Radeon RX 7900 XTX/ RX 7900 XT vs RTX 4080 Review: Can AMD Bring The Value?

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Published on December 12, 2022 3:38:49 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RN9J6cE08c

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Prices are heading up with this latest GPU generation and with the RTX 4080 being so expensive in particular, AMD has the biggest chance in years to strike back against the competition. The question is: how powerful are the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT? How big is the gen-on-gen increase over RDNA 2? And what's going on with the RX 7900 XT's baffling price vs performance ratio? Rich digs in.

Eurogamer review with further benchmarks: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xt-7900-xtx-review

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00:00:00 Introduction - Next-Gen GPUs - The Story So Far
00:01:04 First Impressions
00:01:23 AMD's GPU Chiplet Breakthrough
00:02:41 Enhanced DisplayPort Options
00:03:28 RDNA 3 GPU Specs - And the RX 7900 XT Problem
00:04:44 RX 7900 XTX/ RX 7900 XT Reference Designs
00:06:05 Test Set-Up
00:06:58 RX 7900 XTX/ RX 7900 XT Ray Tracing Benchmarks
00:12:56 RX 7900 XTX/ RX 7900 XT RT + Image Reconstruction Benchmarks
00:15:15 RX 7900 XTX/ RX 7900 XT Rasterisation Benchmarks
00:21:20 RDNA 3 Power Efficiency vs RDNA 2 vs Ada Lovelace
00:24:19 Conclusions
00:26:06 Outroduction