AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB Review Featuring XFX MERC 319

Overall Game Average FPS

So as always, a lot of data to go through and break down to make it easy to understand. The easiest way to do that is to look at the overall averages and it’s here at 1080p where the 7800 XT is starting to look very impressive as it rivals the likes of the RTX 3080 and 3090 which both came in much more expensive at launch, but it’s not all great as at 1080p it does look a little disappointing when compared to its predecessor, the 6800 XT where the newer RDNA3 card only comes in 3% faster, though I’m hoping that bottlenecks at 1080p is the main reason why this isn’t as great as it should be.

And….. it’s not. At 1440p, which is where AMD are positioning this card, it’s just fantastically average. Compared to the 6800 XT, the newer GPU gives us just a 5% increase in performance, and for me that just isn’t enough, even if the 6800 XT did launch for $649 and this is $150 cheaper, because the fact of the matter is that the 6800 XT is no longer at that price and can be bought right now brand new on Amazon for $509, so even with that and the 7800 XT coming out with more performance, the gap in terms of value for money and generational uplift just frankly sucks, though the one saving grace is that it’s just made the RTX 4070 look even worse for its money and we’ll look at cost per frame shortly.

Before that, 4K shows a very similar story ,though the 7800 XT does come in 5% faster than the 6800 XT and again, further pushes the RTX 4070 down as the 7800 XT comes in 9% faster, and for a cheaper price.