Radeon RX 7900 XT
Cut the chatter, Red Two
The RX 7900 XT looks a lot like its bigger sibling, but there’s no RGB lighting and it has slightly smaller fans and dimensions.
IN THE PAST, both AMD and Nvidia have had halo products with extreme prices and only moderately higher performance than the penultimate GPUs. With the latest generation of hardware, that approach seems to have been kicked to the curb and we’re now looking at only minor cost savings for a potentially large performance deficit.
Nvidia blazed the trail with the RTX 4090 and 4080, with the latter shaving 25 percent from the asking price while also dropping performance (at 4K) by 25 percent. Now AMD is following suit, except the 7900 XT drops the price by just 10 percent while performance drops by 14 percent. That’s an odd change of pace, and it immediately leads to the conclusion that the 7900 XTX is the better value— because it is.