Tuesday, February 6th 2024
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Now $100 Cheaper Than GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
Prices of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card hit new lows, with a Sapphire custom-design card selling for $699 with a coupon discount on Newegg. This puts its price a whole $100 cheaper (12.5% cheaper) than the recently announced NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. The most interesting part of the story is that the RX 7900 XT is technically from a segment above. Originally launched at $900, the RX 7900 XT is recommended by AMD for 4K Ultra HD gaming with ray tracing; while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is officially recommended by NVIDIA for maxed out gaming with ray tracing at 1440p, although throughout our testing, we found the card to be capable of 4K Ultra HD gaming.
The Radeon RX 7900 XT offers about the same performance as the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, averaging 1% higher than it in our testing, at the 4K Ultra HD resolution. At 1440p, the official stomping ground of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, the RX 7900 XT comes out 2% faster. These are, of course pure raster 3D workloads. In our testing with ray tracing enabled, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER storms past the RX 7900 XT, posting 23% higher performance at 4K Ultra HD, and 21% higher performance at 1440p.
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The Radeon RX 7900 XT offers about the same performance as the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, averaging 1% higher than it in our testing, at the 4K Ultra HD resolution. At 1440p, the official stomping ground of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, the RX 7900 XT comes out 2% faster. These are, of course pure raster 3D workloads. In our testing with ray tracing enabled, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER storms past the RX 7900 XT, posting 23% higher performance at 4K Ultra HD, and 21% higher performance at 1440p.
132 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Now $100 Cheaper Than GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
nvidia is selling rt perf thats all. an overclocked 7800xt for 500 € is on the heels of the 4070 ti super yet it costs almost double. nvidia lost its mind you can play every non nvidia sponsored rt game with an rx 7900. :toast:
RTX 4000 suck, no RT improvements, hopefully they move forward with RT for RTX 5000 series and actually improve it this time
yea they only see marketing from nvidia and believe it. sure nvidia perfromas beeter in rt most of the time but if i have 75 fps or 90 is it really that bad when you outperform the competition in 99,999999% of games. brainwashed sheeple is all i see these days no matter what brand.
:toast: excatly all they see is msrp is the same yea no shit since no one bought it at the old msrp also the card should have been release at the strreet price of the 4070ti not bs msrp its another trap. and the card that really got cheaper the 4080 is sometimes even slower than its non super part. at this point simply wait for super refresh of vblackwell if it has top be nvidia then you at least get what should have been on day 1. but who am i kidding sheeple will buy anything from nvidia. they can do whatever theys want. they could tell people to fuck off with while buying their cards they still would buy the next one.
That said, RX 7900 XT will only be tasty for below 650 USD (but for the actual reality check, it has to drop down to 550ish dollars so NV stop overpricing their hardware).
NB: I rock an AMD GPU and occasionally use an RTX 3060 Ti. I know what I'm talking about.
Here's another thing. I have a Steam and GOG library full of PC games dating back to the 1980's/90's. Hundreds of games, there is not one that I have trouble playing on a 7900XTX. As a matter of fact I have more trouble with older games on my other PC with a 4080.
NB: I also know what i'm talking about.
NV won't cut their prices if AMD do nothing. NV will consider discounts if AMD do something. NV will sell cheaper if AMD really destroy them in $ per FPS metric. Imagine selling 4060 Ti for 400 USD if that was the price of 7800 XT. I genuinely don't see 4060 Ti staying this expensive if AMD did this thing. But they didn't, they placed this GPU right into the spot where it delivers margin of error more value than 4070 in non-RT and that's it. And no, 10 to 15 % advantage IS margin of error more value all things considered.
Why is 4090 so expensive? Because AMD don't have anything to make 4090 look slow.
Why is 4080 above $1000? Because AMD's flagship, priced at 1000 USD, isn't faster.
Tango is a dance of two, not one. We need both sides to compete, not the only company having all the take.
P.S. RT performance in AMD GPUs is barely existent. Maybe 7900 XTX is a little bit better than that. The reason they are much slower in NVIDIA sponsored titles is not NVIDIA sponsoring these titles but rather extensively weak RT performance overall. RE4 Remake and the likes of it use RT to extent you can call it literally pure raster games and not be totally wrong.
What’s ironic, the only reason prices are high is because these loyalists will only buy Nvidia. Go figure. Lol!
Blind fanatics will always find excuses to justify themselves;
Here's a secret: If you don't buy something, the price drops, it's simple.
8GB cards sorted by lowest price..............a couple Arc A750s and RTX 3050's in there
And why should AMD lower prices when they already have lower prices than Nvidia tier for tier. Surely Nvidia with their vast amounts of money could drop prices to force AMD's hand. No company is a charity and their not your friend. Really you should be more concerned that a Nvidia 80 class GPU nearly doubled in price and very nearly also released a 70 class GPU as a 80 class. If there is a company that has the margins to drop a graphics card's price it's Nvidia.
Also be realistic, Nvidia won't cut their prices anyway, even though RX 7000 cards are competitive in rasterized performance, the part which most people actually care about, Nvidia charges what they do because of marketing and mindshare, people are convinced they need Nvidia features to play games, and keep repeating the outdated claim of AMD drivers being bad.
The 7900XTX is faster in raster performance, yet the RTX 4080 is over $1000 because Nvidia can charge whatever they want while saying they don't give a crap about the gaming market. Remember Nvidia tried to sell a RTX 4080 12GB for $900.
RT performance still isn't good enough for the stupidly high prices Nvidia is charging, you shouldn't need to use upscaling and fake frames to use RT at 4K on a $2000 RTX 4090.
I'm kinda digging the fact AMD GPUs are faster than similarly priced NV GPUs in pure raster but... they are so much worse in everything else and AMD don't declare a price war it simply doesn't make any sense to me to support AMD. They are simply worse than NV only because they aren't better. I'm afraid I don't impact the pricing. I am a broke person with a past-gen mid-range RT uncapable GPU and that's the best my budget allows me to have. And I know the higher demand makes for higher prices.
But still, that's not the point right now as NV do not have a reason to cut their prices simply because similarly priced AMD GPUs are worse in everything that's not pure raster performance and winnings on the latter are too insignificant to be bothered with (10% is by no mean massive). Err... if your product is so bad it's not the customer's fault. We don't have to care about their profits. It's their problem.
Not to mention Nvidia users also have Reflex advantage.
The only thing that matters to me is rasterization performance and price. What game doesn't use rasterization?
Most games with RT are a bland effect that only steals performance in exchange for effects that I need to stop and analyze to notice. The 2-3 that use PT don't run well at all, unless you sacrifice resolution which is extremely dumb for something that is intended to be realistic.
If the games were photorealistic, and had good performance I would be the first to say "Ah, the hardware costs thousands of dollars, but the result in quality is proportional"
Admit it, so far RT is pure Alienation. It's not realistic, it doesn't run well on anything, it wastes resources and makes everything more expensive. period.
One of a few games which can push your GPU to 100% clearly shows it's not 20% but rather 33%:
That said, $1600 is less greedy for 4090 than $1200 is for 4080 considering you're getting the very best all-around GPU. $1200 for 4080 was a joke, is a joke and will be a freaking joke. 7900 XTX doesn't deserve being over 700 USD either. It's much more realistic than SSR, let alone baked lighting. If you need to pay attention to notice the difference this means you didn't enable RT or you have some vision issues, IDK. Once seen, can't be unseen. Much easier to implement, too. The problem is on the AMD side: they don't develop RT in their hardware so gaming consoles don't get RT so everyone only gets tech previews like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077, and games where RT isn't actually RT.
Just for your information: even Intel Arc GPUs handle RT better than AMD GPUs. This is how bad things for AMD are.
Either if it was $200 cheaper I would have a hard time justifying a 7900 XT over a 4070 Ti SUPER, though.