FSR 3 Frame Generation Performance
On this page, we are going to evaluate the smoothness advantage that FSR 3 Frame Generation adds to the games that support it. *Note* that while we are reporting the average FPS (Frames Per Second) on the graph, to represent the advantage, this is not really indicative of what Frame Generation does, as it does not contribute to the input of the game, it doesn’t factor into actual performance, but rather motion smoothness. It’s not a performance booster, it’s a smoothness booster. Please keep this in mind as you read the graphed results. 
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
In Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora the XFX Mercury Radeon RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air provides 47FPS at native resolution 4K, then with FSR we gain 55% more performance and the game is playable. When we enable FSR 3 Frame Generation we gain another 79% more smoothing over just FSR upscaling.
Forspoken
In Forspoken the XFX Mercury Radeon RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air produces 83FPS at native resolution 4K. When we enable FSR that performance increases by 37%. When we enable FSR 3 Frame Generation the smoothness increases by 75% from just FSR upscaling.
In Forspoken with Ray Tracing enabled the XFX Mercury Radeon RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air produces 61FPS at native 4K resolution. When we enable FSR upscaling performance increases by 51%. When we enable FSR 3 Frame Generation we get a smoothness increase of 79%.
Discussion (5 replies)
Join Discussion →Compared to the RX 7900 XTX versions we have already reviewed (AMD RX 7900 XTX and MSI RX 7900 XTX Gaming TRIO Classic) the overclocking and gameplay are nearly identical across the board. Given the time passed and driver improvements I would bet there is little difference. At present, the XFX model reviewed is just a few frames better in most games and could be attributed to a higher power limit setting. The XFX Merc models are exceptionally well made and have excellent cooling, there is no doubt about that. The fit and finish of a Merc is equal to the MSI SUPRIM or the ASUS ROG Strix models.
To me the fan is a gimmick to ressurect a model of video card that is just not selling. Realistically, when was the last time a fan went DOA in any of your video cards? Most of us are going to sell them off and upgrade well before the fans go out. The real advantage or draw to this would be swapping the fan out for aesthetic in a vertical orientation, but there are no alternatives. Cleaning? A little compressed air even with the fan in place is no problem.
Just playing the Devil's advocate here. I'm not sure this video card should get a "10" . Maybe for design and cooling, but if I had $1000 to spend on a video card I'd have to look hard at what this card can do with Ray Tracing compared to the competition.
The last time I owned MSI or Gigabyte GPUs. It's why I don't buy models from them anymore.
LoL, I own almost exclusively MSI gpus and have not had any problems. My only gpu issues ever were both with EVGA products......one fan and one memory issue.
I'm sure I just got unlucky with the ones I owned. I think I had around 5 or 6 of them over the last decade and all of them had fan failures. Gigabyte was about 50/50 in the half a dozen or so I owned around the same time. Mostly AMD cards for MSI, but Gigabyte was Nvidia cards. Most of the Gigabyte boards during that time failed on me as well so I don't buy them anymore either.
Only blemish in my mind on MSI is them changing warranty terms after the sale on some folks that were doing crypto mining with them. Changing the warranty after sale should be illegal.