Sorry for the lack of data on this one, but this is really ALL that I can find. Thank you to the overclock.net RX 7900 XT(X) club members for help on the power limits information!
... But the same power limit as the reference card so it's sadly still bottom tier. The power limits are the bottlenecks for overclocking 7900XTs. After applying +15% my 7900XT Taichi goes up to 400w sustained power consumption with a great overclock, it actually slightly outperforms a stock 7900XTX as well as the 4080 in raster. And it's still bottlenecked by its power limit, although above 400w would probably see diminishing returns anyway.
Important info! (you missed the best card imo): The ASRock 7900XT Taichi has 3 power connectors, 20 phase VRM and goes up to a sustained 400w after applying +15%! It uses the same cooler as the 7900XTX Tai Chi, so temps are amazing. It's easily on par with the Nitro+ but €100 cheaper. Extremely impressed by ASrock with this model. Mine does 2900-3000Mhz core (min max clock) and hovers around ~2950Mhz rock solid undercload, 2750Mhz VRAM (+10%), 1015Mv voltage offset (yes really!), 75c hotspot in furmark at 60% fan speed while drawing 400w, fans barely audible. Fully stable, stress tested for hours with multiple tests/benchmarks and played tons of games including with Ray Tracing. The undervolt gave me more power budget for higher clocks. Even now, the power limit is my OC bottleneck. The secret to 1015Mv stability is the min clock setting: by putting it only 100Mhz below max clock, you "flatten" the voltage curve and tl;dr the GPU won't be voltage starved under light/medium loads, which is where most undervolts otherwise start crashing. 31.5k Timespy score and it's slightly faster in games than a stock 7900XTX, nkt just in 3dmark but also in games judging by review benchmarks. I have it paired with a 5800X3D so in most cases I'm good on the CPU front. People are REALLY sleeping on the 7900XT due to the bad initial reviews, it's great value for high-end 1440P and the tweakability is nuts with the right model. The Taichi is easily S tier and at European prices it's objectively the best you can buy, only €30 more than the cheapest available model. Real shame you didn't include it :)
I basically got a stock 7900XTX but €200 cheaper, can't be mad at that. More people should know so thanks for this video :) At 1440P the lower VRAM bandwidth doesn't matter, 880GB/s @ 2750Mhz is plenty. If you have a 4K monitor I would recommend the 7900XTX Tai Chi, that one is also S tier. The XTX gives a little extra oomph that ages better for 4K. ASRock made amazing RDNA3 cards, at lower prices than other S tier cards. Their RDNA2 Tai Chi cards were "only" A tier (I had a 6800XT Tai Chi), but they really upped their game. For a regular 1440P screen I can really recommend the 7900XT, especially the Taichi. It's a total no-brained vs the same price 4070Ti imo and with this overclock I get better rasterization performance than a 4080 and +4GB, so I'll be comfortable until RDNA5. Literally the only downside is its power consumption, but I don't care much as I rarely hit the full 400w in games, really only in Cyberpunk, I use Radeon Chill with a 85-141FPS range (144Hz monitor) and I mostly see figures between 250-350w. It scales well, for example Elden Ring 1440P maxed out with Max RT consumes only 200w due to the 60FPS lock and runs butter smooth. Truly a shame AMD botched the launch and people dismiss this GPU so easily.
@@AltropIm actually looking at that card because its €859 in the netherlands. I like to be able to tweak the card as I please. Can you also undervolt the card to make it run at like 250-280 watt?
I recently did get the XFX model for 699 from an amazon prime day sale and man, it's definitely a nice card! Especially since I only have a 1440p monitor, everything is at super high frame rates and looks great! The noise is noticeable but it's far from a deal breaker for me. Overall, very happy with the purchase!
Back in January I rebuilt my machine I bought a XFX 7900 XT MERC310 from Best Buy for $799 a special that they had I jumped on it. I purchased the Asus X670 E TUF and A 7700 X CORSAIR - VENGEANCE 32GB 5600MHz CL36 I have not upgraded my machine and almost 4 years I'm very happy with it
I bought a 7900XT a few months ago and I can’t even run Fortnite on epic settings and If I do It starts stuttering and reaching 100% usage and 80% in lobby. I also have the Merc 310 and i9 11900KF, other games It performs alright but any ideas?
@@BibiBubu-il3jz Coil whine is per article "feature" not per model. It's more about to have a good luck like winning the silicone lottery. That being said you can take 2 absolutely identical GPUs (eg. 2 MSI X Trio) and one to be completely silent and the other to have noisy coil whine. I speak from experience. So there is absolutely no way to make a tier list based on coil whine. Currently I have MSI Trio Z 3060 ti which has max rated TDP of 240W. It had some coil whine but not so noisy until I undervolted it and the GPU dropped to about 190W - the coil whine just disappeared. For comparison a friend of mine bought exactly the same GPU that has 0 coil whine at 240 W. We both tested with identical games and benchmarks. So yea basically it is typically for more power hungry cards that are built with more VRM phases, electronics etc. to have some coil whine. It is produced when an electrical current runs through electromagnetic coils.
For XFX I have that card and it's doing amazingly well, now the heat can get dumb hot but I manually adjusted it and it does very well now keeping it pretty close to 50 to 60c under the heaviest of graphic demanding game moments it can reach just under 70 and I'm happy with that, it's not thermal throttling like it does if you just leave the fan setting to defaults. Now it is noisey but I don't really care about noise as my speakers are higher then them and I cna't hear the fans when playing games when I am not playing a game the fans go to 20% and I don't even hear them over my AIO fans which I think I should do something about that aio later LOL
I have the Asrock Phantom Gaming 7900XT, I have been really happy with it. The 266w PPT can be increased to 306w (+15%) with the power slider in AMD Adrenaline or MSI Afterburner to match the Sapphire Nitro+. I am guessing the Sapphire can also be increased by 15% though, making it 348w PPT?
I have it and know it extremely well after days if tweaking and testing. The Taichi is S tier, 20 phase VRM, 3 power connectors, very good cooling, it's easily on par with the Nitro+ but €100+ cheaper. In fact I got it for only €30 more than the cheapest possible 7900XT (Phantom Gaming, coincidentally), no-brainer purchase. Cheapest S tier card without skimping on anything! It consumes up to 400w sustained, after applying +15%. Same power limit as the Nitro+. My settings: 2900-3000Mhz min-max core ( hovers around 2950Mhz under heavy load), 2750Mhz VRAM default timings and, wait for it.. 1015Mv voltage offset! 100% stable, extensively tested. 31.5k Timespy score for reference, better than a stock XTX which tends to score 28-30k. In game FPS boost is 15-20% vs a reference 7900XT which puts it slightly above a normal XTX and 4080 in raster. The power limit is the bottleneck for overclocking these cards, so you must undervolt to overclock more, and find that perfect sweet spot (too much undervolting and the core won't reach its target clock). The key to the 1015Mv stable UV on my 7900XT Taichi is having only 100Mhz difference between the min and max clock. The voltage setting affects a voltage curve and if you leave the min clock at 500, the GPU will be voltage starved sooner under low/medium loads and crash. Increasing the min clock to 100Mhz below max "flattens" the curve, greatly boosting stability and allowing for lower voltages (and higher clocks! ) since low/medium loads is where undervolts get unstable first. Ofc the card still clocks down below the min clock under lower loads. It's a bit vague what exactly the min clock means but just trust me that leaving them 100Mhz apart will let you undervolt more. That gave me the power budget for this 100% stable OC (tested extensively), there are no power related core or VRAM clockspeed dips, both overclocks are stable. I could push the core 50Mhz higher by leaving VRAM at 2500Mhz but this setup gave me the best performance. 75c hotspot while drawing 400w in Furmark, at a barely audible 60% fan speed. Considering price, the Taichi is the 7900XT GOAT imo especially if you enjoy tweaking. The 7900XT is the best high end card for 1440P imo. It can also do 4K well but then I would recommend the 7900XTX Tai Chi, the XTX just has a bit more oomph to age better for 4K. I myself will stay at 1440P for the foreseeable future and this card will definitely hold me over until RDNA5. Best choice out of all the options I had imo (€400 cheaper than a 4080 and €200 cheaper than an XTX). Shame it was not included in this video :) The 7900XT got terrible launch reviews and as a result it's a really slept on card. Also, most reviewers don't overclock anymore, and when they do they usually do it wrong. The only downside of this card vs the competition is the power consumption but as a tweaker I don't care. The Taichi is the same price as a 4070Ti, which it absolutely destroys while having 8GB more crucial VRAM. With some tweaks you end up in 4080/7900XTX tier.
The 7900XT Taichi was released a year ago and I've owned one for 4 months so you must have missed it :) It's 100% S tier. 20 phase VRM, triple power connectors, same power limit as a Nitro+ and excellent cooler. Can draw 400w sustained after applying +15% and has enough OC headroom to outperform stock XTX cards at least below 4K, with a very low Hotspot temp (75c in furmark). It's the cheapest of all S tier models without skimping on anything, arguably the best 7900XT to buy. Dunno about current prices but when I bought mine it was only €30 more expensive than the cheapest available model. ASRock really stepped up their game with the RDNA3 Tai Chi cards. Too bad AMD botched the 7900XT launch cause it's very much slept on especially for high performance 1440P and especially if you get a good model.
Thank you for posting this type of videos for every gpu out there I wanna ask u how big is the diff between the best model and the worse does it mean that the rog strix 4080 is better the msi ventus models?
7:45 is one of many reasons I will no longer support Nvidia. I like AMD more as a company and their hardware is plenty good for my needs. My current build has a 5700X3D / Asrock PG 7900XT and I've never been happier with a PC. I went with the Asrock card over the others for a few reasons. I like them, my PC only supports dual slot cards, and my PSU only has 2 8pins. Otherwise I would have gotten the PowerColor or Sapphire card with 3 8pins for better tinkering when it comes to overclocking.
The XFX Merc 310 is an absolute monster of a card. The default fan curve is quite loud but you can turn it down and still get really solid temps. So glad I picked one up.
Where I live this card is the cheapest, but the sound issue is worrisome. I am curious, did you really achieved a silent operation? Are the temps ok? Thx for the answer in advance.
@@gurkengerd9981 😂😂 it does exactly that. If you still hearing ur gpu through ur headphone get better headphones or rma ur card cause that's not normal
i also have it, and it's a luck situation with xfx card, depending on the revision you got. The pressure of the cooler and pcb end up pumping out the paste, so temps and hotspot will keep going up until the gpu needs to keep the fans at 2500rpm to cooldown 350w with hotspot nearing 100°C. If you got unlucky and got one of those revisions, you have 3 options. 1.- sell it. 2.- rma it, but the issue will come back eventually unless the card gets replaced. 3.- use a thermalpad like the ptm7950 or kryosheet, that and selling it are the only permanent solutions, after i used the kryosheet my hotspot temps went down 25°C under the same power draw, and fans went down from 2500 to 1550rpm, it was a different card by changing that.
Hello, i have a question about your video on all the best 3060 ti model to get or avoid, where would you put the gigabyte vision oc 8g model on your last list or what de you think about it? Thank you
Hey, thank you for your informative videos and comparisons of different graphics cards! I'm eagerly awaiting your video on the RX 6800 XT. In my opinion, this card offers the best price-performance ratio in its price range.
Thanks for your help, I was gonna buy the ASRock 7900xt Phantom but after the review I'm gonna look into the Asus Tuf 7900xt first. I'll decide between the two by the price difference afterwards. And since I'm getting Asus Z790-P Prime as the motherboard, it'd make sense to go for the Asus gpu for the convenience of the Argb and other things...Thanks very much
I really wanted that sexy Sapphire Nitro+ cars, but its regularly above $1k from what I see. In fact it's usually more than the XTX with the same cooler, which makes no sense lol I settled for the MSI card for $800 with the free copy of Starfield. So far I'm loving it
Get the ASRock 7900XT Taichi. Much cheaper than the Nitro with the same power limits and amazing cooling. Also 20 phase vrm. Cheapest S tier 7900XT without skimping on anything. 31.5k Timespy score after tweaking it. Better than a stock XTX.
I had to repaste my phantom gaming 7900 xt. Hot spot was hitting 110. I now get a 59 degree temp with hotspot at 80 to 85. Still toasty but way better. Amd runs so damn hot
@@derbre5712 lol I don´t know, still hasn´t managed to sell my 3080 yet, but I think I will go with XFX even if is the biggest one and I will have to fit it somehow and move aio from front to roof, buy aditional intake fans to front :D and I also decided to go with XTX instead of XT.
@@tonysoprano3138 i got the rx 7900 xt for 813€ which was a good deal for here in vienna austria - pairing it with a 7800x3d - cant wait to start building in 2 days
so as per I could understand there´s no much difference among them. If I´m not TOP player but want to have a nice video card, I can get the best price model of RX 7900 XT. correct?
I want buy a new 7900xt card. My preference is need most silent card for my money. In my country asrock 7900xt phantom gaming oc and powercolor red devil 7900xt same price(minimal +10 euro the red devil) .Wich is better ?
I have a problem with the hotspot temperature goes to 110c once seen to 111c. How is this possible? Even my old laptop 3050rx all of a sudden does resets after maybe less as a minute of a game. Some more hardware in the past has these prob's too but hidden underneath layers and sensors. You think it comes along from an old system forced register or spot or service? Like a pandora's box from hell from RuneShape to dofus?
The XFX Merc 310 can have hotspot issues, mine at factory settings was hitting over 100c with 3000rpm fan speed, you can find quite a few people have the same issue, I've been able to mostly resolve it but my temps are still worse than they should be. XFX did say they'd honour an RMA even if I decide to apply new thermal paste (I haven't yet) which is good of them.
I keep seeing random hotspot issues people report on almost all the cards. Seems more like QC issues and the multi-die layout being more difficult to get even mounting pressure on the cooler.
That sucks. I've had good luck with mx6 it's a thicker paste. I have 6950 xt after repaste it still hits low 90s hotspot in oc bios. I ended up undervolting the card to get the he hotspot in low 80s. Maybe try undervolting see if makes a difference before taking the card apart.
I just purchased mine secondhand, and it suffers from a 40 degree delta between the gpu temp and the gpu hotspot. It hits around 90c in the hotspot. While the gpu reports being at 50 degrees C. I do not believe that XFX honors the warranty since I am not the original purchaser. So it seems I am out of luck. I did a repaste and I tried remounting after I saw that the hotspot had not changed whatsoever. However, this is what I get for purchasing secondhand and trying to save a few bucks I guess.
I’m going on my third XFX 7900XT. First one shorted out and started smoking and my second one causes black screens with fans running at 100%. I’ve done multiple diagnoses and the card is the issue. Luckily their customer support is amazing. I just don’t see myself buying XFX in the future
I've recently got a RX 7900 XT Nitro+, but I haven't tried it yet since I have to build my pc yet, but I am really excited to try it after knowing that it would be this good. I have checked a few videos about it, but I couldn't really compare it with the other brands ones.
If I play games and pause them I dont hear coilwhine, then I start them and hear coilwhine... Is it ok that it stops when pause game ? Sorry for my bad english. Thank you
thats normal behavior. if you go to menu there is less load. Undervolting and especially underclocking the card helps. AMD adrenaline auto OC GPUs so you better check it and set values to default
Okay, any helpers ?for 1440p fps prefernce not visual gamer, is it worth to get 7900xtx ? when tuf 7900xt is 995$ and 7900xtx phantom 1130$ ? Paired with 7600x and 27 1440p monitor
Picked up the Phantom Gaming 7900 XT back in August and zero regrets. Destroys everything I’ve thrown at it. Have it paired with a R9 7900x and 32gb 6000 CL36
How's the card still holding up today? I ended up ordering that exact model on newegg for 720 dollars and I'm very excited lol. I've heard some people had to replace the thermal paste and such
@Nikk_lx hey 👋 so within the 1st month my hotspot was hitting like 98C and I ended up buying the kyrosheet pad. Hotspot has fixed since then with no issues. Barely peaks 85C which is great. The hotspot thing is no joke. When I opened up my card you could see the thermal paste pretty much not applied well. Do get the kyrosheet pad though instead of using thermal paste imo.
I bought the Tuf OC, in part because of this tier list. Wish Asus would've done something on the top of the card for those of us with vertical GPU mounts. Looks so weird going from a 6700 Powercolor Red Devil with all the ominous red lighting... to a tiny pulsing little light. Whole front of my case is dark now, gotta rethink my theme, or if I want to bother leaving it vertically mounted.
I would love to upgrade to this AMD card but I realized that only the reference card can fit in my PC (after looking at all of the other card dimensions). 😔
Sorry , I'm not following one part since it was last sentence. If we do not take the coolers into account, for instance we're using our own cooling system, all the tier A cards are build the same as the listed Tier S cards? The chip is obviously the same (within silicon deviation), but the VRM and PCB is also the same build-out? Thanks.
@OTechnology I have bought MSI RX 7900XT TRIO CLASSIC last week , no Coil whine, max Hotspot temp was 83degC. It has also 3_8Pin connectors maxing out around 340Watts in Hogwarts Legacy. Really Great Card. I think it could be a 'S' Tier card.
I want to get this card for my girlfriend’s new PC but I’m putting together an all white build and they don’t have any white 7900xt’s😢 I can’t justify paying 8-900 for a 4070 TI
Stock 7900xt asrock phantom on furmark, gpu stress, or gaming with 99% utilization.. 68c- hotspot 96c and junction 100c. Fans are by default, but even if you drastically increase the rpm you get the junction from 100 to 96. my case has top tier airflow. that is my experience. I am thinking on a refund tbh.
That's pretty spicy. For reference: pushing my Pulse 7900 XT (in my old case with subpar airflow; fans at 70%) to its limits with a slight UV/OC in the poorly optimized mess that is Starfield, I'm seeing absolute maximums of 70-75 core with both hotspot and junction somewhere at 85-92.
Sorry for the lack of data on this one, but this is really ALL that I can find. Thank you to the overclock.net RX 7900 XT(X) club members for help on the power limits information!
dude, my MSI Trio classic 7900 xt has 3x8 pin slots
... But the same power limit as the reference card so it's sadly still bottom tier. The power limits are the bottlenecks for overclocking 7900XTs.
After applying +15% my 7900XT Taichi goes up to 400w sustained power consumption with a great overclock, it actually slightly outperforms a stock 7900XTX as well as the 4080 in raster. And it's still bottlenecked by its power limit, although above 400w would probably see diminishing returns anyway.
Will you please do a RX 7800 XT tier list?
ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT to buying or avoid ??
Important info! (you missed the best card imo): The ASRock 7900XT Taichi has 3 power connectors, 20 phase VRM and goes up to a sustained 400w after applying +15%! It uses the same cooler as the 7900XTX Tai Chi, so temps are amazing. It's easily on par with the Nitro+ but €100 cheaper. Extremely impressed by ASrock with this model.
Mine does 2900-3000Mhz core (min max clock) and hovers around ~2950Mhz rock solid undercload, 2750Mhz VRAM (+10%), 1015Mv voltage offset (yes really!), 75c hotspot in furmark at 60% fan speed while drawing 400w, fans barely audible. Fully stable, stress tested for hours with multiple tests/benchmarks and played tons of games including with Ray Tracing. The undervolt gave me more power budget for higher clocks. Even now, the power limit is my OC bottleneck.
The secret to 1015Mv stability is the min clock setting: by putting it only 100Mhz below max clock, you "flatten" the voltage curve and tl;dr the GPU won't be voltage starved under light/medium loads, which is where most undervolts otherwise start crashing.
31.5k Timespy score and it's slightly faster in games than a stock 7900XTX, nkt just in 3dmark but also in games judging by review benchmarks. I have it paired with a 5800X3D so in most cases I'm good on the CPU front.
People are REALLY sleeping on the 7900XT due to the bad initial reviews, it's great value for high-end 1440P and the tweakability is nuts with the right model.
The Taichi is easily S tier and at European prices it's objectively the best you can buy, only €30 more than the cheapest available model.
Real shame you didn't include it :)
I basically got a stock 7900XTX but €200 cheaper, can't be mad at that. More people should know so thanks for this video :)
At 1440P the lower VRAM bandwidth doesn't matter, 880GB/s @ 2750Mhz is plenty.
If you have a 4K monitor I would recommend the 7900XTX Tai Chi, that one is also S tier. The XTX gives a little extra oomph that ages better for 4K.
ASRock made amazing RDNA3 cards, at lower prices than other S tier cards. Their RDNA2 Tai Chi cards were "only" A tier (I had a 6800XT Tai Chi), but they really upped their game.
For a regular 1440P screen I can really recommend the 7900XT, especially the Taichi. It's a total no-brained vs the same price 4070Ti imo and with this overclock I get better rasterization performance than a 4080 and +4GB, so I'll be comfortable until RDNA5.
Literally the only downside is its power consumption, but I don't care much as I rarely hit the full 400w in games, really only in Cyberpunk, I use Radeon Chill with a 85-141FPS range (144Hz monitor) and I mostly see figures between 250-350w.
It scales well, for example Elden Ring 1440P maxed out with Max RT consumes only 200w due to the 60FPS lock and runs butter smooth.
Truly a shame AMD botched the launch and people dismiss this GPU so easily.
@@AltropIm actually looking at that card because its €859 in the netherlands. I like to be able to tweak the card as I please. Can you also undervolt the card to make it run at like 250-280 watt?
@@kingstriker3 Where did you find that card for 859 in the Netherlands ? :P Closest Im finding it is 950 EURO and up right now :(
31500 pts in timespy ? I cant find your result there.
I bought yesterday the 7900xt Nitro + für 829€ it was a good price i think
I recently did get the XFX model for 699 from an amazon prime day sale and man, it's definitely a nice card! Especially since I only have a 1440p monitor, everything is at super high frame rates and looks great! The noise is noticeable but it's far from a deal breaker for me. Overall, very happy with the purchase!
Great deal
You're capping there is no way XFX drops to 699 lol
its above 800 since 2023 stop capping for LIKESS
in us its probably around that price@@officialyashvirgaming
I overpaid for it then. Damn 705$
Can you do a tier list with the 7800 xt please?
There is one already. Basically PowerColor Hellhound is the best all around
He did, your card is at the bottom
1. Hellhound 2. Asus tuf / Sapphire 3. XFX Merc 319
@aidanfrancis6456 do you have link? I can't find it😊
A video like this of the 7800 XT would be amazing since right now it's the best price / performance mid card on the market.
Rx 7900 gre?
@wladimiraga192 only in China 🇨🇳 🤣
@@JahonCross Nope, global now
Back in January I rebuilt my machine I bought a XFX 7900 XT MERC310 from Best Buy for $799 a special that they had I jumped on it. I purchased the Asus X670 E TUF and A 7700 X CORSAIR - VENGEANCE 32GB 5600MHz CL36 I have not upgraded my machine and almost 4 years I'm very happy with it
I bought a 7900XT a few months ago and I can’t even run Fortnite on epic settings and If I do It starts stuttering and reaching 100% usage and 80% in lobby. I also have the Merc 310 and i9 11900KF, other games It performs alright but any ideas?
@@knivesoutconkhaleesii.1359 fortnite is a nvidia cock-sucker, so you probably wont be happy with results
I hope someday there will be coil whine tier list, cuz its one of the most important thing for me
Coil one is kind of hit and miss with all the models so it's a little difficult.
@@OTechnology so its like gacha? Too bad 😔
@@BibiBubu-il3jzfor me coil whine goes away with the cards I have had. Find a stable frequency for the core and memory and it goes away
@@BibiBubu-il3jz Coil whine is per article "feature" not per model. It's more about to have a good luck like winning the silicone lottery. That being said you can take 2 absolutely identical GPUs (eg. 2 MSI X Trio) and one to be completely silent and the other to have noisy coil whine. I speak from experience. So there is absolutely no way to make a tier list based on coil whine. Currently I have MSI Trio Z 3060 ti which has max rated TDP of 240W. It had some coil whine but not so noisy until I undervolted it and the GPU dropped to about 190W - the coil whine just disappeared. For comparison a friend of mine bought exactly the same GPU that has 0 coil whine at 240 W. We both tested with identical games and benchmarks. So yea basically it is typically for more power hungry cards that are built with more VRM phases, electronics etc. to have some coil whine. It is produced when an electrical current runs through electromagnetic coils.
I got gigabyte 650m auros elite ax, 7900xt taichi and 7800x3d no coil whine
how is the Asus TUF one the hottest and S tier cooling at the same time?
For XFX I have that card and it's doing amazingly well, now the heat can get dumb hot but I manually adjusted it and it does very well now keeping it pretty close to 50 to 60c under the heaviest of graphic demanding game moments it can reach just under 70 and I'm happy with that, it's not thermal throttling like it does if you just leave the fan setting to defaults. Now it is noisey but I don't really care about noise as my speakers are higher then them and I cna't hear the fans when playing games when I am not playing a game the fans go to 20% and I don't even hear them over my AIO fans which I think I should do something about that aio later LOL
70° for junction temp ?? this is VERY FAR from throttling temp (110°) ..
it just comes adjusted with too much wattage out the box. A little undervolt and its good and on par with others
I have the Asrock Phantom Gaming 7900XT, I have been really happy with it. The 266w PPT can be increased to 306w (+15%) with the power slider in AMD Adrenaline or MSI Afterburner to match the Sapphire Nitro+. I am guessing the Sapphire can also be increased by 15% though, making it 348w PPT?
Hi, I've been planning to buy this model recently, how was the cooling performance and noise control? Would you recommend it? Thanks in advance here!
What about ASRock Taichi? I saw your video about XTX and there was in "S" tier. In XT version is same?
BTW, great video! Thanks!
There was no RX 7900 XT Taichi when I made the video for some reason. It would seem to me like an S tier card since it has triple 8-pins.
I have it and know it extremely well after days if tweaking and testing.
The Taichi is S tier, 20 phase VRM, 3 power connectors, very good cooling, it's easily on par with the Nitro+ but €100+ cheaper. In fact I got it for only €30 more than the cheapest possible 7900XT (Phantom Gaming, coincidentally), no-brainer purchase. Cheapest S tier card without skimping on anything!
It consumes up to 400w sustained, after applying +15%. Same power limit as the Nitro+.
My settings: 2900-3000Mhz min-max core ( hovers around 2950Mhz under heavy load), 2750Mhz VRAM default timings and, wait for it.. 1015Mv voltage offset! 100% stable, extensively tested. 31.5k Timespy score for reference, better than a stock XTX which tends to score 28-30k. In game FPS boost is 15-20% vs a reference 7900XT which puts it slightly above a normal XTX and 4080 in raster.
The power limit is the bottleneck for overclocking these cards, so you must undervolt to overclock more, and find that perfect sweet spot (too much undervolting and the core won't reach its target clock).
The key to the 1015Mv stable UV on my 7900XT Taichi is having only 100Mhz difference between the min and max clock. The voltage setting affects a voltage curve and if you leave the min clock at 500, the GPU will be voltage starved sooner under low/medium loads and crash. Increasing the min clock to 100Mhz below max "flattens" the curve, greatly boosting stability and allowing for lower voltages (and higher clocks! ) since low/medium loads is where undervolts get unstable first.
Ofc the card still clocks down below the min clock under lower loads. It's a bit vague what exactly the min clock means but just trust me that leaving them 100Mhz apart will let you undervolt more.
That gave me the power budget for this 100% stable OC (tested extensively), there are no power related core or VRAM clockspeed dips, both overclocks are stable. I could push the core 50Mhz higher by leaving VRAM at 2500Mhz but this setup gave me the best performance.
75c hotspot while drawing 400w in Furmark, at a barely audible 60% fan speed.
Considering price, the Taichi is the 7900XT GOAT imo especially if you enjoy tweaking.
The 7900XT is the best high end card for 1440P imo. It can also do 4K well but then I would recommend the 7900XTX Tai Chi, the XTX just has a bit more oomph to age better for 4K.
I myself will stay at 1440P for the foreseeable future and this card will definitely hold me over until RDNA5. Best choice out of all the options I had imo (€400 cheaper than a 4080 and €200 cheaper than an XTX).
Shame it was not included in this video :)
The 7900XT got terrible launch reviews and as a result it's a really slept on card. Also, most reviewers don't overclock anymore, and when they do they usually do it wrong. The only downside of this card vs the competition is the power consumption but as a tweaker I don't care. The Taichi is the same price as a 4070Ti, which it absolutely destroys while having 8GB more crucial VRAM. With some tweaks you end up in 4080/7900XTX tier.
The 7900XT Taichi was released a year ago and I've owned one for 4 months so you must have missed it :)
It's 100% S tier. 20 phase VRM, triple power connectors, same power limit as a Nitro+ and excellent cooler. Can draw 400w sustained after applying +15% and has enough OC headroom to outperform stock XTX cards at least below 4K, with a very low Hotspot temp (75c in furmark).
It's the cheapest of all S tier models without skimping on anything, arguably the best 7900XT to buy. Dunno about current prices but when I bought mine it was only €30 more expensive than the cheapest available model.
ASRock really stepped up their game with the RDNA3 Tai Chi cards.
Too bad AMD botched the 7900XT launch cause it's very much slept on especially for high performance 1440P and especially if you get a good model.
Thank you for posting this type of videos for every gpu out there
I wanna ask u how big is the diff between the best model and the worse does it mean that the rog strix 4080 is better the msi ventus models?
7:45 is one of many reasons I will no longer support Nvidia. I like AMD more as a company and their hardware is plenty good for my needs. My current build has a 5700X3D / Asrock PG 7900XT and I've never been happier with a PC. I went with the Asrock card over the others for a few reasons. I like them, my PC only supports dual slot cards, and my PSU only has 2 8pins. Otherwise I would have gotten the PowerColor or Sapphire card with 3 8pins for better tinkering when it comes to overclocking.
thanks i needed this list good job
Thanks for making the video !
The XFX Merc 310 is an absolute monster of a card. The default fan curve is quite loud but you can turn it down and still get really solid temps. So glad I picked one up.
Where I live this card is the cheapest, but the sound issue is worrisome. I am curious, did you really achieved a silent operation? Are the temps ok? Thx for the answer in advance.
@@lev9701how is the sound worrysome lol. Ever heard of headphones
@@НААТ using headphones doesnt make the card less noisy, you just dont hear it anymore or not as loud. Please use your brain.
@@gurkengerd9981 😂😂 it does exactly that. If you still hearing ur gpu through ur headphone get better headphones or rma ur card cause that's not normal
i also have it, and it's a luck situation with xfx card, depending on the revision you got.
The pressure of the cooler and pcb end up pumping out the paste, so temps and hotspot will keep going up until the gpu needs to keep the fans at 2500rpm to cooldown 350w with hotspot nearing 100°C.
If you got unlucky and got one of those revisions, you have 3 options.
1.- sell it.
2.- rma it, but the issue will come back eventually unless the card gets replaced.
3.- use a thermalpad like the ptm7950 or kryosheet, that and selling it are the only permanent solutions, after i used the kryosheet my hotspot temps went down 25°C under the same power draw, and fans went down from 2500 to 1550rpm, it was a different card by changing that.
I just picked up a red devil 7900xt for $500 on marketplace. Let's go !!
Hello, i have a question about your video on all the best 3060 ti model to get or avoid, where would you put the gigabyte vision oc 8g model on your last list or what de you think about it? Thank you
Hey, thank you for your informative videos and comparisons of different graphics cards! I'm eagerly awaiting your video on the RX 6800 XT. In my opinion, this card offers the best price-performance ratio in its price range.
Thanks for your help, I was gonna buy the ASRock 7900xt Phantom but after the review I'm gonna look into the Asus Tuf 7900xt first. I'll decide between the two by the price difference afterwards. And since I'm getting Asus Z790-P Prime as the motherboard, it'd make sense to go for the Asus gpu for the convenience of the Argb and other things...Thanks very much
I really wanted that sexy Sapphire Nitro+ cars, but its regularly above $1k from what I see. In fact it's usually more than the XTX with the same cooler, which makes no sense lol I settled for the MSI card for $800 with the free copy of Starfield. So far I'm loving it
Get the ASRock 7900XT Taichi. Much cheaper than the Nitro with the same power limits and amazing cooling. Also 20 phase vrm. Cheapest S tier 7900XT without skimping on anything.
31.5k Timespy score after tweaking it. Better than a stock XTX.
I had to repaste my phantom gaming 7900 xt. Hot spot was hitting 110. I now get a 59 degree temp with hotspot at 80 to 85. Still toasty but way better. Amd runs so damn hot
ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT good or bad??
Did you find the answer, I'd like to know too
@@GEORGHEVICH asking the same question. You got the answer?
@@Nikk_lxme too mate, dunno if imma buy asrock 7900xt or sapphire radeon pulse
Are you going to make a video about rx 7700xt? I want to buy one and I have a choice between powercolor red devil and asus tuf gaming.
Really nice video! I do think the ASUS TUF also has triple 8 pin for the power btw :)
Would love to see a 7800xt video as well. Great video!
1. Hellhound 2. Asus tuf / Sapphire 3. XFX Merc 319
Im using the reference one and it's been very good even in thermals but then again i do have a good airflow setup
If u got latest reference is good who have oldest version he have problems.
Can you provide some info on this?@@MakeSh00t
Hi friends, I need help, what card do you recomend to me Powercolor Hellhound or Sapphire, I need take a decision asap. Thanks
So which one is better XFX/Gigabyte or Sapphire pulse? I do care about noise but also want the most powerful out of those 3, pls help me decide.
asking myself the same rn
lolllllllllllll
which one did you get brother? you must have decided by now
@@derbre5712 lol I don´t know, still hasn´t managed to sell my 3080 yet, but I think I will go with XFX even if is the biggest one and I will have to fit it somehow and move aio from front to roof, buy aditional intake fans to front :D and I also decided to go with XTX instead of XT.
@@tonysoprano3138 i got the rx 7900 xt for 813€ which was a good deal for here in vienna austria - pairing it with a 7800x3d - cant wait to start building in 2 days
I really appreciated this vid❤️
so as per I could understand there´s no much difference among them. If I´m not TOP player but want to have a nice video card, I can get the best price model of RX 7900 XT. correct?
I want buy a new 7900xt card. My preference is need most silent card for my money. In my country asrock 7900xt phantom gaming oc and powercolor red devil 7900xt same price(minimal +10 euro the red devil) .Wich is better ?
I have a problem with the hotspot temperature goes to 110c once seen to 111c. How is this possible? Even my old laptop 3050rx all of a sudden does resets after maybe less as a minute of a game. Some more hardware in the past has these prob's too but hidden underneath layers and sensors. You think it comes along from an old system forced register or spot or service? Like a pandora's box from hell from RuneShape to dofus?
The XFX Merc 310 can have hotspot issues, mine at factory settings was hitting over 100c with 3000rpm fan speed, you can find quite a few people have the same issue, I've been able to mostly resolve it but my temps are still worse than they should be. XFX did say they'd honour an RMA even if I decide to apply new thermal paste (I haven't yet) which is good of them.
Also if anyone knows what the best paste to use as a replacement please let me know. I want something that will last a long time.
I keep seeing random hotspot issues people report on almost all the cards. Seems more like QC issues and the multi-die layout being more difficult to get even mounting pressure on the cooler.
@@OTechnology Okay, I hadn't looked beyond the Merc310, thanks for letting me know.
That sucks. I've had good luck with mx6 it's a thicker paste. I have 6950 xt after repaste it still hits low 90s hotspot in oc bios. I ended up undervolting the card to get the he hotspot in low 80s. Maybe try undervolting see if makes a difference before taking the card apart.
I just purchased mine secondhand, and it suffers from a 40 degree delta between the gpu temp and the gpu hotspot. It hits around 90c in the hotspot. While the gpu reports being at 50 degrees C. I do not believe that XFX honors the warranty since I am not the original purchaser. So it seems I am out of luck. I did a repaste and I tried remounting after I saw that the hotspot had not changed whatsoever. However, this is what I get for purchasing secondhand and trying to save a few bucks I guess.
Just got a phantom gaming and it’s pretty nice.
Thank you for this video
I’m going on my third XFX 7900XT. First one shorted out and started smoking and my second one causes black screens with fans running at 100%. I’ve done multiple diagnoses and the card is the issue. Luckily their customer support is amazing. I just don’t see myself buying XFX in the future
psu?
@@menmabmx1995 Don’t remember which one exactly but it’s a Corsair 850W
I am really not sure if i should take the nitro + or the asus tuf oc. They are so close, can anyone let me know which one they prefer and why?
will you be making a 7800 xt video? or is this one a good guide manufacturer wise?
1. Hellhound 2. Asus tuf / Sapphire 3. XFX Merc 319
so is this for the XT or XTX?
please, can you make rx 7800 xt tier list?
I've recently got a RX 7900 XT Nitro+, but I haven't tried it yet since I have to build my pc yet, but I am really excited to try it after knowing that it would be this good. I have checked a few videos about it, but I couldn't really compare it with the other brands ones.
How is it?
@@kite1399 Really good, it’s a really high end GPU, so I can basically run everything with high specs and with high FPS
I have 6700 xt should i upgrade to 7800 xt nitro or 7900 xt can someone please help me as i am confused
Commander, we need a tier list for 4060 Ti and below. o7
If I play games and pause them I dont hear coilwhine, then I start them and hear coilwhine... Is it ok that it stops when pause game ? Sorry for my bad english. Thank you
thats normal behavior. if you go to menu there is less load. Undervolting and especially underclocking the card helps. AMD adrenaline auto OC GPUs so you better check it and set values to default
looking forward to the 7800XT video
1. Hellhound 2. Asus tuf / Sapphire 3. XFX Merc 319
Please do one of this for the rx 7800 xt ;D
rtx 4060 ti ? thanks for the info
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Awesome work
Okay, any helpers ?for 1440p fps prefernce not visual gamer, is it worth to get 7900xtx ? when tuf 7900xt is 995$ and 7900xtx phantom 1130$ ? Paired with 7600x and 27 1440p monitor
@@Kaj1gga i grabbed tuf xtx for 1k euro, i preffer high fps ocer quality tho ( yeah im smoothnes sharp eye
can you please do amd 7800 XT ?
7900xt hellhound OC $1300 Nzd or Asus tuf OC 7900xt $1400 Nzd?
Which RTX 4060 TI to BUY and AVOID? please :)?
om RTX 4060 ti 16gb buy and avoid bakal bikin kontennya ga?
Picked up the Phantom Gaming 7900 XT back in August and zero regrets. Destroys everything I’ve thrown at it. Have it paired with a R9 7900x and 32gb 6000 CL36
How's the card still holding up today? I ended up ordering that exact model on newegg for 720 dollars and I'm very excited lol.
I've heard some people had to replace the thermal paste and such
@@DXcellence718Returns Nothing short of Amazing. Currently playing through Suicide Squad in 1440P ultra. You’ll be happy!
@@DXcellence718Returns Want to buy one as well, how's the card holding up? I heard it has hotspot problems. 100⁰c
@Nikk_lx hey 👋 so within the 1st month my hotspot was hitting like 98C and I ended up buying the kyrosheet pad. Hotspot has fixed since then with no issues. Barely peaks 85C which is great.
The hotspot thing is no joke. When I opened up my card you could see the thermal paste pretty much not applied well. Do get the kyrosheet pad though instead of using thermal paste imo.
@@DXcellence718Returns thanks
I'm definitely going with the powercolor hellhound based on the stats im looking at.
Is dimensions on here? Would love to see each one size compared.
should i buy asrock or hellhound? 7900xt
which one did you buy, I am looking at asrock rn
I bought the Tuf OC, in part because of this tier list. Wish Asus would've done something on the top of the card for those of us with vertical GPU mounts. Looks so weird going from a 6700 Powercolor Red Devil with all the ominous red lighting... to a tiny pulsing little light. Whole front of my case is dark now, gotta rethink my theme, or if I want to bother leaving it vertically mounted.
How's the performance? thinking of tuf or hellhound
I would love to upgrade to this AMD card but I realized that only the reference card can fit in my PC (after looking at all of the other card dimensions).
😔
Sorry , I'm not following one part since it was last sentence. If we do not take the coolers into account, for instance we're using our own cooling system, all the tier A cards are build the same as the listed Tier S cards? The chip is obviously the same (within silicon deviation), but the VRM and PCB is also the same build-out? Thanks.
Is NITRO+ AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT Vapor-X 20GB good?
It's $900 lol it's not worth it
waiting for 7800 xt
mate please do one for the 7800xt
Which one of S tier Ones has lowest coil whine ?
I would think the Nitro+
7800xt guide when
Will there be "Which 4070 Ti SUPER to BUY and AVOID" and "Which 4080 SUPER to BUY and AVOID" videos? Are you considering testing it?
I'm skipping around the video to find stats on which model is the best overclocked for the most FPS, but I must be blind.
Why don't you have every manufacture's overclocked cards?
Guys what do You think about Pulse?
what are your thoughts on the "black edition" merc 310?
I have the merc 310 7900xtx and hotspot never gets above 70 and is usually around 62c.
@@justinboesch1997you meant gpu temp not Hotspot right?
@OTechnology I have bought MSI RX 7900XT TRIO CLASSIC last week , no Coil whine, max Hotspot temp was 83degC.
It has also 3_8Pin connectors maxing out around 340Watts in Hogwarts Legacy.
Really Great Card.
I think it could be a 'S' Tier card.
MSI does seem to be good, I have msi rtx 2070 with around 74-83deg max and 25-30C in idle with the fans OFF
Love my msi gaming trio ❤
Best Rx 7800 xt ... video please
I want to get this card for my girlfriend’s new PC but I’m putting together an all white build and they don’t have any white 7900xt’s😢 I can’t justify paying
8-900 for a 4070 TI
Same here, 2 solutions :
- get a 7800xt sapphire pure
- get a 7900xt with a silver backplate (don't remenber which one)
Do one for the RX7800 xt
How about 7800 ?
We need rx 7800xt tier list
1. Hellhound 2. Asus tuf / Sapphire 3. XFX Merc 319
Need your gpu guide on 7800xt
1. Hellhound 2. Asus tuf / Sapphire 3. XFX Merc 319
Assumptions and guesses
Did I miss the part where we got FPS in games?
Sapphire nitro seems to have around a 400w power limit
Ye I just managed to hit stable 400W power draw on a several minute long stress test, never dropped a watt bellow that
Merc 310 noisy af... unhappy with the buy. Somestimes custom fan curves dont work either
Waiting for "Which 4060 to Buy"
Can you do it with 4060 ti please ?
I find the lack of XT aib reviews disturbing
Anyone know which has no coil whine?
do 4060ti next
why no 7800 XT video ?:(
only the reference model fit in my case , how does it perform?
Please do it 4060 ti
I have the ASRock and it should be S tier.
ASROCK Radeon RX 7900 XT Taichi OC missing
Do they sell it can't seem to find one
Oh no i bought reference card, guess i got screwed T_T
Stock 7900xt asrock phantom on furmark, gpu stress, or gaming with 99% utilization.. 68c- hotspot 96c and junction 100c. Fans are by default, but even if you drastically increase the rpm you get the junction from 100 to 96. my case has top tier airflow. that is my experience. I am thinking on a refund tbh.
That's pretty spicy. For reference: pushing my Pulse 7900 XT (in my old case with subpar airflow; fans at 70%) to its limits with a slight UV/OC in the poorly optimized mess that is Starfield, I'm seeing absolute maximums of 70-75 core with both hotspot and junction somewhere at 85-92.
why refund , this is perfectly normal temps for stock cards ... throttling begins at 110 ...
I got the xtx pulse and everything is OK now, happy ending
I just started the video, I bet my card is trash….. smh lol
Asrock Taichi?
We are waiting for 4060.😏
This makes me miss bio lecture
lol XFX and Nitro+ is by far the best cards
Where is TAICHI?