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  • The 7900 XTX still beats the 9070 XT… just

    The RX 7900 XTX is the most ridiculously high-end graphics card AMD has ever made, and though it didn’t compete with Nvidia’s absolute best in its generation, it’s still a powerhouse GPU. But it now resides in the shadow of its younger sibling, the RX 9070 XT. Although not designed to replace the last-gen king, this new AMD powerhouse is very capable and far more affordable.

    But can the 7900 XTX hold its own even with all of the new cards’ advancements? Let’s take a look.

    Pricing and availability

    AMD CEO Lisa Su holding an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU
    AMD

    The RX 7900 XTX launched in December 2022 with a price tag of $1,000. That made it the most expensive graphics card AMD had ever released. Its price came down over the ensuing years to around $800 at its lowest. However, after the recent GPU price spikes, it’s now back at around the $1,000 mark.

    The RX 9070 XT launched in March 2025 with a suggested retail price of $600. However, due to extreme popularity and GPU shortages across the board, that price has now risen to at least $700, with some listings getting close to $1,000. It goes for even more on second-hand auction sites.

    This should normalise in the coming months and the price should come down, but the 7900 XTX is unlikely to see any major price drops before its stock is exhausted.

    Specifications

    AMD RX 7900 XTX AMD RX 9070 XT
    Transisitors 57.7 billion 53.9 billion
    Die size 529mm squared 357mm squared
    Compute units 96 64
    Ray accelerators 96 64
    AI accelerators 96 128
    Shader units 6144 4096
    Game clock 2365 MHz 2400 MHz
    Boost clock 2498 MHz 2970 MHz
    Memory 24GB GDDR6 16GB GDDR6
    Memory speed 20 Gbps 20 Gbps
    Memory bus 384-bit 256-bit
    Total board power 355W 304W

    It’s clear from the spec sheet that the 7900 XTX is designed to be the more high-end graphics card. It has 50% more compute units and ray accelerators, 50% more memory, a wider memory busy, and many more shader cores. That comes at a much higher power draw, though, and despite all its strengths, the 7900 XTX’s boost clock is far lower than the newer 9070 XT.

    Radeon logo on the RX 7900 XTX.
    Jacob Roach / Digital Trends

    It’s also notable that the newer card has a similar number of transistors, but in a much smaller die size, showing the advances AMD made with its new RDNA 4 architecture, and new process, even if it’s not a smaller one.

    Even though the 9070 XT is the newer card, the additional memory of the 7900 XTX is going to give it some extra future proofing for games and applications down the line, particularly running local AI.

    Performance

    We haven’t had a chance to pit these graphics cards head to head yet, but others have, so we can look to their results to see how capable the new 9070 XT is and how well it takes on the last-generation king.

    TechPowerup shows the two cards trading blows in different games. The 9070 XT holds a surprisingly strong lead over the 7900 XTX in Cyberpunk 2077, for example, but falls far behind in The Last of Us Part One. The average across all tested games had the 7900 XTX as being a few percent faster than the 9070 XT overall — though the newer RDNA4 card dominates in ray traced games.

    RX 7900 XTX slotted into a test bench.
    Jacob Roach / Digital Trends

    DigitalFoundry’s results were similar, showing the the 7900 XTX holding a slight lead in most games, though there are some where the 9070 XT pulls ahead. When raytracing is brought into the picture, too, the 9070 XT is by far the faster option. It might have fewer RT cores, but AMD has made big leaps this generation on ray tracing performance, making the newer card the more capable option.

    It’s also important to remember that the frame generation abilities it has with FSR4 can have a dramatic effect in supporting games. While the list of them is small, it’s growing all the time and that will continue to give the 9070 XT a big advantage in the years to come. On the flip side, the 7900 XTX’s additional memory may let it continue to use new visual and AI features that require additional VRAM, where the 16GB on the 9070 XT falls short (though that’s not likely to happen for several years).

    A benchmark of the RX 9070 XT and the RTX 5080 FE.
    der8auer

    We mustn’t forget overclocking, either. As der8auer showed in his overclocking and undervolting efforts with the RX 9070 XT, it’s possible to make the card not only faster than the 7900 XTX, but faster even than the RTX 5080 — the second fastest GPU ever made. If you’re able and willing to play with the settings of your 9070 XT, you can make it far more capable than the 7900 XTX.

    A new king is here

    I love the 7900 XTX. I have one in my PC paired up with a 7950 X3D and it’s more than enough to play Kerbal Space Program and Tabletop Simulator. But if I were buying new today, I wouldn’t hesitate. The 9070 XT is by far the better card. Its native performance might not quite match that of the 7900 XTX — it’s still the fastest GPU AMD has ever made. But it’s close. And in many places it’s far better than that.

    The 9070 XT dominates in ray tracing, and in any game with frame generation support. It can be overclocked to be faster still, and it uses less power. Its AI accelerators are more capable and will be able to support new AI features in the years to come, and although it doesn’t have as much VRAM, 16GB is more than enough for the next few years.

    The 7900 XTX is still the king, but its princeling is on the rise and will sit on the throne in the years to come.

  • AMD GPUs are supposed to be plentiful, but good luck finding one

    It’s clear that AMD hit the jackpot with its recent RX 9070 XT and non-XT GPUs. The pair quickly climbed up every list of the best graphics cards, and perhaps more importantly, received a warm welcome from the GPU market at large (and thus sold out immediately). A new leak tells us that AMD is shipping lots of GPUs to try to keep up with the demand — and yet they’re still not in stock.

    The information comes from Moore’s Law Is Dead on YouTube, who claims to have spoken to a major online retailer about RDNA 4 stock levels. Both Nvidia and AMD have been in a pretty dire place since the release of their latest graphics cards, with many people referring to the RTX 50-series as a “paper launch.” The cards just sell out too quickly and too many people are left trying to find one.

    In the case of Nvidia, customer interest is just one part of it all — a lot of it comes down to low stock. Many retailers complained about receiving very few cards, and the wait for the next shipment is quite long. In the case of AMD, though, the problem is entirely different — the company seemingly didn’t anticipate the kind of interest RDNA 4 would be faced with.

    To that end, the retailer Moore’s Law Is Dead spoke to claims that AMD is doing what it can. The anonymous source said that Nvidia and its partners have finally started shipping more Blackwell cards, with the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 being restocked. (The RTX 5090 is missing in action, to the surprise of no one.)

    But those shipments barely make a dent in what AMD and its partners are said to be delivering. According to the retailer, AMD is delivering 2x to 4x as many RDNA 4 GPUs as all weekly Blackwell shipments combined. This is great news, but I just checked, and the GPUs are still nowhere to be found at many major retailers, including Amazon and Newegg.

    While waiting for new GPUs is frustrating, it seems that both AMD and Nvidia are trying to rectify the problem. I’m hopeful that the situation will improve soon, but it’s impossible to say how long we’ll have to wait.

  • Even AMD is surprised by how fast it’s gaining on Nvidia

    AMD’s RX 9000 series quickly joined the ranks of the best graphics cards, and it appears that its success came as a surprise to everyone — yes, even AMD itself. At a recent roundtable in Japan, the company revealed that its market share skyrocketed recently, reaching a whopping 45% in Japan. Although this refers to Japan, it’s easy to imagine that AMD is gaining on Nvidia globally, too, although there are a few things to consider here.

    AMD’s Yoshiaki Sato and Saki Suzuki shared a couple of updates during a Team AMD Roundtable held in Japan, which was later shared by ASCII. AMD was joined on stage by representatives of its many board partners, including ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, and Sapphire. AMD’s add-in board partners (AIBs) reportedly shared that they wanted to make and sell more Radeon graphics cards, but were being held back due to a lack of GPUs. To this, AMD’s Sato replied: “AMD isn’t used to selling [this many] graphics cards.”

    This got a laugh from the audience, and I admit, I chuckled, too. It’s a candid response that shows that AMD maybe hasn’t predicted just how much gamers would be willing to embrace its new GPUs.

    AMD and its partners sitting at a roundtable in Japan.
    ASCII

    That 45% market share in Japan is a success, but AMD isn’t resting on its laurels. Sato said that the 45% figure is a “peak” for AMD, but one of its board partners chimed in with: “No, we’re below the majority. We’re the opposition party, so let’s aim for 70%,” which prompted another representative to say: “We’ve never been the ruling party!”

    AMD is well aware of its market share compared to its rival, Nvidia. Worldwide figures usually pin AMD at anywhere between 10% and 18% of the GPU market. However, we might see an increase considering that AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs are flying off the shelves … but that might put a stop to its market share gains, too.

    Although AMD was able to deliver more stock than Nvidia’s RTX 50-series (which is sometimes referred to as a “paper launch“), the GPUs are largely sold out at many U.S. retailers. When they’re back in stock, they might be more expensive — and that’ll put an end to AMD’s performance-per-dollar argument. Let’s hope that the company can find a middle ground with its board partners and deliver more cards to gamers at MSRP, or at least close to it. It’s clear that the market is finally open to it.

  • More RTX 50-series price hikes show scalpers aren’t the only problem

    Nvidia’s RTX 50-series faced many problems upon launch. Now, six weeks later, those problems are still present, with the main issue being pricing and availability. Unfortunately, it’s not just scalpers that are racking up the prices: Asus just raised the prices of some of its best graphics cards by hundreds of dollars, leaving the MSRP in the rearview mirror.

    No matter the GPU you search for in the Asus Store, you’ll be hard-pressed to find one actually selling at MSRP. That, in itself, isn’t strange. Asus, being Nvidia’s and AMD’s board partner, makes its own versions of GPUs, and those cards often come at a premium due to things like more overclocking headroom or superior cooling. So, a higher price is to be expected, although AIBs should still offer a couple of models at MSRP.

    A higher price is to be expected. It’s the continuous price hikes that are worrying me.

    As spotted by VideoCardz, Asus adjusted the pricing for its RTX 5090 graphics cards. The most premium model, the ROG Astral LC, stayed at its (already eye-watering) price of $3,410; that’s the price you’ll have to pay for a liquid-cooled card. However, the air-cooled model now costs $3,360, which is not much less than the one with the liquid cooler, and a whopping $280 more than it did before.

    Prices for the RTX 5090 at Asus Store.
    Asus

    The TUF models went up in price, too. The overclocked model has now hit $3,000; meanwhile, the non-OC variant costs $2,760. Considering that the MSRP for the RTX 5090 was supposed to be $1,999, all of these are a far cry from what we started with in late January.

    Even cheaper GPUs aren’t safe from the price hikes. AMD’s RX 9070 XT is completely unavailable at MSRP, all the while Nvidia’s (supposedly) $550 goes up to $700 and beyond.

    It’s a tough time to be a PC gamer. Some RTX 5090 cards sell for up to $6,000, all thanks to scalpers — but those are few and far apart. However, the lack of availability compared to the big demand for the new GPUs is driving lasting price changes. We might see these GPUs drop down to MSRP one day, but I’m afraid it won’t be anytime soon.