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Radeon RX 7900 XT

4.1 · 252 votes
Best for 1440p high-refresh gaming

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VRAM
20 GB
CUDA
5,376
FP32
51.48 TF
Bandwidth
800 GB/s
TDP
300W
Boost
2394 MHz
Strengths at a Glance

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.

FP32 compute51.48 TFLOPS49%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth800 GB/s45%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity20 GB63%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units5,37625%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency55/10095%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks

Estimated benchmark results

Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.

3DMark Time Spy25,200pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)10,800pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)3,276spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute132,000pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts

Performance breakdown

Gaming70
Ray tracing60
AI / Compute55
Creator / 3D63
Power efficiency55
Real-World Gaming

FPS Across Resolutions

1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 117 fps
1080p
174
1440p
118
4K
58
Counter-Strike 2avg 185 fps
1080p
260
1440p
200
4K
95
Fortniteavg 180 fps
1080p
315
1440p
150
4K
76
Battlefield 5avg 163 fps
1080p
179
1440p
179
4K
131
Far Cry 5avg 155 fps
1080p
168
1440p
168
4K
128
Valorantavg 396 fps
1080p
412
1440p
461
4K
315

Average FPS across all PC games

1080p
189fps
1440p
144fps
4K
91fps

Cost per frame

Launch MSRP ($899) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.

1080p
$4.83
1440p
$6.28
4K
$11.31
Community Feedback

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.

Pros
  • Plays modern games at high settings
  • Handles ray tracing without breaking sweat
  • Runs cool with efficient power use
  • Large VRAM for future titles
Cons
  • Ray tracing performance lags behind Nvidia
  • High power draw under load
  • Fans can get noisy

Supported technologies

Ray TracingAV1 Encode

Full specifications

Graphics processor
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
Process node
5 nm
Transistors
57.7 B
Compute Units
84
Release date
2022
Launch price
$899
Core configuration
CUDA Cores
5,376
RT Cores
84
TMUs
336
ROPs
192
L2 cache
6 MB
Memory
Size
20 GB
Type
GDDR6
Bus width
320-bit
Bandwidth
800 GB/s
Memory clock
2500 MHz
Clocks & throughput
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
Board & power
TDP
300W
Suggested PSU
550W
Power connectors
2x 8-pin
Bus interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Length
276 mm
Slot width
2-slot
Display & outputs
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
Verdict

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.
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