Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse Review

Name: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse
Brand: Sapphire
Price: 860 USD

on Mar 16th, 2023,

Manufacturer: Sapphire

Test System

Test System - GPU 2023.1
Processor:	Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake, 36 MB Cache PL1 = PL2 = 320 W
Motherboard:	EVGA Z790 Dark BIOS 1.10
Resizable BAR:	Enabled on all supported AMD, NVIDIA & Intel cards
Memory:	Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB D5 2x 16 GB / DDR5-6000 / 36-38-38-76
Cooling:	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:	Arctic MX-6
Storage:	Neo Forza NFP455 2 TB / M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:	Seasonic Vertex GX 850 W ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:	darkFlash DLX4000 Mesh
Operating System:	Windows 11 Professional 64-bit Version 22H2
Drivers:	NVIDIA: 528.49 WHQL RX 7900 XT & XTX: 23.1.2 Beta AMD: 22.11.2 WHQL

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

All games and cards are tested with the drivers listed above—no performance results were recycled between test systems. Only this exact system with exactly the same configuration is used.
All graphics cards are tested using the same game version.
All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.
Before starting measurements, we heat up the card for each test to ensure a steady state is tested. This ensures that the card won't boost to unrealistically high clocks for only a few seconds until it heats up, as that doesn't represent prolonged gameplay.
For better real-life applicability, all game tests use custom in-game test scenes, not the integrated benchmarks

Each game is tested at these screen resolutions:

1920x1080: Most popular monitor resolution.
2560x1440: Intermediary resolution between Full HD and 4K, with reasonable performance requirements.
3840x2160: 4K Ultra HD resolution, available on the latest high-end monitors.

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