Overclocking, Undervolting & Benchmarking the AMD Radeon RX 7800XT Sapphire Pure GPU Review💪

[@LiannLee1666]

I dont need or want raytracing...it does nothing for me . I have allways been very happy wiht my AMD GPU's. Asus nMobo and Intel CPU's I have a 6700 XT nitro now.. and will upgrade to an 7800 XT nitro.

[@richvspoor2652]

Bruh wtf???? AMD CAN RAYTRACING HAHA. 7800 is insane, i have it. Best price / fps

[@austintea]

Honestly I don't ever see myself actually playing with Ray tracing, but for screenshots and cinematic shots, it would be nice to have beautiful lighting

[@TakisEnjoyer]

​@@richvspoor2652I mean obviously they have RT capabilities, it's just their performance with it worse on average than what NVIDIA cards have. So if you don't need it then it's a no-brainer pick

[@osmanjamilshifat3318]

Bro how about rendering, i want to start my journey as a 3d animator & VFX artist. How will it behave compared to the money eater nvidia in the blender and unreal engine? Please reply..

[@And_Rec]

@@osmanjamilshifat3318 good if you use prorender or other compatible engine, but otherwise CUDA cores will always be faster for rendering

[@Apocrypha303]

i have a 7800xt in my pc with a evga 650w gold power supply and a 5600 cpu. every game ive tried so far at 1440p runs fine without getting close to 700w power draw.

[@khalid6762]

I have a 5600x and ive just ordered this gpu, is the cpu bottlenecking at 1440p?

[@Abesta83]

I have a 5600g and 7800xt and yes on cod and forza. Have mine oc’d to 4.55ghz. Looking to step into am5 soon.

[@UKKN516]

@@khalid6762 nope 5600X is faster than a i9-9900K in single thread gaming you'll be fine. Had my 5600X paired with a 6800XT before I switched and it was great. But the 5800X3D did me so much better justice for when I switched out my 6800XT for a 7900XTX.

[@out42c]

@@Abesta83 "Looking to step into am5 soon." I wouldn't. I'm running 5800X and my frame rates are awesome with this gpu. It ain't worth the money right now maybe next gen.

[@r.y3198]

How is the coilwhine experience ?

[@czarsv15]

power usage after undervolting ? hello ?

[@biome4869]

I got my 7800xt air cooled at 32c and 40c ish on the hot spot and it’s been a perfect card

[@camogeko6804]

I finally grabbed me one of these PURE cards on your website for 460! Fantastic deal and cant wait to try it in my black and white build!! :D

[@jankindl915]

I have my RX 7800XTundervolted with Ryzen 5 5600 a 2x 1Tb SSD on my 80+ Gold Seasonic 550W and i have no problems. If you use any PSU calculator its around 400W real draw. 550W 80+ gold should be able to deliver 478,5W. I have it for half a year now, with no problems :)

[@ivankovachev8835]

It would be nice to manually undervolt it. A suggestion would be to lower clock speeds by 5-8% and undervolt as much as possible, because that's how you get the best performance/watt and usually reduces the power down to 65-70% of stock power.

[@kodakblack531]

So you’re saying if you lower clocks from 2.9ghz to 2.7ghz and undervolt a bit instead of using 375 watts you’ll use 112 watts? Dam more efficient than 4090

[@ivankovachev8835]

@@kodakblack531 65-70% OF stock power, emphasis on OF. Meaning if it consumes 375W it would consume 225-265W if you downclock it 5-8% and undervolt it as much as possible.

[@elu5ive]

nice, I also always try to reach max efficiency. recently when underclocking (especially older cards) I found out that setting clocks for state 7 (max power state) lower than what clocks for state 6 (second highest power state) are in bios sometimes leads to weird instabilities / erratic behavior, maybe because of priority conflicts, even if you set a custom curve. it seems like you should keep clocks for state 7 at least 2% above the original state 6, which usually means an underclock of 4-5% at most, never more than 6%. for example I underclocked a bad sample of a stock xtx by 4,56% and undervolted by 5,65% resulting in 74% consumption, running cooler and quiter at no perceivable loss in performance and stability. that seems like the best compromise

[@ivankovachev8835]

@@elu5ive If you mean the 7900XTX, then yes, the clock speeds are pushed super high on it at stock, but 74% consumption is still great reduction in power. I got a RX 6700XT and I undervolted in the drivers by 100mv while reducing the clock speeds by 3.2% and got down from 195W to 134W power consumption or 68.7% power consumption with 0-3% performance loss. It now doesn't go over 55C(in a 30C room) and hotspot stays below 77C in continious Furmark, and Unigine Heaven, in games it's even cooler by a few degrees. And I have a 100hz monitor, so I use Frame Target of 100FPS too. The 7800XT and 7700XT overclock 15% and 19% respectively, which is quite a lot for modern GPUs, meaning they should easily be undervolted A TON with minimal to no changes in clock speeds.

[@blue_ish4499]

i dont want to buy a new psu so effiency is king@@elu5ive

[@darknato1]

Just discovered this channel, it's really awesome! Keep up the great work I'll be watching for now on !

[@ValentinHhn]

Would be nice to know the power consumption in your undervolting profile! How much did you lower the voltage and in turn how much wattage did you save that way?

[@user-us4lw8up1u]

Yep, and some gaming test, but it's an interesting review

[@mickaelsflow6774]

I literally clicked on this video to see that. Big sad... The rest was quite interesting.

[@heavenly2938]

I agree it would have been nice to see some real values ​​rather than just seeing this guy's arms, sad video.

[@mickaelsflow6774]

Good test and review. I must say you are missing some information I'm sure I'm not the only one wanting: namely, game performance while undervolted and OC'd AND power draw in both scenario. I literally clicked the video expected to know how good the card could be in my power budget (below it's stock TDP). Hopefully, this or game test with both scenario come with follow-up content?

[@kurama1639]

same here, sadly cant find any othe person who can give undervolted power draw metrics and game performance

[@Kontorotsui]

Agreed, I too clicked here to find the undervolt power. I was pretty disappointed.

[@donaldslayer]

If you haven’t found out by now 240-250w @2600/950. 2500@900 was working okay for me and was something like 215-220? I’ll have to test how low I can get it while keeping performance.

[@UcmagBaba]

I've Powercolor red devil. In default mode, the hotspot was exceeding 90 degrees. The difference between the general temperature and the hotspot was 30 degrees. I had to undervolt/underclock just for this reason. Very annoying.

[@adonromadhon3630]

I go back and forth the video but couldn't find power consumption comparison?

[@awgmax]

i set min freq at 2800, max freq i just maxed out it's not detrimental. I set voltage to 1050, then went down in increments of 20 to 960 where it artifacted and set final to 980 Set memory to 2600, i didn't find much performance nickle and diming this for extra 30-40 mhz Power depends on you. If you want to max out OC set it too maximum(and maybe min freq to 3000). If you want to save on the power bill or have an undersized PSU, set to minimum.

[@blue_ish4499]

what kind of performance do you get compare to stock

[@pr3sports732]

@blue_ish4499 I got 19300 without OC on 3D Mark and 20800 With OC on 3D Mark. I used 2675 Core Clock, 2600 Memory Clock and +14% Power Limit.

[@awgmax]

@@blue_ish4499 i would say +15%

[@Cristopher-S.G]

The most important part of undervolting is checking the difference in power consumption, and you totally missed i

[@edmondellis1822]

I have heard this card is quite loud with coil whine... Anyone have a take on this? Ty

[@pete0274]

No memory junction sensor? Difference between GPU and Hot Spot is over 32 C, dried thermal paste?

[@F3AR_DA_REAPER]

i just got a 7800xt Nitro full power draw ive seen out of it maxed out at around 310w

[@chronal_1362]

can i change the rgb or is it always red?

[@atjwbtt]

Its just red, but there is a switch on the card so you can turn it off

[@chronal_1362]

@@atjwbtt but then the bar where the light would be is still red and red is one of the ugliest rgb colors in my opinion

[@atjwbtt]

I think it's possible to remove it if you really want to... There's also the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC White, which is white-only but significantly more expensive

[@chronal_1362]

@@atjwbtt yea thats the problem with white graphics cards my bduget isnt that high i also thougt about buying a white 4070ti (i forgot the name) but it was 750$ thats about 200 over my budget

[@Rahulkjh]

I have a Rx 6750xt with a r9 5900x. I want a upgrade .I have decided to go with a Rx 7800xt. Will my r9 5900x handle this gpu??😅

[@janissprudzans8631]

I have RX 7700 XT and I am using 600W PSU from my old PC. I does work fine, GPU is undervolted and overclocked it is pulling around 230w plus Ryzen 5 7600x it is using around 100w. Originally this PSU was for i7 4790k oc at 4.6Ghz it was pulling around 100w + GTX 980Ti OC it was pulling like 260W.

[@SALSASOULRECORDS]

Simple but very welldone thank you so much for this amazing review, have a great day Sr.

[@Acesbomb]

Nice. Any chance with these video reviews you could do a bit of a teardown, like gpu length, height, depth measurement, remove shroud and the likes. A lot of the time the info given on manufacturer page isn't entirely accurate i've noticed.

[@north08]

I know this video is old, but is there a reason why my Sapphire Pure 7800XT will not accept any of these overclock settings? Even when it does, it will crash within 10 minutes of running. Edit - on the most recent firmware (24.7.1), which is the first time I’ve tried overclocking

[@camogeko6804]

the silicon is probably worse than what 8pack got in his sample, did you try lower settings?

[@north08]

@ I was running at 2578 VRAM, 3000Mhz max at 1100mv. Seemed stable but I just today turned off the overclock and when to stock with no change in performance (within COD at least - ~200fps at 1440p).

[@camogeko6804]

@@north08 thats interesting! thanks for your reply!! I will definitely do some testing when I receive mine, not sure when it will arrrive though. How is your overall experience with the card?? I am also gaming at 1440p. :)

[@north08]

@camogeko6804 I’ve been happy with it, but I have nothing to compare against really. This was my first build as was PS5 for gaming before and MAC user for none gaming. I really only play COD and can’t really complain. I knew 1440p was gonna be it’s sweet spot, but I’ve also run it at 4K on my 32” monitor and still would get ~150FPS (that monitor maxes out at 144 so was fine). I swapped to a 27” 180 frame monitor now, so again can’t complain at all. I’m actually more CPU bound using the Ryzen 5 7600.

[@candystoney]

Where is settings for Manual OC?

[@66kaisersoza]

Why is the 7800xt status still "pre-order" at the overclockers store?

[@iwilltouchyourtoes]

They just use pre order to mean out of stock but you can still order it and they'll send when they get some more

[@esaedvik]

Would be nice if the two colors used in the graphs themselves and the legend underneath were the same color...not that it matters much when there's just two products head 2 head, but still.

[@benpeers7810]

I'm about to buy one of these after seeing bad reviews on powercolors spectral white version, can some one PLEASE TELL ME does this GPU come with the support bracket?? Just I have sag on a much smaller 2 fan card thanks

[@P-dub978]

Yes this one comes with a support bracket

[@antonym24]

getting this soon, should i be worried about a bottleneck with a 3800xt? planning on upgrading that soon after too, just wanted to know what to expect.

[@ace7053]

Would this be the same for xfx rx7800 xt16gb to?

[@camogeko6804]

XFX also makes good cards :)

[@AshliBlattgold]

600w PSU is perfectly fine for this GPU as well, didnt shut off a single time bc of lack of power

[@SHOKY-j9x]

I bought this exact gpu. And ive been having driver timeouts while playing Counter Strike 2 with the gpu overclocked and undervolted. When the driver timeout happens and my gpu settings goes to default and after that i dont have any problems. Any solution?

[@zischannel7250]

Can the Radeon red color be changed?

[@mr.pangetako]

They should require additional 100w more if consumer decided to overclock this card. For example, it says pcpartpicker around 600w. But in specs, 700w. I’ll say it about right if you’re overclocking it.

[@dixieflatline1189]

Still rocking a RX5700XT. Not convinced this generation of cards is worth the outlay - next gen?

[@farmeunit]

Depends on the game and resolution. I went from 5700XT to 6800 and Cyberpunk at 1440p was huge. That not even considering the 7900XT which was another huge jump. Personally I think you’re in the realm of diminishing returns, but that’s up to you to decide. If you’re not struggling, don’t. If games are, then why put yourself through it?

[@DeadlySins23]

7800 xt is 120%+ improvement over the 5700 xt if you want it upgrade now because next gen no high end cards.(From AMD)

[@cinyarko]

I just upgraded from a 1080ti to Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT and it's not even a competition when it comes to games.

[@Subzero2151]

looking to upgrade my graphics card, what would be a worthwhile upgrade from a 2080 super ?

[@farmeunit]

4070Ti, or better. Really, even a 4070 would be pretty good considering FG, and better RT performance.

[@hotdog9262]

nothing under 16gb of vram

[@esaedvik]

@@hotdog9262 What uses 16gigs? No one's gonna run most stuff in 4K on this.

[@hotdog9262]

@@esaedvik likely future games in 2k, I wouldn`t take the risk. but it depends how long he is holding on to a card

[@todorkolev7565]

ignore nvidia unless you are going for the 4090. In the UK: 6950XT if you can find it around 580. I've ignored power requirements because I assume the 2080s you got is high wattage already. As for budget ceiling - you didn't mention it. So, I've just chosen the highest performance/quid. If you need to step down in total cost, the 7800xt is really the only option in the UK. 6800 is a further step-down but it only makes sense if you can buy it at 420, not more. And even then, while the performance/quid makes sense, you'd be sacrificing resale value and future updates to software (the 7800xt might gain some more performance with upcoming driver, FSR, overclocking software)

[@martinh7680]

Pre ordered from your site yesterday! Any rough idea when this card will be in stock to ship out?

[@66kaisersoza]

I ordered the same day. I messaged customer service and they said between 1-2 weeks

[@steffithompson]

did they tell you the price?@@66kaisersoza

[@iwilltouchyourtoes]

@@66kaisersoza 2 weeks is not too bad actually, just ordered one myself, I thought it might be longer

[@martinh7680]

The wait is killing me! Seen some models have an eta but still nothing for the pure 😞

[@HighIgnition]

@@martinh7680 Did you already get it? I order one but the Nitro+ version and was complaining for the long wait (1 week) and suddenly a messenger appear at my doorstep with the card (never got an update for the store (Mexican Store))!

[@popov2080]

rx 6600 была она rtx3080ti даже 12 гб. на ровне, странно шина уже! Купил rx7800xt 16гб 256 и кайфую в Натив рвёт всех rtx 40-х полностью

[@ВладК-ш7м]

интересно какая версия и какой макс хот спот был?

[@fahd4696]

hi can i remove the red part in front?

[@chrism8961]

Is it worth me upgrading from my 5700xt sapphire nitro to this card? I basically play DCS combat sim and MSFS2020 on my oculus quest 2 with ryzen 3700x processor and 32gb ram. Will i see much visual improvement in the quality via my quest 2 in terms of visual fidelity and resolution? Or shall i stick with my original set up.

[@alexg9155]

I upgraded from a 5700xt to a 7800xt and more than doubled the performance. It's totally worth it.

[@chrism8961]

@@alexg9155 thank you that's great to know.

[@out42c]

@@chrism8961 This GPU is worth every dime.

[@chrism8961]

@@out42c just literally got my white hellhound 7800xt today. Great to hear it's a goodn.

[@out42c]

@@chrism8961 CONGRATS and just in time for Christmas!

[@heine010290]

WHY IN THE FUCKING CHRIST would Sapphire add a big RED piece of plastic with a RED LED to a WHITE MONOCHROME GPU??! I defeats the entire fucking purpose of a monochrome graphics card. And excuse my language. But its just such a stupid fucking mistake I can't fathom the logic. Make it transparrent. Make it white. Make it black. And exchange the LED for a RGB one, and it would make some sense.. But this? Stupidity. It literally defeats the whole purpose of the White color scheme..... And yes, I know its possible to turn the LED off. And its even possible to remove the plastic.. But that's not info written anywhere I could tell, I literally had to google and reddit the issue to find that solution. But why would you have to tear the GPU apart to fix such a stupid fucking mistake on their part.

[@leb14]

You can turn it off !

[@ВячеславШолохов-ф9п]

I recently bought this one vs 6950xt - my rationale was i'd rather get better CPU(5800 -> 7800x3d)/Motherboard/RAM(DDR4 -> DDR5) and i hope for better support. Glad to see it performed as good as it did. It would be great to provide link to your settings used in video.

[@Finnedsgang]

I sold my 6900xt and bought this card for almost the same price, just to upgrade to rdna3 and to a newer card. I hope to have done the right choice too

[@Zetec-]

Hi, does it have 2.1 hdmi?

[@RJBWeb]

I currently have a 6700xt pair with a r5 5700x, I am considering upgrading to this card. I wonder if my r5 5700x would be a problem?

[@lousybunny_]

it might be a bit of a bottleneck considering the age of the cpu. It'll work, but you won't be getting the full power of the card.

[@gulupeti]

@@lousybunny_ This depends on the resolution and the set level of detail as well.

[@hotdog9262]

power draw after undervolting?

[@anneakhil]

whats the difference between nitro+ and pure/

[@nuke_me_9945]

Nitro+ = flagship over the top performance and build like a tank (bigger, stronger) Pure = tone down from Nitro+ for more design beauty.

[@anneakhil]

@@nuke_me_9945 Thanks for the reply mate for r5 7600 and 7800xt which is the best motherboard i want a pc 70% gaming oriented and 30 % video editing im new to this pc build stuff and just recently learned and decided with r5 7600 but confused about gpu and mb

[@nuke_me_9945]

@@anneakhil Asus series mb is quite good since it have a lot of features. For ATX size build, go for the X670 TUF or X670 Strix. For ITX (SFF) build, go for the B650E-I.

[@gleipnirfenrir]

can we turn off the rgb light of it

[@ultranova9599]

Yes. There is a hardware switch that turns that light off. I have also heard someone say you can take it off, take that with a grain of salt though as I haven't looked into it.

[@cinyarko]

I just got the nitro+ version of the card. It's a really nice card with auto OC and "performance" firmware (primary BIOS in their trixx software) timespy@1440p graphics score: around 20k (best run was 20173) GPU: 61C max/47.5C average Hotspot: 85/56 Memory junction: 80/68 Fan RPM: 1286/919 Total Board Power: 361W/189W edit: paired with a 5800x, 32GB 3600/CL16 RAM and a B550 motherboard

[@micpan_yt]

That's sick! I have the same setup but with a 5800X3D. Sapphire is a good card afaik.

[@Beyonder_001]

hi, i just bought this too. how did you turn on the auto OC feauture? thanks

[@cinyarko]

@@Beyonder_001 somewhere in the adrenaline software, not behind my pc rn to check where exactly.

[@jinsakai6969]

What is exactly the difference between nitro + and pure is it same ?

[@nhannguyen4847]

@@jinsakai6969 same question.

[@hanmaruf2919]

im still not understand....cooling performance better than nitro 7800 xt

[@kha3led386]

great review ty

[@johncampbell4084]

The Sapphire 7800xt Pure and PowerColor HellHound 7800xt are the same price at my local shop. Both come with Avatar: Frontiers game. both are 2.5 slot, 5 heat pipes, 3 fan cards. there's a slight edge too the HellHound and looking at the tear down it looks like more of the VRM and transistors are in contact with the heatsink VS the Pure which looks like it's just one thin row of the vrms in contact with its heatsink. all things equal I like the design of the Sapphire and they have reputable warranty/build quality. never owned a power color, curious if others here have?

[@DeadlySins23]

The temp differential on hot spot is 25C + too high. Damn 32C on OC almost way too high!

[@fuzzssy]

Please fix the 6800xt pricing

[@michaelnager6059]

I thought that you of all people would have sussed out how to properly "Overclock" an AMD Radeon GPU. Sadly, you haven't. I have taught a friend of mine who has a tech KZbin channel how to do it, and to prevent him getting scooped I will refrain from posting here how to do it until after he has released his video on the 7800XT next week. His comment to me after I taught him was, "Why hasn't anyone else ever said this in a video, now that you have explained it, it is so obvious". I am not going to leave anyone reading this on the hook, and as soon as my friend has published his video, I will make another comment outlining how to go about configuring any 6000 or 7000 GPU to get the maximum performance out of it without resorting to exotic cooling.

[@guiflick]

So did your friend made the video ?

[@michaelnager6059]

@@guiflick Yes, his channel name is Game Tech Reviews

[@kimkeltas9409]

strong video :D.

[@tangodown2721]

Temps on the overclock vs the hellhound is really dissapointing.

[@syncmonism]

Unlike the other Sapphire 7800 XT models I've seen, this one looks a lot like the 6800 XT Sapphire Pulse and Nitro+ models.

[@Jwebbplayz]

I found today my Xfx merc319 7800xt sees itself @2630 clock. I don’t manually overclock anything but I did tune it and I shaved 100mhz from its clock it’s running at now 2500 something. I was also trying to make a fan curve. I wanted it so the rpms on fans were around 1350 ish at 54c but sucks I have ocd with certain things. I could see myself sitting there for 45 min dude playing with that shit lol. We trade fps for ray tracing anytime.

[@Stuart-rs3xd]

I need to see some more reviews of this particular card, as im wanting the Sapphire Pure model. But this has the Worst overclocking of ALL cards reviewed so far with the others ranging from 12.5%-15% overclock. making them the best OC cards of recent memory. Added to this is the Worst AIB cooling with others ranging around ~81ºc Hotspot.

[@orkhepaj]

those thermals depend on room temperature

[@LEGENDARYTACTICALTECH]

WHY in the world would they put a red light and not rgb????!!!??? Not sure who thought of this but was a stupid decision.

[@ianparry4880]

Amazing presenter.... This channel needs more of this guy..... so humble as well....

[@cybergn1da]

funny guy, ty for the review!

[@kventinburatinodv]

I've been looking for ray tracing for 5 years and haven't found it. Ray tracing has little effect on the image, I don't want to hear anything about this technology anymore. I bought a 7800 instead of a 3070 ti - a great graphics card

[@tonyk3912]

it was good until the biceps bit wtf

[@xaviercardenas5175]

So just for 1440p 😢 aad

[@zdenkakoren6660]

7600 8gb is 260$ 100% 7800XT 16gb is 550$ 167% LoL

[@mirkomilicic7898]

i have this setup with 850w PSU -Ryzen 7 5800X3D, -Sapphire PURE Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, -XPG D50 SPECTRIX DDR4 RGB 3600 (white) 4x8GB -Coolermaster masterliquid ML240L V2 RGB (white) - Corsair RM White Series RM850-850WATT 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX PSU -Asus ROG Strix B550-A Gaming AM4 ATX Motherboard -COOLERMASTER MASTERBOX TD500 MESH V2 WHITE