As the year comes to an end (real soon), usually this is also the season where new hardware that’s to show themselves and giving all the performance it has, power and numbers in FPS that makes consumers the need to know and maybe purchase one as an upgrade.
We will quickly look at the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, one of the two offerings from AMD (as well as the AIB) and its part of AMD latest Radeon series of GPU that brings in the new RDNA 3 GPU architecture, which arrives to our lab for a performance benchmarks and testing along with our new test companion motherboards, processors, memory to pair with and to keep the fierce GPU competitions on par.
As a start, this card is competing along with Nvidia’s new RTX 4080 and 4090, which also puts the RX 7900 XT along the top tier level GPU that is capable of delivering insane framerates for almost all games with a slightly lower price tag, while AMD still brings in several new features under the RDNA3 GPU architecture, such as having 8K display while still enjoying up to 165Hz refresh rate, as well as game developers bringing in new updates to existing games to support FSR 2.2. We will list some of the key features of the new RX series down below under features in summary so you can have a look at it as well.
Specifications (Compared to RX 6700 XT)
| RX 7900 XT | RX 6700 XT | |
| PCI-E Interface | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Compute Units | 84 | 40 |
| Memory size | 20GB | 12GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Boost Frequency | 2400Mhz | 2581Mhz |
| Memory Speed | 20 Gbps | 16GBPS |
| Memory Interface | 320 bit | 192 bit |
| Ports | 1 X HDMI, 2X DisplayPort, 1 X USB C | 1 X HDMI, 3X Displayport |
| Power Connector | 2 x 8 Pin | 2 x 8 Pin |
Unboxing & Contents
Since we have is the reference unit, it will just come with the Graphics Card unit only and the box. The rest of the details and drivers can be obtained via amd.com
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Features
- AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) – uses cutting-edge upscaling technologies to help boost your framerates in select titles and deliver high-quality, high-resolution gaming experiences, without having to upgrade to a new graphics card.
- AMD Smart Access Memory – Combine an AMD Ryzen 5000/7000 Series processor with an AMD Radeon RX 6000/7000 Series graphics card to boost system’s performance. Enjoy increased performance with all-AMD system for the better gaming advantage.
- AMD Radeon Anti-Lag – Controls the pace of the CPU work to make sure it doesn’t get too far ahead of the GPU, reducing the amount of CPU work queued up by shrinking input lag by almost a full frame, helping to restore the responsiveness to your game.
- 2nd Generation AMD Infinity Cache – Allows fast data access and acts as a high performance bandwidth amplifier with great power efficiency delivering 2912GB/s of bandwidth
- AMD RDNA 3 – Featuring new AI acceleration and 2nd generation Ray Tracing for maximizing image quality while delivering high framerates.
- AMD Radiance Display Engine – This is one of the known Graphic Cards that features DisplayPort 2.1, which can output at 8K resolution, 165Hz
- 8K Video Encoding/Decoding – It Supports AV1, H.264 and HEVC codecs
Card Output Ports Lists
- Output : USB C with DP 2.1 X 1
- Output : Display Port 2.1 with UHBR13.5 X 2
- Output: HDMI 2.1a X 1
Test Setup
We will be using the below as a test setup for the Radeon RX 7900 XT for the purpose of the benchmark, with comparison used on other cards, SAM/BAR is enabled.
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7700X |
| Motherboard | ASRock X670e Pro RS |
| System Memory | Kingston Fury 16GB X 2 (32GB DDR5 total, 6000MT/s) |
| Primary Drive | NVME SSD @ 500GB (PCIE Gen4 X4) |
| Secondary Drive | NVME SSD @ 500GB + 2TB (PCIE Gen4 X4) |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower PF1 750W Platinum |
| Operating System | Windows 11 64bit Professional |
Cards in reference
| Brand | Model |
| AMD (Reference Model) | Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| AMD (Reference Model) | Radeon RX 6700 XT |
Benchmark Scores (With BAR Enabled). Ambient Room Temp : 26 Celsius
Verdict & thoughts
This is towards those who really wanted the newest from the Radeon lineup, yet latest featured, which posses all the raw rendering, gaming power that the card really has, in fact it is slightly cheaper than the competing brand that just launched not too long ago as well. Back to the performance numbers wise in gaming, you can easily game up to the reasonable high framerates above 75FPS even in 4K, provided pairing it with the Intel 11th generation i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 5000 series and above across all triple A titles. If you are using it for rendering, encoding/decoding, this will definitely crunch thru comfortably as well with the support of major codecs used widely. Highly recommended for those who really wanted to upgrade as well, if you are coming from the NVIDIA mid tier 30 series cards below or AMD’s Radeon 6000 series and older, just make sure to pair with a fairly powerful processor and its a good to go. From the pricing standpoint, you might want to add this in your list if you are on your way getting a flagship graphics card, since it is expected that from price to performance view, this is slightly viable and slightly affordable compared to the current flagship cards.
Pricing and Availability
It is announced that the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT will start from 899USD, however branded AIB cards price may varied. So far we have not receive any AIB cards yet, but if we do we will review it as well.
For More information on the Product, Visit Below for more info.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | AIB : ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
Special thanks to AMD, ASRock, Kingston, Thermaltake on providing/loaning us the needed hardware for this review