AMD's laying down the RTX 4080 smack talk with some new RX 7900 XT/X knowledge.
AMD quotes a headline increase in old-school raster performance of"up to" 67 percent. That figure, of course, applies to the top-spec RX 7900 XTX. Look more closely, however, and you'll find that the RX 7900 XT averages around 25 percent faster than the old RX 6950 in the four games AMD quotes for regular raster performance: Resident Evil Village, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Watch Dogs: Legion.
The RX 7900 XT may not be the very top tier GPU, but it's still $899 MSRP and likely to sell above that figure at least in the short run. So, it could well end up more expensive than a RX 6950 XT in the real world in return for a relatively puny performance uptick.The figures for ray tracing performance are better, with AMD claiming up to 82 more performance than the RX 6950 XT.
, then the more powerful XTX is clearly the better value option. But the problem remains that any four-figure $ or £ GPU is hardly a true value proposition. With any luck, we'll see pricing tumble on all these new GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia. But at current pricing, as good as these new GPUs are, they're not nearly exciting as they would have been at more accessible price points.
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