The RX 7900 XTX graphics card from AMD is aimed at users seeking high performance in games and professional applications. It is a top-tier graphics card that provides an exceptionally high level of performance and power for demanding users who need to perform intensive tasks, such as video editing or 3D rendering.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is built with AMD's RDNA 3 architecture, implementing chiplet technology. It offers next-generation performance and efficiency in 4K and beyond.
The AMD RDNA 3 architecture provides up to 54% greater performance per watt compared to the AMD RDNA 2 architecture and features the world's fastest chiplet interconnect, linking the graphics and memory chiplets at speeds of up to 5.3 TB/s. Additionally, it offers up to 96 new unified compute units and second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology.
It also includes enhanced AI performance, delivering up to 2.7x higher AI performance, and redesigned compute units with second-generation raytracing technology, providing up to 1.8x higher raytracing performance in selected titles compared to the AMD RDNA 2 architecture.
AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition
Designed to provide you with a clean, modern, and user-friendly interaction where you can quickly access the latest software features, game stats, performance reports, driver updates, and more - all from one convenient location.
Take advantage of the ALT+R hotkey to open AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition directly in-game, making it even more convenient and easy to customize your favorite features and achieve a fantastic gaming experience.
Unlock the Potential of Your Graphics
Performance Tuning is AMD's innovative customization and overclocking tool that allows gamers to overclock or undervolt their GPU, controlling both engine and memory clocks, as well as adjusting fan speeds to desired settings.
Game Anywhere With Everyone
AMD Link, a free application that allows you to connect to your computer from your phone, tablet, or TV, is now available for Windows-based computers.
Optimized for better performance, you can now connect with your friends like never before using Link Game, a new feature that allows a friend to connect to your computer from their own machine and play local multiplayer games on your system.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) uses cutting-edge upscaling technologies to boost frame rates in select titles and deliver high-quality, high-resolution gaming experiences without the need to upgrade to a new graphics card.
AMD Noise Suppression Technology
AMD Noise Suppression reduces ambient sound noise, providing greater clarity and improved focus whether you are concentrating on an important meeting or staying focused on a competitive game.
AMD Radeon Super Resolution
Boost performance in thousands of games
Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) is a driver-based upscaling feature that uses the same algorithm found in AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology.
Gamers can take advantage of Radeon Super Resolution technology to unlock new levels of performance in any compatible game.
AMD Smart Access Memory
Get up to 15% more gaming performance with AMD's Smart Access Memory
In conventional Windows-based computer systems, processors can only access a fraction of the graphics memory (VRAM) at a time, limiting system performance.
With AMD Smart Access Memory, the data channel is expanded to fully utilize the potential of GPU memory, using the bandwidth of PCI Express® to remove bottlenecks and increase performance.
Enhanced Focus for Increased Privacy
Privacy View instantly displays any part of your screen using cutting-edge eye-tracking technology. Simply look at an area on your screen while other parts blur.
Share only what is necessary – Privacy View offers various options to blur areas outside your field of vision, keeping your personal content and information private as intended.
AMD Radeon Boost
AMD Radeon Boost dynamically reduces the resolution of the entire frame when fast character motion is detected on the screen through user input, allowing for higher FPS with minimal impact on quality.
With initial support for select DirectX 11 games, this feature now leverages variable rate shading hardware and supported DirectX 12 titles, providing additional performance and increased responsiveness while gaming.
AMD Radeon Anti-Lag
Game like a champion. Play to win.
Radeon Anti-Lag controls the CPU's workload rate to ensure it is not too far ahead of the GPU, reducing the amount of CPU work queued up. As a result, Radeon Anti-Lag can reduce input lag by almost a full frame, helping to restore responsiveness to your game.
AMD Software Radeon Image Sharpening
Stunning visuals. Almost no impact on performance.
AMD Software Radeon Image Sharpening uses a contrast-adaptive sharpening algorithm that restores clarity to game graphics that may have been affected by other effects, highlighting object details.
AMD Enhanced Sync Technology
Enable Liquid-Smooth Gameplay on Your Radeon Powered System
Enhanced Sync helps gamers minimize screen tearing while reducing latency and stutter compared to traditional V-sync.
Available for games based on DirectX 9, 11, 12, and Vulkan API, as well as all GPUs based on Polaris and newer screen combinations and/or AMD Eyefinity Technology 3. Now configurable per game and in-game from AMD software: Adrenalin Edition.
BIOS Update via Software
Switch from OC BIOS mode to secondary mode or back using TriXX software for quick and easy switching between the two BIOS modes.
Vapor-X Cooling
The vapor chamber is placed in contact with the surface of the main chip and memory. Since the entire area transfers heat at the same rate, the Vapor-X unit is designed to operate more efficiently than a copper heatsink in heat transfer. By acquiring heat, the heat source is pushed towards the Vaporization Wicks to initiate the heat dissipation process.
Cooling Design
The WAVE fin design reduces friction when wind enters the fin module, resulting in reduced wind noise.
The V-shaped fin design on the top of the GPU accelerates and concentrates airflow around the GPU for effective heat dissipation.
The cast aluminum-magnesium alloy frame that surrounds the sides of the PCB board helps to enhance the structural rigidity of the cover, creating a strong, scratch-resistant, and high-quality finish that upgrades the aesthetics and strength of the graphics card.
Covering the entire PCB board, the cast Frontplate heatsink cools the VRM, memory, and chokes, resulting in superior heat dissipation for top airflow and cooling performance.
Digital Power Design
The Sapphire Nitro+ Vapor-X AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 Series is designed with digital power, providing precise power control and exceptional power efficiency.
Aluminum Polymer Capacitor
The high-performance conductive polymer aluminum capacitor has a small footprint on the PCB but high volumetric capacity, enabling 20-phase power delivery to the RX 7900 series graphics card.
The capacitor offers stable capacitance at high frequency and temperature with very low signal noise, ensuring the product's stability and reliability.
PCB with high TG copper
The graphics card is mounted on a high-density 14-layer 2oz copper and high TG PCB to match the rapid speed, high current, and increased power demand of the GPU and memory, ensuring high PCB stability during operation.
Durable Metal Backplate
The aluminum backplate provides additional rigidity ensuring that nothing will bend and dust will stay out. It also helps in cooling your card by increasing heat dissipation.
Exclusive VRM Cooling
VRM cooling unit for optimal heat dissipation for maximum airflow and cooling performance.
Fan Blade Angular Velocity
The angled speed fan blade provides a double layer of downward air pressure, which, along with the air pressure on the outer ring of the axial fan, results in up to 44% greater downward air pressure and up to 19% greater airflow for quieter and cooler operation compared to previous generations.
Composite heat pipe
The composite heat pipes are meticulously tuned for each individual cooling design with optimal heat flow, effectively and evenly distributing heat across the entire cooling unit.
Auxiliary fan control system
When the temperature of the card increases, the fans speed up accordingly. To further aid in cooling and heat dissipation, the Assistive System Fan Control feature in SAPPHIRE's TriXX software controls the speed of a system fan to automatically increase simultaneously with the graphics card fans, helping to expel the heated air from the entire system more quickly.
PCI-E Protection Guard
For the protection of your card, SAPPHIRE cards feature built-in fuses in the circuit of the external PCI-E power connector for component safety.
Dual BIOS
Choose between OC BIOS or secondary mode to enhance your gaming experience.
Comes with a graphics card support to keep the graphics card in place in the PCIe slot.
Dual ARGB Light Bar
With a cover design enhanced by ARGB LEDs, you can change the colors of the LEDs for a personalized design. This can be controlled via the TriXX software. Choose from different modes, such as fan speed mode, PCB temperature mode, or the multicolored rainbow mode, or turn off the LED lights.
External ARGB Control Synchronization
Enable external synchronization of the RGB LED between the graphics card and the motherboard using the 3-pin. Gamers can then choose whether the graphics card performs the RGB LED effects independently or if the motherboard takes control.
Quick fan connection
If there is a problem with the fan, you do not need to return the entire card. SAPPHIRE or our partners will send you a replacement fan directly to you! This means that they are easy to remove, clean, and replace, with only one screw securely holding them in place.
Dual Ball Bearing
They feature Dual Ball bearing fans, which have approximately 85% longer lifespan than common bearings. Improvements in the fan blades mean that cooling is up to 10% quieter than the previous generation.
Tri-X Cooling Technology
An innovative blend of Robust VRM Cooling and independent memory thermal units work together for effective and efficient heat dissipation across all components.
Tunnel fins increase convective airflow and ensure continuous air flow through the cooling system and fan.
Heat is expelled by three large fans that operate counterclockwise to maximize airflow.
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I mainly use the card for video rendering. In pro vegas 4K 50mbps 30 fps video, I get 90-100 fps (i14900K - 128gb DDR5 - SSD 990 SAMSUNG - ASUS ROG MB STRIX 790). Temperatures range from 55-65 degrees at around 300 watts. It is very beautiful and has great support due to its construction with an external hard shell and GPU support
The card is a beast, excelling in AAA titles at 1440 ULTRAWIDE without upscaling! It doesn't have coil whine, doesn't raise temperatures, handles overclocking very well. It consumes quite a bit of power, so a little research on the power supply won't hurt! Ray tracing at 1440 ultrawide without upscaling depends on the title. The downside is that AMD's FSR is far inferior to DLSS, but that's not the card's fault, it's the company's software that they will eventually fix... as I mentioned, with this card, there's no need for upscaling
The truth is that I was hesitant to buy it after years with Nvidia. In the end, I didn't regret it! Excellent card! Beautiful, silent, and with amazing performance! Although I have only had it for a few days and haven't thoroughly tested it in some games, they speak for themselves... "Tomb Raider 250 fps, War of Warships Legends 245, Call of Duty 150, MSFS 2020 depending on the area, weather conditions, and aircraft from 40 to 100." All settings on Ultra in all games and without FSR 2! It has been paired with an Msi B550 Tomahawk, Ryzen 5600X (5800X3D in the future), 3200 MHz RAM, and 4K resolution, and I am completely satisfied. I haven't seen temperatures above 60 degrees. I haven't encountered any issues with drivers at all. It is definitely expensive to buy, but you get what you pay for. In my opinion, this implementation is the ultimate value for money that will satisfy even the most demanding users! For those who have the money and are not stuck with Nvidia, this one is out there...
Edit: For MSFS 2020 enthusiasts: Enable AMD Fluid Motion Frames and the performance is on another level! The fps went from a minimum of 40 to 85 and the maximum from 100 to 165! Depending on the area and aircraft, as I mentioned above. The simulation experience has reached another level!
The card is definitely the best one can get for the 7900XTX. Sapphire has done an excellent job with its cooling, as long as it is properly ventilated in the space. Its 3 fans up to 2000-2100 RPM (50-53%) are barely audible, while with headphones on you can't hear anything even at 2500 RPM (max 3200+).
Satisfactory cooling at these (2000) RPM or even lower, to keep the GPU Hotspot below 80C at 400W. The card has 2 BIOS and between the 2 + the setting -10% / + 15% through Adrenalin drivers it can be adjusted to a (total maximum) consumption from 315W up to 465W in steps of 5-6W. However, for 400-465W you will need a quality 800-850W power supply.
At 380-400W that I am using it, I never saw GPU / VRAM temperatures above 80C (air on the card 21-22C).
I haven't tried many games yet, but so far the performance is very high at 3440x1440. In most games I see well above 100fps on high/ultra settings.
EDIT:
I should also mention the rest of the system for a more complete picture
R9 5900X, AorusPRO X570, G.Skill Trident Z Neo 2x16GB 3600 CL16 (GTZN), NVMe 980Pro, HX750i 750W
The monitor is at 175Hz and I use it at 144Hz with Vsync OFF, VRR ON from Adrenalin. The gaming experience is smooth without stutters or tearing.
Purchase purely for video editing in davinci resolve, I have no opinion on gaming.
Being stuck with Nvidia for years, I saw it in a friend's colleague and basically you get a 4090 for half the price, even if you lose 10% in performance, you save a lot of money... incredible value for money.
In editing with davinci resolve, the card is equal if not better than the 4090.
I'm really glad there is healthy competition in Gpus again because Nvidia has really drained us.
Update*
Since I imagine many of you would like 2-3 gaming info, let me clarify that I haven't gone through the process of oc nor am I knowledgeable in this area as I unfortunately play very little.
(without AMD SuperResolution and with default profile on the GPU with global settings)
In cyberpunk, everything on max at 2K resolution 75hz gives 68.9 Avg.FPS
All the following games are with the same settings, i.e. max 2K
Apex 74.9
Pubg 88
Everything at full 4K 144hz for fun... Silent... Restful at temperatures with incredible build quality if you're not stuck with Nvidia here we're talking about a 4090 at half the price
I didn't expect it to be so good.
The card is a beast. Stable, trouble-free, silent, without coil whine. Its temperature barely reaches 67 degrees. It plays everything at 4K, all ultra settings, consistently at 144fps! Works flawlessly with the 7800x3d.
As for the negatives, perhaps the size and of course the price, but those are the choices.
I was hesitant before purchasing this one since I always had Nvidia. However, I needed an upgrade from the 1080 ti that I had, so after some research, I got this specific implementation of the 7900 xtx. Tremendous card. Amazing performance! The card runs smoothly at 60 degrees in games with everything maxed out at 1440p, constantly above 165 fps. I found it for 1100 euros and based on my knowledge, I couldn't go for the 4080 which has 16GB of RAM and only a 256 memory bus and pay an extra 300 euros. In terms of software, it took me a day to get used to AMD. I didn't encounter any issues anywhere. Now I will look at AMD with a different perspective since Nvidia is not the only option.
I decided for the first time to switch from Nvidia to AMD GPU and I don't regret it at all. The difference, first of all, from the 3090 is something more noticeable. Bought it for 1100e and opening the package, which is a cheap cardboard box(!), you see the brick weighing almost 2 kilos!! Luckily, it has a very good support inside which is extremely useful.
Installed it on the motherboard and let's get to the point. The card, during gameplay, especially Warzone, handles everything at max settings in 2K and it works flawlessly and cool until the end of June, reaching temperatures of 62-63 degrees. In terms of performance, this beast in Warzone gives pain with 210-240fps with Fidelity CAS. In case I activate FSR 2, which is AMD's equivalent of DLSS, things go even further.
The fans need a little tweaking from Adrenalin to be quiet, some might be bothered by their default settings.
Also, Adrenalin, which I didn't consider as an Nvidia user, I can say that it is a complete tool for the card and noticeably better than the Nvidia control panel!!
Overall, the card is a beast. Is it worth its money? Compared to a 4080, yes, it is worth it, and I would say that even compared to a 4090, if someone is going exclusively for gaming, this specific Sapphire implementation is the ultimate value for money.
The Card is a beast. It outputs 8 FPS less than the 4090 which is 1000+ € more expensive, but AMD is constantly improving its drivers and will soon catch up. If you have the money, buy it without hesitation.
I will start with the negatives...
1. This particular card is quite bulky, so make sure it fits in your case before purchasing. However, this can also be a good thing, which I will explain below.
2. It draws quite a bit of power depending on the task. I have seen it reach 320w at maximum without changing anything.
3. There is a bug that mainly affects high-resolution and high-refresh rate monitors, and it draws around 70w without doing anything. This is something that may be fixed in the future.
4. It is expensive, especially for AMD.
Now for the positives!
1. This card comes with "anti-sag" support to prevent the PCI slot from bending and to distribute the weight evenly.
2. Because it is bulky, it has no issues with temperature, and the fans are quiet. It is also hot-swappable, so if one fan breaks in the future, SAPPHIRE will send a replacement.
3. In my opinion, this is the most beautiful version of the card with tasteful RGB lighting (which can be controlled through the Trixx application or by connecting an ARGB cable to the motherboard).
4. Performance is slightly better than the 4080 (without ray tracing) and costs 200 euros less, but it does consume more power.
5. I prefer AMD's software (Adrenalin) over Nvidia's, as it allows for better tweaking without needing additional applications like MSI Afterburner. It has also improved significantly in recent years, along with driver updates.
Overall, it is a good card, but perhaps not worth the high price tag. If you don't need a graphics card right now, it may be worth waiting for something better to come along. However, if you are purely gaming, it is a good option. If you are doing 3D modeling, Nvidia may be necessary due to CUDA (although AMD does have ROCM, which is similar to CUDA, but I am not knowledgeable on the subject). If you have a bit more money to spend, then the 4080 may be a better option (unless you have an AMD CPU due to SAM support).