AMD 7900 GPU series reviews are up.

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I got one from the AMD store. Granted I was in the queue (waiting for a place in line) 10 minutes before the actual start of the sale, somewhere around 8:55 a.m. EST. Once the queue opened up, I had a 1 minute wait.
ah. i was queued up likewise, and was a just under 30 minute wait. wonder what was the allocation of xtx's vs xt's in that 200K number...

Edit, ugh okay the 200k wasnt launch, but the whole of q4. makes more sense now.
 
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Sadly they look to be selling.
In reality there is very little difference in performance between the two from what I saw. Many might rather just save 100 bucks for nearly the same performance. I am sure we would all like to see the price lower on the xt, but these days inflated prices are the norm.
 
In reality there is very little difference in performance between the two from what I saw. Many might rather just save 100 bucks for nearly the same performance. I am sure we would all like to see the price lower on the xt, but these days inflated prices are the norm.
With overclocking, if that's your thing, the XT can probably perform like the XTX (or even better). But of course, if you can't buy either....
 
This was such a disappointing launch. I was on the fence about getting a 7900XTX and that 20 second hesitation cost me. Even if I did buy it within 1 seconds I probably still wouldn't have got it.
Bro. This is no time for hesitation. Let this be a lesson to the rest of you the next time orders open up for the next new gpu launch. If you're gonna stall for 2 min then don't even waste time going to the site. Go do something else.
 
Examples? Idk. Looks like mostly everyone was expecting a 4080 competitor.
In the cesspit of Reddit I saw a lot of posts hyping it up to be a 4090 killer. I think this is why AMD had to come out and explicitly state that it was aimed at the 4080.
 
In the cesspit of Reddit I saw a lot of posts hyping it up to be a 4090 killer. I think this is why AMD had to come out and explicitly state that it was aimed at the 4080.
Ah, I only tend to read things here lol. Wouldn't surprise me about Reddit, though.
 
In the cesspit of Reddit I saw a lot of posts hyping it up to be a 4090 killer. I think this is why AMD had to come out and explicitly state that it was aimed at the 4080.
To me, there is something wrong with the product. Be it bugs or drivers. But I mean look at the MW2 benchmarks.....then look at the rest.

Something is wrong with it if you ask me.
 
To me, there is something wrong with the product. Be it bugs or drivers. But I mean look at the MW2 benchmarks.....then look at the rest.

Something is wrong with it if you ask me.
Different engines stress different parts of the hardware could be one reason
 
It’s the chiplet design. Lopsided performance was expected and I knew it before this card was released. It’s a decent card but it’s only worth what they are asking.
 
To me, there is something wrong with the product. Be it bugs or drivers. But I mean look at the MW2 benchmarks.....then look at the rest.

Something is wrong with it if you ask me.
We'll see. I usually scoff at the "wait for drivers" angle, but in this case I think it may be true. These cards are using a new design that hasn't been done before, and it may at least have its issues lessened by driver updates. It may be the reason that rumors are that NVIDIA's Blackwell is sticking with monolithic instead of going MCM.
 
We'll see. I usually scoff at the "wait for drivers" angle, but in this case I think it may be true. These cards are using a new design that hasn't been done before, and it may at least have its issues lessened by driver updates. It may be the reason that rumors are that NVIDIA's Blackwell is sticking with monolithic instead of going MCM.
I saw a review or two that showed frametime graphs and the 7900 had much much more variance over the 4000s (and every mono-die card). I'm not sure if it's noticeable in gameplay but it's definitely there. I would imagine that new drivers will help somewhat.
 
I saw a review or two that showed frametime graphs and the 7900 had much much more variance over the 4000s (and every mono-die card). I'm not sure if it's noticeable in gameplay but it's definitely there. I would imagine that new drivers will help somewhat.
To be honest. It reminds me of some of the issues with Crossfire/SLI when looking at those graphs, and how the performance is kind of crazy. in variance.
 
To be honest. It reminds me of some of the issues with Crossfire/SLI when looking at those graphs, and how the performance is kind of crazy. in variance.
Yeah but at least I haven't seen any mention of microstuttering so it must not be too big of an issue; even if it is technically worse than mono-die parts.
 
We'll see. I usually scoff at the "wait for drivers" angle, but in this case I think it may be true. These cards are using a new design that hasn't been done before, and it may at least have its issues lessened by driver updates. It may be the reason that rumors are that NVIDIA's Blackwell is sticking with monolithic instead of going MCM.

Pretty sure it's unlikely to happen but I hope this isn't a repeat of when AMD tried to go HBM for gaming GPUs only to backpeddle to GDDR later, only this time they would be backpeddling to monolithic.
 
Doing the math it's like a 2% increase with the TUF card on its own. With the OC+TUF, about 8-15% over a Reference 7900 XTX
Wow it actually goes neck and neck with a 4090 in Cyberpunk when you really start overclocking this card.

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So, I guess it looks like AMD really did downclock, used slower memory and kept the wattage down. When, they actually could of made it a 450w card and go neck and neck perhaps?

Need to see more AIB models.
 
4080s are disappearing on newegg now that everyone knows that amd cards suck at ray tracing. that expensive as hell asus rog strix model even sold out.
 
Wow it actually goes neck and neck with a 4090 in Cyberpunk when you really start overclocking this card.

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So, I guess it looks like AMD really did downclock, used slower memory and kept the wattage down. When, they actually could of made it a 450w card and go neck and neck perhaps?

Need to see more AIB models.

We will need to see more than 1 game but yeah that is actually a very impressive gain over stock. Would love to see HUB run a heavily OC'ed AIB 7900 XTX through a 50 game benchmark. Anyone here a member in their Discord?
 
Still blows my mind why they didn't just go the 400w+ route and compete with the 4090 if they could have. Clock it at 3ghz stock, slap on some good gddrx6 etc etc.

Not saying it would of been close to 4090 performance because we need more data on overclocked models. But it looks like so far they could have.
 
I am not sure if it is true that there is a significant shift in sales but I would imagine it would more a sense of it will be really hard to get an xtx at their current price, same would be for the xt sales that I imagine will be going really well.
 
I'd love to see a 4080 OC vs a 7900 XTX OC with the same brand and similar cooler, would be fun. We'll see, story seems like it's not over.
 
Never change scalpers and desperate gamers.... oh the insanity. Order confirmed! Or even better, IN HAND!

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You can always find a few fools that just can't wait to get something and scalpers profit, they just better guess right on how many will pay anything to get it.
Christmas time. And my young child (now 25) will throw a fit if Santa doesn't bring it.
 
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