The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card launches at a price point of $499 US which has already prompted NVIDIA and its partners to reconsider the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB and RTX 4070 prices. Both cards are now available for $50 US cheaper but that still isn't enough against the mighty graphics performance that the Navi 32 GPU has on display. It may not be the fastest card around but for its price, it's definitely the best-priced card of this gen from both camps. So let's start with the things I liked about this card.
Total Domination Over RTX 4070 In Rasterized Games
In all of the games that I tested, the Radeon RX 7800 XT was faster than the RTX 4070 with Crysis Remastered being the only exception. Even in a few ray tracing titles, the card was on par with an RTX 4070 or the 4060 Ti but that mostly depends on the game title and what sort of optimizations it has for a particular GPU architecture due to sponsored deals. We have seen sponsorships getting in the path of providing the competitor solutions with lesser optimizations than the other camp and that is just the sad state of PC gaming at the moment.
Regardless, the RX 7800 XT offers a 6% performance boost over the RTX 4070 on average at a $50 US lower price point so we are off to a great start.
ASRock Cooler's Is Worth The Premium!
ASRock's Phantom Gaming graphics card looks great but it also offers some great cooling and OC capabilities. We saw an average performance increase of 13% by overclocking the card with some voltage/power limit tweaks. Yes, you are paying $30 US more but for a triple-fan cooling solution & a custom PCB that doesn't hit temperatures above 65C on the GPU, I think it's well worth it.
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FSR 3 & HYPR-RX Anti-Lag+ Is A Good Reason To Get RDNA 3
AMD's answer to NVIDIA's DLSS 3 and Reflex are coming in the form of FSR 3 and HYPR-RX (Anti-Lag+) technologies. The RDNA 3 architecture on the RX 7800 XT is support-ready for both and we will be getting a range of games soon that benefit from these features.
Now since AMD is a bit late to the party, NVIDIA's DLSS 3 just kills it when it comes to game adoption but with HYPR-RX, AMD is devising a way to bring fluid motion frame technology across all DX11 and DX12 games which is said to be available in early 2024. Furthermore, FSR 3 being open-source will allow game devs to quickly integrate the new technology within games that already use FSR 2. Even if you don't own a brand new RDNA 3 GPU like the 7800 XT, you can take advantage of the said features across older AMD GPUs and even GPUs from other vendors such as NVIDIA and AMD. We will have our own test and image comparison of FSR 3 versus DLSS 3 once it comes out.
16 GB That's Not Just For Showoff
The RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB from NVIDIA can be seen as a card that doesn't make any sense against the standard RTX 4060 Ti since it is eventually bottlenecked by its small 128-bit bus which even the larger L2 cache couldn't make up for. On the other side, it's great to see AMD offer the same 16 GB VRAM and 256-bit bus on the RX 7800 XT as its predecessor, the 6800 XT. The 7800 XT has faster GDDR6 dies operating at 19.5 Gbps and the wider bus interface means you will be able to be well ahead of the 4060 Ti and even the 4070 with their smaller bus interface.
The 16 GB memory size is also 4 GB extra VRAM over the 4070 which once again costs $50 US more. The card really does well in the memory department and the pricing has always been a strong side for AMD.
RDNA 3 Efficiency Has Been Overhyped
Now coming to power consumption, the RDNA 3 GPUs have not been the massively efficient architecture that AMD claimed they were going to be but they are a step forward, and the RX 7800 XT does manage to sip around 40-60W lower power than its predecessor while offering around 10 percent better performance. Meanwhile, the RTX 40 series cards are a league ahead in efficiency as the RTX 4070 only consumed 200W throughout our testing and even lower gaming benchmarks.
So NVIDIA wins in the overall efficiency testing but undervolting the card to 200W does offer very similar GPU performance which shows how power-dependent the whole architecture is.
A Great $500 US Option Which We Can Fully Recommend!
Compared to its predecessors, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT sits well above the 6800 XT and manages to outperform the 6950 XT in a few games. The RTX 4070 is no match for the standard rasterized benchmarks and with upcoming technologies such as FSR 3 and HYPR-RX, the Radeon RX 7800 XT is our contender for the best gaming graphics card of this generation. Don't forget to grab that free copy of Starfield Premium Edition worth $100 US as a bonus 
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