Unfortunately, this deal has expired 30 July 2023.
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Posted 22 July 2023
Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card with STARFIELD Game Code
£7.99 ·
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With Starfield game code.
For those that missed this deal at £699 last week… this is £29 more but still cheapest in the UK for a 7900XT.
For those that missed this deal at £699 last week… this is £29 more but still cheapest in the UK for a 7900XT.
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Edited by a community support team member, 30 July 2023
98 Comments
sorted byI have the MBA/reference model and the performance is amazing. I’ve had a 6800xt (7900XT is 30% quicker) and a 3090 (7900XT is 15% quicker).
The reference 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 aren’t the best at raytracing. The 7900xt is on par with a 3080 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.
Also the 7900XT can do AV1 encode and has AI cores which RDNA2 (6950xt etc) doesn’t. This will help productivity work streams.
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.
EDIT Sapphire PULSE 7900XT has superior cooling over the MBA and can hit a higher OC so you could potentially match a 4080 at rasterisation. (edited)
So they're in no hurry to drop the price on these cards when they are selling fine and everything that rolls out the factory is directed towards the much more lucrative server and compute space.
AMD on the other hand released an overpriced card that was intended to be an upsell to their XTX model, I mean if you're going to spend 900 for the XT, why not another 100 and get the XTX. But now the 6000 cards are finally clearing out of inventory and the XT is dropping down to fill the place the 6900 used to occupy.
Basically AMD has an incentive to sell, while Nvidia is getting money thrown at them from every direction and don't need to do anything.
Vram is an advantage 20gb vs 12gb.
And about 25% more raw performance. (edited)
uk.pcpartpicker.com/lis…Bgb
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This site is helpful -
pc-builds.com/pow…2Nq (edited)
Update:
forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/sapphire-amd-deals.18974942/page-5
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