Nvidia was clearly wrong – AMD RX 7900 XT and XTX
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AMD’s finally here to strike back against NVIDIA’s new big and bold (pricey) 4080 with the new RX 7900 XT and XTX. Linus is here to give you a first look at this new GPU that could be the upgrade you’ve been waiting for.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Lmao
0:59 Unboxing and size comparisons
2:38 Display outputs and power connector
3:58 XT and XTX size comparison
4:22 Sponsor – Vessi Footwear
5:10 How they got BIG performance improvements
7:21 AI enhancement and encoding
8:54 Potential performance difference (kinda)
9:21 Full release date
9:56 Outro
These cards look SICK!! I actually love the design they went with
Black IO plate… nice touch
@Ricki Nielsen AMD’s founders edition look like someone had a lot of shapes and didn’t know what to do with them.
much cooler than ngreedia
Glad someone is getting wet
My Black Panther PC is now complete 😂
Definitely going for a 7900xtx for my next card. Now let’s just hope that retailers respect the MSRP. I know they are already ignoring MSRP for the AIB 4090’s.
Have fun getting shitty drivers and not using DLSS which is the best in the industry by far
What do you mean ignoring MSRP for AIB cards. They have their own prices.
same, i just need AMD to release their next 2 gens so prices drops here in Brasil so i can get one without having to pay for half a car
Man, those are such good-looking cards.
They really are!!! I was about to make this same comment lol
Woman, that’s good looking graphics processing unit.
well, they are reference cards, they are made for marketing
damn… the 7900xtx is a beautiful card. I love the way it looks
I am glad that AMD has upped their game these last few years. Most likely Nvidia will stay in the lead, for another generation or two, but the gap is nowhere what it used to be. AMD is doing things that will make things better for everyone and force team green to improve. Ahhh competition, it’s a beautiful thing.
@PCMasterRaceTechGod amd has not caught up. As far as the general public goes. They either get what everyone else gets or see gamers and streamers using 4090’s and just go with nvidia. Amd is definitely better with price / performance but they are going to need to be beating nvidia by a pretty significant margin to be “in the lead”
@Nihren Just because you can add power doesn’t mean you can cool it. The 4090 is already ridiculously large. What are they gonna do, have it take up 5 slots? Or require a 4 fan AIO?
@Steve Sherman ?? how can they not we all have 1000+ watt psu’s now
@Steel People buy Nvidia because of marketing, no one really cares about DLSS and RT because almost no games support it, and when it is supported, people don’t enable to don’t have frame drops. 😂
The most used card in steam is GTX 1650, without DLSS and RT, for example.
The biggest step forward was let Raja Koduri go 😂
Now he can do that terrible cards on Intel…
I’ll most likely be going with AMD next. I want to see how their mid-range 1080p-1440p cards are this gen.
@Ryan Johnston fr
@Bunnybuns ye fr like 36% exchange rate or whatever i hope we dont get shafted for rdna 3 i wanna get one
@Ryan Johnston bro ong I swear Canada prices are cheaper then us all the sudden when it should be more
Yeah amd is nuts rn in canada i have seen rx 6600s for $270 cad and rx 6650xts for $350 cad
@Joshua Britain you should have bought one black Friday. Those cards might not come out until around August. Seems like a long time to wait to maybe save $30.
They’re great. Matte black and simple design. I do look forward to see custom cards too.
I’m excited to see how they perform. Currently on my second Radeon GPU and I don’t see myself going back to Geforce any time soon.
@avar1ce_ Ah. I’ve only seen the Vulkan and OpenCL results. Where did you see the DirectX benchmarks?
@Mary F From what I’ve seen that’s specifically in Vulkan rendered games; in DirectX the 4080 outperforms the XTX slightly (<5%).
@walterdongato I guess it depends on what you think is slightly better. I thought I heard that the xtx was 15 to 20% better than the 4080 outside of ray-tracing, and the xt was nearing 10% better than the 4080 too.
Leaks I’ve heard is that the xtx will be slightly better than a 4080 at non-ray traced work, and the xt will be slightly worse than the 4080, but better than the 408012g/4070ti. AMD still lags way behind Nvidia at ray tracing though.
DP 2.1 is great. There as so many older titles and not so resource hungry newer titles that should have plenty of legroom to move around in these GPUs, so it doesn’t really matter that you won’t be getting 8k 165 in Cyberpunk. You know that once HRR 8K becomes standard in 10 years or something, you will be able to actually use your monitor to its fullest potential. And that’s completely ignoring the possibility of future upscaling tech.
I just really wish they went with PCIe 5. Sure, it would be pretty useless right now, but all it means is using fewer lanes later, and saving lanes is always good.
@Daniel Kaschel Honestly, the best I see it going is 4k@60hz to 8k@120hz.
Upscaling is huge. I don’t see why 1440p@144hz couldn’t be upscaled to 8k@144hz as the upscaling tech matures.
Wow, that size comparison is amazing. I think the efficiency route that AMD is pursuing will pay off in the long run. You can only go so small and only throw so much power at a desktop. Efficiency will save cost in resources, manufacturing, operating and size/cases required. The future is looking bright, or at the very least, competitive – and with a few different flavours. Hope Intel can bring some heat to add to the competition.
I think nvidia is adding plenty of heat. :p