I just want them to be good enough to force Nvidia to stop their bs pricing.

AMD was able to avoid a lot of nVidia's projected production costs by cutting out the leather jacket budget entirely.

As a Linux gamer, I'm really happy to see AMD making huge progress with its graphics cards. Because the driver support for Linux is incredibly better by AMD than by Nvidia.

Nvidia is about to eat some humble pie like Intel did a few years ago. The 7900XTX looks like insanely good value considering how outrageous the price of 4090 and 4080 are. I can't even remember when was the last time I had an AMD card but I'm definitely gonna go for the 7900XTX this time.

I think everyones rooting for amd right now in this bloated market, will be interesting to see how they shape up!

When LTT does the actual reviews of these cards, it would be cool to see how close their estimates got to the actual results.

I skimmed through their stream and I have to admit I like the way LTT presents this in a more digestible format. AMD could use some better public speakers ngl.

I am supporting AMD this year. I want their revenue prices to surpass Nvidia. They deserve the extra profits so they can use it to make better GPUs, hopefully to surpass performance of Nvidia. For so far over the recent years have we been screwed over by NVidia and consumers should have the power to push them back.

Honestly its nice to see AMD and Intel making efforts to fight against NVIDIA right now

THIS is how you do pricing. If you have a slightly lesser product like this, get aggressive with the undercut. You'll poach customers looking for a good deal and who are okay with something slightly less powerful. Great job on this, Radeon Technologies Group and Mrs. Su!

The more I hear about these cards the more I'm leaning towards switching to AMD. I haven't been a PC gamer for super long but I've only used Nvidia since 2016. 960 to 2060 to current 3070. Now I'm ready to move to 4K gaming and its looking like AMD 7900xt will be my first time trying out team red.

This is great news! I've been using the founders edition 1080ti since launch. I'll gladly switch to AMD. NVIDIA's greed is gonna push many people to AMD I suspect.

I believe not catching fire is a great selling point for AMD.

AMD has wiggle room here. The 7900XTX doesn't need to be within spitting distance of the 4090, it just needs to be respectable. The price difference is absolutely massive and just shows the incredible greed of Nvidia. Any performance above the 4080, which will also be more expensive, means that AMD just simply wins and the 4090 becomes a disgusting, beastly symbol of corporate greed for those with more money than sense.

That 24GB GPU is looking VERY appealing for 3D rendering! And another win for chiplet designs -- the big monoliths have a big down side on the cost side of things... But the fact that AMD has managed such a performance uplift with that small a POWER uplift is simply amazing.

Holy damn. Imagine if you undervolt the 7800XT. You could get away with a power draw like the vega 64 while being multiple times faster. Crazy stuff.

I'm seeing a 7900 XTX in my future. I'm glad AMD is being aggressive about pricing.

For those who use Blender, but don't quite like gap between Nvidia, and AMD. They're working on adding native Radeon support like with Nvidia, also AMD has a Plug-In on their website to help utilize it better.

Looking forward to the actual review shoeing how close those reported performance numbers match reality and whether those were fair settings and configurations or if they used the numbers misleadingly.

Lots of people are buying these for VR. I would like to see some tests on VR as well as Standard Reality.

Blender does have support for AMD's HIP API which was implemented with the 3.0 release. You can think of it as CUDA equivalent for blender. However with the 6000 series of AMD gpus Blender did not support raytracing acceleration for rendering. Luckily, AMD's ray tracing support is coming to blender 3.5, the alpha is available now and the final release is scheduled on march 15, which is when I imagine the lower end gpus are going to be available.

AMD has really been coming in clutch these days serving as an _actual_ competitor in its fields instead of a competitor in name only.

Aged like fine milk.

If the XTX can outperform the rtx 4080 and come in 200 quid cheaper you can bet your ass thats where my money is going. Those theoretical benchmarks in this video coming so close to 4090 performance are surely too good to be true though. That is insane if its true and even better news for us consumers.

I have three AMD based systems in the house (5800x, 5600x, and a 2700x) and the one thing that has always impressed me is how they are generally not power hungry for the performance given. The new GPUs look like they are going down that road. Given their provided power numbers, you could say their performance per watt is WAY ahead of Nvidia, in the same manner that their CPUs are per watt ahead of Intel as well. Considering that electricity costs are spiking all over, it seems like a very valid point of comparison at this moment.

Most people are gonna go for AMD this year, the fact that it's estimated performance is slightly behind the RTX 4090 while being $600 below the price of the rtx 4090 is insane

I think Blender supports AMD now with HIP rendering in cycles. I got some outstanding improvements on my 6800s GPU on blender 3.2.2

Cant wait to see how it performs for streaming (And for me, animating in Blender), those are the only reasons I haven't ditched Nvidia yet. Got a 1080 and its really cramping my streams so im excited to see what im upgrading to!

9:50 - AMD has actually made a CUDA alternative called ROCm that works quite well and is supported by Blender, PyTorch, etc. Problem is, AMD doesn't support ANY of their consumer GPUs for ROCm, currently they only support 8 enterprise GPUs. You 'can' run ROCm on some consumer GPUs, but it's unofficial and they will not support you, they won't even provide a support table of which GPUs will work. It doesn't look like they ever plan to change this. Them talking about "AI cores" while simultaneously not supporting their own GPUs for AI drives me insane.

AMD is really the protagonist right now in the hardware market.

I'm quite happy the 7900 XTX will still fit in my mITX case. I don't need it to be as fast as a 40980, as based on what I've seen it may be at least twice as fast as my 6800. I also still haven't been overly impressed with the RT I've seen in games yet (as in RT I've seen in the games I play isn't a BIG improvement over non-RT), so I'm fine with RT performance not being as good as the new Nvidia stuff too.

The way AMD coming for both Intel and Nvidia's necks at the same time is crazy to me. I really wish the best for AMD and hopefully they become top dog one day...as long as they don't become what they're trying to defeat.

AMD is pushing the entire PC market forward and setting new standards for price to performance. Hope they keep this up as this has been amazing for consumers.

I like your estimated performance. Not because it may or may not be accurate, but because it emphasizes how silly "X better" marketing is, and it also gives general numbers that AMD, Nvidia, and Intel now have to actually meet (since, after all, they themselves put out those "1.7x better" numbers)

AMD did everything right. The pricing just shows, how "far away" from the customer Nvidea is. I'm happy that AMD pulled this of and I'm thinking about buying or building a new PC system early next year. I will gladly go with an AMD GPU after this reveal. Thank you for this very good and informative video.

9:50 maybe you can test the rocm vs cuda performance of these cards. but in general, amd does not add this feature to every card.

I think the raster performance on the 7900xtx being so close to the 4090 puts it in a very good spot. RT still doesn't matter that much, and being $600 less than the 4090 makes this a good price and good value for money. Not to mention the energy savings.

This reference card is fairly good looking too. With how good the reference cards of Intel and AMD look, AIB's need to start taking note.

I'm hopeful that the situation will be similar in the budget-to-mid ranges. Because my husband does video rendering I won't be moving him over to AMD when he finally lets me upgrade him. But my brother and sister? I think I'm going to nudge them toward red when they're ready to build their next systems. Though I myself won't be upgrading for at least another 3 years, I'm definitely watching this generation of cards closely. Hopefully AMD can get their FSR up to DLSS 2 equivalent quality and performance next gen, as I've been *very* happy with DLSS 2. DLSS 3 is pretty awful right now, though. I'd hate to pay any kind of price premium for *that* garbage.

this didnt age well

I love that the XTX name has come back, reminds me of the old X1950 XTX beast. As someone who has been using AMD GPUs now for a decade, I really want these, but my workloads have changed over the years to require CUDA. I'd love to see more software support on the compute side so AMD can continue to be an option for me.

I tend to be more of a midtier enthusiast's and I'm excited to see the mid tier cards that come out. These high end cards are cool and all, but the average consumer hovers around the budget-mid tier range and itll be nice to see some badass cards at the 500 dollar range

I am super excited about AMD's new gpu. I'm definitely going to save up for a 7900!!

This is one of the first new GPUs that I'm actually considering buying at full price new. If there is stock, this will be a slam dunk.

My big problem with the 40 series is how the price increased dramatically for the real 4080 and the fake one that's actually a 4070. 4090 only got a 7% increase in price while the 4080 is up 71% from $700 to $1200. It looks like the best value you can get from nvidia for the 40 series will be the 4090. I'm really glad AMD is able to truly compete both on performance on price. Hopefully that'll get nvidia to be more realistic with their pricing next go around.

For the full review, please also test how AMDs and NVIDIAs GPUs compare when throttled to a reasonable power draw, e.g. 250-300W, to compare if NVIDIA just cranked up the Power Limit to keep the lead by a few % at all costs (and whether or not AMD did the same). Der8auer already showed that the 4090 loses only about 10% performance iirc when limited to 50% power draw. That sounds extremely like the old AMD FX CPUs, which consumed limitless power just to push the clock and by that stay competitive.

They mentioned the encoder potentially being good for streaming, but I wonder if the XTX going to be a viable option for a 4K video editing rig? If so, that will probably be my next upgrade. I'll wait for the reviews after launch to be sure though. Hope they don't sell out!

AMD has RPR plugins for blender and other VFX tools to combat the CUDA dominate issues. Though I have never seen them mention it in any marketing outside of when purchasing AMD PRO commercial products online.

If the benchmarks match these graphs and I were in the market for a GPU I would absolutely take a 10% performance hit to give Nvidia the finger. The price is also very nice in comparison.

Blender supports HIP which is compatible with AMD. Also, Blender is planning on features that will increase RT support for AMD in early 2023 with v3.5

Yeah... my biggest issue with AMD gpu's is that generally, pro software cannot use them for rendering or general tasks being offloaded to them because pro software devs typically program for CUDA and OptiX. AMD DOES have HIP/ROcm and Vulkan, both of which could be used as a replacement for CUDA and OptiX, especially with inclusion of AI onto their cores in RDNA 3, but like you mentioned, the probability of seeing this being used outside of games is highly unlikely. What is also bugging me is the fact that Vulkan and D3D12 have been out in the wild for over half a decade now. They were/are clearly superior to OpenCL, so why don't the devs remove outdated OpenCL already from their software and just use Vulkan instead at least which is hw agnostic? I'd LOVE to get RDNA 3 because it has the power, efficiency and capability, but if the pro software problem persists by next year when I plan to upgrade my system, then I'm afraid I'll have to go with NV (and I REALLY don't want to). My coursework (sadly) requires use of Arnold renderer which is CUDA/OptiX only. Sure, one can render on the CPU, but that's SLOW. AMD does have Radeon Pro Renderer however, BUT the issue is that for Max 2023 (which I also use), development of RPR stopped (and it doesn't help the fact that most people in the industry don't seem to use RPR). You can find RPR for Maya 2023 (which is useful) and of course Blender leverages use of HIP/ROCm for rendering on AMD gpu's, but otherwise, no other software really does this. This is AMD's biggest weakness. Gaming is something I do, but its occasional, and I need a capable gpu for content creation primarily so I can work faster/better.

I do appreciate the ad read I was going to go there tomorrow anyways for a GPU but you know they're adding money is still well spent with you you reminded me that they existed and that I should just go check it out. And now that I can actually buy things cuz I'm an adult it's going to be like the hardware store all over again.

Thank you for finally discussing the dominance of CUDA and Nvidia in engineering and general purpose AI tasks. People will be surprised at how downright afraid the scientific community is to get an AMD cpu or gpu based system simply because of Intel and Nvidia’s stronghold on scientific applications. I work in aerospace engineering and most of the relevant softwares don’t even seem to acknowledge AMD’s presence in the space. Graphics accelerated workloads often have CUDA only support, including MATLAB.

As an NVIDIA customer for 10+ years, my next card will be an AMD.

Was considering getting a 3080, but now I will get this when it comes out

One of my main worries I think is going to be cooling, i saw that the cooling fins are vertical, pushing the air agains the motherboard(I think) and pushing it towards the top of the gpu instead of out the back. I’d be worried about the components near where the gpu is getting hot, for example a m.2 ssd.

the power aspect is what I am looking forward to hearing about the most. I think things are getting to the point now where people are going to have to consider power draw when making a purchase so if AMD can make high end cards that dont draw 600watts then I think they are going to put themselves in a very strong position in the coming years.

I think Blender support is coming in December, and they use the ML stuff in their video encoding too, and they kind of alluded to stable diffusion, so I don’t think the ML/AI stuff is /just/ for games. But they know who their audience is so yesterday was all about gamers.

First I just want to say thank you for the information and the help. I just thought that if you had the 3090 on the spec chart to compare to the next generation it would have given a broader scope of the improvements between the new gen and last gen. Also when your getting the specs are you testing ammd CPU with GPU?

This video didn’t age well. The 4000 series are obliterating RDNA 3 on the market. Lack of RT and a competitor to DLSS is just killing AMD.

The EVGA fallout had me sold on going AMD for my next GPU for a while now, glad I'm holding out. Hope to see a big improvement from what I've currently got, a couple generations old with a 7800XT

I am rooting for them, not because I am a fanboy, but because they know how to make the competition cry.

the AIB options are going to be really exciting in terms of performance

Over a decade of watching LTT segues... and I still love them.

9:51 that's why I chose OpenCL for my computational fluid dynamics software FluidX3D. It runs on all hardware, and is just as fast as CUDA. The 7900 XTX finally brings back a 384-bit memory bus for 960GB/s bandwidth. This card should absolutely shred in CFD workloads.

I just love all the options we as consumers have these days, especially those "get 90% of the performance for 60% of the price" ones. I actually just ordered a whole new platform, and went with a 5800x3d, a b550 board and 32gb of ddr4. Compared to an am5 platform that's 60% of the price, but in 1440p or 4k gaming it'll give me 95% of the performance. Looks like 7900xtx will prove to do the same for the new gpu i need to buy to complete my new rig.

You forgot the UP TO! (so that down hill, with the wind in the back and only for 1 sec.) 🙂

This was an excellent, informative video. And Linus didn't drop anything.

AMD has never been the "processing King" to my recollection, but their stuff has been "good enough" and their pricing has always been the dominant factor. AMD shows us its not necessary to be number 1 to be on the podium !

I mean with how power costs are getting rediculous here in Europe AMD might actually get a gigantic marketshare over here. I might just replace the RTX 3080 with the 7900 XTX and it would be a nice combo for my R9 5950X tbh.

One for the video team - what BG sound is playing from 7:00 to roughly 9:00? It's very chill and mellow and wanted to know who the artist was.

AMD is the wise choice for 80% of gamers this gen. the 7900XTX could be 25% slower then the 4090 (it wont be) and i would still say that. the pricing is like 2.5 tiers below the 4090 and will be only like 5-12% slower. and AMD has much more left in the tank for a 7950xtx then nvidia has for a 4090ti or 4090ti refresh. they could use 24GB/s-27GB/s GDDR6 (not GDDR6X) go 1-hi and double infinity cache, bump the TBP to 450w bump clocks 500-700MHz. they could even bump the GCD from 300mm2 to like 400mm2 and add like 30% more WGP's!

I think the reason that they didnt show comparisons with nvidia, is that they wanted people to focus more on price, power consumption and DP 2.0 support so rather positive things. Benchmarks will come later but by that time people might don't care so much about raw performance, when they can get really good card with much less price. I was thinking about getting 3080TI for myself but now I'm waiting for rdna3 benchmarks and I might switch to team red this time.

were these test done with and amd cpu. Taking advantage of the Smart Access Memory Technology? Or is there potentialy some extra performance there?

Pretty excited about FSR3, hope it becomes available sooner than later.

I said to myself these words: "If AMD managed to get within 5-10% of the performance of the RTX 4090, but at a significantly lower price, they would have a real winner on their hands" If this turns out to be the case, well... Let's say that AMD will likely win this generation, due to their competitive pricing and much better performance per dollar. This gets me really curious about the 7800XT as well as the mid-range 7700XT (which may end up being the very best bang for the buck)

I am aware you guys at LTT got hundreds if not thousands of comments exactly like this but I just wanted to reach out and thank the entire team or whomever ends up reading this comment for the years of enjoyable and informative, sometimes even inspiring content. A HUGE thanks to LTT as a whole!

Why is there 7K FPS showcase on TOP left screen on 1:04 minute ? xD Slight error , but great video :D

thank god we can have some of this in 2022, really need the change of pace

They did mention some other non-gaming applications. From what I’m reading/seeing from other sites, greatly improving Adobe Premier and Unreal performance and productivity were mentioned quite a lot from AMD. So clearly, they are reaching out to industry software providers to improve.

Please include a comparison on the 7900XTX vs your estimates based on the 6950XT in the 7900XTX review, it would be great to see if their graphs actually match up. Obviously there will be differences based on the testing environment, but it would be cool to see ballpark figures

We have seen decoupled clocks in a desktop GPU before.. Nvidia did that back with the 200 series or around there I believe.

3:36 Bro my brother came into my room as you said that and he slowly walked away. Bro i'm dying rn 💀

Im really excited for those cards, especially because their linux support is top tier.

If the 7900XTX can at least match 90% of traditional rasterization performance of the 4090, then its gonna be an absolutely banger deal.

I have a 4gb 1050Ti that I have been wanting to upgrade for years, I didn't even want to buy it in the first place but miners had bought literally every other card available so it was all I could get, but the absurd prices have put me off. I just couldn't pull the trigger on a card when I felt like it was being overpriced just because they could. I won't spend $1000 on a card but I would spend $350 - $450 on one, so hopefully I can get a mid-range AMD that has pretty good specs. The 7900XT gives me hope in getting a lower mid-range card for a reasonable price, I just hope that card availability is not an issue. Please put pressure on Nvidia to lower their prices also.

I can't believe it's been 10 years since Linus' videos helped me build by first PC. I don't watch every video you put out but I get nostalgic every time I end up here.

It's good to see design improvements like P/E cores, chiplet design, and decoupled clocks due to competition

AMD is the underdog that keeps Nvidia and Intel from going off the rails. Always rooting for them.

turned out to be bullshit 12/30/2022

Loving the colorful hoodie. It's very 1987 (I miss those days).

The power part is a big part of my decision making here (Along with the quality of the Linux drivers). Not screwing up on the power draw makes it an option for an upgrade for me. Not having to buy a new power supply and basically redo all of the cables in my case is hugely appealing. I know a new power supply isn't crazy expensive compared to the card (Like 150 bucks for a good one), but the time spent redoing the cables is not insignificant, and definitely is a pain in the rear end.

Will be interesting to see what the "Mid level cards" are like based on the top ends. and mid end is in quotes because those will be 500-700 dollars at best.

I put in an order at microcenter to build me a pc about a year and a half ago now and they told me that they were waiting for gpus to come in. About 3 months ago I was 3rd in line for it and they said they needed to get 2 parts, about a month later they said I was the 4th in line, they needed 3 parts and that it would cost me an extra 800$ from what I already gave them.

It seems they should have a lot more headroom, I wonder if say Sapphire Toxic 7900 XTX at ~500W can beat a good 4090 most of the time.

You'd never expect any high end GPU costing less than 1000$ since the latest price hikes, but, here we are. Thank god I'm still saving up for my new rig - time to change my shopping list. 😂

I'm excited for the performance review and the GPU itself (just installed a 5800X3D in my PC). Also, with the new AV1 encoders I'd like to see a comparison on how well Radeon ReLive compares to Nvidias Shadowplay this time.

I still have a 1080Ti. I've been looking for years now to upgrade. Back when 2000 series were out for a while people said to wait for 3080, now 40 series is around the corner and the 3080 is still priced quite highly IMO. Guess I'll make the switch to the new AMD when it comes out. Only downside is that my monitor supports G-sync but I'll be able to live with that with those price differences 😂😂

Question is when gpu manufacturers are gonna put the power-connectors on the short side of the gpu and not pointing out towards the side like they are now.

I think it would be funny if EVGA started making AMD cards...these look pretty promising to me.