Sapphire AMD Deals

[TrojanWhore]

DPD state 16:30-17:30 so guess I'm not winning that one today.

After all my worry yesterday... 11-12

 

[SpudMaster]

Mine just arrived Shame I can't play until tonight

 

[gjbf1]

After all my worry yesterday... 11-12

Mine just arrived Shame I can't play until tonight

Let us know what you think!

 

[TrojanWhore]

Mine just arrived....

First impression: No haribo, IR disappoint
Other than that, the thing is HUGE and has a good solid weight to it.
I like the cooler generally, although the red accents are a bit of a negative as they won't fit with all build aesthetics (mine included).

Aiming to get it installed and run a few quick tests over lunch, so will comment on noise/temps/coil whine after that

 

[JediFragger]

Best way I can put it is the XT/XTX Pulse cooler is 3090-level chonk and not 4080/4090 level chonk, so it should fit in most cases

 

[ICDP]

Got mine today and replaced the 6700 XT in my son’s PC. Just set to auto undervolt and it set to 1075mv and stress tested OK using 3DMark and the AMD built in stress tester. I also tested with manual undervolt at 1050 and it stress tested fine.

No time for further testing but got 3DMark score of 19471. GPU score 25398 and CPU score of 8384. I know I could get more with tweaking but it’s all good for now.

This is paired with a 5600X CPU with 3200 DDR4 low latency RAM and a 650w EVGA GQ 80 Gold PSU. So quite tight for the PSU specs and the CPU will not bottleneck most modern games with high graphics settings at 1440p and 165hz HDR 1000.

Runs cool and quiet at about 68c. It was quite a tight fight at 313mm long for a Meshify C case but no fights to get it in there with 2mm space to spare (315mm max GPU length).

I’m happy with the price/performance considering the free Starfield code bring this to roughly 3080/6800 XT pricing for a ~30% performance increase. Thanks Gibbo for doing such a good deal.

 

[Gibbo]

Hi there

Sorry the warehouse team did not manage to get them all out yesterday, obviously the team had to booked in 1000+ sapphire GPUs yesterday and had several 100 pre-orders to get shipped out, but they should clear all backlog today, so if if anyone's 7900 XT has not shipped by say around 3pm, drop CS webnote/ticket.

 

[Havana_UK]

Is anyone who is recieving a new 7900 xt/xtx card a VR (especially quest 2) gamer? If so I'd greatly appreciate a view of how it does.

I’ll let you know…I occasionally use the Quest 2 when I’m playing Elite Dangerous.

 

[danlightbulb]

I’ll let you know…I occasionally use the Quest 2 when I’m playing Elite Dangerous.

Oh that's perfect test thank you.

 

[Gibbo]

Hi there

As I noted in the original post, the 7900 XT and 6700 XT margins are very tight.
As such the 7900 XT will be increased at end of day to £729, anyone thinking of grabbing one do so before the price increase, even at £729 we will still be the cheapest UK stockist.

 

[tomd96]

Thanks Gibbo, that pushed me into a decision!

 

[ICDP]

Thanks Gibbo, that pushed me into a decision!

£699 is a good price IMHO. It is right where these should have been released at considering they were essentially a renamed 6800 XT.

 

[danlightbulb]

I cant be pushed into a decision until I can get some more confirmation on VR performance. Its a joke really that there is so little information out there, and AMD are hurting their own sales by not clarifying this themselves.

 

[GhostDog1981]

I cant be pushed into a decision until I can get some more confirmation on VR performance. Its a joke really that there is so little information out there, and AMD are hurting their own sales by not clarifying this themselves.

VR has been sorted on the 23.7.1 driver.

 

[JediFragger]

VR has been sorted on the 23.7.1 driver.

Still some issues from what I've read though.

 

[danlightbulb]

Still some issues from what I've read though.

Yes exactly, it's not clear even though it's stated to have been fixed. Plus there is still 'talk' that the encoding quality is not as good on AMD as NVidia, but I don't know if this is material to my use case or not.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Let us know what you think!

Mine just arrived....

First impression: No haribo, IR disappoint
Other than that, the thing is HUGE and has a good solid weight to it.
I like the cooler generally, although the red accents are a bit of a negative as they won't fit with all build aesthetics (mine included).

Aiming to get it installed and run a few quick tests over lunch, so will comment on noise/temps/coil whine after that

Following on from this..... Ran a quick Timespy and Firestrike Ultra, scores pretty close to the Guru3d review results.
Temps seem fine (although I've not tried an extended gaming session yet), around 79 hotspot, 61 on GPU.
No coil whine that I've noticed yet, 362w peak on a Phanteks AMP 1000w

The one issue I've noticed so far is the sound output - I use my TV as a second screen, HDMI through an AV receiver and it appears that the sound continually cuts out if I have a video playing in one tab (YouTube) and open another tab in the browser. Also it cuts out for a moment when switching to/from fullscreen.....hoping there is some setting I can change to fix this as I very frequently open another tab to look something up wihle watching something and my 3060ti didn't have any issue doing this

 

[LtMatt]

The one issue I've noticed so far is the sound output - I use my TV as a second screen, HDMI through an AV receiver and it appears that the sound continually cuts out if I have a video playing in one tab (YouTube) and open another tab in the browser. Also it cuts out for a moment when switching to/from fullscreen.....hoping there is some setting I can change to fix this as I very frequently open another tab to look something up wihle watching something and my 3060ti didn't have any issue doing this

I think this might be a current known issue, see this thread here.

 

[GhostDog1981]

I think this might be a current known issue, see this thread here.

New Hdmi 2.1 cable might fix it?

 

[LtMatt]

It may well appear as a known issue in the next driver release.