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When you think of the amount of money people have paid for RTX 3080 GPUs in recent years which offer less powerful tech and similar 4K performances, it really drives home how incredible the performance-to-price ratio is in AMD's 7900 series. On the other hand, the XT still offers some staggering 4K performance with excellent frame rates. It certainly isn't as powerful as the RTX 4090, which is designed for a lot more than just gaming. There's no way around it - the RX 7900 XT is definitely a step down compared to the 7900 XTX. (Image credit: Future / Duncan Robertson) Performance

Compare either to the RTX 4080's 16GB though, and you see the extreme value for money come into play. The 7900 XT's 20GB of memory reduces slightly from the XTX's 24GB. This delivers 2912 GB/s of bandwidth to the XTX's 3494.4 GB/s. Likewise, the 7900 XT makes do with 20Gbps GDDR6 memory. This is slightly less than the XTX, which has 96MB on a 384-bit memory bus. With the RX 7900 XT we have 80MB of 2nd Generation AMD Infinity Cache on a 320-bit memory bus. That said, Nvidia's Lovelace architecture, DLSS3, superior Ray Tracing, and conclusive software do have AMD beat as an all-round package. The superior power on offer with that card meant I didn't have to rely on software and didn't feel it helping as much. All in all, I do like AMD's software, and I found it was more of a help when testing this GPU than it was with the XTX. There's AMD Super Resolution, which gives a bit more of a noticeable boost to this card than it does the XTX. There are handy profiles on board that allow you to fine-tune performance and settings across the board.

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Similarly, where Nvidia's software is the yardstick for a lot of components in the PC market, AMD's drivers are almost just as conclusive. (Image credit: Future / Duncan Robertson)

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