Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC review: A serious challenger to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super for less than 600 Euros?

For our first performance comparison, we take a look at the 3D performance of the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC in the synthetic tests. Our test unit is able to achieve a good place in the middle of our comparison field. It is able to distance itself from its main competitor, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070. Compared to the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE, the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC has to accept a small disadvantage of only 6%. But this is something that shouldn't be neglected, since at this point the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE has found its way onto the store shelves and isn't only available in combination with a prebuilt PC.

In the red-against-green competition, it is only with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti that you can expect a noticeable performance increase compared to the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT. But that also has its price, costing a bit more. Alternatively, you can also take a look at the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super. That delivers a slightly higher performance than our test unit but offers less VRAM, which can have a negative effect in some specific scenarios.

Professional applications will benefit a lot from using special graphics cards. AMD and Nvidia each offer some workstation GPUs that are significantly more expensive. However, you can often still get some good results with the regular consumer graphics cards. Compared to Nvidia, AMD performs above average in this discipline. In the current AMD portfolio, the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC places right behind the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE. The comparison with the Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Generation that we included in our overview shows the performance you can expect from a workstation graphics card.

The synthetic tests give us a first impression of the performance of the graphics card in this regard. In our gaming tests, the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC does fairly well, even if the performance is only slightly higher in the direct comparison to the reference model. Basically, our test unit places exactly where we would have expected. However, with the wide range of games we are unable to give a general statement on the performance of the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT compared to its competitors. The performance of the graphics cards can only be evaluated in combination with the specific game. Most of the times, it is a duel between the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC and the KFA2 GeForce RTX 4070 EX Gamer. Both models deliver a similar performance, and depending on the game, either the green or the red team will be ahead.

A look at the list of all the games tested with the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7800 XT OC paints a good picture. The graphics card currently offers sufficient performance to play even the most current games smoothly in 1440p. The GPU model masters many games even in 2160p, even though the graphics card covers more the QHD area. Those who have a UHD display and want to play games without any loss in detail should take a look at the 7900 models from AMD.