I've had this for a month now and here's a little review. For my new PC Intel i5 13 gen build (only built it because of an ASUS motherboard and rtx2060s failure at the same time!), it came down to this or the Nvidia 4080. I went with the AMD 7900xtx. Why?
1. It's currently cheaper (it ain't cheap, but cheaper if you know what I mean).
2. The UI and drivers are better (with my rtx2060s, the Nvidia control panel kept disappearing in Windows 10, there's seems to be a conflict there between Microsoft and Nvidia.)
3. I don't care about ray tracing.
4. The way I run my system, with "Radeon Chill" enabled and limited to 60fps the power consumption is much lower than 350w and I can't tell any difference when my Samsung 75" Q85A TV is set to the smoothing "soap opera" effect compared to running it at actual 120fps (it will do about 130-150fps at ultra, FSR on quality and no Chill setting). The end result is a gaming system that runs RDR2 at 4k at about 60% usage and is cool and quiet. Power usage is about 200w with that game. The same goes with a 4k modded GTA5. I play these games A LOT so this matters to me. In the future, this system should scale up nicely to newer games with just more power usage over time as game engines get more complex.
So I hope this helps someone. I have watched so many reviews on these video cards and only one Youtuber mentioned this setup. Sorry I can't remember your name as it wasn't the top 3 guys. It's hard to find practical information as most of those guys are always compared FPS charts.
Update 08/24/23
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I started playing Elden Ring and added some graphic enhancements to really push this card in 4k. The biggest impact was increasing the LOD to maximum and an HDR reshade. It looks incredible! But, after a month I started getting high hot spot temps around 105c and a delta of 30. The fan was getting real loud. This is a big change from when I first got the card. Is this because of thermal paste pump out? I disassembled the card and found this to be true. I saw 1/4 of the GPU was bare with a lot of paste around the edges. This needed to be fixed.
PTM7950 to the rescue! I ordered some on Amazon and installed it. Problem solved. With the card being pushed to the max, I haven't seen a hot spot over 90c with a max delta of 15. Most of the time it runs much cooler. Now the card is back to like it was when it was new and I was able to avoid an RMA. I read in the XFX warranty that doing this repaste does not void the warranty. Pretty disappointed that I needed to do this at all, but with the new repaste with PTM7950, I expect to stay fixed. Why isn't this stuff used in the factory? Too hard to install? Too expensive? Whatever.
| Max Screen Resolution | 1440 Pixels |
|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 16 GHz |
| Graphics Coprocessor | AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 12 GB |
