In-Game Benchmarks

Now we finally get into the in game performance and that is the main reason people pick up a new video card. To test things out I ran through our new benchmark suite that tests 10 games at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4k). Most of the games tested have been run at the highest detail setting and a mid-range detail setting to get a look at how turning things up hurts performance and to give an idea of if turning detail down from max will be beneficial for frame rates. In total, each video card is tested 54 times and that makes for a huge mess of results when you put them all together. To help with that I like to start with these overall playability graphs that take all of the results and give an easier-to-read result. I have one for each of the three resolutions and each is broken up into four FPS ranges. Under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, over 30 is playable but not ideal, over 60 is the sweet spot, and then over 120 FPS is for high refresh rate monitors.

So how did the 7900 XTX do? Well much like with the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 the 7900 XTX completely dominates all of the tests at 1080p and 1440p with both with every result running at over 120 FPS and most significantly higher than that. It's only at 4k that we can see any differences. The 7900 XTX had 9 of the 4k results at over 120 FPS and 7 at over 60 FPS which means everything was still smooth but a majority of the results can be played on a high refresh rate 4K display. For comparison with the 4080 Founders Edition came in at 8 and 8 meaning the 7900 XTX improved performance enough to take one result up over 120 FPS that the 4080 didn’t do.

Of course, I have all of the actual in game results as well for anyone who wants to sort through the wall of graphs below. Everything is sorted by 4K as that is the only important result, at 1080p and 1440p we see significant performance drops from being CPU limited at these performance levels. There were a few interesting results at the lower resolutions like in World War Z which had a huge drop in performance at 1080p and 1440p compared to anything else at the top of the charts. I don’t know if there is a driver issue potentially causing that. Overall though the 7900 XTX is consistently ahead of both RTX 4080’s with it being ahead in 13 out of 16 results.