Igor’s Lab has shared a set of benchmarks that demonstrate how the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT might perform versus its siblings and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPUs when it inevitably releases. According to the benchmarks, which are simulated, the Radeon RX 7800 XT will deliver a level of performance that sits between the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and Radeon RX 6800 XT in the realm of 4K, offering greater frame rates than the GeForce RTX 4070. “Sim.” (red bar) corresponds to “the benchmarked Radeon Pro W7800 with half the memory,” while “calc.” (yellow bar) was “extrapolated based on the efficiency of an RX 7900XT (Watts per FPS), which yields quite plausible results,” author Igor Wallossek explained.
From an Igor’s Lab report:
Now, of course, everyone will ask why AMD hasn’t brought the Radeon RX 7800XT yet. According to my projections, it would pretty much fit between a GeForce RTX 4070 and the RTX 4070 Ti – without any real competition from NVIDIA. Actually, something like that is an ideal case, if two things wouldn’t speak against it. AMD’s biggest problem is the overstock of the Radeon RX 6800(XT) and RX 6900XT. The Radeon Pro W7800 tested today is a card trimmed for efficiency, which sorts itself exactly between these two cards.
AMD could therefore bring a very efficient card on the performance level of an RX 6800XT or even leave the RX 6900XT behind with a small energetic crowbar. Only, one would harm oneself with this kind of cannibalization. The prices anyway. After all, who would buy a more expensive RX 7800XT when the older cards are available at a low price right now? Today’s projection clearly shows where the possible performance window is. In principle, the Radeon RX 7800XT would be the ideal filler for the huge gap between the two NVIDIA cards. Only, unfortunately, one stands in one’s own way here.
