The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

Xelene · 11 May 2023 at 09:52

Zaguer said:
What are your thoughts about the Red Devil? Specially compared to the Nitro +

At the same price? Sapphire all day every day. The card is better looking, and Sapphire generally is thought of as the S-Tier of Radeon AIBs. I think both cards are a bit too expensive at £900 considering you can get the Pulse for £800.

Xelene · 11 May 2023 at 10:02

Jono8 said:
Youd probably be lucky to get one that didn't, and I'd also be wary of people saying theirs are 100% silent. Some people are deaf

Some of us went to too many loud gigs when we were younger and lost a big chunk of our upper frequency hearing, but honestly I don't really hear my card over the noise of the rest of the tower. I'm not playing CS:GO at 600fps either, so that likely helps

JediFragger · 11 May 2023 at 10:03

Personally I'd save money and get the Sapphire Ref card, mine's been great. Unless you're a lover of RGB ofc.

Zaguer · 11 May 2023 at 10:07

Xelene said:
At the same price? Sapphire all day every day. The card is better looking, and Sapphire generally is thought of as the S-Tier of Radeon AIBs. I think both cards are a bit too expensive at £900 considering you can get the Pulse for £800.

Not exactly, there is a bit of a difference in price but not a lot. I want either of these two because of the looks really (or the reference car but apparently is EOL), I think all the other cards are ugly. :rolleyes:

(I am talking about XTX)

SpudMaster · 11 May 2023 at 10:52

JediFragger said:
Personally I'd save money and get the Sapphire Ref card, mine's been great. Unless you're a lover of RGB ofc.

OCUK have bumped the price of that up now to £780

Maybe they are selling more due to the 4070 being so poor.
Though I'm kinda glad they put the price up, I was starting to condition myself into thinking £750 was ok, but then saw the price has gone up £30 and thought nope!. Must remain strong, summer is here, all games I play run fine on my old Vega and new games just seem to be remakes, broken, rubbish or a combination of all 3 :mad:

. So thanks OCUK you saved me £750 and cost yourself a sale

Author_25 · 11 May 2023 at 11:18

JediFragger said:
Personally I'd save money and get the Sapphire Ref card, mine's been great. Unless you're a lover of RGB ofc.

I thought about a ref card but some reviews had noted that that cards with three 8 pin power connectors had more performance stability, compared to 2 power connectors, but was the issue with the reference cooler, not enough liquid, which moved me to an AIB card.

JediFragger · 11 May 2023 at 11:24

Author_25 said:
I thought about a ref card but some reviews had noted that that cards with three 8 pin power connectors had more performance stability, compared to 2 power connectors, but was the issue with the reference cooler, not enough liquid, which moved me to an AIB card.

Nah the issues were with the XTX and not the XT cooler, the XT is fine

SpudMaster · 11 May 2023 at 11:31

Author_25 said:
I thought about a ref card but some reviews had noted that that cards with three 8 pin power connectors had more performance stability, compared to 2 power connectors, but was the issue with the reference cooler, not enough liquid, which moved me to an AIB card.

yeah as started above the reference cooler issues was only with the XTX cards. Not looked at reviews for the XT recently but wasnt the difference between the XTX reference and more 'premium' cards like the Nitro+ only like 5%.

Jono8 · 11 May 2023 at 11:35

SpudMaster said:
OCUK have bumped the price of that up now to £780 Maybe they are selling more due to the 4070 being so poor.
Though I'm kinda glad they put the price up, I was starting to condition myself into thinking £750 was ok, but then saw the price has gone up £30 and thought nope!. Must remain strong, summer is here, all games I play run fine on my old Vega and new games just seem to be remakes, broken, rubbish or a combination of all 3 . So thanks OCUK you saved me £750 and cost yourself a sale

I guess they sold a decent amount of stock at £750.

They had the nitro for £800 but that only lasted hours (so can only summise that sales sky rocketed for it at that price, hence why it went back up so quickly).

I think you are right about the 4070. It made the 7900xt look like a great deal at £750. 35% more performance and 20gb vram for £200 more.

If you spending near £600 anyway, why not just add a bit more and get something significantly faster..

SpudMaster · 11 May 2023 at 11:37

Just checked TPU review of the 7900XTX, they put the Nitro 2% faster at 1080p and 3% faster at 1440p and 4k. It does run quieter but Personally I'd go with reference and save some cash.

Author_25 · 11 May 2023 at 11:37

SpudMaster said:
yeah as started above the reference cooler issues was only with the XTX cards. Not looked at reviews for the XT recently but wasnt the difference between the XTX reference and more 'premium' cards like the Nitro+ only like 5%.

Thanks for the info on the reference cooler thought it applied to XT and XTX.

Author_25 · 11 May 2023 at 11:44

SpudMaster said:
Just checked TPU review of the 7900XTX, they put the Nitro 2% faster at 1080p and 3% faster at 1440p and 4k. It does run quieter but Personally I'd go with reference and save some cash.

May spilt the difference and get the, Asrock Radeon RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming OC, at £830, the cheapest, is the Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming, at £780, but that reference cooler problem, though confined to XTX, still niggles at the back of my mind.

Also noisy fans bug me.

Jono8 · 11 May 2023 at 11:45

Author_25 said:
May spilt the difference and get the, Asrock Radeon RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming OC, at £830, the cheapest, is the Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming, at £780, but that reference cooler problem, though confined to XTX, still niggles at the back of my mind.

I think the reference is quite loud compared to some of the more premium aftermarket ones, judging by reviews.

Author_25 · 11 May 2023 at 12:28

Jono8 said:
I think the reference is quite loud compared to some of the more premium aftermarket ones, judging by reviews.

I like cool and quiet so do not mind paying a bit of a premium for a better cooler.

Jono8 · 11 May 2023 at 12:33

Author_25 said:
I like cool and quiet so do not mind paying a bit of a premium for a better cooler.

You can see here for example, that the Nitro XTX is much quieter than the reference. 31 Db compared to 39Db

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ Review - Maxing out 3x 8-Pin

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ comes with the largest factory overclock of all Navi 31 cards that we've tested so far. Sapphire was also very generous with their power limits. During overclocking, with increased limits we were able to max out the 525 W power delivery capability of the 3x...

www.techpowerup.com

Would no doubt be similar with the XT as well.

I mean, the reference figures arent awful, but you probably wouldn't class the as "quiet" compared to the Nitro cooler.

Zaguer · 11 May 2023 at 15:13

Oh man, now that I was about to get the XTX nitro they put it up in price! I am seriously unlucky... the same happened when I was about to pull the trigger on the XT nitro...

SpudMaster · 11 May 2023 at 15:31

Zaguer said:
Oh man, now that I was about to get the XTX nitro they put it up in price! I am seriously unlucky... the same happened when I was about to pull the trigger on the XT nitro...

Get the Pulse for £999.99. Unless the Nitro cooler is worth £130 to you. Just seen that the Powercolor referene 7900XT is now £749.99.
I DON'T need it....

Zaguer · 11 May 2023 at 15:34

SpudMaster said:
Get the Pulse for £999.99. Unless the Nitro cooler is worth £130 to you. Just seen that the Powercolor referene 7900XT is now £749.99.
I DON'T need it....

More than the cooler (also important) is the RGB, that is important to me

TrojanWhore · 11 May 2023 at 16:03

SpudMaster said:
Get the Pulse for £999.99. Unless the Nitro cooler is worth £130 to you. Just seen that the Powercolor referene 7900XT is now £749.99.
I DON'T need it....

Only 1 yr warranty on that one though, that's the main thing reminding me I don't need it, my 3060ti still has more warranty than that

For me now it would probably be between the pulse and the hellhound (both 3yr), I also wouldn't be surprised if the ASrock dropped a bit soon, as they seem to be going quite aggressive on 6xxx series prices.

Hopefully the £ doesn't tank too hard in light if the interest rate change earlier and we'll see the slight drops continue over the coming weeks

Zaguer · 11 May 2023 at 16:07

TrojanWhore said:
Hopefully the £ doesn't tank too hard in light if the interest rate change earlier and we'll see the slight drops continue over the coming weeks

I really hope so, I just sold my old 3070 and now I got no GPU until I decide to go for something

The pulse has no RGB at all does it? not even the letters?