Radeon RX 7900 XTX: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 7900 XTX provides outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 80.62% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 7900 XTX sales 3 November 2022 at a recommended price of $999 . This is a high-end RDNA 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 960.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 287 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 355 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 7900 XTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking8
Place by popularity69
Cost-effectiveness evaluation34.70
Power efficiency15.56of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 31
Market segmentDesktop
Release date3 November 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 7900 XTX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 7900 XTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1929 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed2498 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors57,700 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)355 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate959.2of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power61.39 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs192
TMUs384of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Ray Tracing Cores96of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length287 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 7900 XTX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth960.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 7900 XTX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 7900 XTX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.2
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 7900 XTX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX 7900 XTX 80.62

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 7900 XTX 31059

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 7900 XTX 83322

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 7900 XTX 148746

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 7900 XTX 64680

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 7900 XTX 211480

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

RX 7900 XTX 211498

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 7900 XTX 758139

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

RX 7900 XTX 193018

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RX 7900 XTX 367

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RX 7900 XTX 360

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RX 7900 XTX 400

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RX 7900 XTX 536

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RX 7900 XTX 187

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RX 7900 XTX 347

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RX 7900 XTX 322

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RX 7900 XTX 553

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 7900 XTX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD252
1440p171
4K105

Cost per frame, $

1080p3.96
1440p5.84
4K9.51

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 242

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 166
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 283
Battlefield 5 240−250
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 231
Far Cry 5 110−120
Far Cry New Dawn 200−210
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
Hitman 3 120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn 280−290
Metro Exodus 150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 350−400
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 330
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 241
Battlefield 5 240−250
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 208
Far Cry 5 110−120
Far Cry New Dawn 200−210
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
Hitman 3 120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn 280−290
Metro Exodus 150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 535
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 170−180
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 134
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 210
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 199
Far Cry 5 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 295
Hitman 3 120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn 406
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 471
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 298
Watch Dogs: Legion 158

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 160−170
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 132
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 171
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 80−85
Cyberpunk 2077 141
Far Cry 5 80−85
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
Hitman 3 110−120
Horizon Zero Dawn 328
Metro Exodus 146
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 360
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 238
Watch Dogs: Legion 240−250

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 85−90
Far Cry New Dawn 65−70
Hitman 3 70−75
Horizon Zero Dawn 220−230
Metro Exodus 130−140
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 182

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 110
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 107
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
Cyberpunk 2077 71
Far Cry 5 50−55
Forza Horizon 4 227
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 197
Watch Dogs: Legion 103

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 95−100

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 7900 XTX's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 7900 XTX is GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, which is faster by 2% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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