AMD RX 7700 XT Review ft. Sapphire Pulse

1. Introduction2. Meet the Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Cyberpunk 20778. Forza Horizon 59. God of War10. Horizon Zero Dawn11. The Last of Us Part 112. A Plague Tale: Requiem13. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Resident Evil 416. Returnal17. Total War: Warhammer III18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Bonus Benchmark: Starfield21. Ray Tracing: Control22. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207723. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive24. Ray Tracing: F1 2325. Ray Tracing: Hitman 326. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart27. Ray Tracing: Returnal28. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider29. Ray Tracing Performance Summary30. Clock Speed31. GPU Temperatures32. Acoustics33. Power Draw: 1080p34. Power Draw: 1440p35. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)36. Performance per Watt: 1080p37. Performance per Watt: 1440p38. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)39. Total System Power Draw40. Closing Thoughts41. View All Pages

Here we present frame rate figures for each graphics card, averaged across all 12 games on test today. These figures can disguise significant variations in performance from game to game, but provide a useful overview of the sort of performance you can expect at each resolution tested.

Over the 12 games tested, performance of the RX 7700 XT is highly competitive with the RX 6800 – in fact, at 1440p there's barely a 1% difference between the two. It comes in 23% faster versus the RX 6700 XT, while it's 21% faster than the similarly-priced RTX 4060 Ti 16GB.

4K is more of a challenge and the 7700 XT can't always get the job done at Ultra settings, but it's still 21% faster than the 4060 Ti 16GB on average, while it delivers a 25% uplift compared to the RX 6700 XT.

It's worth taking a closer look at the performance versus the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB – this shows the margins between the two GPUs at 1440p over all 12 games tested.

At worst, the RX 7700 XT is 7% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, but 10 of the 12 games tested show at least a 10% lead for the AMD GPU. In fact, in half of the games tested it was more than 25% faster than its Nvidia rival, despite both GPU retailing for £430.

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