AMD's new RX7900XTX and XT are a compelling value for gamers, even if they aren't complete showstoppers.
AMD RX 7900 XTX MSRP $1,000.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “The RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT impress with great value, but they don't top performance charts.” Pros Cons It’s not often I get disappointed as a reviewer, but the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT disappointed me. That might surprise you if you’ve seen the score they’ve earmed and the long list of pros these cards bring — they’re among the best graphics cards you can buy right now.
Power consumption is high, though not as high as the 450 watts the RTX 4090 demands. Interestingly, AMD pushed the RX 7900 XT a bit harder for release. The card originally had a total board power of 300 watts, but the final design pushes that to 315W for slightly higher performance. Although it’s never good to put too much stock in synthetic performance, these two 3DMark runs are fairly representative of what you can expect with the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT. Without ray tracing, the XTX is neck and neck with the RTX 4080, but with ray tracing, the delta slips to somewhere around 5% to 10%.
There are low points as well. Forza Horizon 5 used to be a game where AMD dominated, but its latest cards barely provide any boost over the previous generation. AMD takes a back seat in Horizon Zero Dawn, as well, which is another AMD-promoted title. Ray tracing and FSR AMD has been in a distant second place with ray tracing ever since RX 6000 GPUs were introduced. Although the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT help close that gap, Nvidia still shows a commanding lead. That lead can be important in some games, but unlike the previous generation, ray tracing is an option on AMD’s latest GPUs — even if they aren’t showstoppers on the RT front.
You can’t separate ray tracing from upscaling, and AMD offers its FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling in a wide swath of games. It’s not quite a prolific as Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling , but the second version of FSR is mighty impressive. It can provide similar performance gains as DLSS, and it doesn’t look terrible in the process .
Although FSR 2 is highly competitive with DLSS, it’s nowhere close to DLSS 3. We’re in a similar situation as the previous generation. AMD can go toe-to-toe in rasterized performance, but ray tracing and features like DLSS 3 still help Nvidia’s cards stand apart from the pack.
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