RTX 4080 SUPER Vs RX 7900 XTX [42 Game Benchmark | 1080p, 1440p & 4K]

aside from the RTX 490 there are two cards that compete against each other on the very top level the RTX 480 super and the 77900 xdx both of which just come under $1,000 so with both cards now out and reviewed we thought we'd put them to test in 42 games to see exactly how they compare and you know who comes out on top but before we get into that here's a quick word from this video sponsor I'm never going to be an Esports gamer I never get any kills I wouldn't be so sure of that is that Andy Rafel from E Technics decom yes my son it is me Andy Rafel from e.com what are you doing here I'm here to bestow upon you a gift that will transform you into a true gamer with a 24.5 in full HD screen 240 HZ refresh rate 0.5 millisecond response time AMD freyn premium and height adjustability you'll be gaming in the big leads in no time thank you no problem my son why why don't you check out the link in the description below to find out more so as always I don't want to run over the specs because our day one launch coverage takes care of all of that and with any of these head-to-heads where comparing an AMD card against an Nvidia card in terms of specs it doesn't really do any justice because they are both engineered in well very different ways like I said at the start though aside from the RTX 490 which is for the most part in a world of its own in terms of performance and pricing the 7900 XTX from AMD and the RTX 480 supera from Nvidia are the most comparable high-end cards right now with the Nvidia card hitting the $999 price point and AMD thanks to some price Cuts is now available for we threw the cards onto our GPU test bench with an AMD ryzen 77800 x3d on a gigabyte b650 orus Master with 32 gig of Corsair Vengeance RGB 6,000 MHz cl30 dual Channel memory all of our testing was done on Windows 11 with the latest updates applied and with the latest bias revision for the motherboard the driver used was nvidia's difference of all 42 games we'll be showing 1080P 1440p and 4K results today as these cards really are able to hit some pretty decent numbers though be warned due to the highend nature of these cards 1080P and even 1440p to some degree will show some bottlenecks we will also be looking at the cost per frame because that's really the Crux of all of this which one is the better performer and if the Nvidia card warrants the extra price tag also if you want to check out all the charts for all the games they'll be available to our patreon supporters where you'll get access to a ton of other cool exclusive benefits as well the link for that is as always down below so with that out of the way let's get into those glorious benchmarks so starting things off with a playtale requium where it's off to a good start for AMD as they actually come out on top at all three resolutions and by some pretty decent margins we're talking 9% at 1080p 18% at 1440p and a really impressive 45% lead at 4K showing that the cheaper 7900 XTX really has the upper hand but we'll see if that continues use in other games too in borders Gate 3 the 7900 XTX falls behind at 1080p by a 3% margin though this could be deemed as margin of error along with some bottlenecks added into the mix as we move up to 1440p Nvidia hold the lead as the 7900 XTX now Falls 7% behind and 4K while Nvidia still come out on top it's only by a 3% margin again falling into the Realms of margin of error and considering the extra cost involved the AMD is still the better buy overall in Call of Duty AMD storm ahead by by 18% at 1080p though at such high frame rates it's nothing you'd ever notice whereas the momentum keeps it up at the higher resolutions where the 7900 XTX sits 15% ahead at 1440p and a larger 21% ahead at 4K with margins like this and the price disparity the 7900 XTX is coming in strong though we're yet to look at any Ray tracing based tests yet in cyberpunk on the ultra preset we are seeing bottlenecks at both 1080 and 1440p but the AMD card still comes out the stronger the two with a 3% lead at the lower resolution and a 6% Gap at 1440p though 4K improves upon that even more as the cards are now separated by 18% again in favor to team red considering the game has been developed in conjunction with Nvidia this isn't looking good for Team Green as expected when we turn raid tracing on Nvidia manages to fight back in a very big way at 1080p we now see the 7900 XTX fall behind by a pretty sizable 33% while both 1440 and 4K both see a similar 34% mark margin in favor to Nvidia based on this one test I think it's a Telltale sign that AMD could be the king of rasterization whereas Nvidia are a forc to be reckoned with in terms of R tracing as expected as we move on to f123 we're seeing solid and high numbers across the board with the higher numbers coming from AMD at 1080p the cheaper 7900 XTX manages to come out with 28% faster performance and with much better 1% lows to as we move up to 1440p that Gap widens now to 29% again in favor of AMD and 4K sees the flagship ahead again by 28% Playing devil's advocate though the performance on both cards is well beyond anything that you'd notice and you wouldn't be disappointed with anything in this title as we enable ra tracing by moving up to the ultra high preset things switch around as expected mvid now holding the lead but not by anywhere near the same margins the leads are still good with a 6% lead at 1080p 8% at 1440 and 10% of 4K but as we saw in the rization tests AMD holds much stronger performance of closer to 30% moving on to Far Cry 6 and at 1080p those pesky bottlenecks rear their ugly head yet again as the RTX 480 super and 7900 XTX come within 1% of each other so you can't really take much away from that result other than that both gpus are exceeding their potential as we move up to 1440p we start to see the gpu's part as AMD pushes ahead by 11% at 239 FPS while 4K improves upon that further with 19% faster performance again in favor of AMD then as we enable raid tracing again Nvidia start to fight back at least at 1080p with the 7900 XTX now sitting 7% slower but that's pretty much where the win starts and ends for Team Green as 1440p has both cards essentially neck and neck only separated by a margin of error at 1% 4K is the big one though as AMD pushes ahead by 5% taking their first R tracing win over the Big Green Giant next up is Hogwarts and again in terms of pure rasterization AMD takes a full house with 19% more frames at 1080p 27% more at 1440p and hold an equally impressive 23% lead at 4K at this point it's really not looking great for NVIDIA in the pure rasterization tests especially as the AMD 7900 XTX is the cheaper card of the two as we enable ra tracing in case you hadn't guessed it the results get flipped on their heads and Nvidia are now the ones coming in stronger which isn't surprising as they themselves have said many times in terms of RA tracing that they are all in and that show with the 7900 XTX falling 133% behind at 1080p a stronger 22% behind at 1440p and an impressive 32% Gap at 4K all in favor of Nvidia Spider-Man is another title that has some pretty severe bottleneck issues especially at 1080P and even 1440p which does have AMD falling behind by a 3% and 6% margin respectively but it doesn't really account for much in the grand scheme of things 4K however is much more in line with where you'd expect performance to be and that's still with Nvidia ahead and AMD slipping behind by just 4% even with ra tracing enabled there's still some pretty hefty limitations but AMD still fall slightly short of The Mark with a 6% deficit at 1080p 5% less frames at 1440p and then at 4K we see them slip 7% behind which while they do lose in this one it's not by anything substantial and I'm not sure if it's just me but I expected a little bit better from Nvidia here Ratchet and Clank is next up and I've mentioned it time and time again that it really penalizes m Med based gpus in the lows and isn't a mistake so no need to adjust your screen what we do find is a bit of a mixed bag with AMD holding the lead by 6% of 1080p while the Gap shrinks still in favor to AMD by 3% of 1440p whereas 4K sits almost identically with a margin of error result of AMD slipping 1% behind as we enable Ray tracing the lows sort themselves out and Nvidia takes the lead at all three resolutions and by quite some large margins at 1080p AMD fall behind by 34% whereas 144 40p still has quite a big disparity but now we're only talking around 29% slower for the 7900 XTX whereas 4K sees both cards Dro below 60 FPS but AMD Falls harder now sitting 31% behind the RTX 480 super lastly in Starfield AMD hold the stronger performance at 1080p with a 4% lead over Team Green well that's the only real win for them in this title as 1440p sees them falling a margin of error 1% behind which equates to just 1 FPS whereas 4K sees a larger but still margin of error difference of 3% again with Nvidia sitting just ahead so from that small selection of games it seems like the 7900 XTX is the wiser choice if playing rasterization based games whereas Nvidia is still the master of raid tracing while some will argue that's not good enough I kind of get it AMD have their focus on having strong performance in rasterization while Nvidia have their focus on being a strong contender in performance but with a big push towards the future of visual quality through lighting so you could argue that these are both very similar products in one way but also very different in another that's the reason Nvidia have pushed so hard on ra tracing and to combat the drops in performance they have dlss upscaling to bring things back in line though I'm not saying that's the only way to fix a problem but AMD are of the same belief even if they are some ways behind now as mentioned we actually tested the cards in 42 games and as something of a request from viewers recently namely yeah the AMD Fanboys we're actually going to split things up in terms of rasterization and raay tracing differences now when we look at 1080p in pure rization so removing any Ray tracing results the 7900 XTX is the stronger of the two with a 3% faster margin overall which I guess could be argued as margin of error at such a small difference and while the games are pretty evenly split AMD does take the upper hand and in some titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and f123 it's by some pretty big margins talking 31 and 28% so much bigger than the gains that Nvidia have in the likes of Tiny Tina's Wonderland and Shadow of the Tomb Raider though as we're only at 1080p we are still seeing bottlenecks even with our 7800 x3d so unless you're using a CPU like that you may actually see worse limitations as we move up to 1440p there are still some CPU limitations in certain titles but for the most part that has been eliminated and that just further widens the gap now with the 7900 XTX pushing 5% faster overall with margins as great as 62% in Red Dead Redemption though that is seen as an outlier and removing it means that the 7900 XTX is only 3% faster overall so again we're in the Realms of margin of error and if gaming at 1440p maybe with a higher refresh rate you're not really going to notice the difference between the two cards other than potentially I guess image quality changes though that is for the most part subjective there then at 4K which is the big one where these two cards are aimed at it's very much the same story The AMD 7900 XTX comes in 8% faster overall with some big wins in Red Dead Redemption 2 and a plague tail requium but again if we strip Red Dead Redemption 2 out we're down to 6% faster margin so above margin of error but not much separating them though as you take the 4% cheaper outlay and cost that does actually help push AMD that little bit further as well we moving over to ra tracing as expected Nvidia come out with a full house and the 7900 XTX now Falls 18% slower than the RTX 480 super this is nothing out of the ordinary and exactly what we thought would happen while there are only 12 games for this comparison some of the games are actually pretty sizable 1440p again does well for NVIDIA though AMD do fight back in Far Cry 6 as the margin slips to just 1% between them again big gains by some of the most popular and newer titles on the market like Alan Wake 2 where we see the AMD card coming in 22% slower though some titles see wider gaps than than that like cyber Punk a pretty large 34% slower for team red 4K increases that lead even more as the 7900 XTX now Falls 19% slower when compared to the RTX 480 super again AMD have something up their sleeve with Far Cry 6 as they actually managed to push ahead by 5% and well that's really the only win for team red as we're still seeing large variances of over 30% in the likes of Ratchet and Clank Hogwarts the Kalisto protocol and of course cyber punk though it is worth noting that some of these games saw well frankly unplayable frame rates at 4K with rt enabled so upscaling is going to be your only saving grace here but that's something Nvidia typically would actually Faire better into so I guess it's definitely something to take into consideration when you're looking at buying one of these cards so performance within games to one side there's always quite a big talking point in terms of power delivery and temperatures and as both cards are reference models in a sense it's always good to take a look at how they compare now when looking at the total board power at 4K which is typically where you're going to be using both of these cards we find that Nvidia clearly have the upper hand as AMD uses a pre sizable 48% more power across 19 games which is well pretty bad overall especially when you have the likes of Hogwarts Legacy using 482 wats of power compared to nvidia's 301 wats clearly Nvidia is the more efficient of the two cards and while that's the biggest margin we saw it's still pretty wide between them in other games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla using 422 watts compared to just 2505 on the 480 super so what I'm trying to say is if you're worried about your electricity bill of which many people across the world still are you're going to spend more money running the AMD 7900 XTX in comparison in every single game so what about temperatures well luckily the huge variance in power draw doesn't always equate to huge jumps in the temperature as we saw in a few games like a plag tail requium and alen wake 2 coming in identically in terms of heat output but really beyond that while AMD picks up a win in Boulders Gate 3 we're only talking by a single degree other than that Nvidia as expected does come in the cooler of the two cards in some cases by up to 10° like in Far Cry 6 You could argue that Nvidia have it right for power and efficiency while AMD have just gone all out trying to push performance as far as they can I guess really without too much care for the other areas that Gamers look at so what can we take away from this I think it's clear to see that from the start we all knew which way this was going to go and when we look at the full picture the 7900 XTX is the overall winner due to its Stellar rasterization performance of course if we added in more raay tracing based tests then it would lean more towards Nvidia being the better card of the two as it stands though both cards are going to net you some great performance across all three resolutions regardless though due to the let's say high-end nature you are going to be limited at 1080P and then still somewhat Limited at 1440p as we saw in our testing of course 4K performance is where you should be looking but even then the 7900 XTX is the better of the two cards in terms of overall performance due to the amount of rasterization tests that we did and of course in terms of value as while it does come in the stronger of the two in performance it's also the cheaper of the two cards by $40 but and I want to say there's a big butt and I've made it clear in other content that we've done the Nvidia card is more expensive but for very good reasons when you look at the feature stack the efficiency and just the overall package I mean with raid tracing becoming more popular cuder acceleration for editing videos like we do and upscaling through dlss making large strides that's where the extra cost goes and as market share shows gamers are actually happy to pay the extra money for those features so there's what I feel to be a lot more behind kind of buying an Nvidia GPU versus an AMD one I don't want to sell AMD short though thanks to the price cuts that the 7900 XTX is sin AMD are definitely being more aggressive in a hope to get more gpus into Gamers hands and for the most part it is working but with talk of AMD exiting the super high-end market for the Next Generation I do wonder if the support will continue into the next couple of years if you buy something like the 7900 XTX that's something that only time will tell beyond that I think if you're looking at buying a GPU for around $1,000 then you can't go wrong with either of these two cards and for the most part it comes down to what games you play as to which one has the upper hand specifically for you and if you need those extra features where Nvidia managed to beat AMD or if you want something maybe a bit more rounded in general rasterization based games which is where AMD have nvidia's number for now yeah it's a tricky one but that is going to do it for this one hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did a like and a sub to the channel would be amazing and if you love what we do then you can help support us over on patreon where you'll get a ton of exclusive benefits including access to the individual charts for all the games we tested and not just the percentage differences a super special area over on our Discord by Weekly game nights meetups at the E Technics offices live streams q&as and much much more the link is as always down below thanks for tuning 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Published: Tue Feb 13 2024