Most of the reviews I've seen of it suggest that it's quiet, but one said that it was loud. I don't really know what to think!
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The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.
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Soldato
I've owned Pulse cards in the past and have proven to be quiet.
I got the impression from various reviews that it was quieter than the reference which can be quiet loud, but that the Nitro is the quietest/almost silent.
My Pulse is both quiet and cool-running. The Nitro will run slightly-cooler and on average overclock slightly-better. It will also hold its value better.
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I'm gutted I missed out on the 7900XT Nitro+ at £800. I'd pull the trigger on that instantly if Gibbo decides he's crazy enough to do it again.
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It only seemed to last a few hours.
I can only assume that was because they sold fast at that price.
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had another little play tonight with the nitro. dropped max frequency to 2940 and had a higher boost in timespy to 2982. also it seems the vram seems to prefer 2650 instead of 2750. hotspot was a little higher at 69 but core stayed at 42. would this be ok for a 24/7 oc or should i dial it back a bit more, not sure what i can get away with as this is the first time ive played team red 
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Soldato
Spent a couple of hours this evening swapping out my PSU (been sat there for months but too lazy to install!) and installing 7900XT pulse. I recently switched from 1440p to 4k, and generally found that the 7900XT does about 20-30% better than my 5700XT did at the lower resolution with similar custom settings; e.g. 5700XT would do ~55 FPS in Cyberpunk at 1440p and 6900XT does ~70 FPS at 4k. Forza Horizon with FSR went from 110 FPS to 140 FPS. Plague Tale is just about 60 FPS, there's no FSR available for this and I have it via Gamepass so cant inject it in with DLL hacking. Overall fairly happy with it, need a faster CPU now
Spent a couple of hours this evening swapping out my PSU (been sat there for months but too lazy to install!) and installing 7900XT pulse. I recently switched from 1440p to 4k, and generally found that the 7900XT does about 20-30% better than my 5700XT did at the lower resolution with similar custom settings; e.g. 5700XT would do ~55 FPS in Cyberpunk at 1440p and 6900XT does ~70 FPS at 4k. Forza Horizon with FSR went from 110 FPS to 140 FPS. Plague Tale is just about 60 FPS, there's no FSR available for this and I have it via Gamepass so cant inject it in with DLL hacking. Overall fairly happy with it, need a faster CPU now
Yeh, sounds like you are CPU limited.
The 7900 xt should be massively more than 20-30% faster.
Soldato
20-30% faster at 4k than my 5700XT was at 1440p; so at least twice as fast. Mostly still hitting 100% GPU.
Oh sorry, i misunderstood/misread! I thought you meant at the same resolution.
Thought it sounded odd
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When tuning for port royal I could not use the same settings in games as I would get driver time outs. I had to ease off on memory and timings and up the volts.had another little play tonight with the nitro. dropped max frequency to 2940 and had a higher boost in timespy to 2982. also it seems the vram seems to prefer 2650 instead of 2750. hotspot was a little higher at 69 but core stayed at 42. would this be ok for a 24/7 oc or should i dial it back a bit more, not sure what i can get away with as this is the first time ive played team red
I have a Pulse, great card given how much it is, I dont hear it (But only play on my 65" TV @ 4k60hz so doesnt always get 100% usage) - But ill be getting a Waterblock anyway - Dont forget however, every card is subject tot he silicone lottery - I think I won big on mine!
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Yeah, this is what I'm holding out on now. Hopefully it drops again and then I'd get involved, I spent too much time considering it last time and by the time I looked again in the evening the price had jumped back up!
Soldato
I concur, the only time I ever hear my PC is when the CPU cooler ramps up. Temps are well under control also.
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Fingers crossed!
I'm running a 1080ti which has served me honourably, but I'm starting to feel the pinch at 4k.
I do have a few months before I need to go balls deep on a new build though, but there's no telling where prices are going and a general significant drop across the entire sector seems to be highly unlikely!
My bottleneck will then obviously be my current 3900XT, but it will only be temporary - 13900k in the new build.
Soldato
At 4K I haven't found the 3900X to really be much of a bottleneck except in 3DMark; it definitely is but not hugely so.
Remember the consoles are on lower clocked 8 core Zen 2 chips. The current gen games that are getting ported across are going to be a bit heavier as all that storage / streaming performance the consoles have will need to be brute forced, and additionally some engines are thread limited.
Edit: High refresh rate 1080p games are where the CPU is really the determining factor, at 4K you generally just let the GPU soak all the performance limits up.
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What settings did you end up using for gaming?
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That's good to know. I'm not too clued up on the facts, so this is really helpful - thanks.
At work so I’ll supply my settings tonight. The are not earth shattering but they are stable for me.