In this review, we benchmark the new AMD RX 7800 XT GPU and test it against the RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA RTX 4070, RTX 4070 Ti, RX 7900 XT, RX 6700 XT, and more. The GPU market still has last-gen options available, complicating the decision-making process for the RX 7800 XT. In some ways, compared against NVIDIA in particular (like the 4070 or horridly positioned 4060 Ti 16GB), the 7800 XT looks strong. In others, mostly against AMD’s own products (like the 6800 XT), the 7800 XT still reflects the modern trend of up-naming cards to force a repositioning of market expectations for what a $500 card should do.
The tl;dr (or tldw) is that it’s generally close to the performance of a 6800 XT, but the 6800 XT often outperformed it. It’s slightly better than the 4070 in many titles with no RT/DLSS. With RT, the 4070 pulls ahead slightly.
Oooh I like their new summary charts thing, it really helps to see where it stands at a glance.
It’s unfortunate that the “meta” is still buying a 6800XT if you can find it cheap, I had hoped that the 7800XT would slot half a step above that, but what can you do.