Radeon RX 7900 XT
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($899) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners love the raw 1440p performance and the generous memory buffer. The common complaint is that ray tracing performance lags behind the competition and driver issues still pop up.
- Plays modern games at high settings
- Handles ray tracing without breaking sweat
- Runs cool with efficient power use
- Large VRAM for future titles
- Ray tracing performance lags behind Nvidia
- High power draw under load
- Fans can get noisy
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 5,376
- RT Cores
- 84
- TMUs
- 336
- ROPs
- 192
- L2 cache
- 6 MB
- Size
- 20 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 320-bit
- Bandwidth
- 800 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2500 MHz
- Base clock
- 1387 MHz
- Boost clock
- 2394 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 51.48 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 51.48 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 460 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 804.4 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 300W
- Suggested PSU
- 550W
- Power connectors
- 2x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- Length
- 276 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.8
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.2
- Vulkan
- 1.3
Our verdict on the RX 7900 XT
A big, hot, high-end AMD card that trades ray tracing speed for raw rasterization grunt and lots of VRAM.
Get it if you want a high-end card for 1440p gaming without paying Nvidia’s premium, and you don’t need ray tracing or AI features. Skip it if you do heavy rendering, video work, or want best-in-class ray tracing—Nvidia does that better for similar cash.
Buy it if…
- You need high VRAM for 4K textures without paying Nvidia tax.
- You game at high refresh rates and want great raster performance.
- You already have a strong power supply and want raw frame rate.
Its place in the overall top
252 votes