RX 7900 XT Reddit Verdict: Great Card, Rough Launch

I've found the majority of AMD users get the performance they need and don't talk about it. Nor do they bash the Nvidia forums. I've had a 7900XTX since launch, previous before that on a Nvidia 3080, and have really impressed.

Now re-review XTX.

Nvidia marketing and paid shills to infect message boards and forums have handily done a good job convincing people that Nvidia = good, AMD = bad. I've been using cards from both camps for years and I haven't had significant issues playing games.

the 9070

My understanding is that it has higher thermals and power draw, but also gives you 20GB VRAM vs the 12GB of 4070 ti.

Too little too late. It needed to be that price like 6 months ago when I was comparing it to 4070Ti Super and debating which to get.

Used GPUs for the price of what a new one should be, probably lower. This is not a deal, 9070XTs are just a 100 bucks more and from time to time you can get the PNY or FE 5070 for $550, sure it has way less VRAM/perf but it's not a used card or power-hungry.

I made your same purchase but I paid 570€, I think we will hardly regret it. And if we do, it means AMD actually nailed a GPU on release for once, which I do have my doubts about. The only thing I may regret in the future is not getting the XTX tbh

I paid 699 for a Powercolor Hellhound from Microcenter during prime week, I feel that was worth it comparing to a 6950xt at 599 with buying a cpu at the same time.

Price start high and drop. Something you got to get used to. If you buy early on in tech life, something new will always come around. The GPU is a good GPU. No need to feel bad about that. Just need to understand prices change.

I think the stupidest thing is their pricing strategy. Instead of just pricing it lower one time, they continually just decrease the price by 10-20 dollars every day or two. There is really no benefit in buying it right now cause you can just wait until tomorrow to see if they'll drop it in price again. All they're doing is incentivizing people to continue waiting for more price drops every day which makes people not wanna buy it.

Raster performance is like 10% better. 20GB VRAM vs. 12GB. You lose DLSS though, and the RT performance is a bit worse though still absolutely acceptable if you do want to use it.

No way this is worth it open box compared to a new 9070xt for 100-150 more.

If it's 1440p or more, that 5070 will age like milk with the 12 GB of VRAM. The 7900 XT has good raster performance, and you can mod INT FSR4 using optiscaler, which is more or less equal to DLSS 4 CNN model.

the price was too high. the GPU is not bad.

Its a great card but AMD fucked up the pricing. If it launched at 700 no one would have really complained but it was likely inflated to not gouge into the remaining RDNA2 stock, at the expense of killing initial interest.

7900 XT. It is stronger than 5070 in raster performance, has more VRAM (which is gonna be essential for 1440p future proofing). It has less features and worse ray tracing performance though. If you plan to keep the GPU for a longer period of time, 7900 XT is the choice here.

4070ti right now. Situation may change in the near future as RT is very memory demanding, Hogwarts Legacy with RT enabled already approaches 12GB limit, it won't be long till 12GB is not going to be enough and 4070ti performance will tank. As such I'd pick 7900XT.

The 7900 XT is only 10% faster than the 6950XT but has 20GB of VRAM compared to the 16GB of the 6950XT. You basically paid an extra $200 for better ray tracing performance and a little extra VRAM. Honestly, I don't think that is a bad deal as you can confidently play any game in 4K Ultra (60+fps) with ray tracing off.

It's not because it's a bad card, it's that it was a $900 card. AMD was being very ambitious with the pricing. Either they were hoping to push people over to XTX or towards the 6000 series to clear some inventory.

NVIDIA RT is miles away from AMD, that's just a fact. That does not mean AMD cards can't run it, it just means Nvidia does it better and faster.

7900xt can do raytracing but to say it's incredible at it is just ridiculous. It's mid as fuck compared to dlss4, to deny this is just pure cope. That doesn't mean the card and 7900xtx aren't good value. They really are, which is why I previously owned a 7900xtx. It's a great raster card for the price.

AMD is not bad at RT, it's just that Nvidia is so ahead (Better performance, better image quality, Ray Reconstruction, DLSS) ... XTX has heavy RT performance on par with 4070 Super lol

You are getting 20GB ram. That will bring more dividends in future.

You would be surprised at the ray tracing capability of the 7900 series. Spider-Man 2 can put up big numbers in 4K with frame gen and ray tracing ultimate. Cyberpunk has mods that optimize path tracing (it looks damn near identical to RTX) and u can run it at 60fps. Just try it out

I'm happy with the Rx 6800 I bought new in November for $350, so yeah, I think you should be happy with a 7900xt.

I'd say it's a decent buy at the current price considering that it's quite a bit faster than the 7800XT/7900GRE and significantly cheaper than the 4070Ti Super which it competes with in rasterization.

7900XT if your ready to tinker little bit to get fsr4 it is just few files you need to download and put in the game folder to get fsr4 int8 version working and it works really good. Fsr3 is pretty awful.

GPU is great it was just too overpriced at launch. The $760 it's going for now is good and is worth buying.

Never knew it was even considered 'BAD' - very happy with mine on 2k (switched from 3070)

Glad I waited for prices to drop. I was able to pick up an ASRock 7900 XT with the Starfield promo last month for $700 after taxes from Newegg, and it's been a great upgrade from my 3070 at 32:9 gaming. It's a more consistent frame rate, and I don't feel I'm missing out on raytracing at all.

I have the exact CPU, GPU and 64GB of RAM at 6000MT/s. It can run Indiana Jones and the great circle in 4k, all maxed, at 75-80fps

I bought this last month over a 9070 XT and several of my friends bought 9070 XTs. The Extra 4GB of VRAM doesn't appear to be making a difference in today's games, but might in the future, but I consistently get 20% more FPS at 4K over their 9070 XTs, albeit at a higher power draw. Very happy with purchase.

Have rx7900xt nitro+ an for 1440p its awsome. Only rt are little bit heavy on it. But still gta v enhanced ultra rt 1440p stil over 60fps.

I have the reference edition, and I must say, it's quite a good card. I don't understand the hype surrounding rt. Who would be looking at shadows and raindrops while gaming? Just kidding!

I got mine a few days ago. Asrock phantom gaming for $799. Came with starfield premium edition which retailed for $100. Then Newegg also offers you to trade in your old card. Honestly, no regrets because I play on an lg 42" c2 which caps at 120fps. Best card I've ever owned. Every game is buttery smooth

Nah, the XT is a really good card. The main issue with it is/was the price. It was egregious at 100 under the XTX. But 20Go of VRAM, a very decent chip, all around capability at 1440p and acceptable at 4K? AV1 encoding, future proofing until the PS6, EVENTUALLY AMD will finally release ROCm 5.5 and we can do compute with it...? What's there not to like here?

NVIDIA's ray tracing is certainly better, but people who act like AMD's ray tracing is unusable are delusional. For standard RT it does well, but PT is a whole different story. Either way, the 7900 XT is a better card in every way for my needs compared to my previous RTX 3060 Ti. Quite happy with the RT performance, even if I do leave it off for nearly every game.

7900 xt is way better then 5070 just because of VRAM. 9070xt is likely close but with better RT and FSR 4 (may come to 7900 series later?), but we don't know the price of the 9070xt yet.

The right play is not the one that wins you this hand, the right play is the one that wins more often. You bought a great card and got a huge upgrade. Don't waste your time being envious of what a possible you could have had. Enjoy what you do have.

I recently built a new primary personal gaming PC, 9800x3d w/ 7900 XT got it on an early Black Friday sale for like $600 US. Early on I felt like I should have waited. But with all the information I have now, the only thing I second guess is that i should have gone with a 7900 XTX before the prices exploded. I think this next Gen will be across the board underwhelming for any owners of the current gen.

I think, unless the 7900 is 50+ bucks cheaper, you should go for the 5070. 12GB is fine for 1440p. 5070 is less power hungry, newer, has better ray tracing and much better upscaling (FSR 3 is garbage compared to DLSS, and FSR 4 is still only a rumor for RDNA3 cards).

I own the Pulse version and am very happy with it. AMD got greedy and missed their opportunity to gain some market share. Short term thinking morons.

yes its good, but depends on the price, here it costs the same as the 9070xt so makes no sense to buy the 7900xt

I got the AsRock Phantom white for $630 off newegg, and couldn't be happier. They are all $800+ on ebay lol. Im so glad I didn't wait for the 5070 ti.

The RX 7900 XT is pretty solid for ray tracing as long as you don't use path tracing. It will wreck the framerate completely. These cards have pretty decent OC headroom and you can get 10-15% FPS boost just by overclocking.

Nvidia is for ray tracing enthusiasts imo. If that's not your main focus, then might as well get AMD for significantly less. I got immortals of aveum for <$2 and was disappointed that it 'only' ran it native 1440 max at 65 fps on my 7900xt. Then I did research and found the 4090 which retails for almost 3x as much only brings it up to 80 fps. So I will gladly pay 33% of the price for 81% of the performance