I Bought The RX 7900 XTX... and Avoided NVIDIA - Was It Worth It? 

What are your thoughts on this? 🤔😅 Please refrain from calling me a fanboy. 😂 I've used both AMD and NVIDIA in numerous systems so far and will continue to use both for specific systems and/or use cases. 👍😁

I skipped out on the 4000 series too. Went from a 2060 to a 7900 XT (Hellhound). Great card. Runs cool and barely a whisper from the fans most of the time. I dont care about RT.

I have a Sapphire Nitro Plus 7900 XTX, upgraded from a 2080 ti, couldn't of been happier. Thing is a monster.

Built my first all AMD rig this year, very happy with it. 7700x 7900 xtx. Been flawless so far.

I switched from my EVGA 10gb 3080 to a 7900xtx. The 3080 should have been sold with 16gb of vram instead of 10gb. Nvidia did this for planned obsolescence so I decided to go with a company that doesn’t knowingly screw over their customers.

Tip: Nvidia cards cause a CPU bottleneck before AMD cards. AMD cards use a Hardware Scheduler, while Nvidia uses a Software Scheduler, which means more load on the CPU.

I had no budget restraints or limits, just don't like feeling ripped off. Went with 7950x3d and 7900xtx, craziest gaming I've ever had. Natural 4k high/max settings 120fps no problem. Paired it with a brand new LG C3... true next gen gaming. Also running any game I emulate from PS3/xbox360 gen and below at 60fps at 4k

I agree XTX makes more sense at less the half price of the 4090. Where the most you get from the 4090 is around 15% performance increase and some games there is little to no difference.

Random comment I know, but I have followed you for years and years, ever since you made a video about the FX6300 which I bought because of it 😆 Glad to see you're still going man 👍

Went from a 1060 6g, to a 7900 XT. Been a year with the 7900 XT now. Had a few hiccups at first, but the card is great now, thing is a beast. I had Nvidia ever since the 560 Ti card. I had been watching the graphics cards for years, trying to decide which one to get. But then the cypto made everything crazy expensive. Then when it was over, Nvidia was holding back their production to keep their card prices high. The new 4000 series, was just a overclocked 3000 series, there was no innovation at all. I decided to buy my first ever high-end card with AMD. Their new cards have a chiplet design, so at least they are trying to innovate. The 7900 XTX was $400 more expensive than the 7900 XT in Australia on release. I play on 1440p, 120hz, so this new card is perfect for me. I prefer high FPS than raytracing. I have raytracing turned on in my cyberpunk playthrough atm, it does look good, but it isn't needed. Nvidia have screwed over their fans for years, price gouging, lack of innovation etc, I was sick of it. I play every game on 1440p maxed out, 120hz, I get 100+ FPS in all games, sometimes 200FPS in MW3, and that's without FSR on. The card cost me $1600 when I got it. I had a few driver crashes for a few months when I first got it, but now it's fine. AMD's RDNA architecture is brilliant, it will only get better overtime. They keep adding these new technologies, like the fluid motion frames. I think people skip AMD because Nvidia have better presentation, not really understanding the crap Nvidia has done to scam their fans. These new AMD cards are great, they are cheaper and most likely won't catch fire. They are so much smaller than the competition, but yet in some cases will perform better, even that should get some praise. Who knows what updates they can do to this new chiplet design. Funny how Nvidia are planning on going to a Chiplet design for their next cards. Intel had to change because AMD had innovated. Now Nvidia will have to change because of AMD. AMD should get more praise for pushing PC gaming. I had my 1060 6g for 7 years, I think this 7900 XT will last even longer. I guess that depends on what A.I will do for gaming in the near future.

I have been buying nvdia cards since 2010, but after almost 14 year I swtiched to AMD completely Processor and video card, from 12700K + RTX 3080TI to RYZEN 7800X3D + 7900 XTX. I am very happy with this big change ! More performance, less heat and power consuption. Wonderful change, I hope AMD keeps the good work, I would like to pick up AMD again in its next generation. I bought the Shappire pulse model, even though it is a simple model, it has an excellent constrution, with cooper plate and great heat pipes, the temperatures is much better than my old RTX 3080 TI ZOTAC, witch used to reached 84ºC even with the fans in 100%.

I would just skip the 12VHPWR GPUs.

This particular model of the XTX is super awesome, have had 0 problems with it, the software is incredibly easy to use and navigate and the drivers have been nothing but incredible, making the card even better each time.

I recently upgraded to a 7900XTX from a 1080 and it has been great so far. I didn't like the direction Nvidia took their cards since Turing and I don't play any titles that really use RT. One of the things I kind of wish would happen, though it never would, would be if there was a card with a 4090 level transistor count that was all rasterization based. AD102 has about 10x the transistors of GP104; that coupled with increased clocks, IPC and cache would probably net you 10x the rasterization performance. At that point you could probably brute-force the methods developers use to fake RT and PT well enough and fast enough to simply be better than either PT or RT.

I went from a GTX 1080ti to a 2nd Hand ex mining RX 6800 bought it last July and at the same time upgraded my 3900X to 5800X3D....i'm all set for a while till I run into a game that struggles with 1440p gaming

Honestly speaking, the limitation for the 7900xtx is RT, it's a great product and even still the RT performance is equal to the 4080/4080s. Marginal differences at most and then when you get to PT that's when the RT performs poorly, but if you think about it logically, no fucking card can play path tracing. Nvidia can only reach playability with DLSS 3.5 Frame gen upscaling and Ray Reconstruction, which lessens the image quality even more, reducing the workload from the GPU. No card is even close to being able to reproduce RAW Pathtracing, we probably won't get one that will until 2027. Path Tracing is the future, not RT.

much like you, i went from an rtx 3090 (evga ftw3 ultra) to an rx7900xtx(powercolor hellhound spectral white). i game at 1440p and the rx7900xtx doesnt fail or falter at all at 1440p and can even push 4k too. eventually i may go 4k but for now 1440p is really good. i have zero regrets at all. the rx7900xtx is absolutely nuts.

7800 XT. Good 4K performance. Enjoying it so far

i Jumped from 2080 Super to 7900XTX Asus TUF and ohh boy i am so happy

Personally since I started getting into PCs in 2015, I've always had AMD in my personal rig. R9 390

If you're using one graphics card, and constantly swapping it around. I would recommend using a PCI Express extension cable. That way you're just plugging a cable in and out of each motherboard instead of the card itself

I found a crazy deal on an ASRock RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC back in August of 2023 for $1148CAD / $850USD. It was a Newegg open-box special but I didn't care because it still had the full ASRock factory warranty, was in perfect condition (some of the plastic film was hanging off but who cares?) and came in-box with everything. I know that I made the right choice because it was even cheaper than the RX 7900 XT at the time.

I built my first modern era gaming PC back in February and went with the Merc 310 7900XTX. I was able to take advantage of an Amazon $100 gift card for getting their store card and then 5% off my purchase in cash back so I ended up getting the Merc 310 7900XTX for around $800 after the promos. Cannot complain one bit about that. Just using the Adrenaline "Rage" preset this thing will boost up to 3100-3200mhz and it seems to always run cool and quiet. From what I'm reading it sounds like I got fairly lucky with my silicon. Still new to all of this, but I've been loving what this card brings to the table. I run a main display of an LG C2 65" 4K 120hz and then 2 additional Dell 24" monitors and haven't had any issues.

I built a brand new system, all Tuf Gaming. I got the Radeon 7900 xtx and the ryzen 7 7800 x3d. I suffered from numerous 'driver timeout' issues that seemed to be very common with this card. After numerous tweeks and settings, SO FAR I've had no further issues. Now, when the thing works normal, its a dang beast of a card. I play games on maximum graphics settings and the card's fans barely need to run.

I have a 3090, 4090, and 7900xtx and honestly between the 7900xtx and 4090 you usually don’t notice a difference if you dont use raytracing and dont watch fps counters in game

For 12VHPWR power connector, totally agree with your point.

Why didn't you plug 3 separate 8-pin cables to your 7900 xtx?

fluid motion frames is nothing to sleep on

I recently upgraded to rx 7900 xt hellhound and havent regretted it at all!!! Works great, the price was better, and zero issues!!!

I bought Sapphire Nitro Plus 7900 XTX two months ago,upgrading from 3080 10 gb.The card is a monster,but i had some problems with drivers and AMD did fix that issue.

Good choice 👍🏼, I also change from nvidia to amd 7900xtx sapphire nitro , and my cpu is 7950x3d all runs just perfect. Very happy

From rx570 4gb to 7900 xtx, love this card paired with the 7800x3d

I went with the 7900 xtx over the 4080 a year ago for my gaming rig. Simply because I didn’t trust that plug and the revised ones weren’t out yet.

I upgraded from rx 6650xt to rx 6800 and im very satisfied with the 16gb vram and 1440p performance! Sold old gpu for $180 and bought brand new gpu for $350 so easy upgrade and low cost ish

As it should be, use the graphic that fits your needs the most, no matters the brand

I went AMD from the green also quit AMD after trying them ~20 years ago due to driver issues! XFX RX 7900 XTX a great gpu and keeping up with the green in most case but the driver issues remain with some games unplayable(I do not own those games) after a few driver updates I am now impressed with the performance and the XFX brand with exceptional cooling

Went from 3080 to 4080. Hot good salee price for my 3080, only had to put €250 extra. Also bought a 90° connector for the 12v. So Far no problems at all. Was in doubt for the 7900xtx, but happy as it is.

3060ti died, had an A770 16GB LE temporarily. 7900 XTX with a proper PSU is really good.

Ditched my 4070 for a 7900XTX Red Devil and its been wonderful. Adrenalin is sort of trash, so I install drivers only and use MSI Afterburner for fan curve and OC. It can play all of my games maxed out at 4K getting 80-120fps. I could care less about RT at the moment. NVIDIA's prices are just vomit inducing.

I switched from 6900xt ultra to the RTX 4080 super FE. My son has the 7900xtx. We have the same mobo and CPU. Also we have compared performance across several titles. What we found was Nvidia seemed to be a more trouble free experience, less pauses and jitters, and higher 1% lows. Either card is a great choice although RT and DLSS are on another level.

Making a video about buying the arguably third best (cheaper) option ???

If you're not testing with RT on at all then the XTX makes sense, although it actually does pretty ok with RT. It's not 4090 but yeah... You should be able to avoid the gpu being the limit in 1080p I would think. 4090 for sure does but I think you'll be fine. I just hope it runs stable for ya.

I tried to do the same with a 7700 XT but it was defective and blackscreened in a week. It was great for the price but after that i wasnt eager to just replace it with the same card. So i went and returned it and bumped up to a 4070 Super

I'm using a RX7900 XTX because i plan to buy the 240hz Samsung 57" double wide 4k which works better with a 2.1 DP. I saved nearly $2k for the screen getting this card when i built my new rigg in November 2023.

AMD also has less gpu driver overhead limiting the cpu.

Just got a merc 310 7900xtx. Coming from a rtx 3080 hybrid. Also had a rtx 3090. I must say. I'm staying with the 7900xtx till I retire from gaming. I'm very satisfied. I only game at 4k on a oled 65 inch. I've been waiting for this type of card to come out.

I have a 4090 and the Asus 7900 xt tuf card. I now use the 7900 xt because the monitor is a freesync pro alienware aw3423dwf. With the Nvidia card, I couldn't stop the camera panning judder in nearly every game. The drivers did state that the monitor isn't Gsync validated. With the 7900 xt, the smoothness is absolutely flawless. It's not as good at ray tracing but I prefer the smoothness every time.

Bought one too. Awesome FPS but 456W powerdraw and noisy. Refund and went for a RTX 4080, significant lower powerdraw and quiet. DLSS 3.5 with IA denoising and path tracing is outstanding.

The gpu video shot is really great, as for the gpu, is a great match for your need. Also agree with 4090 12v cable failure rate is too high. Since I only able to but mid range, and my first amd xfx rx 6700 xt is broken after 3 months use 😂, back to team green 😅. My own takeaway is if you buy amd dont buy the cheapest 3rd party, at least get sapphire. Back to the cheapest zotac nvidia without any problem.

Just watching this video again and noticed you haven’t got 3 x separate PCIe cables plugged in. You will only draw 375W because of this and not 525W + it can draw.

I had my 3080 TI break twice.. apparently a problem. The second time it got sent for fixing they gave me a 4070 TI Super instead! I found a guide for overclocking that card to it's max while being stable and below 60c and OC it manually. It runs perfectly without problems at 4k 120 frames in HDR with ray tracing and mostly all ultra settings, TAA or DLAA with 50-60fps on demanding games sometimes 45fps +/-

I use to run nvidia fore years. I had gtx 1060, then rtx 3070. Last year I got rx6800xt for cheap (I earned money after I sold 3070). I'm very happy with 6800xt. Runs great, it's quiet and fast. I haven't had any issues with it.

I bought a 4090 last year september, and i dont regret it

Got Sapphire RX 7900XTX , Wasn't bothered about RT wanted pure Rast Performance , Wasn't gonna spend 2k on a xx90 card and at the time the xx80 card was still 3-400 more aswell ! the XTX was nearly or as good as the xx80 card so that was the no brainer ! Oooo and the Power Connector was a big part in my choice aswell ... Didn't like what I was seeing in failures online .

i switched to AMD last year and have 0 problems with it at all and got it for a fraction of the price over Nvida

But the problem, I need apu core for AI as well as openCL, and sometime I use Unreal engine and vray. I do like 7900xtx for gaming. I think the hardware is monster, just waiting in software update from amd to fully support above.

I don't like the new connector on the nvidia 4000 series cards either. I'm looking to put a RX 7900XTX in my REVOLT 3 case, so if any body can tell what video card works in this case. thank you

Personally I like used hardware. Had a Titan Xp, Now I have a 3090 FE that I picked up for less than a 4070 super. Plan on using this till whatever comes after next gen.

"when i spend more thank 1k on a gpu i expect it to work with minimal effort" this made me giggle since it's exactly why i send back my 7900xtx. Look like it's really hit or miss for this card, mine came with terrible coil whine for started, keep crasing in game, even got artefact while playing, blue screen and ram issue... The drivers are really terrible, couldn't find a stable version, i have tried everything to tweak it and configure my computer for five days before sending it back. I wish i could say i'm the only one but looking at the forum it's so bad that people start calling us raging nvidia fanboy oO. I really wanted to keep that card and was more than happy to go amd since i love their cpu already but after trying everything i could at the end of the day i have a job and limited time to lose on bs like that.

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I decided to go with the 7900 xt over the 4070 super. Refuse to pay that for a 12 gb card where there are many titles that run like shit due to it. 7900xt is a monster!! 20gb of ram, Fluid motion works really well in SOME games, like world of warcraft. Works wonderfully. And it competes in some games with a regular 4080 damn near!! and a 4070 ti super. It's a monster lol. Got it paired with a humble 12700k with the contact frame added in for cool status.

Thanks for sharing. I am enjoying my 7900XT alot. At the time of purchase I chose it over a 4070ti due to being $100 cheaper at the time, having more VRAM and outside of a few nVidia RT games it matched or beat the 4070ti. Not sure what I will do next year though as AMD is not really looking to release higher end? Really hope that is a joke though. Basically if I crave an upgrade in a year and nVidia is the only game in town I will not have a choice. That will kinda suck IMO. I like choice.

i recently build my new pc and i went from a 2060 to a 7900 XTX, the reason why i went for a amd gpu was because i wanted to go for a an all out amd build and also becasuse i don't really care that much about Ray tracing although the gpu can run it but a nvidia gpu would be better i didn't see the point of getting one, plus the 7900 xtx is cheaper where i live

I bought the 7900XT(MSI CLASSIC) like 9months back & yes it's my Baby...runs every game smooth. I ditched Ngredia for same cz as U, 12pin connector, & ditched the XTX Cz it's hella more costly in India, & for just like 10-14Fps more for 400+Wattage it's too much. Upgraded from GTX 1060 6GB, U get the upgrade amount.

Question - would you buy a £1k TV, Fridge, HIFI system, Cooker if it had these power connection issues. I'll answer No. Anyone championing the rtx 4000 series with that issue is a mug. Not saying nvidia is worse but there is no way im buying anything with that sort of an issue.

Im in the same boat I'm trying decide 40 series or 7900xtx i currently have a 3060ti which is not enough vram for me since im almost down to 6gbs of usage

I had an GTX 650 ti from 2012 till 2014 then I got my GTX 980 and kept it till 2021 and in 2022 I got my RX-6900 XT till today and I'm satisfied a lot. And I was an Nvidia user for 10 years but I think I won't go back for the amd great low prices I hope one day I'll move to Radeon 7000

I have both a 4080 and a 7900xtx..love them both for there respective performances. 4080 for raytracing games, Cyberpunk looks awsome right along with Battlefield 2042, Alan Wake 2 and Ratchand Clank 2. 7900xtx is awsome in Call of Duty Warzone, Diablo 4, Epoch, Division 2, and Rage 2. And I got both of them cheaper than a 4090, so I'm happy.

For an end user the plug is ok. For a reviewer that plug is a nightmare they wear out fast (even at launch the plug was only rated for like 10 installs before the adapter weakens and failure becomes more likely). Wise move to avoid it for a test bench GPU.

Ok I'm thinking of getting the RX 7900 XT with the 20 gig because it's 699 and with NewEgg I could trade in my Old GPU RTX 3070. How much more performance should I expect?

Love my 7900xtx 24gb gpu. Even with rt on, I’m getting smooth fps. Currently playing Hogwarts Legacy with graphics set on ultra and rt set to high. 1440p. I’m getting a solid, smooth 120 fps. I’m very satisfied with my purchase.

I have been an NVIDIA fanboy since the early 2000s. And I did not even consider buying AMD for 2 decades. BUT - a big but here - NVIDIA needs to receive pushback from many customers for the recent pricing IMHO. That’s why I skipped the 3000/4000 series to buy the TUF 7900XTX we have seen in this test. Second reason was I got more performance for less when comparing to a 4080, no doubt. On top of this, the AMD drivers are really cool, which recently drove NVIDIA to copy AMDs all in one approach. I don’t need RTSS, Afterburner, NVIDIA config and experience anymore…

hello, is it possible make video to RX 7900 XTX differentes trademarc, for example Asus TUF vs Saphir Nitro vs AsRock Taichi vs Merc 310 vs Gigabyte vs Power cool whish have more FPS on Games Warzone 1440P BF2042 others thanks for ani info

I've had 20 series nvidia card and upgraded to a sapphire nitro+ xtx card over a year ago and i couldn't be happier.. great drivers and easy overclocking with adrenalin.. i've had more issues with my 20 series nvidia card than i've had with my xtx.. and don't feel i miss out on ray tracing or dlss they are both super overrated and not worth it imo..

I have the 6800xt tuf gaming edition card and I'm very satisified with it @1440p resolution. I see no reasons to upgrade tbh

The only reason i buy asrock 7900 xtx are because at the time its about $1000 and the 4070ti are $1200 in my country.

I’ll be going to AMD for my next build getting a big upgrade from what I currently have being a 12600K and a 4060 to a 7700X and a 7900 XTX by this summer hopefully I honestly can’t wait and I care more about native performance without upscaling so I don’t really care much for ray tracing over performance personally.

The issue with melted cables on the 4090 likely stemmed from using 4x8 pin connectors, some of the 4090s only use 3x8, because that's all you need.

i read a lot of feature and price discussion, but very little amd vs nvidia build quality discussion

For a pure gaming pc, Nothing beats the 7900xtx paired with a 7800x3d cpu.

from 2070 super to 7600 GRE gigabyte. because im not feeling the ugly 12vhpwr connector lol

I'm using a 4080 since it came out. As soon as the pcie 5.0 PSU's showed up, I started using them and I had next to no issues at all. The cable issue was proven to be a human error. People should simply learn how to install the hardware. You literally have a whole video on testing the cable issue by the Gamers Nexus channel.

EVGA, Corsair and NVIDIA are all three on my bad list for hardware and thermal issues. Sick and tired of RMA'ing everything!

After seven years with my first build - which used the GTX 1070 - this year I built my second PC, consciously choosing AMD for both CPU and GPU (RX 7800 XT) for reasons of not wanting to buy from monopolistic giants like Intel and Nvidia. I absolutely love the AMD approach to have all-in-one driver+tuning+recording software, instead of two different apps on Nvidia plus the requirement to log in. The AMD software is well-designed and well-functioning. The GPU itself is great - not much to compare it to since I went directly from 1070 to it, but even in the very unoptimised game like Star Citizen I am enjoying great frame boost at 1440p ultrawide, especially when using Fluid Motion Frames. And the only issue I was having with my GPU itself ended up being a problem of leftover Nvidia entries in my GRUB bootloader file. I mostly use Linux, so I dualboot it with Windows 11, and on bootup, once I selected Linux in GRUB menu, my monitor would lose signal with the GPU. I would need to first log into Windows, then restart and pick Linux for it to work. After a lot of searching and experimenting, it turned out there were two bits referencing Nvidia - left over from the few weeks I used my old 1070 on this build before my RX 7800 XT arrived - in the GRUB file, and once I deleted them, the problem went away. There are some articles on how Nvidia refuses to be completely purged when you remove their drivers and files from your Linux installation, so it was relatable in my case.

I went from a 1080ti to a XFX 7900XTX, no regrets. Great card.

If amd will have an RTX HDR like, I would buy their card. It’s very useful if you have an hdr capable card. Making sdr content to hdr.

i upgraded from 3060 ti to 7900 xtx (gaming trio) that's as much as my budged (wife) told me i can spend :), the gpu can run HOT🥵 sometimes, but it's a beast and you can undervolt it just a litle to cool it by 15-20 degrees with barely a hit to performance. so am i happy with it? F*** YEAH!!!

Man I'm very close to replacing my TUF RTX 3080 with a RX 7900 XT super close

I use a 1080ti even for VR. I dont even think about the day when I would purchase other GPU. No rush!

I am rocking my xtx with an 5800x3d. Wondering if i should move to am5 with an 7800x3d or anr9 7900x3d

Because I have an Intel CPU, I would have thought it would be best to pair an Intel cpu with Nvidia because of resisable bar, but I am using the rx 6800 xt for now with an i5 13600k. I would personally get an Nvidia card for the features.

Just depends how much you’re looking to spend. The 4090 suprim WC has never let me down paired with a 14900. The look is phenomenal. But if you’re thinking more of a 4080 then the 7900 is an excellent alternative. Both will have advantages and disadvantages. My preference with look is more with the NV gpus but individual preference and couldn’t blame anyone choosing the 7900.

Ive recently upgraded to a 13600k, 32GB DDR4, and am contemplating what gou to get (currently on a A770 as it was free), thinking 7900 GRE?

14900k and 7900xtx best combo?

II switched from my palit 10gb 3080 to a 7900xtx. I totally regret it. I have a lot of problems in forza motorsport 7. Random crashes.

Amd have fsr 3 and fluid motion frames that gives you so much fps

It was for me with the Sapphire Nitro+. It chews up most games and runs the AI applications I want, while I get to keep both of my kidneys

how about other than gaming task, like rendering or AI process? I really want to try Radeon but I have bad experience with the driver and also some of my app like davinci use nvidia gpu for best performance.

I cannot wait for the next high end AMD card. I got the 7800 xt so I feel like getting a 7900 xtx would be underwhelming.

Yeah if I had to swap the card out more than once or twice I would start getting nightmares every time cause of that horrible connector