AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Review & GPU Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, Power, & Noise

Sponsor: Arctic Liquid Freezer II ARGB on Amazon This review and benchmark of the AMD RX 7900 XTX video card tests it vs. the NVIDIA RTX 4080, RTX 4090, RTX 3080, and last generation AMD RX 6950 XT and 6900 XT GPUs. Our review of the RX 7900 XT is coming up later, as is our tear-down of the RX 7900 XTX reference video card from AMD. Overall, the XTX is primarily interesting for its price positioning versus the RTX 4080. AMD was never going to beat the RTX 4090 with a $1000 card, and it doesn’t. But it’s also not anywhere close in price. The RTX 4080 at $1200 (at the time of filming) is the real fight for AMD’s RX 7900 XTX. Our testing today included power transients, thermals, noise, and gaming benchmarks (both rasterization and ray tracing). The transients, voltage regulation, noise, and thermals need some work, but that’s all on the AMD reference design -- it’ll be up to partners to pull weight to fix those aspects. Watch our AMD RDNA3 Architecture Deep-Dive: (also covers specs of the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT) The release date for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT is December 13, 2022. Reviews are going up a day prior. The best way to support our work is through our store: Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: High-End GPUs AMD RX 7900 XTX on Amazon: NVIDIA RTX 4080 on Amazon: NVIDIA RTX 3070 on Amazon: NVIDIA RTX 3080 on Amazon: AMD RX 6900 XT on Amazon: AMD RX 6950 XT on Amazon: NVIDIA RTX 4090 on Amazon: TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - AMD RX 7900 XTX GPU Review & Benchmarks 01:49 - Positioning, Launch, & Testing 03:30 - Power Consumption of RX 7900 XTX 04:17 - SO MUCH COIL WHINE - Transient Testing 06:03 - Pressure Testing 07:19 - Flatness Testing 07:40 - “““8K“““ Benchmarks 09:05 - Total Warhammer 3 - 4K, 1440p, & 1080p 7900 XTX Benchmarks 12:05 - Tomb Raider 7900 XTX vs. RTX 4080 (4K, 1440p) 13:33 - FFXIV GPU Benchmarks 2022 14:55 - F1 2022 7900 XTX vs. RX 6950 XT 16:07 - Rainbow Six Siege Benchmarks 17:50 - Strange Brigade Vulkan Benchmarks 18:18 - Horizon Zero Dawn Benchmarks 18:43 - Ray Tracing 7900 XTX - Cyberpunk 2077 20:30 - Ray Tracing Tomb Raider 21:12 - Ray Tracing Control Benchmarks 22:18 - Thermal Benchmarks 24:55 - Bad Fan Curve & Noise Problems 25:33 - Frequency Testing 26:00 - Conclusion Vs. the RTX 4080 27:25 - Card Issues with Reference 30:18 - Vs. the RTX 4090 ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video (“this video is brought to you by“) and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or “sponsored content“ (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: f: w: Host, Writing, Video Editing: Steve Burke Testing: Patrick Lathan Power Testing: Patrick Stone Video Editing: Vitalii Makhnovets Camera Umbrella Guy: Mike Gaglione Camera: Andrew Coleman