It's cool that these don't suck at raytracing (they're actually pretty good!).
I just wish there wasn't a (tiny) $100 price difference between the two.
I guess Nvidia will have to lower prices... right? RIGHT?
You can bet your butt they will. The 4080 will drop to 1k right before christmas and both the xtx and the xt will be completely dead in the water at their price points 🙁 And no that is no joke their RT performance is not enough.
Thank you for the awesome review Boss @Hilbert Hagedoorn I believe this is the best bang for buck gpu at the moment. Awesome performance and price it's not bad at all. Great job amd.
Pricing isn't even close what it should, but at least we're starting to see the major companies fight with each other again like they used to before the mining.
This card is very close to XTX version or even 4080, for $300 less: that's the cost of a CPU!
Keeping this trend I'm hopeful next gen we will see a drop in price of High end due to AMD vs Nvidia competition.
Pricing isn't even close what it should, but at least we're starting to see the major companies fight with each other again like they used to before the mining.
at this point I'm glad nvidia and amd are not making us pay to see the reviews
outside RT that needs better MC and faster memories.. (RT units don't count, BVH computations are pretty trivial).. biggest issue of this card (and its faster sister) are prices (still too high, especially in EU) and those fans could run slower and quite since the card it's pretty chill.
I am more concerned about where the "7800 XT" will land in terms of performance.
Compared to a 6800 XT, on TPU:
The 7900 XT is, on average, barely 27% faster than a 6800 XT, and tbh, 6800 XT's have a lot of juice left in them in terms of power efficiency and performance (I could easily undervolt and allow higher boosting on my card and get 5-6% extra performance for free - same power as factory settings)
So where does a 7800 XT, launching in march+ 2023 land ? At 10% extra ? For $799 ? After 2.5+ years since 6800 XT launch?
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This entire generation is doomed, once again.
A true "Vega 64" moment, big technology leap (chiplets) for very little performance benefit.
At this point I don't actually care much anymore, already got my 6800 XT about a month ago during a fire sale, and oh boy, I'm so happy right now that I didn't wait. This 7000 generation being so wonderfully average.
I guess it should last me until 8000 series in 2024 when, due to manufacturing improvements, we might see a real benefit from moving to chiplets tech.
So much negativity thrown toward Nvidia for the 4080, yet the 7900XT is even worse up-sell cash grab BS.
4080 offer the same Perf per dollar as 4090 at MSRP (and much better when 4090 is scalped to hell at 2400usd).
Here the 7900XT offer worse Perf per dollar than 7900XTX?
I am more concerned about where the "7800 XT" will land in terms of performance.
Compared to a 6800 XT, on TPU:
The 7900 XT is, on average, barely 27% faster than a 6800 XT, and tbh, 6800 XT's have a lot of juice left in them in terms of power efficiency and performance (I could easily undervolt and allow higher boosting on my card and get 5-6% extra performance for free - same power as factory settings)
So where does a 7800 XT, launching in march+ 2023 land ? At 10% extra ? For $799 ? After 2.5+ years since 6800 XT launch?
yeah, very probable it ends up at +10-15% over 6800xt for $750-800. by that time 6800xt will be $650. it's under $700 now already.
wavetrex:
This entire generation is doomed, once again.
A true "Vega 64" moment, big technology leap (chiplets) for very little performance benefit.
it too reminds me of vega very much. the whole waiting for 7900xtx to beat xx80.
The 7900 XT is, on average, barely 27% faster than a 6800 XT, and tbh, 6800 XT's have a lot of juice left in them in terms of power efficiency and performance (I could easily undervolt and allow higher boosting on my card and get 5-6% extra performance for free - same power as factory settings) So where does a 7800 XT, launching in march+ 2023 land ? At 10% extra ? For $799 ? After 2.5+ years since 6800 XT launch? --- This entire generation is doomed, once again. A true "Vega 64" moment, big technology leap (chiplets) for very little performance benefit. At this point I don't actually care much anymore, already got my 6800 XT about a month ago during a fire sale, and oh boy, I'm so happy right now that I didn't wait. This 7000 generation being so wonderfully average. I guess it should last me until 8000 series in 2024 when, due to manufacturing improvements, we might see a real benefit from moving to chiplets tech.