AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

[W1zzard]

With the Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD is going after the GeForce RTX 4070. Our review confirms that AMD has achieved performance parity in rasterization and is pretty close in ray tracing, at a much better price point, and they are giving you 16 GB VRAM, instead of just 12 GB.

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[W1zzard]

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 9x RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT

 

[GerKNG]

what's the point of selling a product that is identical (or even slower) with the product it replaces? for more money...
seems like the clowns at AMD working overtime again...

 

[Chrispy_]

Thanks W1zzard; Exactly as expected from TPU.

After you've had a break from testing these new cards I'd love to get a TPU verdict on RDNA2 vs RDNA3 at last. For the first time we have two almost identical configurations in the vanilla 6800 and the 7800XT. Dialling back the clocks of the 7800XT would let you directly compare just the architectures.

 

[HD64G]

Thanks for the reviews @W1zzard! This GPU landed exactly where predicted performance wise. Between 6800XT and 6900XT while being more efficient. If found at MSRP or below it has good value.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

So much better value than the RTX4060 (RTX4050)

 

[Dimitriman]

So here in the Netherlands cheapest 6800XT is currently at 550 euro, the exact same price as the 7800XT and almost the exact same performance. Thanks AMD for the rebrand!

 

[BigMack70]

I do not like this dystopian future GPU market we are in where "new" generations of GPU offer absolute bare minimum price/performance improvements and the manufacturer asks us to kiss their boots if there are even any improvements there at all.

AMD and Nvidia working hard to permanently anchor their entire product stack to the absolutely insane market pricing and conditions of the pandemic.

If I didn't already have a 20 year game library on PC, I'd nope right out of this nonsense and go play on consoles. PS5 and Xbox series X looking great.

 

[dyonoctis]

Good GPU against the current competition, pretty disappointing from a generational improvement point of view. RDNA 3 is an odd arch, going from negative to double digits increase depending on the game.

 

[Colddecked]

what's the point of selling a product that is identical (or even slower) with the product it replaces? for more money...
seems like the clowns at AMD working overtime again...

But its not identical... it has less cores, less infinity cache, dedicated AI cores... Also priced far below 6800xt's original msrp.

AMD's real mistake is calling this an XT, should have just called it 7800. Their naming scheme this generation is inconsistent at best.

 

[rv8000]

Not bad. First card to offer some decent value this gen if youre buying new. Not much different in terms of RT and efficiency improvements compared to navi31. Aftermarket cards with some tweaking hitting ~4070ti performance also not bad.

 

[Vya Domus]

what's the point of selling a product that is identical (or even slower) with the product it replaces? for more money...
seems like the clowns at AMD working overtime again...

This is significantly cheaper than what the 6800XT was selling for at launch.

Also the clowns at AMD are doing fine not working overtime at all because the clowns at Nvidia have such atrociously priced products it takes no effort to deliver a better value proposition.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Like with pretty much every card this generation naming should be ignored this is at best a 6800/6700XT replacement....

I think for $500 it's fine and it's better than anything Nvidia has in the general price range. $450 would have been a knock out of the park though.

 

[Frick]

It's honestly a bit better than I thought it would be. Some tests puts it neck to neck with the 6950XT, something the 6800xt didn't quite manage. Price is honestly pretty decent, some €80 less than the 6950xt, and RTX4070. I'm gonna keep the 6950xt I think (when it arrives) and toy around with undervolting.

I mean it's ... not ideal (to put it mildly), but my expectations were set so low I'm not dissapointed.

 

[GerKNG]

This is significantly cheaper than what the 6800XT was selling for at launch.

Also the clowns at AMD are doing fine not working overtime at all because the clowns at Nvidia have such atrociously priced products it takes no effort to deliver a better value proposition.

today is the 06.09.2023. a 6800XT costs 500 bucks. the MSRP is irrelevant.
this product replaces a 500 dollar GPU which is exactly the same and in some instances even faster. for almost 600 dollars...

 

[Metroid]

I thought the power consumption of the 7800xt 5nm would be much lower than the 6800xt 7nm which is not the case, maybe underclock the 7800xt a bit could flourish, dont think it would lose too much fps in doing that and would use a lot less watts. I would still buy the 7800xt x 6800xt or the 3080 or x 4070. The interesting thing is that a 3080 that was released on 2020 is still very much relevant 3 years later, my point is Nvidia and AMD failed. In a real capitalist world, both of them would be dead and buried.

 

[Vya Domus]

today is 06.09.2023.
this product replaces a 500 dollar GPU which is exactly the same and in some instances even faster. for almost 600 dollars...

Your point ? Older generation products are cheaper than they were at launch, whoa, crazy right ? You expect companies to factor that in every time they release something ? According that logic the price would slowly tend to zero, I swear some of you just don't think before you speak.

7800XT is 499, 6800XT was 649, considering we're also doing much worse inflation wise this is fine, nothing amazing but it's OK, the 7800XT will also drop in price as time goes on.

 

[HD64G]

today is the 06.09.2023. a 6800XT costs 500 bucks. the MSRP is irrelevant.
this product replaces a 500 dollar GPU which is exactly the same and in some instances even faster. for almost 600 dollars...

It replaces 6750XT since it has the mid-tier die (N22->N32). The fact that stock of RDNA2 was enormous and until depleted the prices went down to this, is irrelevant of which GPUs successor is 7800XT. Stock will vanish in a few weeks or months and only RDNA3 and Lovelace GPUs will be sold as new. Then, you and many more will understand much better the vfm this series offer to the GPU market. Patience...

 

[Xuper]

In term of power consumption ( spike , V-sync) , 7800 XT did much better than 6800 XT

 

[bug]

It's honestly a bit better than I thought it would be. Some tests puts it neck to neck with the 6950XT, something the 6800xt didn't quite manage. Price is honestly pretty decent, some €80 less than the 6950xt, same as the RTX4070. I'm gonna keep the 6950xt I think (when it arrives) and toy around with undervolting.

I mean it's ... not ideal (to put it mildly), but my expectations were set so low I'm not dissapointed.

There's something inconsistent about this card: sometimes it's significantly faster than a 4070, sometimes it's significantly slower. On average, they're neck to neck (ignoring RT).

 

[Frozoken]

A little disappointing except in overclocking. ~15% more fps from a GPU overclock is one of the highest I've seen in ages. Basically ~6950xt performance for $500 +1-2hrs of ur time but with better efficiency and av1 encoding

 

[Frick]

One selling point for this is that it's physically smaller than the 6950xt, so some models would fit inside my case without removing the HDD cage. The AIB versions are bigger though.

A little disappointing except in overclocking. ~15% more fps from a GPU overclock is one of the highest I've seen in ages. Basically ~6950xt performance for $500 +1-2hrs of ur time but with better efficiency and av1 encoding

I haven't seen any power numbers when overclocked though.

 

[usiname]

Surprisingly good overclocking headroom for both 7700xt and 7800xt. Not like Nvidia, where you get 6-7% at best

 

[AnotherReader]

Thanks for the comprehensive and timely review @W1zzard. Given the price, this is the best RDNA3 option in many markets.

 

[ARF]

Given the price, this is the best RDNA3 option in many markets.

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