 49 faster than AMD 6900 XT now although we didn't go over the 1080p data as it is largely CPU limited I've got the averages for you so let's just take a quick look at that again the 700 XTX and RTX 4080 are basically on par but this time the Radeon GPU is just six percent slower than the 4090 again because of the CPU bolnik we also see the 7900 XTX was just 21 faster than the 6950 XT now let's take a look at Ray tracing performance with and without upscaling if you recall the 700 XTX was 13 slower than the RTX 48 in our previous f122 testing as the game enables rtfx by default when using the ultra high preset here with the ultra high preset but with the rtfx disabled the 700 XTX pumped out 260 FPS making it 13 faster than the RTX 4080 and 51 faster than the 6950 XT now with rt plus upscaling enabled so just FSR 1.0 for the Radeon gpus the 7900 XTX was still 10 faster than the RTX 48 using dlss but this is hardly an Apples to Apples comparison now at the native 4K the 700 XTX was seen previously to be 13 slower than the 4080 but a massive 65 faster than the 6950 XT so there are good gains to be had over previous generation rdna 2 gpus when using Ray tracing next up we have Watchdogs Legion and this one doesn't support FSR so upscaling is really only available for the GeForce gpus in short using the very high preset with rt disabled the 700 XTX was nine percent faster than the RTX 4080 and 36 faster than the 6950 XT then with rt set to ultra but no upscaling the 7900 XTX was 19 slower than the RTX 4080 with just 44 FPS on average but it was also 52 faster than the 6950 XT so some decent gains there for Arduino 3 over arduino2 but it also meant that the 700 XTX was only up to speed with last Generations 3090 TI when it comes to RT performance 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 faster than the 6950 XT with Ray tracing enabled but no upscaling the new rdna3 GPU rendered 53 FPS on average which is basically the same performance received by the 6950 XT and 27 slower than the RTX 4080. so I have to assume this is some kind of driver issue next up we have Dying Light 2 and please note the performance shown previously In Dying Light 2 was done so using the high preset and this uses DirectX 11. the ray tracing preset forces DirectX 12 and this seems to break the 7900 XTX for example using the high preset it was five percent faster than the RTX 4080 But Here Without RT enabled so disabling the rtfx that would have otherwise been enabled using this preset the 7900 XTX was 25 slow on the RTX 4080. now with those rtfx enabled so the standard untouched array tracing quality preset the 700 XTX managed just 27 FPS on average the same performance delivered by the 39 ATI and 50 stronger performance than that of the 6950 XT but it was also 31 slow on the RTX 4080 so good gains relative to previous gen AMD Hardware but not good when compared to Ada Lovelace the last guy I'm going to look at raytracing performance with is cyberpunk 2077 and here the 700 XTX couldn't even match the 3090 TI trailing it by a 20 margin with just 20 FPS on average and that meant that it was 35 slower than the RTX 4080 but it was at least 54 faster than the 6950 XT with appscaling enabled so FSR 2.1 quality for the Radeon gpus the 700 XTX was able to deliver 39 FPS making it 44 faster than the 6950 XT but it was still 15 slower than the 39 inchi which was of course using dlss and then 33 slower than the RTX 4080 now it's time for a look at total system power consumption and here the 700 XTX pushed total usage to 468 Watts In Dying Light too so in terms of power usage it is comparable to the RTX 3080 and 3090 and that means system usage was nine percent lower than that of the 6950 XT but 16 greater than the RTX 4080 making the 4080 the more efficient GPU we also see that power consumption between the 4080 and 700 XTX was more comparable and do maternal here the Radeon GPU push total system uses just four percent higher that was also only just four percent lower than that of the 6950 XT then we have Hitman 3 and again the 4080 and 700 XTX were very similar basically comparable with other previous generation high-end gpus excluding the 3090 TI of course which was quite the power Pig and here we see when locking the frame rate to 90 FPS in cyberpunk 2077 that the 700 XTX push total system power usage 24 higher than that of the RTX 4080 again confirming that arduino3 isn't nearly as power efficient as nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture okay so time for the all-important cost per frame analysis and we'll start with the msrps using the 4K data so if all current and previous generation gpus were to be sold at the MSRP the 700 XTX would actually be the best value deal on the market undercutting the RX 6800 XT by a five percent margin and the 6950 XT by a massive 32 percent more importantly though it's almost a 20 Improvement in terms of cost per frame when compared to the RTX 4080. now here's a look at GPU pricing using the current Newegg data which will be about a week old by the time you see this video the RTX 4080 is currently selling for at least 1270 us so 70 US above MSRP and for this comparison we have to assure the 700 XTX will be available for the advertised 1 000 us but of course that is by no means guaranteed but let's just say that it is that'll be a 24 discount in terms of cost per frame when compared to the RTX 4080 and as we just saw with both at the MSRP the Radeon GPU will be at least 20 better value in today's market it is also slightly better value than the 6900 XT and 6950 XT so there is that while the only products to offer a better price to Performance ratio include the RX 6800 and 6800 XT both of which are significantly slower so when it comes to rasterization Performance though f122 was tested with rt but when it comes to largely rasterization performance the 7900 XTX is quite good in terms of value at least relative to the terrible value RTX 4080 hmm before wrapping up the testing here's a quick look at thermal and clock behavior of the AMD reference model installed in an ATX case in a 21 degree room the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX peaked at a hot spot temperature of 80 degrees after an hour of gameplay with a peak average diet temperature of 67 degrees and this was achieved with a fan speed of 1900 RPM we also saw a typical operating clock frequency of 2275 megahertz and the memory operated at 19.9 gigabits per second so just shy of the advertised 20 gigabits per second overall the reference card run cool and relatively quiet so I expect all partner models to work very well and that's something we will look at in the near future alright so at the start of this video I touched on how hyped the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has been AMD themselves are largely blamed for this but just to make sure that I wasn't off base I pulled our audience asking what their expectations were based on amd's arduino3 announcement where they compared the 7900 XTX to the 6950 XT showing gains of between 50 to 70 percent the majority of you expected the 700 XTX to be on average at least 50 percent faster than the 6950 XT based on what you'd seen so far from AMD with 60 of all the people who voted voting 50 or more it's clear AMD messed up and set expectations way too too high at fifty percent faster than the 6950 XT the 700 XTX would be at least 10 to 15 faster than the RTX 4080 and really not a great deal slower than the 4090. in reality though the 700 XTX was on average just 35 faster than the 6950 XT placing it on par with the RTX 4080. now look I could give AMD 40 faster let's go with that that's probably achievable an extra five percent over what I showed margin of error rounding differences uh they used a faster CPU so that could also help broaden the Gap a bit there but 40 really as high as I could go in our 16 game average it's certainly not going to be higher than that when accounting for those other variables and amd's own review guide showed the 700 XTX to be on average 43 faster than the 6950 XT so slightly more favorable than our matchup though the sample of games was different and the hardware used again was different they used a zen4 CPU for example the point is though I think people are expecting more and that's going to lead to a lot of negative feedback from Gamers and if that is indeed the case AMD has no one to blame but themselves but let's just put hype aside is the 700 XTX any good minus a few teething issues which I'll discuss in a moment I think this is a decent product certainly not bad compared to the competition but also not good either although the 7900 XTX looks quite good in terms of value for those interested primarily in rasterization performance at a thousand dollars US it's not exactly cheap sure it looks pretty good next to the RTX 4080 delivering the same level of performance for 200 US less but the RTX 4080 sucks at the current asking price and that's not just me saying that it's Gamers at large as sales across the globe for RTX 4080 has been extremely weak that's a problem because in almost every measurable metric the RTX 4080 is a superior product to that of the 7900 XTX the RTX 4080 offers comparable rasterization performance significantly better Ray tracing performance better upscaling as dlss is superior to FSR it also uses less power and the media engine is better supported really the only thing going for the 700 XTX is the fact that it's 17 cheaper but I feel like when spending a thousand dollars US on a graphics card that's a lot of money a thousand dollars U.S do you really care about 200 U.S wouldn't you just spend the extra money to get the superior product if we're talking about lower price tiers let's say 600 to 700 just a hundred dollars difference there the percentage difference is actually similar but I feel someone looking at spending 600 might value one hundred dollars a lot more than someone spending a thousand dollars values two hundred dollars it's an assumption I know but a thousand dollars is a a lot of money depending on a graphics card at that point are you really looking to cut corners on things like Ray tracing performance upscaling and so on all of that said I feel AMD needs to be coming in at least 20 cheaper if not 25 cheaper so 900 us would be a more appropriate price given what we've seen which is kind of humorous given that I felt the RTX 4080 really needed to be 900 for it to be an exciting product and again given sales I feel like I was probably right about that one but that's the kind of discount where I can say for most of you the benefits of the GeForce GPU simply aren't worth the price premium for 900 us you really would just get the 7900 XTX after all if you're someone who mostly plays multiplayer games like myself stuff like Ray tracing it's really not that appealing you're really after raw FPS performance and in stuff like war zone 2 Call of Duty the 700 XTX just delivers that in Spades but it's 17 less than the RTX 4080 it's still not really the obvious choice my time with the 700 XTX wasn't Flawless either as I ran into a few game crashes and I spoke with other reviewers who did suffer a few crashes as well and now this could simply be a pre-release driver issue that AMD will solve for public release or it could be something that Gamers will be plagued with for a few months to come it's really hard to say at this point in time I also ran into a frustrating black screen issue but it's not the black screen issue that 5700 XT owners may be familiar with this one simply required me to disconnect and then reconnect the display the game didn't crash for some reason it would Flicker and then go black this didn't happen a lot it didn't happen often so this may be something that nobody else reports and again this could be something that's just to do with the pre-release driver and you won't see this with the public release driver again I don't know in any case this was a rare occurrence it only happened twice in all of my testing so hopefully again this isn't something that end users will experience but it is worth mentioning given the other stability issues I ran into with the review driver also Jared from Jared's Tech ran into a slow boot issue with his Intel test system where the 700 XTX would take twice as long to load into windows from startup when compared to something like an RTX 4080 or really any other GPU MSI also confirmed this issue with Jared and at this point the cause is unknown so I suspect MSI would be working with AMD on the solution and it's unclear if this affects other motherboards but it was a confirmed issue so I'm reporting it here though I should note that I didn't run into this issue with my MSI am4 Motherboard anyway I don't want to make the Radeon RX 7900 XTX sound like a broken product as our testing was mostly smooth but there were a few hiccups along the way that I hope we can blame on the review driver I guess we'll know soon enough overall the Radeon RX 7900 XTX looks to be a decent product at least relative to its GeForce competitor but whether or not it's worth it at a thousand dollars US will depend on how much stock you place in stuff like Ray tracing performance also for those of you with previous generation flagships the 7900 XTX simply won't be worth the upgrade and while it is a big step forward from something like an RX 6800 it is also roughly twice the price so it's not really moving the needle forward when it comes to value and worse still the RX 6800 and 7900 XTX really could be members of the same product family frankly neither the 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 would have me racing out to buy one so I guess we'll have to wait around and see what the lower tier models have to offer but I'm certainly not holding my breath certainly not for anything amazing and that is really going to do it for this review if you did appreciate this one then please do give it a like it was a lot of work and you can also subscribe for more content as I said we have our 7900 XT review coming and there'll probably be some partner cards it'll be worth checking out so we'll do that also we have float plane or patreon if you want to support the channel and get some really cool perks in return you've got access to our monthly live stream Tim and I will be doing that uh we'll be doing that towards the end of the month we do q and A's behind the scenes content and we also have exclusive Discord server for members only so pretty cool stuff there so if you're interested to check it out but if not perfectly fine and I would like to thank you for watching this video I'm your host Steve 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Reddit Comments

[u/No_Backstab]

Tldr;

16 Game Average FPS -

At 4k,

RTX 4090 - 142 FPS

RX 7900XTX - 113 FPS

RTX 4080 - 109 FPS

At 1440p,

RTX 4090 - 210 FPS

RX 7900XTX - 181 FPS

RTX 4080 - 180 FPS

At 1080p ,

RTX 4090 - 235 FPS

RX 7900XTX - 221 FPS

RTX 4080 - 215 FPS

Both the 7900XTX and the 4080 perform close to each other (within margin of error) in traditional rasterization . The 4080 wins on RT performance and efficiency (power consumption is lower for the 4080) while the 7900XTX is 200 dollars cheaper (for the same or a bit higher rasterizaton performance than the 4080)

[u/8ing8ong]

Both new gen series cards from AMD and Nvidia are ridiculously priced

[u/Critical_Equipment79]

ill see you guys when 50xx and 89xx releases

[u/Striking_Sea_7469]

At $800 this card could have smashed, but over $1000 is no competition for Nvidia, they won't even bother with a price drop

[u/ChartaBona]

Leaker Kopite7kimi was right:

OK, let's do a new summary.

RTX 4090, AD102-300, 16128FP32, 21Gbps 24G GDDR6X, 450W, ~2x3090.

I am disappointed with RDNA3.

That's all.

5:39 AM · May 16, 2022

I am disappointed too.

[u/zgmk2]

nowhere close to 50% performance improvement, wtf amd

[u/shangor2]

Disappointing. Hopefully, they will soon be forced to cut prices. Crypto Ponzis are collapsing, lockdowns are over, recession is looming... This cards should be 799$ and 649$.

[u/David0ne86]

Aaaaand another gen with the "missed opportunity" stamp... jesus christ amd.

[u/Elon61]

48% faster than the 6900xt, 50w=15% higher power... lol @ 50% efficiency increase. they missed it by a mile.

This is why i say not to trust first party numbers, regardless of them being correct twice before. They promised 50%, they twisted the numbers to get 50%. that's what marketing does.