Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming Graphics Card 20GB - £769.19 @ Amazon

I have this model and the performance is amazing. I’ve had a 6800xt (7900XT is 30-40% quicker) and a 3090 (7900XT is 15% quicker) and tbh this blows these out of the water.

The gpu is happy on a 750w psu and notice my total system power sitting around 550w.

I use a single 1440p 180hz IPS (LG27GP850) screen which the vast majority of gamers use and don’t use VR (not sure what the attraction is here!).

I get 250fps at Call of Duty MW2 on ultra, 110FPS on Spider-Man with MAX raytracing, 110FPS on TLOU on ultra, 160fps on Horizon Zero Dawn on ultra. Around 150-180fps on Forza Horizon 5 on max settings. I’d say these are amazing results and exceed my monitors refresh rate on quite a few occasions.

It’s got quite a bit of potential left untapped which future driver updates will unleash making £700 quid seem a bargain if it matches a 4080 performance in a few months.

But to make it clear I’ve had no driver problems whatsoever- make sure you do a clean install of drivers (use DDU program).

Give AMD time and they’ll perfect the drivers like they did for RDNA2.

I would advise against RDNA2 as these cards are woeful at raytracing. The 7900xt is on par with a 3090ti for raytracing. On straight up graphics grunt it is between a 4070ti and a 4080. Overclock it and you’ll gain 6-7% more performance almost touching a 4080 in terms of raw power.

I think FSR 2.0 and DLSS 2.0 is not widely dissimilar and don’t think this should be an issue.

FSR3.0 (frame gen) is due to be released which will boost frames even more.

I would easily think this is the better deal over a 4070ti for the raw performance and for 20GB vram which will future proof it somewhat.

4070ti owners might have to upgrade again in 2 years due to vram insufficiency as it’s only got 12gb. 

I’m not intending to upgrade for another 4-5 years.

Make up your own minds and watch YT. Linus Tech Tips has gone for AMD this gen and is happy about it etc. (edited)

This should be getting cheaper not more expensive (been £749 a few times on Amazon). Returned mine as it was useless as expected for VR. I wouldn't say FSR2 is similar to DLSS 2, NVidia is way ahead.

Of course it will go hot as it's AMD. (edited)

@I_Gibbs_I here’s mine in action


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If they would have sorted the drivers out for VR then I would have bought one of these. Instead I bought a second hand 3090 for 625. I get it today and i cant wait!

New drivers DO NOT claim to fix high idle power consumption. Only to improve it on 144hz displays. Not even all displays with higher or lesser hz. So still a power muncher. Just maybe a little less on 144hz. With no mention of 120, 165, 240hz etc.

[EDIT: I'm referring to an Amazon Warehouse "Used - Like New" offer]

A 6950 XT deal for £470 was posted the in the past week. Broadly speaking, this 7900 XT represents 15% more performance for 65% more money.

Amazon Prime Day is a week or so away. Probably worth holding off until then unless an unambiguously great deal crops up in the meantime. (edited)

videocardz.com/dri…7-1

Idle power draw and VR fixed in latest full consumer driver. 23.7.1

Here is mine in action

Added heat because price is fine, but this product is poor value nevertheless.

Power draw, drivers and no DLSS 3. 3 x deal breakers, unfortunately. Typical AMD and there's nothing to say that their next FSR iteration will even have a Frame Gen of any sorts, not to mention it will be close to NV's performance. You have to hate NV, but in fairness, they are a better bet for the majority, as proven by sales year after year...

The XFX version is £720ish on Newegg.

if only this was the XTX i'd consider it.

WAIT for the 11 July

AMD Starfield bundle also for Radeon RX 6600+ GPUs

videocardz.com/new…pus (edited)