AMD's Most Powerful GPU - RX 7900 XTX

As of right now the RX 7900 XTX is AMD's most powerful GPU. It undercuts both the 4080 and the 4090 coming in at $999. It's still quite an expensive GPU and the real question is is it worth it.
It is finally time. after talking about this GPU for what feels like forever. I finally have it in hand and it's time to unbox and benchmark the RX 7900 XTX. So Let's Begin
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:22 About the Card
5:16 Unboxing
7:20 So How is it
11:13 Installation
12:09 Benchmarks
15:42 Is It Worth It
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[@malikon6953]

good overview. Everyone keeps reviewing the 7900xtx at 4k and as a 1440p gamer it's great to finally see those numbers. Thanks.

[@Qualkkuno]

Great breakdown video. I currently have a 6900xt, trying to justify the upgrade. Your 6800xt probably had similar performance, would love to see an update after using it for a while.

[@mythiccascade61]

Great review. I also agree that the frame times are amazing on this card, i've got the exact same card. I've noticed the new drivers are a lot more stable stock than the older drivers. However, the OC settings i've found to be stable are 1140mv, 2714mhz vram, +8% power limit. I don't really mess with the max frequency because i've seen a lot of crashes, and stock mine goes to 500-2940 max. Looking forward to a follow up review or OC settings.

[@mikelsaezdeeguilaz386]

Same card here. Seems like u have a bad silicon. My UV is 2750 fast timmings +8% PL 500 min freq 2940 max freq voltage 1085. (Tested 12h of rdr2, 7h of valhalla and 12h of horizon zero dawn. But for example I need 1098 to be stable in r6 and The last of us with the same settings

[@mygotiger]

Noice! Keep it up my guy and more power!

[@Nicc93]

I have the Sapphire Nitro 7900 xtx and at 4k im getting 200+ fps in WarThunder and Enlisted :) its a monster.

[@Lukas_Miglioranza]

Ah ah ah! Very happy for you! Great Card!

[@ro794]

Bro talked about the box for 3mins

[@cybersamiches4028]

I like 📦

[@clark85]

that was good I like that, a proper unboxing

[@macfurrywong8108]

To be fair when I spend that much money on the gpu. I would stare at the box for a good 15mins just appreciating my money well spent hahahaha

[@_N4VE_]

and what? he’s enjoying making us content and talking about the product. is there a problem?

[@NightSyndicate]

Holy shit 😂

[@Chris_94]

@GreaterThanPie Awesome looking card! Im enjoying my new rx6800 big improvement over my 6600xt. I can actually play titles like tlou now lol and can hookup up my pc to my 4k tv now or just run my 1440p and 1080p dual monitor setup

[@RyeRyeL]

I took a bit of a risk on the Sapphire Pulse 7900XTX as it was the cheapest card in the UK at the time. I mostly play Call of Duty Warzone and MW2 & 3. For those titles, it beats a 4090 with less power draw. £900 vs £1800. Before this I had a 3090 FE (flawed card, had one die due to overheating VRAM on the back) and the 7900 XTX walks all over it. I also prefer Adrenaline to Nvidia's software, which maybe a rare take, but things like Radeon Chill for titles like strategy/city builders where you can use less power and produce less heat and maintain stable FPS is well worth it for me.

[@AydinHero]

Thanks for the video bro! I wonder how it does with 8K. I'm really thinking of getting one and playing with older games at 200% res scale and a few new games here and there but mostly indie and older AAA games, on a 5120x1440 res at 200%, I think the 24gb VRAM would help over the 4080's 16GB. Also the AMD upcoming frame interpolation is promising too.

[@greaterthanpie]

I have never tested 8k but it could be fun. I'll look into it

[@AydinHero]

@@greaterthanpie might be interesting, especially if it can pull away from the 4080 due to the VRAM

[@l.i.archer5379]

That's not a dual BIOS. That's just a switch that puts the fans in silent mode or gaming mode that changes the fan curve to either conserve energy (off when it's idling or has very little load) or keep the fans moving to provide constant airflow to keep the GPU cooler. I have that same switch on my RX 6950 XT (non-overclocked), which I recently picked up from MicroCenter for $650 +tx). I installed it in my R9 5900X system (manually overclocked to 4.5 GHz with no undervoltiing). My GPU is set to silent with temperatures around 30 degC when doing anything but gaming or benchmarking. Playing Halo Infinite, it peaks around 71 degC but normally stays around 62 deg C. Heaven Benchmark: FPS: 302.7 Score: 7626 Min FPS: 59.9 Max FPS: 552.4 Render: Direct3D11 Mode: 2560x1440 Preset: Custom Quality: High Tessellation: Disabled My card only uses two 8-pin power connectors, so I don't think it's worth paying so much more for the RX 7900 XTX that uses more power without much improvement in performance.

[@nate3432]

I'm here because I've been watching many amd 7000 series videos. I'm thinking about a streaming setup and AV1 encoder entices me, which 7000 series has. It's the only reason I'm considering 7900 xt*, otherwise it'd be a 6950xt at $600 all day long the end of May 2023. The other option is to buy 6000 series and get a 7800 xt or something when it comes out, and sell the 6000. I upgrade video cards every 5 years or more so the 7900 xtx is tempting.

[@worstLL]

underated

[@Chef_-xv7ms]

Hi and Welcome to the youtube channel! looks like like you are running little behind but l don't mean that in a bad way! we all make a start when we feel we are ready! so really warm welcome and whish you all the best! thank you!

[@Luckytmj97]

Damn wish you were sponsored you could do all the cards from the 7900xtx

[@Kapono5150]

I almost went with the 7900 XTX but got a 4080 instead.

[@pokqn]

Rx 7900xtx is wayyyy better, you definitely should return the 4080 and get the 7900xtx

[@Kapono5150]

@@pokqn I’m actually loving the 4080. Got the Zotac AIRO Extreme new for 1000

[@laszlodajka5946]

Thanks for the vid. So you feel even vr is good on it now? I heard in the beginning there were serious problems. Maybe they improved their drivers? I grabbed a tuf gaming model and love it so far. Need to check my fps in cyberpunk on medium rt after this :)

[@greaterthanpie]

Interesting I had No Idea VR Had A Problem on this GPU. From my testing it has worked flawlessly

[@trawll8659]

Most of the VR related issues have to do with Meta's Quest 2/Pro not properly interacting with the GPU, for PC VR HMD's there has been little to no problems that I know of.

[@hazardzme]

interesting. very nice card.

[@bornwisedistruction]

I have been spoiled by my 7900XTX I complain about getting 121 FPS at 4k in Destiny 2 at max settings like what has happened to me I just not to long ago left 1080p gaming at barely 65 to 70 fps and now 120+ frames isnt enough I dont even know my self anymore the power has gone to my ego! 🤣🤣

[@_N4VE_]

do you have this model? I bought a 79xt hellhound back in December and now I see this card on amazon for $932!! I haven’t even opened the 79xt yet as I still haven’t put together my PC. (moving house halted my build)…now that I’m settled in the new home, i see XTX cards on sale for less than I bought my XT! wtf 💀

[@guruguru8633]

Msi 7900xt recommend or not , for buying?

[@wezzla]

I just picked up a 6950 xt which has the same power input (8+8+6). Did you have to daisy chain 8+6 as well, or did your PSU came with an extra PCIe cable? What is your max power draw?

[@Nicc93]

my sapphire nitro 7900 xtx pulls over 400 watts alot of the times. 4k high settings

[@Nicc93]

do not daisy chain the power cables in a gpu with this power.

[@xythiera7255]

Dont ever do that with a power hungry card there is a reason you have to have 3 there o.O . You cabel are only made for so many wats imagine pushing that much throw 1 cabel becouse you are to lazy to just put a theerd one in

[@slim420MM]

Great card. I have 60hz Tv so the 7900xt is enough for my needs.

[@Ghostlynotme445]

4k?

[@slim420MM]

@@Ghostlynotme445 Yes

[@MrMakaveli2012]

It's a overkill for your needs...LOL!

[@Ghostlynotme445]

@@MrMakaveli2012 for 699 it’s all you need.

[@slim420MM]

@@MrMakaveli2012 Not when using rtgi..lol

[@potatoskins8155]

just went from a 6800xt to 7900xtx im hoping its worth the upgrade

[@user-us5pj1hm5l]

for me that was a huge upgrade as I come from a 1050ti that I have used for the last 6 years (I purchased the 7900xtx by mistake but it was a great mistake LOL)

[@Veganarchy-Zetetic]

How did you buy it by mistake? Did you want Nvidia instead?

[@rylodinson6100]

just try undervolt it @ 1060mV my 3DMark Port Royale is 181XX ... also my VRAM is set to 2714 MHz with fast timings and Power is +15%

[@user-sg5yz6ko9y]

почему она в пленке? msi не заворачивают коробки в пленку.

[@Nixxx2000]

do the fans rattle? do u experience coil whine?

[@greaterthanpie]

Nope

[@duladrop4252]

Just a request when we see in a couple of months try to post it when FSR 3 is already supported in games...

[@greaterthanpie]

That's a good point we should be seeing FSR 3 soon. I'll make sure those numbers are in there.

[@sylvania4558]

this GPU in particular is power throttled more than anything, you'll need to give it the maximum power limit and adjusting the Voltage by lowering it to even get it Stable and faster.. changing the Max Freq doesn't do much on this GPU sadly.

[@greaterthanpie]

Interesting Ill look out for that. I plan on thinker with it soon and it will defiantly be in the full review later

[@laszlodajka5946]

So if u undervolt it within stable limits it may get faster?

[@phero6933]

It doesn't go toe to toe with Nvidia's best though. It goes toe to toe with the 4080.

[@mayssm]

Also doesn't cost $1600-$1800 like a 4090.

[@clark85]

no duh

[@phero6933]

​@@clark85 exactly

[@clark85]

@@phero6933 if you paid attention to the video he understands it doesnt

[@xythiera7255]

It actuly gets close in raw performance to a 4090 without raytracing or DLSS 3 . Pluse a 4090 is not a card anybody shoud even think about its compleat overkill for everybody

[@mattyb584]

I just bought this card and on benchmarks for some reason its performing like 25% worse than expected for a 7900 xtx. Not sure what I'm doing wrong

[@theonerm2]

While the card performs well I had to RMA mine within a month. I have the exact same model as you. I then looked up the failed rate and it's a shocking 11%. The Nvidia cards are at less than 1% failure rate. Also a few other things to note are that if you want to use anything that requires cuda you just can't. It won't work. You can still do machine learning and stuff like that. I got tensorflow to work with directML but it's a pain to have to use that because it's slow and most of the models you actually want are pytorch. But for just gaming it's great. It raytraces better than the RTX 4070 ti but worse than the 4080. Overall it's a good card but because the high failure rate scares me and I can't use it with pytorch(Or at least don't know how) I'm getting an RTX 4080 this week. Already ordered it.

[@HxR-eSports]

So you returned the card because you saw some random failure rate percentage on the internet? If ever wanted to see what a Nvidia shill looked like, this guy right here is it people.

[@theonerm2]

@@HxR-eSports Yeah. That combined with the fact that the card failed so quickly scared me. Plus, I wanted to run huggingface stuff and couldn't figure out how on the 7900 XTX. It's 100% easier on the Nvidia card.

[@HxR-eSports]

@@theonerm2 Whatever you say shill.

[@TheLateral18]

If this GPU would have been $800 That would have been an awsome deal!!

[@lilpain1997]

I wouldn't have gotten it for 800 simply due to how much power it draws over the 4080 ( assuming the 4080 was around 850 to 900 seeing as here in the UK the two cost the same pretty much. Most 7900xtxs are literally only around 100 less or 50 less ). It literally almost matches the 4090 in power while only giving 4080 performance and that to me is just not worth it. You also loose out on RT if that is your thing ( I know for many it is not but we cant dismiss it when so many games have it now and you are paying for a premium product ). This gen sucks so bad for both.

[@TheLateral18]

@@lilpain1997 these are really good points.. Some confused soul on amd reddit. Is telling the 7900xtx is a great card. I point out how amd, got greedy and just added Xs to the model and justify that $999. How rdn to rdn2 was a 80% lift on performance. I didn't even mentioned the power draw The post has so many down votes 😂 😂 😂 😂 I'll stick with the 6950xt fot a while and i can use MPT to give more power and Undervolt

[@_N4VE_]

@@TheLateral18at $932 is this card worth it? I have a boxed 79xt hellhound that I never used and plan to sell now. I see multiple XTX’s on sale for less than I bought my 79XT back in December….

[@eliotcfernandes]

@@TheLateral18 4080 its more than £50-100 expensive than xtx i live in uk

[@Anon-cv7ru]

Just remember people not in US might be paying more than 1k USD... I paid about 1.2k+ for mine exact same GPU just couple of months ago when 7800X3D just released.

[@_N4VE_]

I’m considering buy one rn cuz Amazon has it for $932.00USD …..and I bought a Powercolor Hellhound 7900xt last December for $989.00 🤦‍♂️ Gonna try and sell the 79xt now…i never used it yet as I just parted a build that I plan to put together still….

[@tankconnors7323]

Hows the coil whine? I heard bad things..

[@greaterthanpie]

On my card I haven't noticed any

[@junkdubious]

ATI's back! Kinda of...

[@gmualum08]

Is it a metal back plate on this card? That's what I needed answered before purchasing agh. Anyone have the answer to this?

[@greaterthanpie]

Yes there is a metal backplate

[@MrArcanjoGabriel]

For 1300 euros, amd can put that in one place that I know.

[@hab9514]

Duddeee can you help me justify not returning this card while having a ps5 and xsx... i love the performance but its...1000€... hell i can get a switch and a psvr2 for that... jist drives me nutsss and honestly consoles are doing all the games just fine

[@djcgaming5632]

We get it, but next time get to the main point of the viseo quicker bro

[@tryharder1053]

I find it hard to believe you got 75.50fps avg on RT ultra on CP must of been upscaling from 50% (1440p).

[@laszlodajka5946]

Probably. Unfortunately neither of the 7900 xtx nor the 4080 can handle cp on ultra rt without upscaling. Looking forward to the day when we can rt on native. I dont like sacraficing clean resolution

[@tryharder1053]

@@laszlodajka5946 Nah I'm a huge fan of DLSS/DLAA/FG the image is so similar I've tricked everyone who's ever used my setup into believing 1080p-->4K +FG is just native 4K

[@standardcoffee2001]

i heard that this model has insane coil whine

[@greaterthanpie]

Fortunately mine doesn't seem to have this issue. There might be some models that are worse than others.

[@standardcoffee2001]

@@greaterthanpie how is the temperature and the noise

[@100500daniel]

What about the thermals????

[@vagueCMD]

I have this MSI model. I ran a OCCT power test (CPU and GPU running at 100%) my CPU (7950X3D) hit at its highest of the test was 67°C. The 7900 xtx never went above 45°C. Granted the test was for 30 minutes, but was running full power the entire time.

[@JohnDoe-ip3oq]

Here's the catch, I went from 6700xt to 7900xt, there's still a system bottleneck. You don't NEED more than a 6700xt. It's an ultra settings or 4k card, and I have a 1440p monitor.

[@connieclarke5855]

You're getting a CPU bottleneck because you need to upgrade your toaster.

[@xythiera7255]

You will allways have a bottelneck some were if you put in a much powerfull gpu with the same system your cpu most likely just cant keep up giveing your gpu enoth frames to render

[@andrewwardle-bu9yx]

just swopped my zotac rtx 3080ti for Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ Vapor-X 24GB the zotac was so noisy it was driving me mad , the sapphire i cannot hear it , bliss ...........

[@stevenwest3191]

These video cards should be around $500 at most. FJB. Next I would add having a 6900 XT myself. The biggest problem facing anyone with a video card is Video Memory. So If Nvidia can make a card with 32GB of Video Memory. Why can't AMD? I get that ya that 32GB card costs $3000 right and nobody in their right mind would buy it. But still, no game out or coming out could touch the power of the 6900 XT if it just had more damn memory. (To which you can go into the bios of most upper end gaming boards and either A Increase the vram by using system memory or just increase the transfer speed.)

[@MrMakaveli2012]

Nvidia 32 GB or higher cards are not for gaming, they are more for AI and servers and a average or hardcore gamer that just game won't be spending that kind of money on a card and won't need it. Now if your Doing AI - artificial intelligence and hardcore server work than yeah.

[@nastyyoda5673]

This model cooler is reused from RX 6000 series which was a reused Nvidia cooler 😂

[@KurNorock]

You can't really claim this goes toe to toe with NVidia's best. This goes toe to tow with NVidia's second best. It is more equivalent to the 4080 than the 4090, with the 4090 being nearly twice as powerful. But it is still by far the best value of the 3 (that isn't to say that it is a good value though, still way over priced) unless you really care about ray tracing.

[@reng.5934]

Most reviews I've seen it technically keeps up with the 4090 in some games while beating the 4080 at most... I'd say that's a fair statement. lol

[@dylancasteel2385]

Depending on what youre playing. In some games, it matches or beats the 4090.

[@WrexBF]

Another useless review with no temps, no mention of coil whine, or any other useful information regarding that exact MSI 7900XTX card.

[@danielwagner6290]

A $1000 GPU is never worth it. It's insane that a good GPU cost this much. How did we get here? Greed? Customers willing to pay such a price? It's absolutely crazy that just a 4 component upgrade to top components costs 3 times more than a whole build did just 5 short years ago. If you built a computer 10 years ago and built one now you would cry at the over price robbery. They have robbed us of a good computer at a fair price. A $10,000 computer used to be Federal government level suff now it's a mainstream pricing and that price doesn't get you the best stuff. Wow!. Simply insane. $2000 GPU'S $1200 CPU'S $1200 motherboards. Simply crazy and out of control. Shit doesn't cost that much when all the parts are made in Chinese controlled countries. I thought Chinese stuff was cheaper? We need to just stop buying computers. It's ruining the whole world at a fast pace. To cripple a country all you need to do is unplug the power and it's over. My work company got a ransom ware virus and it crippled the company badly. We have everything run on computers. Everyone has anti virus and it didn't work. Is that all it takes? We are in trouble.

[@Denbot.Gaming]

its a lot cheaper as well

[@teutonicknight8198]

Garbage card, I returned it back and bought rtx 4080 super

[@byMemosh]

Don't buy this crappy card. Had it in combo with a 7950x3d and in 1 month using it I had more problems then playing on nvidia 3070 for 3 years. All games are crashing, the drivers are dog shit and AMD is doing nothing. Buy a 4080 / 4080 super instead of the 7900 xtx.

[@StatsGam4er]

Lame af

[@neofitosmihail4272]

you get the worst aib model for 7900xtx why ?? ps: if it have 2x bios then it is 100% sure it have oc bios mostly some 60hz up (check it m8)

[@eplugplay8409]

Exactly. These have the sleeve fans which will break down after a couple of years. Buy aib models from power color, asus, Saphire as those all have dual bearing fans.

[@neofitosmihail4272]

@@eplugplay8409 no vapor-chamber 2 m8