Went from a Gigabyte RTX 2060 6GB that I bought from a friend loghtly used for a reasonable price during the shortages to an XFX 7900XT Merc 310 Black Edition. Roughly 350% Performance improvement!😁🤘 In combination with my 5800X3D+64gb DDR4 3600 RAM I'm constantly bouncing off the 180 fps limiter in DCS World. AMS2 averages in the 180s-200s. In 3440x1440 native. Still think I could unlock more performance with a switch to the 9800X3D or 9950X3D. And I might watercool it later as the XFX cooler is only so-so. Can get a bit loud under heavy load.
yeah, i couple my 7900xt with a 7800x3d and its sooo awesome. I still use the upscalers as i honestly cant even tell the difference bt it and native 95% of the time. so i runn pretty much everything i throw at it at about 200 frames 1440 ultra everything.
I got a used RX6900XT for below 400€ 🎉 I use upscaling from 1440p to 4k and an 80FPS limit anyway, so my GPU only uses 60 to 120Watt. I‘m super happy, but when other models become cheaper, I‘ll consider upgrading.
wish the pricing was better, it still cost over 800 euros here, so long after launch... zero reason to upgrade from my 6800 XT which i got for around 550 euro)
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I have 7900gre.. very good performance and acceptable price . Power cosumtion while not low is also acceptable . Drivers 100% stable , no issues both Linux and windows .
@@Typhon888 if only they included faster memory .. but just can't get everything ;7 For the price it's still good . About rtx3090 in raster and 2080ti/3070 in rt .
I have no experience using linux and I'm curious: How is the performance, vram usage and power draw when using windows vs linux. You notice any differences? Asking because i googled and saw claims that AMD gpu has around 10% perf increase on linux vs windows.
@@First-Name_Last-Name idle/browser/video very similar. In games it depends - sometimes worse. Sometimes better. For example Mario wonder on ryujinx switch emulator on windows barely keep 60fps 1080p - in Linux very similar performance but in 4k ( 2x resolution scale ) . Witcher 3 next gen maxed out but without rt few fps better on Linux but with rt I cant't get more than 50% GPU usage on Linux , probably some kind of bug .
@@First-Name_Last-NameI haven't personally noticed any performance reductions after moving to Linux. It actually greatly benefits some older architectures.
I upgraded from RX 5700 XT to RX 7900 XTX. The card has been an absolute beast tearing through 1440p and later through 1440p UW as well.Huge jump in raw perfomance and Raytracing perfomance has been fantastic as well.
@@1984Captive I actually own a 4090. Not sure what you mean by if it isn't great on your card it's not great on any others, but I guess that's pretty typical. From my personal experience the path tracing looks excellent on the 4090 actually. For standard RT it was quite easy to run native 4k DLAA for high fps, but after seeing the path traced version I did decide to upscale the 4k to get the full effect. Definitely improvements to fps that can be had for path tracing, but for usual watered down RT experiences I'd definitely say my 4090 does really well. But yeah watered down RT isn't always the best, once you experience it fully though I think one day you'll come to appreciate it and see why AMD is really going to be pursuing it on their next generation. It's like FG, wasn't appreciated by the masses until the masses had access to it, and now it's generally well praised after getting pooped on all year for "fake frames! we want raster!". Now it seems like every day I'm seeing people stoked about all this "extra performance" they are getting from the fake frames that isn't raster.
@@Trisstan20Well, that price doesn't sound too bad if you compare it to the 4070 Ti Super. Imo, 4070 Super and 7900 GRE are the best gpus of this generation when it comes to price to performance
Imo the biggest problem for the 7000 series was the mere existence of the 6000 series. While not the best the 6000 series has just some very solid cards in the lineup.
amd kinda overpromised also on the 7000 series and didn't deliver. Though I think rdna3 is pretty solid. While we didn't get any outstanding performance uplift, we did get quite more efficient cards for about slightly better performance.
I went for a used 6800xt in March 2024 coming from a GTX 1060 because I couldn't get that performance for 500$ CAD with the 7000 series where I live; I'm a big fan!
Indeed. Too many 6000 series cards were left on shelves by the time RX 7000 was released. Hence initially we had so badly priced cards like $900 7900 XT or $450 7700 XT and also 7900 XTX and 7800 XT, which were selling above MSRP for a few months. Even now, almost 2 years after the first two 7000 models were released, there are still plenty of unsold 6000 cards left. No wonder there AMD has no intention to release RDNA 4 yet. Somehow they still need to sell those old cards.
@@stangamer1151 the problem when the new cards don't replace the old cards but compete with them in terms of value/price. The performance increases, aside from the halo cards, wasn't that big to justify the price bump (it even is negligible in a lot of cases). But to be fair this is also true for Nvidia. Rtx 4000 series aside the halo cards are a disappointment too in that regard. Heck 3000 series cards even outperform their newer siblings in some games (so even worse than AMD.)
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rx7900xt owner here I agree, it felt like a best option from current market, especially for the price (35% cheaper than xtx and at the point of buying there were no SUPER 4000 series and my rx costed around normal 4070 at the time). What a wonderful peak of AMD graphics. And it was cheap too.
thanks for the review... I'm in the market to upgrade my 980Ti... yes about time... and have been looking hard at team red... purely because that sweet VRAM numbers and price to performance bumos
its a shame AMD got greedy and decided to price it only $100 below the XTX at launch, trying to get people to buy the XTX instead shot this card in the foot, but right now its at a good price
If your goal was 4K 60fps+ rasterization then the 7900 XT was the first sub $1,000 card to achieve that level of performance. It is what it is. Some stupid people criticized the price as being too high but they ignored the fact that nothing else could beat it for 900 bucks! Scaling the 4070 Ti or 4080 to the same level of performance would have cost $1050! Hardware Unboxed had a really twisted and incorrect perspective!
I bought the AMD 7900 XTX GPU on the global day of release - it was an early Xmas gift to myself about two weeks before xmas day itself. Now as at current time of writing in 2024 - I STILL LOVE THIS CARD VERY MUCH, and i have completely NO REGRETS having this incredible BEAST. My card -Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 Vapor-X Gaming Graphics Card. This is my personal LOVE and i have completely NO regrets having this card as my main GPU together with my 7800X3D CPU. This is currently the BEST build i have ever possibly got since my previous "best" build and i have never been more grateful in my life having this set up.
My issue with my 7900XT is the power consumption while playing games that are really "easy" to run (older games such as Oblivion). There is something wrong (or something they had to do to make it work anyway) with the memory controllers being on the MCDs that require the GDDR VRAM to be run at full speed which makes your GPU automatically use a little less than 100watts no matter how easy it is on the GCD. For example I'll be playing Oblivion with the GCD running at like 300 mhz using 15 watts while the memory is clocked to 2500mhz using its normal ~95 watts for a combine 100+ watts. There is zero reason a game such as Oblivion would need the memory to be run at 2500mhz but chiplets on a GPU have their disadvantages. It seems to have to do with games or emulators being run in full screen mode and not windowed, in windowed mode those things make the RAM clock down to 909mhz which is still around 50 watts but it is still much better than keeping it in full screen. At the end of the day I'm happy now that the drivers have been fixed for the 7900XT but there are downsides.
Good point! I have similar issues with my 7900gre, even in idle sometimes it takes 60W because memory clocks go up (and solution from the internet did not solve the problem). The other day I noticed it was sucking 120W on Don't Starve, a game that can run on the iGPU of my old i7 6700k! Not sure what AMD got wrong there
Probably really just about the power profile I think. I tried with manual setting using LACT on Linux then a 4K intensive game went all the way down to 75 watt total with vram max state set to 456 mhz. I think it is the equivalent to 909 as it is showing the base clock not the DDR transfer rate. So the GPU can use low power. It is the profile that don't go that low for some reason. Most likely to make sure that it always look good in benchmark.
Ive had the RX 7900 XT a tad over a year now. Been using it with a Ryzen 5800X on a PG Velocita. I only use it for 4K gaming, and its been perfect for it.
Wonderful video, especially since you compared the card to the 6900XT. I got a second hand model around half a year ago, partially because of your video, and now that I finally upgraded my cpu too (3600 -> 5700X3D), it's a wonderful card. I think I won't be upgrading for years to come. Looking forward to more content!
I use an XFX 7900xt Merc in my main system on a 43 inch 4k 144hz 1000nit (£580 for the monitor! Great deal! FV43U) monitor, and its done everything so well. I have a 4070 in my GFs system, and the difference is huge at 4k!
Will upgrade to this from my RX 7700 XT because i bought an 4K Television and 4K breaks that card even on older titles like Hellblade 1. Thanks for your videos! I'll find them very helpful.
I bought a Sappire Pulse 7900 XT when it first released and I love the GPU. I'm very happy with it. I already had several GPU's just sitting in my closet. ( 3050, 3060, 6600 XT, regular 6700, and the one i was using a 6800 XT) I replaced my 6800 XT with the 7900 XT GPU and I'm hoping it will last me a few years before I need to upgrade. Thumbs up on the video.
Literally today I upgraded my AMD 5700xt (XFX blower style) to the XFX 7900xt. I was able to find the 7900xt for less than $899 CAD, I am beyond excited for it to arrive.
I upgraded from 2080 TI, which I didnt really use for gaming , It was in my media center PC that I was upgrading overall step by step since its a AM4 platform with top of the line ASUS board in it, I was mainly using for watching videos and sometimes gaming. The only reason I upgraded was because I needed a GPU for another PC that I also use and I decided to buy the RX 7900 to this one and put the older GPU into the other machine. But it has been 4 years since I purchased any top of the notch GPU or any GPU to be honest, therefore it is a good deal and a good upgrade that costed me a $16 a month if to calculate the cost over the past four years that I haven't done anything.
$650ish makes the 7900XT almost compelling. Almost. However, the idea of spending that sort of money makes me want a 4K60 guaranteed experience, which is currently not a thing no matter where you look.
This is why the 7900 GRE honestly kinda slams. You can actually overclock the thing to about the power of the 7900 XT. They run rather slow on it's base clocks for some reason but have a lot of uplift. It's effectively a 7850 XT anyway lol. And it'll be a lot more tolerable price of 500 to 550. Awesome card for 1440p and still able churn 4k 60 (depending on the game, of course.)
I have a 13600k, 32Mb of ram, a 60Hz 4k monitor and a 7900XT. Everything plays along, the price was affordable and the gaming experience is fine for me. If I need more FPS, upscaling is there. Star Citizen max setting at 4K goes between 55 and 60fps at Horison (quality upscaling) and I don't think there are more demanding games around.
My brother asked me about upgrading his 2070 Super. I suggested the 7900 GRE since it was new to the states at the time. It had a great to performance ratio when compared to same price class Nvidia GPUs. He ended up with a 7900 XT and he loves it. He's getting better performance than the 3080 that I way over paid for.
If I were to replace my 3080 10gb right now, this is likely the card I'd buy. It's the only one that offers a substantial upgrade at a price rivaling the original msrp of the 3080.
I have the exact same Sapphire 7900XT and I love it! Coming from a laptop 2070 super, 1440P on High settings is amazing. I would love to see more comparisons of high settings for games, since ultra settings aren’t really worth it when you look at performance 🤷🏻♂️
I've been waiting for this one, thank you. And out of curiousity, is maybe a Re-review coming for the RX 6700 XT? Would be really nice to see how it holds up to 2024
I bought the 7900 xt before the price drop(one year ago), now at the price i bought the xt the xtx was months later, i regret not waiting those few months for a price drop, card is not bad though
I bought my xtx for $1100 back in early 2023. After many driver updates, the 7900xt is starting to looks like the 5700xt (without the driver issues lol) of this generation. Ancient Gameplay did an update performance on the 7900xt, and after all the updates it saw a avg of 10-15% more performance over the launch GPU. With that being said, so has the xtx, though I don't think it has been as good of jump in performance.
3 of those games were ported to PC by NIXXES who are well regarded, although the originating studios and tech were different (Suckerpunch, Guerilla & Insomniac). Regardless; I have the exact same Sapphire Pulse 7900XT and once they fixed the pricing it's an excellent card. I have an aging Zen 2 CPU on a decent B550 board and with FSR Quality and Framegen on it puts out a fairly consistent 4k 144Hz. Great card.
You shouldnt worry about Resident Evils VRAM warning. They overestimate the VRAM usage waaaaay too much just to be sure. Im running a RX 580 8GB and they speculate around 10GB of VRAM usage while i only get 7.5GB. No hitches even when it comes close to 7900mb total. But still, averages around 7.5GB on 1080P with 8GB textures.
@@laszlozsurka8991 I also play platform and sandbox games like Blasphemous, hollow knight and don't starve which can run on a decade old iGPU, do you think I spent 480$ on a GPU to play them?
I thought we were 6900XT bros. Now you leave me in the dust with your fancy new 7900XT. I don’t know we I feel jealous when I’m just gaming on console lately anyway. The only thing the 6900XT is used for is SWTOR, a game from 2011 that I played on a Radeon 6850 back in the day.
I upgraded from a GTX 1060 6GB to 7900XT. Which meant from 1080p Low to 4k high lol. My life changed. Such a great card. Runs a little bit hot tho. Sometimes gets close to 100C. I heard the XTX version can run at 110 C so I dont mind the 90+C I get on this card. Had to undervolt it a little tho.
I love my 7900XTX still. Haven't had a game where I felt like I needed more since I've had it, most games I play, click max setting, and enjoy 200+ FPS pretty much all the time at 1440p. With new triple A games, go find a settings tuning guide, get 95% of visual candy, and still enjoy 120+ (Starfield excluded). I found with it does best with light ray tracing as well, I played through Cyberpunk with somewhere between ultra and high settings, with just ray traced reflections on, and I was around the 110-120 mark the whole time (FSR quality), while still enjoying the most impactful ray tracing setting visuals wise. 7000 series was a weird one, the higher up in the stack you go, the value is still there, if not better it feels like honestly. The 7900XTX, with inflation taken into account, roughly the same price as the 1080Ti would've been today, and I feel like it flew a little under the radar for how close it got you to a 4090 while being SO much cheaper, and still giving good ray tracing performance until you have ALL the ray tracing setting turned on, which you don't typically need for the game to look just amazing still.
I bought a 3080 almost 2 years ago when the crypto market crashed. If the difference between a card of it's class and a 7900xt is only around 20-30%, I have no reason to upgrade anytime soon. Especially if the top RDNA 4 dye will only be an effective price/power consumption reduction of the 7900xt. Nvidia might have something worth upgrading to with Blackwell, but I doubt it will be priced reasonably. Not gonna spend a penny over 700$ for my next upgrade.
I was originally going to wait for 8000 series since it's so close, until the CEO confirmed they are not offering high-end versions and the 8800 will only get 256-bit bus rather than the current 7900 320-bit bus, which might not matter for most but I do VR and racing sims so it helps for my use, so I bought a 7900 XT OC Phantom White for $630 with two free games this past week. Upgraded from a 3070 that was getting about 90 FPS in fully modded Asetto Corsa to now over 200+ FPS with the 7900 XT which looks buttery smooth on my 45" LG Ultragear 240hz OLED.
As someone who games at 4K and tries to get 60 fps It’s much more refreshing to see these numbers than the 1080p million frames. I get it’s for certain testing but makes it hard for me to relate to with just a normal TV capped at 60hz
I have had the card 2 years now. I mixed it with a 5800x and 32g RAM. The 7900 XT has been pretty good. I will say that I expected more for how much I paid for it 2 years ago ($1600 AUD). It's definitely the best bang for ya buck on the market right now. I play 1440p native on a 120hz TV. Most games I'm pushing 100+ fps. Other games I'm hitting 50 - 70fps, like helldivers 2. It's a great card but sometimes it just doesn't feel like I got my moneys worth. Like when I'm getting 50 - 60fps in helldivers 2, and all of a sudden the fps will drop down to 42. That's not a $1600 card IMO. I feel like this card will struggle in the next 2-3 years to do native 1440p. It struggles now to keep demanding titles over 100fps. This is my first high end GPU I have ever purchased. I'm not disappointed, it does most games way over 100fps, but I'm just not impressed.
Great video, Iceberg! :) The 7900xt is a true beast of a card. If only the RT performance wouldn't be so bad compared to the 40series. FSR 3.1 is a step up compared to 2.2, but still looks a bit worse in direct comparison with DLSS and XESS. Once AMD nails the technologies and won't be lacking anymore in that aspect, I might go with an AMD GPU in a couple of years when high-end models are being released again. For the time being, my 4090 should serve me well.
When I started making some more money I grabbed a 7900XTX Nitro+. I really like the card, wasn't particularly worth the money or upgrade from RX 6800, for me, but I just love how I don't have to care. My 5800X3D sometimes holds it a bit back but that's fine. I'll probably keep this card when I grab my next platform at first for a bit.
You could honestly make the same argument for the RTX 40 series GPUs, at least relative to Ampere. There was so much stock of RTX 30 and RX 6000 GPUs that the price was never gonna look favorable for newer gen cards, at least not until they were heavily discounted.
I loved every second with this 7900XT since I bought it. What a beast. My only complain is about The Witcher 3 next gen. It doesn't play at 60 fps with RT on and it's a near 10yo game I bought it after the price drop of course otherwise it would be a terrible buy
Good video as always At the moment my rig consist of 32 gigs DDR4 4600 megahertz Motherboard is the MPG x570 gaming edge Wi-Fi Video card is the power color Radeon RX 7900 XT As for the hard drive crucial PCI Gen 5 t705 and it maxes out perfectly at 10,000 MB reading right CPU is AMD ryzen 9 5950 at the moment due to summer I have it set to 65 watts at 4.4 GHz works quite well for what I do Now when it becomes a winter I removed the limits of the CPU and let it do what it needs to do on its own and I have reached 5.5 GHz on some games and other games I have reached 5.6 GHz all on its own generally it's supposed to reach 5.050 but with this particular motherboard it does what it wants to do and I love it in the winter time
Almost a year ago (last August), I had the chance to purchase an ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC for $1148CAD ($850USD / £645) as an open-box special on Newegg. Needless to say, I pulled the trigger IMMEDIATELY and have been enjoying it ever since. To date, I have never seen a non-used XTX for the same price or less ANYWHERE. I marvel (and not in a good way) at what people will pay for GeForce cards while I'm laughing with my XTX and its 24GB of VRAM, knowing that I paid LESS for it at the time than the cost of a 7900 XT. My backup card is an ATi Radeon RX 6800 XT OG Reference model and I would have happily stuck with that but I just couldn't say no to the offer for the XTX.
I've had the 7900xt for over a year now. Coming from a 1070ti. Awesome card. I don't use or need any of Nvidia's marketing gimmicks and the extra vram is so nice. I've never had a more stable system either.
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Still waiting on the first gen ray tracing video.
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Absolutely love my 7900xt, it’s such a beast
It is such a good card, I went from my 6700 XT, to the 7900 XT. Doubled my performance and I am keeping her for a long time.
Went from a Gigabyte RTX 2060 6GB that I bought from a friend loghtly used for a reasonable price during the shortages to an XFX 7900XT Merc 310 Black Edition.
Roughly 350% Performance improvement!😁🤘
In combination with my 5800X3D+64gb DDR4 3600 RAM I'm constantly bouncing off the 180 fps limiter in DCS World.
AMS2 averages in the 180s-200s.
In 3440x1440 native.
Still think I could unlock more performance with a switch to the 9800X3D or 9950X3D.
And I might watercool it later as the XFX cooler is only so-so.
Can get a bit loud under heavy load.
yeah, i couple my 7900xt with a 7800x3d and its sooo awesome. I still use the upscalers as i honestly cant even tell the difference bt it and native 95% of the time. so i runn pretty much everything i throw at it at about 200 frames 1440 ultra everything.
I got a used RX6900XT for below 400€ 🎉
I use upscaling from 1440p to 4k and an 80FPS limit anyway, so my GPU only uses 60 to 120Watt.
I‘m super happy, but when other models become cheaper, I‘ll consider upgrading.
wish the pricing was better, it still cost over 800 euros here, so long after launch... zero reason to upgrade from my 6800 XT which i got for around 550 euro)
nobody noticed the smooth transition at 10:04 lol
yeah kinda nice
Leave it to Iceberg to add little bits and bobs here and there for the more exquisite viewers to appreciate 😊
Smooth
Loving the transistions!
Sad but true: the better you edit your transitions the less it will be recognized and admired :(
But props to Iceberg for adding little details like this and props to you for spotting it :D
I have 7900gre.. very good performance and acceptable price . Power cosumtion while not low is also acceptable . Drivers 100% stable , no issues both Linux and windows .
That GRE is such a good chip.
@@Typhon888 if only they included faster memory .. but just can't get everything ;7
For the price it's still good . About rtx3090 in raster and 2080ti/3070 in rt .
I have no experience using linux and I'm curious: How is the performance, vram usage and power draw when using windows vs linux. You notice any differences?
Asking because i googled and saw claims that AMD gpu has around 10% perf increase on linux vs windows.
@@First-Name_Last-Name idle/browser/video very similar. In games it depends - sometimes worse. Sometimes better. For example Mario wonder on ryujinx switch emulator on windows barely keep 60fps 1080p - in Linux very similar performance but in 4k ( 2x resolution scale ) . Witcher 3 next gen maxed out but without rt few fps better on Linux but with rt I cant't get more than 50% GPU usage on Linux , probably some kind of bug .
@@First-Name_Last-NameI haven't personally noticed any performance reductions after moving to Linux. It actually greatly benefits some older architectures.
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Great video! Good insight onto how the card holds in 2024.
Ah, the Freudian slip at 1:42... Priceless. Nicely done.
Leave it to Iceberg to drop in these little bits and bobs for the more... exquisite viewers 😅😊
Can’t believe your test system is almost identical to my gaming pc. Down to the cooler lol.
T'is a fine cooler!
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I upgraded from RX 5700 XT to RX 7900 XTX. The card has been an absolute beast tearing through 1440p and later through 1440p UW as well.Huge jump in raw perfomance and Raytracing perfomance has been fantastic as well.
Did the same from a 2080 super, awesome card for 1440p, I'm hoping to keep running it for another 3 years minimum.
@@1984CaptiveI think there are specific raytracing things that AMD GPUs are bad at, like reflections
@@DL-iy7ob ill check later, yeah seems i didnt enable raytracing on any of those videos lol, but seems dev added light rt not sure
perfs are accurate though, visually arent
@@1984Captive I actually own a 4090. Not sure what you mean by if it isn't great on your card it's not great on any others, but I guess that's pretty typical. From my personal experience the path tracing looks excellent on the 4090 actually. For standard RT it was quite easy to run native 4k DLAA for high fps, but after seeing the path traced version I did decide to upscale the 4k to get the full effect. Definitely improvements to fps that can be had for path tracing, but for usual watered down RT experiences I'd definitely say my 4090 does really well. But yeah watered down RT isn't always the best, once you experience it fully though I think one day you'll come to appreciate it and see why AMD is really going to be pursuing it on their next generation. It's like FG, wasn't appreciated by the masses until the masses had access to it, and now it's generally well praised after getting pooped on all year for "fake frames! we want raster!". Now it seems like every day I'm seeing people stoked about all this "extra performance" they are getting from the fake frames that isn't raster.
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I don't understand the reference Swasarnt Nerf ?
@@tqrules01 It's 69 in french. And a reference to some movie...
@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs odd, thanks I guess
Someone loan this man a massively overclocked 7900GRE to see how they compare...
Then compare it with a massively overclocked 7900 xt
@@HandsomeDevil321-k8d which you cant do haha... i dont get how 7900 XT is high point of this generation, terible price
@@Trisstan20Well, that price doesn't sound too bad if you compare it to the 4070 Ti Super. Imo, 4070 Super and 7900 GRE are the best gpus of this generation when it comes to price to performance
@Trisstan20 erm... actually, rx 7900 xtx is the high point of this generation
@Trisstan20 it can be done, my son I overclocked my rx 7900 xt and got 15% more fps on warzone and fortnite
Imo the biggest problem for the 7000 series was the mere existence of the 6000 series.
While not the best the 6000 series has just some very solid cards in the lineup.
amd kinda overpromised also on the 7000 series and didn't deliver. Though I think rdna3 is pretty solid. While we didn't get any outstanding performance uplift, we did get quite more efficient cards for about slightly better performance.
I went for a used 6800xt in March 2024 coming from a GTX 1060 because I couldn't get that performance for 500$ CAD with the 7000 series where I live; I'm a big fan!
Indeed. Too many 6000 series cards were left on shelves by the time RX 7000 was released. Hence initially we had so badly priced cards like $900 7900 XT or $450 7700 XT and also 7900 XTX and 7800 XT, which were selling above MSRP for a few months.
Even now, almost 2 years after the first two 7000 models were released, there are still plenty of unsold 6000 cards left.
No wonder there AMD has no intention to release RDNA 4 yet. Somehow they still need to sell those old cards.
@@stangamer1151 the problem when the new cards don't replace the old cards but compete with them in terms of value/price.
The performance increases, aside from the halo cards, wasn't that big to justify the price bump (it even is negligible in a lot of cases).
But to be fair this is also true for Nvidia. Rtx 4000 series aside the halo cards are a disappointment too in that regard. Heck 3000 series cards even outperform their newer siblings in some games (so even worse than AMD.)
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rx7900xt owner here
I agree, it felt like a best option from current market, especially for the price (35% cheaper than xtx and at the point of buying there were no SUPER 4000 series and my rx costed around normal 4070 at the time).
What a wonderful peak of AMD graphics.
And it was cheap too.
thanks for the review... I'm in the market to upgrade my 980Ti... yes about time... and have been looking hard at team red... purely because that sweet VRAM numbers and price to performance bumos
Ma boy I'm also rocking a 980Ti.
I am waiting for my new rx 6900xt to replace my gtx 980 to arrive
I got one used off Amazon Warehouse for about $600. Best purchase ever.
I’m running a 7900GRE right now and love it
Wish I had one of those. But I bought a 7800 XT within a month of release and I've loved it, mostly.
@@hatchetman3662what’s wrong ?
I bought a 7900XT but i havent put it in my rig. Gonna be fun to see the performance uplift from my gtx 970
I'm one of those who still thinks it's 2016 in terms of hardware, but even I see that's a MASSIVE upgrade.
Wtf HUGE upgrade congrats!!
First video I’ve viewed from you - highly informative, new sub
Slight correction, -20 co does not mean 20mv, its afaik an arbitrary number and every co is ~3-5mv
correct! Learned that from Wendell myself.
its a shame AMD got greedy and decided to price it only $100 below the XTX at launch, trying to get people to buy the XTX instead shot this card in the foot, but right now its at a good price
Yes, the launch price was ridiculous. I don't think that the brands realised that the crypto bubble had already burst.
If your goal was 4K 60fps+ rasterization then the 7900 XT was the first sub $1,000 card to achieve that level of performance. It is what it is. Some stupid people criticized the price as being too high but they ignored the fact that nothing else could beat it for 900 bucks! Scaling the 4070 Ti or 4080 to the same level of performance would have cost $1050! Hardware Unboxed had a really twisted and incorrect perspective!
I bought the AMD 7900 XTX GPU on the global day of release - it was an early Xmas gift to myself about two weeks before xmas day itself. Now as at current time of writing in 2024 - I STILL LOVE THIS CARD VERY MUCH, and i have completely NO REGRETS having this incredible BEAST. My card -Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 Vapor-X Gaming Graphics Card. This is my personal LOVE and i have completely NO regrets having this card as my main GPU together with my 7800X3D CPU. This is currently the BEST build i have ever possibly got since my previous "best" build and i have never been more grateful in my life having this set up.
My issue with my 7900XT is the power consumption while playing games that are really "easy" to run (older games such as Oblivion). There is something wrong (or something they had to do to make it work anyway) with the memory controllers being on the MCDs that require the GDDR VRAM to be run at full speed which makes your GPU automatically use a little less than 100watts no matter how easy it is on the GCD.
For example I'll be playing Oblivion with the GCD running at like 300 mhz using 15 watts while the memory is clocked to 2500mhz using its normal ~95 watts for a combine 100+ watts. There is zero reason a game such as Oblivion would need the memory to be run at 2500mhz but chiplets on a GPU have their disadvantages.
It seems to have to do with games or emulators being run in full screen mode and not windowed, in windowed mode those things make the RAM clock down to 909mhz which is still around 50 watts but it is still much better than keeping it in full screen.
At the end of the day I'm happy now that the drivers have been fixed for the 7900XT but there are downsides.
Good point! I have similar issues with my 7900gre, even in idle sometimes it takes 60W because memory clocks go up (and solution from the internet did not solve the problem). The other day I noticed it was sucking 120W on Don't Starve, a game that can run on the iGPU of my old i7 6700k!
Not sure what AMD got wrong there
Probably really just about the power profile I think. I tried with manual setting using LACT on Linux then a 4K intensive game went all the way down to 75 watt total with vram max state set to 456 mhz. I think it is the equivalent to 909 as it is showing the base clock not the DDR transfer rate. So the GPU can use low power. It is the profile that don't go that low for some reason. Most likely to make sure that it always look good in benchmark.
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Ive had the RX 7900 XT a tad over a year now. Been using it with a Ryzen 5800X on a PG Velocita. I only use it for 4K gaming, and its been perfect for it.
10:04 ooooh that transition!!!
Wonderful video, especially since you compared the card to the 6900XT. I got a second hand model around half a year ago, partially because of your video, and now that I finally upgraded my cpu too (3600 -> 5700X3D), it's a wonderful card. I think I won't be upgrading for years to come. Looking forward to more content!
I just purchased a used 7900 XT and then you upload this, what a coincidence
I got lucky a year ago and scored a 7900 xt on sale at 700 USD and have been enjoying it greatly since.
I use an XFX 7900xt Merc in my main system on a 43 inch 4k 144hz 1000nit (£580 for the monitor! Great deal! FV43U) monitor, and its done everything so well.
I have a 4070 in my GFs system, and the difference is huge at 4k!
Will upgrade to this from my RX 7700 XT because i bought an 4K Television and 4K breaks that card even on older titles like Hellblade 1.
Thanks for your videos! I'll find them very helpful.
6:51 bruh i litterally didnt notice that he said "Avatar: Frontiers Elite 2" the first time around.
I bought a Sappire Pulse 7900 XT when it first released and I love the GPU. I'm very happy with it. I already had several GPU's just sitting in my closet. ( 3050, 3060, 6600 XT, regular 6700, and the one i was using a 6800 XT) I replaced my 6800 XT with the 7900 XT GPU and I'm hoping it will last me a few years before I need to upgrade. Thumbs up on the video.
Close to 70k subscribers, reviews of current-day high-end hardware, that’s what I’m talking about, go Iceberg!
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7:22 Always love it when you say "soixante-neuf"! 😆
I have an xtx and have zero complaints cards a beast
Literally today I upgraded my AMD 5700xt (XFX blower style) to the XFX 7900xt. I was able to find the 7900xt for less than $899 CAD, I am beyond excited for it to arrive.
I upgraded from 2080 TI, which I didnt really use for gaming , It was in my media center PC that I was upgrading overall step by step since its a AM4 platform with top of the line ASUS board in it, I was mainly using for watching videos and sometimes gaming. The only reason I upgraded was because I needed a GPU for another PC that I also use and I decided to buy the RX 7900 to this one and put the older GPU into the other machine. But it has been 4 years since I purchased any top of the notch GPU or any GPU to be honest, therefore it is a good deal and a good upgrade that costed me a $16 a month if to calculate the cost over the past four years that I haven't done anything.
$650ish makes the 7900XT almost compelling. Almost. However, the idea of spending that sort of money makes me want a 4K60 guaranteed experience, which is currently not a thing no matter where you look.
The 7900xtx at $860 best value for higher end.
Path tracing turned the RTX4090 into a 1080p card.
This is why the 7900 GRE honestly kinda slams. You can actually overclock the thing to about the power of the 7900 XT. They run rather slow on it's base clocks for some reason but have a lot of uplift. It's effectively a 7850 XT anyway lol. And it'll be a lot more tolerable price of 500 to 550. Awesome card for 1440p and still able churn 4k 60 (depending on the game, of course.)
I paid 619 and paired with 7900x3d. 64gb expo gskill ram. I almost never get below. It took weeks of tinkering but my Alan wake runs 4k60.
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I have a 13600k, 32Mb of ram, a 60Hz 4k monitor and a 7900XT.
Everything plays along, the price was affordable and the gaming experience is fine for me. If I need more FPS, upscaling is there.
Star Citizen max setting at 4K goes between 55 and 60fps at Horison (quality upscaling) and I don't think there are more demanding games around.
32 MB? God damn that's the fastest Windows 95 system I've ever seen
My brother asked me about upgrading his 2070 Super. I suggested the 7900 GRE since it was new to the states at the time. It had a great to performance ratio when compared to same price class Nvidia GPUs. He ended up with a 7900 XT and he loves it. He's getting better performance than the 3080 that I way over paid for.
Bro raised in status, that's crazy
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Love these videos, thanks!
If I were to replace my 3080 10gb right now, this is likely the card I'd buy. It's the only one that offers a substantial upgrade at a price rivaling the original msrp of the 3080.
2:50 Slight correction: -20 CO =/= -20 mV. IIRC each step is roughly 6mV, so -20 CO would be closer to -120mV.
Most underrated tech reviewer of the year people
That jump transition from Leon to Joel was so sick lol
I have the exact same Sapphire 7900XT and I love it! Coming from a laptop 2070 super, 1440P on High settings is amazing. I would love to see more comparisons of high settings for games, since ultra settings aren’t really worth it when you look at performance 🤷🏻♂️
I've been waiting for this one, thank you.
And out of curiousity, is maybe a Re-review coming for the RX 6700 XT? Would be really nice to see how it holds up to 2024
I bought the 7900 xt before the price drop(one year ago), now at the price i bought the xt the xtx was months later, i regret not waiting those few months for a price drop, card is not bad though
I bought my xtx for $1100 back in early 2023. After many driver updates, the 7900xt is starting to looks like the 5700xt (without the driver issues lol) of this generation. Ancient Gameplay did an update performance on the 7900xt, and after all the updates it saw a avg of 10-15% more performance over the launch GPU. With that being said, so has the xtx, though I don't think it has been as good of jump in performance.
Liked the humor in this video haha ❤
beautiful transition from RE to TLOU
3 of those games were ported to PC by NIXXES who are well regarded, although the originating studios and tech were different (Suckerpunch, Guerilla & Insomniac). Regardless; I have the exact same Sapphire Pulse 7900XT and once they fixed the pricing it's an excellent card. I have an aging Zen 2 CPU on a decent B550 board and with FSR Quality and Framegen on it puts out a fairly consistent 4k 144Hz. Great card.
You shouldnt worry about Resident Evils VRAM warning. They overestimate the VRAM usage waaaaay too much just to be sure. Im running a RX 580 8GB and they speculate around 10GB of VRAM usage while i only get 7.5GB. No hitches even when it comes close to 7900mb total. But still, averages around 7.5GB on 1080P with 8GB textures.
Man I got a 7900gre in February for 480$, great card! (although drivers crash on AoE4 and idle power is high.....)
Imagine getting a 7900 GRE for Age of Empires 4...
@@laszlozsurka8991 I can not play AoE4 just because I have a high end card? Like don't you ever play games that are easy to run for your pc?
@@mastroitek You spent almost $500 to run a game that needs a 5700 XT or an RX 6600... at max...
I mean sure, your money I guess...
@@laszlozsurka8991 no I spent almost 500$ to play games, one of them is AoE4
@@laszlozsurka8991 I also play platform and sandbox games like Blasphemous, hollow knight and don't starve which can run on a decade old iGPU, do you think I spent 480$ on a GPU to play them?
Ayyee it's my card. Love my 7900xt. I have the Sapphire one too
I thought we were 6900XT bros. Now you leave me in the dust with your fancy new 7900XT. I don’t know we I feel jealous when I’m just gaming on console lately anyway. The only thing the 6900XT is used for is SWTOR, a game from 2011 that I played on a Radeon 6850 back in the day.
I upgraded from a GTX 1060 6GB to 7900XT. Which meant from 1080p Low to 4k high lol. My life changed. Such a great card. Runs a little bit hot tho. Sometimes gets close to 100C. I heard the XTX version can run at 110 C so I dont mind the 90+C I get on this card. Had to undervolt it a little tho.
I love my 7900XTX still. Haven't had a game where I felt like I needed more since I've had it, most games I play, click max setting, and enjoy 200+ FPS pretty much all the time at 1440p. With new triple A games, go find a settings tuning guide, get 95% of visual candy, and still enjoy 120+ (Starfield excluded). I found with it does best with light ray tracing as well, I played through Cyberpunk with somewhere between ultra and high settings, with just ray traced reflections on, and I was around the 110-120 mark the whole time (FSR quality), while still enjoying the most impactful ray tracing setting visuals wise.
7000 series was a weird one, the higher up in the stack you go, the value is still there, if not better it feels like honestly. The 7900XTX, with inflation taken into account, roughly the same price as the 1080Ti would've been today, and I feel like it flew a little under the radar for how close it got you to a 4090 while being SO much cheaper, and still giving good ray tracing performance until you have ALL the ray tracing setting turned on, which you don't typically need for the game to look just amazing still.
I bought a 3080 almost 2 years ago when the crypto market crashed. If the difference between a card of it's class and a 7900xt is only around 20-30%, I have no reason to upgrade anytime soon. Especially if the top RDNA 4 dye will only be an effective price/power consumption reduction of the 7900xt. Nvidia might have something worth upgrading to with Blackwell, but I doubt it will be priced reasonably. Not gonna spend a penny over 700$ for my next upgrade.
I got the XFX card very lightly used last year for $400, it's been the best GPU I've ever owned. It's an absolutely massive card though.
The transition from RE4 to the last of us part 1 was clean af
I was originally going to wait for 8000 series since it's so close, until the CEO confirmed they are not offering high-end versions and the 8800 will only get 256-bit bus rather than the current 7900 320-bit bus, which might not matter for most but I do VR and racing sims so it helps for my use, so I bought a 7900 XT OC Phantom White for $630 with two free games this past week. Upgraded from a 3070 that was getting about 90 FPS in fully modded Asetto Corsa to now over 200+ FPS with the 7900 XT which looks buttery smooth on my 45" LG Ultragear 240hz OLED.
The transition from re4 to the last of us was super clean.
Iceberg tech going up in the tech space lesgooo
omg iceberg reviewing my exact gpu
I know right???
As someone who games at 4K and tries to get 60 fps It’s much more refreshing to see these numbers than the 1080p million frames. I get it’s for certain testing but makes it hard for me to relate to with just a normal TV capped at 60hz
I was surprised to find out that the flagship XTX is actually the most efficient card of the series. In my opinion, that makes it the best.
I have this card, so happy ❤
I have had the card 2 years now. I mixed it with a 5800x and 32g RAM. The 7900 XT has been pretty good. I will say that I expected more for how much I paid for it 2 years ago ($1600 AUD). It's definitely the best bang for ya buck on the market right now. I play 1440p native on a 120hz TV. Most games I'm pushing 100+ fps. Other games I'm hitting 50 - 70fps, like helldivers 2.
It's a great card but sometimes it just doesn't feel like I got my moneys worth. Like when I'm getting 50 - 60fps in helldivers 2, and all of a sudden the fps will drop down to 42. That's not a $1600 card IMO. I feel like this card will struggle in the next 2-3 years to do native 1440p. It struggles now to keep demanding titles over 100fps. This is my first high end GPU I have ever purchased. I'm not disappointed, it does most games way over 100fps, but I'm just not impressed.
I have a sapphire nitro 7900xtx and this was my first amd card and honestly i love it
14700k with 7900xt in my rig feels unstoppable. 1440 on ultra wide is great.
Great video, Iceberg! :) The 7900xt is a true beast of a card. If only the RT performance wouldn't be so bad compared to the 40series. FSR 3.1 is a step up compared to 2.2, but still looks a bit worse in direct comparison with DLSS and XESS. Once AMD nails the technologies and won't be lacking anymore in that aspect, I might go with an AMD GPU in a couple of years when high-end models are being released again. For the time being, my 4090 should serve me well.
When I started making some more money I grabbed a 7900XTX Nitro+. I really like the card, wasn't particularly worth the money or upgrade from RX 6800, for me, but I just love how I don't have to care. My 5800X3D sometimes holds it a bit back but that's fine. I'll probably keep this card when I grab my next platform at first for a bit.
I have an Rx 7900xt overclocked at 3ghz at the core and voltage at 1025, and it's runs great
i just got one earlier for 599 USD, im excited for it to arrive
I've been loving my 6950xt for the past year now
You could honestly make the same argument for the RTX 40 series GPUs, at least relative to Ampere. There was so much stock of RTX 30 and RX 6000 GPUs that the price was never gonna look favorable for newer gen cards, at least not until they were heavily discounted.
Went from 3060ti to 7900xt. Solid! I wish AMD didn't say the no more high end gpu nonsense. Would love to drop bank on something solid
I got one for my brother for 600 new (no tax) and its the best value purchase ive ever made in the hi end category
I loved every second with this 7900XT since I bought it. What a beast.
My only complain is about The Witcher 3 next gen. It doesn't play at 60 fps with RT on and it's a near 10yo game
I bought it after the price drop of course otherwise it would be a terrible buy
The sarcasm was strong in this one!
I approve!
Good video as always
At the moment my rig consist of
32 gigs DDR4 4600 megahertz
Motherboard is the MPG x570 gaming edge Wi-Fi
Video card is the power color Radeon RX 7900 XT
As for the hard drive crucial PCI Gen 5 t705 and it maxes out perfectly at 10,000 MB reading right
CPU is AMD ryzen 9 5950 at the moment due to summer I have it set to 65 watts at 4.4 GHz works quite well for what I do
Now when it becomes a winter I removed the limits of the CPU and let it do what it needs to do on its own and I have reached 5.5 GHz on some games and other games I have reached 5.6 GHz all on its own generally it's supposed to reach 5.050 but with this particular motherboard it does what it wants to do and I love it in the winter time
I got my 7900 xt back when it was $820 USD and the xtx was $1500 ($500 above MSRP). I like the card, it preforms well.
i have a 7800xt and this guy is a MONSTER
The strength of RDNA 3 comes from overclocking where most cards can get a 10%-15% uplift.
Stayed up for this 😂😂😂❤❤❤
It in fact will path trace. 1080p and FSR Balanced, it gets around 60FPS in cyberpunk with a 7800X3D paired to it
have that exact model, love it
Got my XFX 7900XT Black for 650$ USD. Been a real champion at 1440/4k 60fps.
Almost a year ago (last August), I had the chance to purchase an ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC for $1148CAD ($850USD / £645) as an open-box special on Newegg. Needless to say, I pulled the trigger IMMEDIATELY and have been enjoying it ever since. To date, I have never seen a non-used XTX for the same price or less ANYWHERE.
I marvel (and not in a good way) at what people will pay for GeForce cards while I'm laughing with my XTX and its 24GB of VRAM, knowing that I paid LESS for it at the time than the cost of a 7900 XT. My backup card is an ATi Radeon RX 6800 XT OG Reference model and I would have happily stuck with that but I just couldn't say no to the offer for the XTX.
Found a 7900xt for 600€ today! Its a beast!
I wonder how many years this card will hold. Looks aweaome on benchmarks.
This card has the 3080Ti and 4090 ray tracing / path tracing power without the memory bandwith and capacity issues of the 4070 Ti and super series.
I've got the XFX Black edition, great card!
I've had the 7900xt for over a year now. Coming from a 1070ti. Awesome card. I don't use or need any of Nvidia's marketing gimmicks and the extra vram is so nice. I've never had a more stable system either.
Good video. The only "problem" is.. If you are a 6900xt owner, this video shows you are good for now. 🤔
Do an overclocking video! I've had the Nitro XTX since launch and love it every day