AMD RX 7800 XT Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the RX 7800 XT Reference Card3. 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

Starfield is an action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.[4] It was announced during Bethesda's E3 presentation in 2018.[4] The game takes place in a space-themed setting, and is the first new intellectual property developed by Bethesda in 29 years.[5] It is scheduled to release for Windows and Xbox Series X/S on September 6, 2023.

Engine: Creation Engine 2. We test using the Ultra preset, with FSR and VRS disabled, DX12 API.

Just before we get into our ray tracing results, as a bonus I tested just 4 GPUs in Starfield. I would have loved to test more but simply ran out of time after re-testing all the GPUs for this review with the latest drivers – but I still wanted to show performance of the new GPUs in this title.

It's undoubtedly a GPU-heavy game, and at 1440p the RX 7800 XT barely averaged over 60FPS in New Atlantis. That's still a huge leap ahead of the RTX 4070 though, to the tune of 25% at Ultra settings.

It's about the same margin ahead at 4K too, though the 7800 XT is only delivering 40FPS here, so you'd want to lower the settings or enable upscaling if you plan on using this GPU at 4K.

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