With the Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD is going after the GeForce RTX 4070. Our review confirms that AMD has achieved performance parity in rasterization and is pretty close in ray tracing, at a much better price point, and they are giving you 16 GB VRAM, instead of just 12 GB.
PowerColor's Radeon RX 7800 XT Hellhound is an amazing custom-design for AMD's new release. It sells at the $500 baseline price, yet has the best cooler of all cards tested today, with whisper-quiet fan settings, dual BIOS and RGB illumination.
Sapphire's Radeon RX 7800 XT Nitro+ is the quietest RX 7800 XT reviewed today, it's virtually inaudible at full load thanks to its powerful cooler. The card is also the best overclocker, it gained a spectacular 15% in real-life performance, which makes it nearly as fast as RTX 4070 Ti.
The Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse is priced at AMD's MSRP of $450, which makes it an attractive choice. You still get a great cooler that's paired with outstanding fan settings that result in a whisper-quiet gaming experience that's quieter than most GeForce cards.
With the TUF, ASUS has released a custom-design variant of the Radeon RX 7800 XT that improves on the AMD base design in many aspects. You get a triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution with a full-metal cooler that looks fantastic, dual BIOS with quiet mode and adjustable RGB lighting.
ASRock's Radeon RX 7800 XT Phantom Gaming is a factory overclocked custom-design model. Thanks to its large triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution, temperatures and noise levels are excellent, and performance is higher than GeForce RTX 4070, at a much lower price point.
The factory-overclocked XFX Radeon RX 7800 XT Merc 319 comes with a powerful triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that uses a metal shroud instead of plastic like on many other cards. The cooler runs much cooler than the AMD reference version, by over 20°C, and noise levels are greatly improved, too.
The XFX Radeon RX 7700 XT Qick 319 is a factory-overclocked custom design variant of AMD's new release. It offers 12 GB VRAM instead of 8 GB like on GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, and runs considerably faster than the latter, too. Thanks to a great cooling solution, noise levels are minimal as well.
ASUS went all-out with the cooling design for the RX 7700 XT TUF. The cooler not only looks and feels great thanks to its all-metal construction, it also has excellent cooling performance, because it's actually identical to the one on the RX 7800 XT TUF. Also included is a dual BIOS feature with a whisper-quiet low-noise BIOS.
The ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC comes at no price increase over the $400 NVIDIA MSRP, yet includes a triple-slot thermal solution and small factory overclock. Testing in our review confirms that this card can drive nearly all titles at 1080p with well over 60 FPS, and with DLSS 3 you'll have plenty of FPS to enable ray tracing.
Finally! Our GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB review is live. We're investigating what performance gains you can expect from doubling the VRAM size to 16 GB. Our review of the 16 GB version also looks at power consumption and how overclocking is affected by the additional four memory chips on the back side of the PCB.
Colorful's GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ultra W Duo OC comes with a stunning white color theme and color-shifting highlights that adjust depending on the viewing angle. In terms of performance you get excellent FPS for even the most demanding games at 1080p, and of course DLSS 3.
Zotac's GeForce RTX 4070 AMP Airo comes with mesmerizing RGB lighting and a factory overclock. Thermal performance of this triple-slot, triple-fan card is excellent, and energy efficiency is among the best we've ever seen, which is the foundation for the card's impressive noise levels.
MSI's GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming X achieves impressive noise levels that are whisper quiet and temperatures are low, too. Unlike other vendors, MSI achieves that with a compact dual-slot card, which ensures it will fit into all cases out there, and PSU requirements are minimal, too.
The ASUS Strix OC is an extremely overbuilt custom-design version of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060. It comes with a large triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution, an improved VRM with DrMOS phases, a large factory overclock and dual BIOS. Especially the cooling performance impressed us: low temps and whisper-quiet.
PNY's GeForce RTX 4060 XLR8 comes with a fantastic cooler that achieves impressive noise levels that are whisper-quiet. Temperatures are good, too, and the dual-slot design ensures that the card will fit into all cases, even older ones, making it a versatile choice for any PC setup.
The Gigabyte Gaming OC is a custom-designed, factory-overclocked variant of the GeForce RTX 4060. It features a slim two-slot cooler for effective heat dissipation and offers a dual BIOS with a convenient "quiet" mode switch for low-noise operation.
The ASUS RTX 4060 Dual OC is priced competitively: at NVIDIA's $300 MSRP, yet offers an excellent cooler and a dual BIOS. Especially the "quiet" BIOS impressed us, it turns the card into a whisper-quiet 1080p gaming machine. The cooler comparison test in our review confirms this is the most powerful cooler on any MSRP card.
MSI's Ventus 2X is a factory-overclocked custom design variant of the RTX 4060 that still comes at NVIDIA's MSRP of $300. Thanks to a compact design the card and its dual-slot, dual-fan cooler will fit all cases, and the lower power requirements will ensure that even older PSUs can run the card just fine.
Gigabyte's GeForce RTX 4060 WindForce OC is the most compact card in our testing today. It is priced at the $300 MSRP, yet can sneak in a small factory overclock. In our testing the small cooler doesn't do so well though and ends up running quite hot and loud.
Zotac's GeForce RTX 4060 Spider-Man will definitely appeal to the younger audience thanks to its flashy colors and a Marvel Spider-Man license. Under the hood, Zotac includes a small factory overclock and a decent cooler that's paired with good fan settings.
The Galax GeForce RTX 4060 is a factory-overclocked dual-slot, dual-fan custom design variant that will give you great 1080p gaming performance. Thanks to a powerful cooler, the card achieves excellent temperatures, but noise levels are a bit on the high side for no apparent reason.
The Palit GeForce RTX 4060 Dual is priced at NVIDIA's MSRP and offers a good 1080p gaming experience at maximum details settings. With GeForce 40, NVIDIA is introducing support for DLSS 3, which can significantly improve your FPS with minimal impact to power consumption and heat output.
The Galax GeForce RTX 4060 Ti EX White is a factory overclocked custom design that comes at no price increase over NVIDIA's $400 MSRP. Thanks to its color theme this card will fit very well into an all-white build, and it has enough horsepower for 1080p gaming at max details and beyond.
The ASUS Radeon RX 7600 Strix OC comes with the best cooler of all RX 7600s tested so far and achieves unbelievable noise levels. Our review confirms that thanks to its large factory overclock, the Strix is also the fastest RX 7600 available at this time.
