frontpageN3RD_01 posted Sep 01, 2025 07:23 PM
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frontpageN3RD_01 posted Sep 01, 2025 07:23 PM
ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
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edit: lol @ the downvotes but yet nobody can explain why I'm wrong. Apparently facts hurt people's feelings.
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I watched an interesting video on YouTube recently comparing games with ray tracing on vs not. Looks are subjective, but I was surprised that in most games it was equal or detracted from visuals. So from my perspective this is still a worth while purchase and relevant card.
Saying all of that, I do have a 5090 now, but that is because I enjoy min/maxing. The 7900xtx would've lasted me many more years of enjoyable gaming.
I use DDU for when games have issues and Nvidia has similar issues.
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The number of games that actually benefit from 24gb are slim, that's why I said "for most people". Just because a game allocates more than 16gb doesn't mean it actually needs all of it, and it doesn't mean performance will be better. In some cases yes but again the number of games is incredibly small. Also MOST PEOPLE running a 4k monitor enable FSR because they want higher framerates, and FSR non frame gen reduces vram use. Again 16GB is plenty for MOST PEOPLE (sorry for caps but some people can't read, or like I said some people have emotional reactions when they read something they don't like about a product they own).
and MOST people arent in the market for this tier gpu, the ones who are will be playing games that will make use of the extra vram. And most of the triple AAA games released now uses large amounts of vram because they release the games unoptimized. And future games will be the same except use more vram and be more demanding.
If you are talking about maxing settings. cyberpunk can't get over 100fps with 7900xtx with full path tracing on at 1440p
neither can the 5090.....
The 7900 XTX still gives great value for the price, but the 5090 definitely has the edge in this game. Just thought I'd share since I was curious myself before buying.
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The problem is that in an unusual circumstance this card is severely architecturally dated.
This isn't like 3080s or 4070ti's that are just missing the latest frame gen support but are otherwise still beefy cards.
This gets trounced in RT by the 9070 xt. Additionally amd seems to have improved their broad spectrum game support so that the 9070xt performs well consistently on every game, where as the 7900 xtx simply runs poorly on some games and its a toss up.
The 7900 xtx is dead tech even on the high end it will perform significantly worse as time goes on and more games come out.
I suspect AMD has to do a lot of driver wizardry to keep it competitive and with the 9000 series widely available theres just no incentive to do. The price on these will sink like a stone by next year.
I ended up going for the ASRock 9070xt open box at microcenter, its been coming down to $600-630
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