Sapphire11323-02-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 20GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA 3

This is it. If you want the best bang-for-your-buck high-end card in the current gen, this right here is the one to buy. Anything else is either inferior performance or grossly overpriced.After running nVidia's swan song, the GTX 1080 Ti, from mid-2017 until November of 2023, it was time for an upgrade, and looking at the market there was (and still is) absolutely no WAY I was going to pay nVidia's absurd prices for the garbage they're trying to hock now. Almost an entire year to release a 4070 Ti with more than 12 GB of VRAM, when I was already running 11GB since 2017? For $800? Lose my number, nVidia.Snarky complaints aside, I don't upgrade my card often so I needed something that would hold me for another several years, and boy howdy so far this has been it. I am once again running EVERYTHING at 60fps, in 4k, at max settings. No leaning on the FSR crutch; if I wanted an upscaling cheat I would just send it at 1080p to my TV and let it handle the rest. I used to not care much about VRAM, but in this day & age you really do need 12-16 minimum to keep your performance smooth at high quality settings, so having 20GB at my disposal makes this card feel pretty solidly future-proof.Build quality is great, noise levels are great, temperatures are great, stability is great. I have literally not had a single issue with this card, other than one single game from 2009 (Burnout: Paradise) which I had to drop down to 1080p because the decade-old rendering engine would crash in 4k during certain camera sequences. Not much of a loss considering that game was made for the 1080p era anyway. Be advised, I did absolutely use DDU to make sure the install was as clean as possible; whether that's the reason the drivers have been so stable, or whether it's because AMD's drivers just work fine nowadays, I can't honestly say. Personal favorite feature: being able to toggle EyeFinity on and off with the click of a single button, to get that immersive 5760x1080 triple-monitor wraparound for games like War Thunder. Let me tell you, doing the same thing in nVidia Surround was a MAJOR pain.As previously mentioned, I got this card in early November 2023. It's now early May 2024, and I still have zero problems and zero regrets. I cannot recommend it enough; this IS the card you want, if you're looking for high-end performance at a reasonable price. Happy gaming.

Comes with a support bracket since it's a big card, which was a little difficult for me to install, and had to adjust the bracket support rubber thing a little to ensure it made contact with the card by loosening it a little, and pressing up for a little vertical adjustment before retightening. Feels sturdy and well built. Has some coil whine, but that's to be expected when on the menu screen for games and it's at over 300-600 fps. The coil whine is unnoticeable when playing games and in particular when not in a menu screen. Coil whine as I understand it can be mitigated by keeping refresh rates below 300-400 fps, and that possibly swapping out the power supply so the card and PSU don't have harmonizing frequencies. For reference, I'm using an EVGA 850W G6 power supply. The card recommends a 700W power supply.Runs Doom Eternal with max settings and raytracing enabled at 1440x3440 at 160 fps. The Riftbreaker, same resolution, raytracing enabled and settings also at 140-160 fps in the graphics benchmark.Temperatures seem to max out around 75-78 C. Fans can get a little loud if they need to rev up, but that doesn't happen very often during my games and is quieter than my older XFX Radeon rx 580. IMPORTANT NOTE about fan speed, going into Adrenalin (the AMD Software driver) to manually change the maximum fan speed to only 50% instead of it going to 70% then 100% when going above certain temperatures, the fan noise was significantly decreased, while the Hot Spot temperature was interestingly no different than when the fan speed was at 70-100% despite the GPU utilization/load being at 100%.Playing Doom Eternal with these changes, I didn't notice it at all. I tested Quantum Break, and was getting about 65 or so fps, however from what I've read online, that game is an unoptimized mess, so given that being the case, and that my older rx 580 was only getting 14 fps, I'd consider that a win.SUMMARY (TL/DR section)Overall, a well built, quiet and fast card. If you can't get the XTX card, you might not notice any performance difference with just the XT. I do recommend changing your maximum fan speed to 50% in the Adrenalin software for quality of life and without it really impacting temperatures.

I've had this for awhile now and have used it on heavy workloads and lots of gaming, and it has been great. I moved up from a 1660ti to this (7900xt).- Solid Construction- Fantastic heat dissipation- I can't hear it, but my cpu fan is huge and loud.- Drivers have been working fine, one hiccup so far but it was solved within minutes of updating the software- I love all the options in the AMD software, it's a league above Nvidia's.- This thing produces a lot of heat. It goes around 320 watts for me at 100% utilization. However, the card stays at about 72c which is amazing.Will run 4k at 60+fps. I have been using it mostly for 1440p ultrawide though and have had no issue getting 144+fps on max settings on 99% of games. (monitor set to 144hz, could go much higher on most games). Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing on gives me about 70-90fps but it's also very smooth. Without ray tracing I'm more around 140fps, and I'm sure giving me much more in certain environments.Using cyberpunk as a benchmark in this review since the graphics are crazy, but I have had a great experience with all games and emulators.This card will handle anything you throw at it. I'm very pleased with the solid build, the software, and the low temps. My 1660ti got up to 80c in the same case for reference, though it wasn't a triple fan design like this.

Awesome GPU, at an unbeatable price. The wait was too long, and I had to get customer service involved to "release" the product for shipping after the due date. The end result is a PC that runs everything at the highest settings. (March 2025)