ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT Phantom Gaming 16 GB Graphics Card Review – The Best $500 GPU!

After a long wait, AMD finally released its high-end Radeon RX 7000 GPU offerings which include the Radeon RX 7800 XT. The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT makes use of the latest Navi 32 GPU that is packing a chipset design and aims to secure the $500 US marketplace. With the new card, AMD is targeting the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and replacing its own RX 6800 XT graphics cards.

For this review of the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card, ASRock sent us its flagship Phantom Gaming variant which comes with a factory overclock and retails for just $30 US more which is very decent considering the custom-cooler offers triple-fan cooling and a custom cooling design. But is the card itself worth the price against the competition, let's find out!

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is one of the two RDNA 3 GPUs launched earlier this month that comes with the Navi 32 GPU. This graphics card is aimed at Enthusiast-Class 1440P gaming and features all the goodies that you'd expect from the Radeon software suite.

In terms of specifications, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card features 60 Compute Units or 3840 stream processors. The graphics card reaches up to 2430 Hz boost clocks which can provide up to 37 TFLOPs of FP32 Compute horsepower. There are also 60 RT Accelerator cores, 120 AI accelerator units, and 96 ROPs for this specific Navi 32 SKU. The graphics chip features a TBP of 263W.

Memory specifications include 16 GB GDDR6 memory which operates at pin speeds of up to 19.5 Gbps across a 256-bit wide bus interface. This provides the card with 624 GB/s but there's also 64 MB of Infinity Cache which provides increased effective bandwidth. The graphics card features a brand-new dual-slot and dual-fan reference cooling solution along with custom variants.

In terms of official performance figures, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card is said to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB solution. It offers up to 23% better performance & 3.5% average performance bump over its competition. The card excels in standard rasterization performance but ends up slower when ray tracing is involved. The testing was done by AMD itself & the RT titles that were used are mostly favorable to RDNA 3 hardware with the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 & Hogwarts Legacy not shown with RT enabled.

Once again, AMD aims the Radeon RX 7800 XT as a graphics card that offers 60+ FPS on average across a range of AAA titles when running at 1440P (natively) and maxed settings. The card offers more VRAM and should tackle the RTX 4070 competitively but in terms of efficiency and features, NVIDIA might be a big step ahead, especially when it offers similar performance at -24% lower GPU power while supporting next-gen features such as DLSS 3.5.

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is available starting at $499 US and comes with a bundled copy of Starfield Premium Edition which is worth $100 US.

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