AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics cards are coming soon and we’ve just seen leaked benchmarks, which underscores what Team Red has been asserting in its pre-release marketing – namely that this flagship will be the competition. worthy defender of Nvidia’s RTX 4080.
VideoCardz (opens in a new tab) select leaked 3DMark scores for RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT, based on data collected from multiple reviewers, the site tells us; but obviously we need to be cautious of any such leaks.
The results themselves show that in 3DMark Time Spy at 4K resolution (Ultra High Preset), the RX 7900 XTX scored 13,729, and the 7900 XT scored a score of 13,687, very hot after the flagships. That compares to the RTX 4080 on 14,005, so both AMD graphics cards are pretty close to Nvidia’s offering.
At 1440p in Time Spy, the RTX 4080 leads more with 28,050 than the RX 7900 XTX on 25,473 and the 7900 XT on 23,897.
Switching to 3DMark FireStrike, the 7900 XTX beats the RTX 4080, scoring 18,853 against the Nvidia GPU on 17,294, with the 7900 XT behind at 16,915.
And at 1440p for FireStrike, 7900 XTX graphics card once again beating the Nvidia card with a score of 37,702, with the RTX 4080 being slightly underpowered with 33,932 and the 7900 XT not far behind with a score of 33,497.
Analysis: Driver runkiness?
If these benchmarks are correct, this means that the RX 7900 XTX is actually 9% and 13% faster than the RTX 4080 in FireStrike (4K and 1440p respectively) and the RTX 4080 turns the tables in fast TimeSpy. more than 2% and 10% . So the idea that the two graphics cards are pretty close in terms of performance – that’s the line AMD is pushing, or at least saying their flagship RDNA 3 offering is competing with the RTX 4080, not the RTX 4080. 4090 – looks great for the money (and extensive arrangement with other leaks we saw late).
Naturally, apart from the leaked nature of these scores causing skepticism, we must also keep in mind that these are synthetic benchmarks. A set of real-world gaming results is what is really needed to be able to gauge the performance of the AMD RDNA 3 GPU against the RTX 4080.
And the RTX 4090 for that matter, and if you’re wondering about that, it’s in the results table provided by VideoCardz and it’s no surprise it’s in the lead. Indeed, it’s 20% to 40% faster than AMD’s 7900 XTX, depending on the benchmark and resolution you’re looking at.
While there’s something odd here, we should note that Time Spy’s results show that the 7900 XT is very close to the flagship XTX model, and in fact it’s on par at 4K. It sounds like something is wrong here, so if there’s no leak, it could be a case of a bad original graphics driver, perhaps? Hopefully any wrinkles here will be resolved for launch.
These benchmarks sparked some disappointing reactions online, with people basically hoping the 7900 XTX would be faster – but given AMD’s top spot as a rival to the RTX 4080, we don’t see any Any element of surprise comes into this leaky equation, really. (Remove that anomaly with a potentially shaky driver, which could mean the XTX performs faster than shown here).
Another worrying point is that if the rumors are true, third-party custom models are significantly more expensive for the RDNA 3 GPU – rather than being just a bit more expensive, as is to be expected – that could make the 7900 XTX’s value proposition less appealing than we’d hoped, compared to the RTX 4080 (at least in those cases). cases). The same is true if the stock is less on the ground, as the grapevine recently suggested, and the speculators also joined in and rallied. And don’t forget, there are rumors Nvidia may reduce the price of the RTX 4080perhaps in part in response to the launch of RDNA 3.
We will soon see how all of this plays out…
