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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Now Starts at $800 in Direct Clash to RTX 4070 Ti

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Prices of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT RDNA3 graphics card are on a downward slope, with the card now starting at $800 on US computer hardware retailer Newegg. The ASRock RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming, a custom-design graphics card, has been holding at $799.99 for roughly a week now, while the next cheapest card, an XFX co-branded AMD reference graphics card, is going for $839.99 on the site. These prices put the RX 7900 XT in a direct clash with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The RX 7900 XT was launched with an AMD MSRP of $899.99, with a performance level that compelled NVIDIA to re-position the RTX 4070 Ti (originally announced as the $900 RTX 4080 12 GB), to $800. In our testing, the RX 7900 XT is about 5% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti in conventional raster 3D graphics, but with a ray tracing performance that's comparable to the previous-generation RTX 3080 Ti.



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eh, newegg... no thanks. better off spending $20 more and buying buying the MERC variant shipped and sold by amazon. gamersnexus made it very clear, newegg isn't worth the hassle if something goes wrong.
 
I wonder if AMD managed to sell enough 7900XT cards at the higher price to justify all the bad press and public perception they got back in November.
 
I wonder if AMD managed to sell enough 7900XT cards at the higher price to justify all the bad press and public perception they got back in November.

doubtful, but they know human memory is fickle. also its a Duopoly. no where else to go. lol Intel Arc doesn't really count, its not there yet.
 
I really wish AMD would just do it the regular way with an announcement. Price adjustments in the greedy GPU market have become such a pain lately.
The second most disappointing thing in GPU pricing, right after their initial MSRP is competition and demand response. Weak.
 
I wonder if AMD managed to sell enough 7900XT cards at the higher price to justify all the bad press and public perception they got back in November.
You can say they did or they did not. In both cases you can justify your opinion.
Sold enough that is why the price dropped.
Did not sell enough that is why the price dropped.
Both answers make sense.
I'd focus rather on the part that the price dropped which means better value.
 
Good move. This should move a few more units.
 
Now it starts to make sense as a 4070ti alternative. Still wouldn't sacrifice all the extra features for price parity, but it's a good start
 
Hopefully the XTX, 4080 & 90 drop soon too : )
 
PC gamers are giving up gumtree is full of gaming monitors and it's always the same response prices are to high they are selling up. Sad to see.
 
Now both need to drop to $549 and then we can think of buying them. Until then we are more than happy helping AMD and Nvidia clear old stocks for way better value.
 
Now it starts to make sense as a 4070ti alternative. Still wouldn't sacrifice all the extra features for price parity, but it's a good start
7900 xt is 10% faster and has a lot more vram...
 
Now it starts to make sense as a 4070ti alternative. Still wouldn't sacrifice all the extra features for price parity, but it's a good start
We're surprised by your comment, said no one. :D
 
How the turntables when Nvidia pricing forced AMD to drop price, instead of the other way around :rolleyes:
 
And a lot less rt performance, a lot more power consumption, lacks dlss and lacks FG.
It has the same RT perf as a 4070 TI...
DLSS? FSR.
Power consumption is very similar, 7900XT is Not an XTX.
Also, no feature will matter when the 12GB can't cope with 4k textures anymore, while the 20GB will be sailing...

The only reason to get a 4070TI for the same price of a 7900XT is dumb fanboysm, the Radeon is objectively superior.
 
And they will still sell 80% less.
 
It has the same RT perf as a 4070 TI...
Lie.

DLSS? FSR.
DLSS is objectively superior quality and constantly being improved, FSR is lower quality and generally only receives an update every time AMD releases a new architecture.

Also, no feature will matter when the 12GB can't cope with 4k textures anymore, while the 20GB will be sailing...
The 4070 Ti has very little problem with 4K currently, there is zero reason to expect it will in future. But this argument is irrelevant anyway, because both these GPUs will be obsolete long before 4K becomes the de facto resolution.
 
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It has the same RT perf as a 4070 TI...
DLSS? FSR.
Power consumption is very similar, 7900XT is Not an XTX.
Also, no feature will matter when the 12GB can't cope with 4k textures anymore, while the 20GB will be sailing...

The only reason to get a 4070TI for the same price of a 7900XT is dumb fanboysm, the Radeon is objectively superior.
4070 Ti in RT is more of a 3090 Ti tier of performance and 7900 xt is more of a 3090 performance on average. The performance is still very close. If you ramp up the resolution the difference shrinks.
If you use raster AMD's card is faster noticeably.
 
An even crazier comparison is the 7900xt versus the 4080. For 50% higher price on the 4080, you get a little over 10% gen ras and about the same power consumption.
 
DLSS is objectively superior quality and constantly being improved, FSR is lower quality and generally only receives an update every time AMD releases a new architecture.
You can say that about NV's DLSS as well if you look closer. DLSS 3 only for ADA cards. FSR is for every card no exceptions.
FSR has some things to fix but the quality is not bad whatsoever. So you know. Pros and cons.
 
Why are you referring to 5% conventional raster 3D graphics when your performance chart says that 7900 XT perform 10% more?!
 
Awesome news, but I wonder where the actually affordable RDNA 3 cards are. AMD seems to be pulling an Nvidia by running the 7900 series and RDNA 2 in tandem.
 
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