In-Game Benchmarks

Now we finally get into the in game performance and that is the main reason people pick up a new video card. To test things out I ran through our new benchmark suite that tests 10 games at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4k). Most of the games tested have been run at the highest detail setting and a mid-range detail setting to get a look at how turning things up hurts performance and to give an idea of if turning detail down from max will be beneficial for frame rates. In total, each video card is tested 54 times and that makes for a huge mess of results when you put them all together. To help with that I like to start with these overall playability graphs that take all of the results and give an easier-to-read result. I have one for each of the three resolutions and each is broken up into four FPS ranges. Under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, over 30 is playable but not ideal, over 60 is the sweet spot, and then over 120 FPS is for high refresh rate monitors.

Like with the RTX 4080, RTX 4090, and the 7900 XTX the Radeon RX 7900 XT blasted through all of the tests at 1080p and 1440p with all of those results coming in at 120 FPS or significantly higher so it's only the 4K performance that we are focusing on today. That’s because 4K is the only results where some were below 120 FPS, even still only half were below it and those were all still above 60 FPS. This matches the RTX 4080’s results and is one less than the 7900 XTX.

Of course, I have all of the actual in game results as well for anyone who wants to sort through the wall of graphs below. The Radeon RX 7900 XT has a little more variation on where it is in the graphs than the 7900 XTX. In some tests like Borderlands, the 7900 XT came in below the 3090 Ti but then in others like Far Cry and Ghost Recon the 7900 XT outperformed the RTX 4080. On average though it came in behind the RTX 4080 but ahead of last year's flagship the RTX 3090 Ti. The 4K ghost recon result also shows up just how close it came to matching the 7900 XTX in the graphs above with that result being just 1 FPS short. 1080p and 1440p are both showing signs of being limited by the CPU. Overall the 7900 XT is going to give you no issues with anything at 1080p or 1440p with ultra-high refresh rates and even at 4K everything is going to be smooth and some are high refresh rate capable as well.