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OcUK RX7900 series review thread

1. Not use RT
2. Use single monitor, else electricity prices mean that a 4080 wouldn't take too long to pay back itself
3. Not playback video, else electricity prices mean that a 4080 wouldn't take too long to pay back itself
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These are the biggest issues.. maybe not so much RT, however I have multiple 1440p's screens and video playback and desktop usage is something the GPU would be doing just as much as running a game... so the power consumption figures that were released today are pretty damning.... I don't know if AMD have said anything about that being sorted out ASAP... but its not something I'd bother with given the driver track record.

The pricing is not worth it for this or the 4080 which this competes with... weird that xtx does compete well with the 4090 in some games and did get the new display port tech ... things I think nvidia didn't care to bother with which I think sucks as why would I get a high end card at these kind of prices without DisplayPort 2.1 .. just stupid of them.

So I think just think both these cards suck in different ways, had higher hopes on the xtx being a 4080 killer and I'd switch over.. however I'm just going to wait it out and see if AMD can fix things on the drivers.

The other issues warranty on some cards only being 1 or 2 years... for a grand? err nope.
 
This..
Dave2150 said:
Unless the power consumption for idle, multi-monitor and video playback is fixed (it may not be, completely) then the 4080 will be a cheaper card to run overall.
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I'm not too sure about going ahead with it after learning about this as in some reviews it was mentioned that the idle power draw means the fans are spinning at all times and it's just using power which isn't even needed. It's a problem which I hope can be resolved via drivers and bios flash.. What do you think?
 
Wait for more reviews and testing.

These cards are gonna be cuddling up with the 4000 series on the shelves. No reason to stress over missing out.
 
rare said:
The biggest let down IMO is power use compared to the 4080, but even so, it uses less power than a 6950XT but it offers a very reasonable generational uplift over that card. Hopefully they can fix some of the obvious faults, like the very high idle consumption. Really hope that’s not a baked in hardware issue…
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Yeah. It's a little concerning. Baked in hardware issue would not be good at all.

It's kind of got me thinking that perhaps I need to pump the breaks before launch today. I hate that.. I was dead set on getting one before finding out about this and now I'm undecided again.
 
There are some other bugs as well outside of power draw; several reviewers experienced black screens and apparently if you have an Intel cpu with an MSI motherboard the system takes forever to boot up with the 7900xtx, it doesn't seem to happen on other Intel boards or on MSI AMD boards, though time will tell if other hardware combinations have similar issues.

These are all things that can likely be fixed with software updates
 
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01001101 said:
Yeah. It's a little concerning. Baked in hardware issue would not be good at all.

It's kind of got me thinking that perhaps I need to pump the breaks before launch today. I hate that.. I was dead set on getting one before finding out about this and now I'm undecided again.
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If you upgrade every gpu launch then this issue may be minor because you will only have the gpu for 18 months but if you plan to really keep it for the long term then it is an issue.

Now AMD have incredible engineers but they have had problems with over power useage with 2d browser rendering for years so everyone makes mistakes. With this infinity style fabric memory we are in no way qualified to even understand what is going on , can it be fixed ? I honestly have no idea. I would say yes but if the infinity fabric cannot downpower and still function and the excess power is being used for that purpose then ??????


In general these type of teething problems are overcome within 6 months and the product performs well but every now and again we get a real problem that cannot be fixed.

The other bugs will almsot certainly be fixed.
 
Hotwired said:
Wait for more reviews and testing.

These cards are gonna be cuddling up with the 4000 series on the shelves. No reason to stress over missing out.
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Yeah, I don't think they represent enough of a price performance gap over the 4080 to be an instant buy - if they sort out some of the issues and overclocking turns out to be consistent then it becomes a better prospect but even then I don't think I'll pay a grand for one
 
this is funny

Only 30% of people predicted the real performance of the 7900xtx, but now that reviews are out 70% of people say performance is what they expected or even better than expected

What do you call this type of mental gymnastics?





 
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Joxeon said:
If you're spending 1k+ though you may as well just get the 4090 though as it's not just a tier above these cards but almost a generation when looking at the performance slides.
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True, but then again spending that much more put you in the same sort of percentage increase as that of mid-range cards. Going from spending 1k to 1.6k is a 60% increase, so is going from 500 to 700, but one cost an extra 200 the other an extra 600, if that makes sense (maths isn't my strong point).

The point is it's a lot easier (IMO) to swallow spending an extra 200, especially so when the extra features (RT and DLSS) are arguably more worthwhile, when you're already spending 1k than it is when your spending 500.
 
Murphy said:
True, but then again spending that much more put you in the same sort of percentage increase as that of mid-range cards. Going from spending 1k to 1.6k is a 60% increase, so is going from 500 to 700, but one cost an extra 200 the other an extra 600, if that makes sense (maths isn't my strong point).

The point is it's a lot easier (IMO) to swallow spending an extra 200, especially so when the extra features (RT and DLSS) are arguably more worthwhile, when you're already spending 1k than it is when your spending 500.
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Spend 20% for some extra features and better RT or spend a further 33% for 35% more raster and much better RT performance +50% more VRAM.
 
Joxeon said:
Spend 20% for some extra features and better RT or spend a further 33% for 35% more raster and much better RT performance +50% more VRAM.
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Splitting the percentage into two parts doesn't make it smaller. :) It's still 50% more in price versus 20%. Most people spending 1k could probably justify spending another 200 whereas spending 600 more, more than half the original price, is a lot harder to justify.

Your argument is essentially we should all be driving around in Rolls-Royce because it's only 10% more than the next car down which is 10% more than the next and so on and so forth.

Most people don't work like that, they set a budget and try to stick to it as close as possible, a 20% increase for some extra features is what i would guess most people could justify as a reason to go over budget.
 
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