AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU proves mixed bag for content creators
Benchmarking shows new AMD graphics card can’t match Nvidia for content creation
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Content creators eyeing up the newAMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXcould be in for a disappointment.
Benchmarking theGPUacross popular content creation apps,Puget SystemsfoundAMD’s latest offering lagged below the standards set by rivalNvidia.
The results chime with our own tests, where the graphic card remains a great option forgaming PCs, but creative workload performance could best be described as “just ok”.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: Benchmarking
The team over at Puget put the GPU through its paces, running a range ofvideo editing software,VFX software, and3D modeling softwareon Team Red’s most powerful graphics card.
DaVinci Resolvewas first up. Thefree video editing softwareis well-equipped to take advantage of high-end GPUs, and it’s here where the graphics card shone.
According to Puget the 7900 XTX showed more than a 30% overall performance boost compared to the olderRadeon 6900 XT. It even edged out theNvidia GeForce RTX 4090to hit the top spot.
It also achieved high marks in the H.264/HEVC and RAW debayering tests, outperforming the 6900 XT and about on par with the RTX 4090.
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Next, the custom PC builder tried outAdobe Premiere Pro, which doesn’t make much use of GPUs as a whole. Overall, it increased performance by 22% over past AMD GPUs. However, it failed to beat the RTX 4090 or 4080, with Puget noting it was “more in line with the RTX 3080 and 3090 models.”
InAdobe After Effects, the 7900 XTX was found to be a mid-table performer. As in other tests, performance was overall superior to the 6900 XT, but couldn’t keep up with theGeForce 4080, 3090, or 4090.
Nor did the card perform well in Unreal Engine with mixed results when used alongside the top game development tool. The team found “in rasterized workloads, the 7900 XTX performs quite well, in one test nearly matching the slightly more expensive RTX 4080. But in the other rasterized test, the 7900 XTX had the lowest score of all cards tested.”
Finally, the 7900 XTX was used for 3D rendering software Blender. And it makes grim reading, with the GPU “unable to match the rendering power of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX series.” While GPU rendering showed a 70% performance increase compared to AMD’s RX 6900 XT, Nvidia’s RTX 4080 proved to be almost three times faster.
In the final analysis, Puget Systems suggested that while certain content creation workloads would benefit from the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Nvidia’s line-up remained its top choice for creators.
Steve is TechRadar Pro’s B2B Editor for Creative & Hardware. He began in tech journalism reviewing photo editors and video editing software at the magazine Web User, where he also covered technology news, features, and how-to guides. Today, he and his team of reviewers test out a range of creative software, hardware, and office furniture. Once upon a time, he wrote TV commercials and movie trailers. Relentless champion of the Oxford comma.
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