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***The RX 7600/XT RX 7700 XT, RX 7800 XT and 7900 GRE owners thread***

Mugen_fd2 said:
Managed to get 7800xt nitro+ from amazon for less than £400 and now questioning myself shall I enjoy it now or wait for Black Friday/Christmas? Coming from 3070 and playing on 1440p monitor with occasional 4k tv gaming. 7900gre would be logical step up, but how cheap quality models will get and when?

Idea was while 3070 still holds some value to have meaningful upgrade, especially in vram department, for not much money.
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I saw that deal £397? Really good price for Sapphire's Top Model.
 
Gilbert89 said:
I saw that deal £397? Really good price for Sapphire's Top Model.
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Yes that’s the one. Now is it noticeable upgrade to 3070? Been looking at drivers thread on this forum and seems like nvidia does better job here, as I can’t remember if I ever had to complain about it’s software.
 
Mugen_fd2 said:
Yes that’s the one. Now is it noticeable upgrade to 3070? Been looking at drivers thread on this forum and seems like nvidia does better job here, as I can’t remember if I ever had to complain about it’s software.
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About 32%. 3080 Ti with 16GB.

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Review

With the Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD is going after the GeForce RTX 4070. Our review confirms that AMD has achieved performance parity in rasterization and is pretty close in ray tracing, at a much better price point, and they are giving you 16 GB VRAM, instead of just 12 GB.
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humbug said:
About 32%. 3080 Ti with 16GB.

www.techpowerup.com

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Review

With the Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD is going after the GeForce RTX 4070. Our review confirms that AMD has achieved performance parity in rasterization and is pretty close in ray tracing, at a much better price point, and they are giving you 16 GB VRAM, instead of just 12 GB.
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Looking at this chart it’s rather 24% at 1440p and 4k?
 
That's exactly why I went for the 7900GRE from my 3070 as the 7800XT just wasn't enough of a upgrade for 1440p gaming even though it would have cured the problem I was having with the 3070 (running out of vram). The 7900GRE was cheaper then (£522 for mine) though and the 7800XT was £500+ so it was a no brainer to get the better card. The 4070/4070S hadn't had their price cuts at the time also. If the 4070S was at it's current price of around £540 for the Asus 4070 Super Dual Evo I would have got that instead for the lower power consumption. At the current price the 7900GRE doesn't make a lot of sense.
 
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humbug said:
I would imagine so, as i said i have this one, as you can see its a smaller dual fan design, slightly lower TDP, i have higher core / memory clocks you have more CU's, out of the box it runs at about 245 watts at about 70c, perhaps slightly lower with 35% fan speed, its almost completely silent, day to day i run it overclocked with +10% power with custom fan curve of about 45% to keep the same temps, its more audible but still quiet.

I'm really impressed with it, its replaced an MSI 2070 Super Gaming X, which was twice the size with larger fans, despite that and despite using a little more power somehow it manages to run cooler and quieter than that GPU, its quite obviously not a high end GPU but the build quality is still good, it even uses thermal pads on the back of the GPU in to the backplate, something rare even among high end versions.

I think Sapphire just make really good GPU's, even if they are not high end ones, its as if they actually care about making a quality product.

GN never made a teardown of it, which is a shame, he did make a teardown of the RX 7600 version, which has the older version of this cooler type and fans, the whole thing is a little different to the updated version you and i have but its still a good measure of Sapphires thinking, which is interesting as first Steve thought the shroud was not attached properly and it seemed a little lose, turns out this was a design choice to make it easy to remove with the fans in it for easy cleaning. They stuck with that idea on our later versions and don't care that it feels slightly lose if you grab hold of it and pull it about, i do like the fact that you can take 6 easy to access screws out and the shroud comes off with the fans, easy to properly clean the dust out of it.

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Would love to hear what happens if you take 10% of the core clock, both in terms of performance but also power consumption. If its anything like RDNA 2 you will see good gains in powerdraw and heat with almost no penalty to performance. Mind giving it a shot and report back? im very curious.
 
Phixsator said:
Would love to hear what happens if you take 10% of the core clock, both in terms of performance but also power consumption. If its anything like RDNA 2 you will see good gains in powerdraw and heat with almost no penalty to performance. Mind giving it a shot and report back? im very curious.
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I might try that when i have time.
 
TimeSpy control run stock: GPU score 19,372, 245 Watts.

-10% power, -100mv, core clocks locked to 2350 (you can see that is the data on the page) 19,298 identical pretty much, 205 watts.

This was a quick dirty try, with more fiddling i could probably get that down to 180 watts without any performance loss, these are not power hungry cards to start with and tuning them for low power works.

245 watts.
www.3dmark.com

I scored 17 401 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}
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205 watts.
www.3dmark.com

I scored 17 376 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

GPU score of 21,407 at 265 watts
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I scored 18 558 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}
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A 4070 Ti scores about 22,500 at 285 watts
 
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humbug said:
TimeSpy control run stock: GPU score 19,372, 245 Watts.

-10% power, -100mv, core clocks locked to 2350 (you can see that is the data on the page) 19,298 identical pretty much, 205 watts.

This was a quick dirty try, with more fiddling i could probably get that down to 180 watts without any performance loss, these are not power hungry cards to start with and tuning them for low power works.

245 watts.
www.3dmark.com

I scored 17 401 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

205 watts.
www.3dmark.com

I scored 17 376 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

GPU score of 21,407 at 265 watts
www.3dmark.com

I scored 18 558 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

A 4070 Ti scores about 22,500 at 285 watts
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That is awesome. So I see the trend continues with RDNA 3. A rough 20% power saving at no performance cost is impressive.
 
Mugen_fd2 said:
Yes that’s the one. Now is it noticeable upgrade to 3070? Been looking at drivers thread on this forum and seems like nvidia does better job here, as I can’t remember if I ever had to complain about it’s software.
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I have a 7800XT (Sapphire Nitro+) on a similar deal and very pleased with it, but I came from no GPU so it was money well spent.

Only you can decide if the costs vs performance increase is worth it to you.

IMO if the 3070 isn’t massively struggling with what you do I would hang on for as long as possible.

Otherwise just sell the 3070 and enjoy the extra performance for little outlay :D
 
@Gilbert89 Vram is what pushed me to bite at this price.

Card has arrived today and overall quality I would say is better than tuf asus - feels substantial with plenty of metal. I have changed the fan curve a bit, as out of the box fans were quite loud. Found a free version of time spy and the result are below on primary bios(performance if Im not mistaken) and with hot spot 82c.
Don't think I will be overclocking the card, at least not in the near future.

 
Bounce said:
In which games are playing out of interest ?

Indeed it is a nice upgrade but rx 580 is no slouch in its heyday.
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was mainly going to be for Path of Exile 2.
I haven't really looked at other newer games as my gpu was just not up to spec anymore.
But also means now i can look at starfield again as it was barely playable and maybe the new monster hunter. plus i can finally turn those graphic settings up :cool:
 
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