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Overclocked ASUS RX 7900 XTX TUF OC matches RTX 4090 in Cyberpunk 2077 while being 23% faster vs RTX 4080

RX 7900 XTX features 24 GB of GDDR6 memory. (Source: TechPowerUp)
RX 7900 XTX features 24 GB of GDDR6 memory. (Source: TechPowerUp)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is now up for sale at US$999. Just as AMD claimed, the card performs better than the RTX 4080 in rasterized games. According to TechPowerUp’s review of the ASUS RX 7900 XTX TUF OC, the GPU can even perform on par with the RTX 4090 in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K when overclocked to 3.2 GHz.

In our review of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and the RX 7900 XTX, we found out that the RX 7900 XTX’s performance falls between the RTX 4080 and the RTX 4090. While the RX 7900 XTX edges out the RTX 4080, the RTX 4090 comes out 21% ahead of the RDNA 3 board in synthetic benchmarks. Even though the RX 7900 XTX performs quite well, rumors have it that AMD may retape the Navi 31 GPU that drives the RX 7900 XT/XTX to fix clock speed issues allowing the purported refreshed RDNA 3 cards to hit >3 GHz frequencies. As it now turns out, the RX 7900 XTX can indeed be overclocked to >3 GHz clock speed resulting in significantly better performance.

Through a lengthy and complex overclocking/undervolting process, TechPowerUp has managed to overclock the ASUS RX 7900 XTX TUF OC to an astounding 3.2 GHz with a memory frequency of 2800 MHz. The result of this 28% increase in the boost frequency is a 9.9% betterment in 3D rendering performance vs the stock ASUS RX 7900 XTX TUF OC as tested through Unigine Heaven.

More interestingly, where there is an 8% delta between the Reference RX 7900 XTX and the RTX 4080 in favor of the former in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K, the overclocked and undervolted ASUS RX 7900 XTX TUF OC extends the lead to 23.1% vs the RTX 4080. Surprisingly, the Cyberpunk 2077 result of the overclocked ASUS RX 7900 XTX is practically identical to the RTX 4090.

Put simply, there appears to be a lot of overclocking headroom in the RX 7900 XTX and, thus, a significant amount of untapped performance. Let’s hope AMD can squeeze some of it out with driver updates.

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Fawad Murtaza, 2022-12-14 (Update: 2022-12-14)