For anyone curious about the power draw, at idle my 7900 XTX is down to 9w - 15w at desktop. They've fixed the power draw in a recent driver update. I've heard many other people say that their multi monitor/multiple refresh rate monitors are also much lower than when it launched.

That's a slick looking reference card

I LOVE the price per frame breakdown with the percent graphs. This is such an effective way to compare the cards, and I hope that this will show up in future videos!

Just a quick unsolicited real price chart, 8 months later, here in Italy: 7900 XTXs are about 1200/1400€, 4080s are being selled for 1600/1800€ and 4090s are ranging from 2100 to 2500€. Insanity never left since late 2020.

The LTT review said the AMD cards have significant differences in power draw based on the monitor they're attached to. That's a pretty obscure thing to test (and it's on AMD to fix it), but it's worth noting that the power draw picture may be better or worse than is represented here.

We already knew it wasn't gunna compete with the 4090. We also knew it would lose when it came to productivity and ray tracing. Even after all that it's actually surprising how good amd did. 4k is competitive and 1080p and 1440p performance is crazy. Good fight for the real ones.

Good review with power consumption topic too :) looking forward if they can fix it on idle/low loads. If yes then I’ll jump :)

good video and covering some points that other reviews didnt do. Such as the streaming part at 6:33 Thanks

Most thorough and informative but also neat and laconic review. You are awesome, man! Keep it up!

9:50 thank you so much for that real-test noise. ❤ I was looking for it in everywhere.

Thank you for testing video encoding, haven't seen this anywhere else!

your review is one of the best because you are showing the exact same cutscenes rendered with different gpus ty so much for this video

Phenomenal content, I love the way you do the side by side comparisons. Enjoy your success 🎉

This is super encouraging for the 7600 and 7700 cards. RT I imagine is less important for us mid range buyers and the later release dates will hopefully come with improved drivers especially for idle power and improved AV1 support in OBS and hopefully soon for Twitch and YT.

Out of all the tech youtubers, I always pick your videos first. Thanks for everything you do.

1:52 Bro, those frame time graphs are crazy, I can't believe you're ignoring them That's like a difference of going from 60 to 100 in terms of game feel

Awesome visuals and testing as always. You’ve easily become one of the best sources for fast appealing information when it comes to PCs

H.264 has definitely improved compared to the previous, maybe tickering with settings and better software optimization like. Nvidia just received will assist in that. There's some hope with OBS 29, as it's expected to support AV1 fully and the new encoders from Nvidia, Intel and AMD. once it's out of beta. AMD can also optimize its encoding stacks with drivers as well.

Thank you for this great comparison!

Optimum Tech, given the bigger power draw, can you recommend this card in place of the RTX 4080 from your recent "ITX Perfection - Tiniest 4080 PC" video? Or perhaps, suggest some changes in parts to accommodate 7900 XTX into the T1 case?

Holy moly what is that power draw at idle?! Thanks for testing this!

I reckon enabling SAM/PCIe rebar for both is better given XMP is being enabled which is already not out of the box defaults.

Ali, please test the temps in various ITX cases. We want to know if we want the reference model is the go-to model for specific cases.

Hope you're going to look at the thermals and noise in mini ITX cases too!

very compelling. great review. hopefully AMD can fix that idle power consumption soon. I'd love to see what this can do undervolted / power limited as well.

THANK YOU FOR ADDING POWER CONSUMPTION GRAPH COMPARED TO COMPETITION

Great review, very informative! 😊👍 Appreciate the detailed analysis.

looking at it historically, the amd gpus have always improved drastically with time, due to multiple great software updates. Even if that might not be the case this time (since they said they kinda redid their entire driver thingy), they will definetly fix the weird happenings between different dirextX versions, high power draw on idle and in some situations and hopefully general driver customization options. i am confident that this is the best card for anyone not absolutely needing Raytracing, and it should only get better in the future, since the XTX comes with 8GB more VRAM aswell, so i really hope for some longevity on that part. Overall great review, really like the way you developed your channel and how you grew with the videos. Cheers!

AMD's streaming performance with AV1 looks like its got some kind of sharpening effect compared to Nvidias. Its pretty noticeable around UI elements and areas of high contrast.

Excellent perspective and incredibly concise video. BRAVO!!

I love to see you to do more review like this. This is clean, fast paced, informative and right on the point.

I can't wait for the video on the undervolting of the rx 7900. I think this generation will be very interesting on this subject

Very compelling card. Personally not looking to upgrade my 3080 at the moment. I’d rather upgrade my monitor and cpu first.

Can you test the Glorious model O 2 wireless? I have been thinking about getting pulsar x2 or glorious model O 2 wireless because I'm curious about choosing this both mice and I'm curious about glorious model O 2 wireless click latency.

shout out to you mate for including ACC in your tests cheers

Top notch quality review yet again my man 💯

9:03 it won't be for much long though. Blender is adding support for HIP-RT in the next version. Finally an Optix competitor. It would be nice to show how 7900 XTX is performing against CUDA.

Awesome review, did you look for coil noise?

Glad to see ACC is used in the benchmark!

My first GPU review from you. EXCELLENT work. Graphs made sense, good pacing through the video, and no obvious signs of bias. 10/10!

Don't really understand why resizable BAR was disabled, seems to be pretty standard to have that on now as all modern motherboards support it.

Thanks for including Assetto Corsa Competizione in the testing. Much appreciated.

I like this review, short yet complete (rt perf, raster perf, power, rendering, streaming). All you need to know.

It's even more attractive, today. 7900 xtx is coming down to the $900-$1000 range, while prices on the Nvidia cards have barely budged.

Bought an RX 6600 XT for $250 on Black Friday. I'm more than happy with the performance and it competes well with the 3060. Can't wait to see what the RX 7600 XT is like

good video, one piece of feedback - switching which side of the screen the AMD v Nvidia card metrics were displayed on frequently was frustrating

bro the rollercoaster on this one, the start was amazing!- but still, nice videocard

thank you for being the only person who actually did encoding on the 7900xtx in their review today

IMO even with the bigger power draw, the 7900 XTX is still the clear better alternative for gaming over the 4080 (unless you care about RT). Looks like the power draw issue is fixed now + you can just undervolt. Even if the price was equal, I'd still lean towards the 7900 XTX, cuz NVIDIA skimping on VRAM for a 1440p - 4k card is kinda omegalul

tysm for adding the OW2 power consumption as it is quite significant (1440p). can you add an update after some driver optimization from amd?

Optimum is the most unbiased reviewer i know, and trust me 90% of reviewers are biased and paid to lie, I salute you man.

Those frame times though, looks like less spikes on RDNA3.

Flawless out of box review. ITX guy myself would like to encourage you to run undervolting findings! Keep the awesome work.

what is up with the power at idle? How bad was coil whine? did the fans ever stop just idling at desktop?

Will you be reviewing the Deathadder V3 Pro?

On the contrary, to me, the Blender results seems promising. If 7090 HIP is as fast as 3080 OptiX, when OptiX-equivalent for AMD comes with Blender 3.5, it will beat 3080.

I hope we get follow up videos with sam & OC enabled with both ddr4 and ddr5, especially for comp games where 1% fps matters. anyways, well done as always OT! definitely the best at making clean, honest & consistent reviews 💯

I'm thinking of running this in an NCase M1, I'm wondering if it would be possible for you to test it in one and see how it does.

Could you do frame timings?. I found raw rasterized images on amd gpus to look much sharper than Nvidia from past gpus I owned.

The power usage are INSANE! Thanks for letting us know. I hope more youtuber are inspired by thorough test like you.

Man, Im excited for these new cards but more excited for price dumps on Radeon 6000 cards 😁

Beste, Welke videokaart zo jij aanraden voor city builder? Want er wordt nooit een test gedaan op zo games, en hoeveel vram heb je nodig? Mvg

0:33 Minor correction: it's Gddr 6x for 4080 &90 not 6

I went and bought the Arc a770! I’m happy so far. As long as Intel continues to support the GPU with updates etc, my experience with it will just get better.

by far the best tech youtuber

Can't wait to get my hands on the XTX. My Fury is starting to show its age and I sold my Vega when the prices on GPU's went sky high.

Great video, great detailing. I love it! Keep it up!

I feel like the reason the AMD cards aren't as power efficient is because of its mix of 5nm and 6nm chip usage. Physics determines power efficiency there, but I am excited to see how AMD and game developers tune their software to optimize these cards.

Glad I got the 4090 last week

Thanks for showing me this vid I was thinking about buying one due to the average being slightly different and the price but the power consumption is just insane.

Thank you soo much for showing idle power consumption! Mainly bad idle performance, but also bad VR performance made me ditch my rx 5700xt for an rtx 3070 in 2020.

1:51 are we just not going to mention how much smoother the frame times are on AMD? or nah?

Goodness. although AMDs flagship still loses from Nvidias flagship, just showing how far they have come. I hope they still keep the pricing when they are finally on par or beating the competition.

is undervolting does its job good here as the 7000 amd cpus?

Are early driver issues back after they went missing at the RX 6000 launch?

Team green is way ahead of competition, world always brace underdogs . I don't think anyone thinking spend 1000+$ on performance device will calculate $ to prame rate ratio.

I wonder if the gaming OC 7900XTX will be better for mini ITX cases, its 2 slot and slightly longer than the reference card

What is going on with the frame times on the RTX 4080 on Forza? Big regular spikes which I often get on COD with 3070...

If I had either of these cards I'd enable resizable BAR-Would prefer the comparison with it on for both.

Yay. Been waiting all day for your video

Pretty surprised. Usually AMD is the one with more efficient cards but now similar performance but higher power usage

5:05 I am pretty sure there was an issue that got fixed with power consumption

I really wonder how these issues will translate, if at all, to the mobile segment. I was really looking to upgrade from my mobile 1050 4 GB (sputtering in anything that looks better than TF2), but the Nvidia -70 GPU is still gimped at 8 GB of VRAM, so that’s off the table. May it be that time allows AMD to release its own mobile GPU’s (which will hopefully offer far more value for 1440p gaming) without the power sucking or wonky drivers.

if sam is enabled plus oc, would the 7900xt get even closer?

Wouldn't resizable bar be more logical? Most users buying this will have it enabled?

What desk do you use in ur setup

BEAST CHANNEL! you really care the power consumption while idle and 1440p, but other channels were talking something useless.. i never dissapointed since the time i subscribed opt tech

@Optimum Tech would nice really nice if you did a follow up, to see how things are nearly half a year later.

I think it's early driver teething issues. They all use US as their beta testers. By the end of 2nd qtr. next year I am sure it will perform better. I can see why the delay in releasing the card. I guess AMD will be hiring even more driver developers to catch up with Nvidia. Hardware wise they are close the just need drivers to exploit the hardware better under windows. I wonder what the Linux performance is like? Well we will know soon LevelOne techs will go thru all of it.

Any thoughts on the updated HDMI spec on AMD cards?

Great info dude.

7900 XTX and RTX 4080 is pretty much the same performance in rasterization. Would you pay $200 more for better power efficiency, DLSS 2/3, and for better ray tracing performance? What if NVIDIA drop the MSRP for $100 less for the 4080. Which one is gonna be the better deal?

AMD cards age very well, launch benchmak numbers will only improve as AMD optimises these games further.

Sweet review ❤

can this graphic card fit in evolv shift 2 case?

Amd is the more power hungry card. With buggy drives truly Radeon is back

Price dropped the 30 series for sure and 4070ti probably comes in around $800 us.

I decided to buy the RX 7900 XTX when i saw a review that it gets better FPS on Call of Duty than the 4090, apparently the COD engine favors the Radeon cards over Nvidia on 2K resolution (1440P). COD is one of my main games that i play so that was a selling point for me, very happy with my purchase since my rig is running the AMD 5800x CPU. Ran the benchmark and im getting 28 more FPS on average over the RTX 3060 ti that i was using.

What's the equivalent temps vs the 4080/4090 on the bench?

Was pretty surprised to see the XTX pulling more power than the 4080. That brings up the question why the hell the 4080 cooler designs are so huge. I hope we get some more reasonably sized 4080s in the future