Test Setup
Please read the information on our GPU testing procedures and methodology here. Note that our GPU Testing Bench has been upgraded to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and AM5 platform.
Note that we have the 1905 BIOS installed, which uses AGESA version Combo AM5 PI 1.1.0.2b. We are using the motherboard’s current default BIOS settings on the latest release BIOS. We have enabled PCI-Express Resizable BAR in the motherboard BIOS. This means we are utilizing Resizable BAR on NVIDIA GPUs and AMD Smart Access Memory on AMD GPUs in all our testing. We have enabled EXPO I in the BIOS for the memory.
We are using a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro with the latest Windows Updates, including the 23H2 Fall 2023 update. We have the latest drivers installed including the latest chipset drivers from AMD. We are using the “Balanced” power profile in Windows Settings. Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling is ENABLED in Windows. VBS is DISABLED and Game Mode is ENABLED.
Discussion (3 replies)
Join Discussion →Nice review. But who wants to drop $500 to play 1080p?
Exactly.. Sad state things are in.
I could see the utility for folks that are looking to have Nvidia's featureset at hand along with 16GB of VRAM... you know, if they hadn't cut the PCIe bus in half to x8. Would make sense for a lot of content creation applications on a budget. But unless you're building a new system with PCIe 4.0, you get shafted.