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OcUK RX7900 series review thread

Dontrocktheboat said:
My 3090 overclocks well. On part with 3090ti.
So no, not really. Figures are a bit off.

Slower in RT performance. And about 20-25% in rasta..at best.

Trade off is more power usage in video and multi monitor set up. Something which I do a lot of. It's not the performance that hurts 7900xt the most, its the inefficiency.
Probably down to the chiplet design....

As for 4080 and Nvidia prices, they can do one.
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Key word here is "inefficiency" which is disappointing to say the least.
 
Chud_Jenny said:
Looking like the XTX direct $ to £ should be £979 today MSRP?
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Yes it should but there is always an unspecified retailer cost. It seems it costs about £50 - £70 per each individual GPU shipped from the manufacturer.
 
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Let's stop the bickering :) I think we're all in agreement. The price/performance of the new cards (both nvidia & amd) are garbage. They both deserve to collect dust on shelves.

Though unfortunately for me, a person desperate to get back into gaming/overclocking and be enthusiastic again like I once was, I need to buy something. Having upgraded pretty much every year for 15 years I've now been stuck with a gtx980ti for about 5-6 years. Now I'm stuck having to pay msrp for 2 year old cards or paying over £1,050 for cards that should be around £750. Neither option is attractive. But I believe both companies are going to have to reduce prices as think they will struggle to sell. Maybe I'll wait just a little longer
 
JonnyG1982 said:
Let's stop the bickering :) I think we're all in agreement. The price/performance of the new cards (both nvidia & amd) are garbage. They both deserve to collect dust on shelves.

Though unfortunately for me, a person desperate to get back into gaming/overclocking and be enthusiastic again like I once was, I need to buy something. Having upgraded pretty much every year for 15 years I've now been stuck with a gtx980ti for about 5-6 years. Now I'm stuck having to pay msrp for 2 year old cards or paying over £1,050 for cards that should be around £750. Neither option is attractive. But I believe both companies are going to have to reduce prices as think they will struggle to sell. Maybe I'll wait just a little longer
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Yeah, as it is right now the smart play is an every second gen upgrade cycle. Nvidia and AMD are effectively cutting sales but almost doubling prices and this effectively means they make the same profit but have to build a lot less GPUs. It's bloody genius when you think about it.
 
So ... equivalent/better at raster than a 4080, with RT about where the top end of the 30 series was. Cheaper than a 4080. Seems to be pretty much as expected, but all of a sudden this is massively disappointing?

:shrug:

The marketing fail is more interesting to me. The day before the 4090 and the 4080 launches, all the retailers here in Aus had the 'news' all over their front pages, counting down to sales etc. Today ... nothing. Hard to even find out if any of them are going to be selling these new AMD cards.
 
random_matt said:
I'm not comparing to last gen.
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AMD is a gen behind in RT so it is to be expected that it cannot match the latest Nvidia cards yet. To call it 'terrible' RT is pathetic BS when we all know the 3090Ti was the pinnacle of RT just last month. I still have no issues with my 3080's RT performance for my use case @ 1440P so no one should be disappointed that the 7900XTX is better and matching the 3090Ti.

The actual truth is that the 7900XTX is matching the RT performance of the 4080 in some games and beating the 3090Ti. That is not 'terrible' RT by any means.
You are being intellectually dishonest and trying your best to undermine the achievements AMD has made this gen.
 
Grim5 said:
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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I expected 50% or there abouts vs the 6950XT.

AMD massively over promised in their presentation. 54% perf/Watt gain vs a 6900XT with both cards @ 300W yet real reviews show there is barely a 50% performance gain over the 6900XT when the 7900XTX is pulling 355W. What kind of nonsense is this? Doing the test at 300W vs 300W is already outside of the norm for AMD but to get it so wide of reality is incredibly dissapointing.

On top of there there are ton of games where you see barely any boost over the 6950XT which makes me thing @Gibbo is correct about drivers showing strong improvements over the coming months but 1st impressions last and AMD blew it.

They blew the trust they built over the last 5 years with their cherry picked marketing that is a mile away from reality and they blew the 1st impression with clearly undercooked drivers at launch.

The only saving grace is the NV card is 14% more expensive (based on the £1,200 4080 OCUK have for sale and the £1050 price for the Sapphire MBA cards) for slightly worse raster performance but for people spending this much plenty will just opt for the 4080 or go all the way to the 4090.

EDIT: The only reason I am still considering going with AMD next year when the extension is finished is because all the NV cards I have looked at have 3x DP and 1x HDMI and my plan is to have 2 S95Bs (or maybe the 2023 QD-OLED) so having 2x HDMI 2.1 ports is a big advantage.
 
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Chuk_Chuk said:
Another review for the front page. The performance in professional applications is insane. I hope this AMD taking professional work more seriously.

www.notebookcheck.net

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Review: High-end RDNA 3 GPUs for 4K gaming that don't break the bank

We test the new AMD RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT and evaluate their performance, power consumption, and emissions against competing Nvidia Ada RTX 40 GPUs
www.notebookcheck.net www.notebookcheck.net
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We have already had server request builds with XTX, going to be very popular in professional and corporate markets we feel. :)
 
Gibbo said:
We have already had server request builds with XTX, going to be very popular in professional and corporate markets we feel. :)
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Plus there are the hackintosh possibilites, which are just not there with nvidia...

Here in Australia we will apparently be able to buy these cards at a launch price of £984, but that's US price + tax + 10% "whatever, we think we can get away with it" tax, and it puts them within about £120 of the cheapest 4080.
Seems like a bad move when they could have matched the US price and widened that gap to nearer £210.
 
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