I bought the Sapphire Pulse to replace a RTX 3070. My first impression was how much louder the Pulse is compared to the MSI 3070 Gaming X Trio. Of course, the 3070 is a 220W card compared to the 320W of the 7900 XT. The MSI was dead silent (closed case) when at full load. When the Pulse passed 1400 RPM, you can hear it. If your case has average ventilation, the Pulse will definitively runs over 1600 RPM. This is noisy. Also, there is a bit of coil whine when the GPU goes over 300W. It's not bad but it's there. To remedy all this, I made a preset to run the card at 286W max. Beside that, this card runs every game at max settings / high frame rate with ease. Also, the AMD Adrenalin software is a real plus. I don't regret switching brand.
Did you undervolt it? My remedy for GPU noise is a good gaming headset with 5.1 emulated sound. And I can say my experience with the Sapphire Pulse in general, regardless of the reviews is that the noise is more obnoxious. The PowerColor models are better, and surprisingly the Asrock Challenger models are better. In fact for noise, based on my experience with RDNA 2 GPUs is the Asrock Challenger noise isn't bothersome to me at the same decibels. Probably next would be the PowerColor Red Devil/Red Dragon models. Adrenaline is wonderful, better than Nvidia's package. Instead of hard capping the power, undervolt it, boost your VRAM timings by adding about 5 - 10% and set it to fast timing, boost the power available by maybe 5% and set the fan curve. Run 3DMark tests and check your temps and clock speeds and scores. Play with that a while and you should be able to get that Pulse to where it's acceptable to you. Enable EVERYTHING for manual settings for the GPU and it gives you much better control. There's maybe 6 - 7 different toggles to turn on, and some appear after you turn on something that's already visible. Really dude, play with that software and you should get it to where you want it while still getting excellent performance.
@@z1209I2EE No, 7900 xt is better in RT games too, quite a few. It's just like...2-3 games with supe rheavy RT tech demo settings that run better on the Nvidia. But even then for this price, you can only get a 12gb card, and that's not worth it PERIOD.
Today instead of OC people prefer to do an undervolting. :) I would like to see how this card performs at 80% of the power level because most probably it could be 5% slower but use 20% less power.
Kind of weird this was omitted as it probably cuts the power use by A LOT and only loses minimal FPS. Even on NVIDIA, it seems like a thing to do if you don't want to crank it up 24/7.
Not quite the same but I have the XTX version of this card. I run at an 85% power limit and lost maybe 5% performance. I still beat the 4080 in raster and tie the 3090ti in RT performance for the games I play, and it's damn near silent. Highest draw I've seen from it was 370W in a second-long spike, but other than that it's happy at 280-310W under load.
For anyone watching 1 year later on amazon: Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD 24 Go GDDR6 - 982,46€ Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming OC 20GB GDDR6 Dual HDMI/Dual DP - 777,72€ I just purchased 7900 XT - and spent the 200€ difference on new PSU. From what I gathered online it looks like AMD did some good work on the drivers and the card is performing much better these days. And yes - if I would be able to spend more money I would get XTX but with 'limited' budget after Christmas and some amazon giftcards I got - both GPU and PSU were in my range. For anyone interested I got: Corsair RM1000x 80 PLUS Gold 1000 Watts for 154,90 €
The issue is, you should have undervolted. Even though the temps may be fine, rdna3 still requires undervolting to allow higher clock speed EVEN if you havent reached near the temp throttle limit. RDNA2 is much better when it comes to this.
RDNA 2 is now a joy to work with. I REALLY like the Adrenaline software package, and I can undervolt and OC RDNA 2 to get 3DMark score up to excellent or great pretty easily and yet the temps are STILL really good, with 85 - 90% fan speed. On some models it means some noise but on some, running at 85% is decent. You can hear it but it's not obnoxious.
@johndoh5182 I very much enjoyed overclocking my "old" 6900 xt, even though it hit pretty hot Temps. It was fun unlike the 7900xt, which throttles at 80c. Crazy.
@@johndoh51822 years after release. I wish AMD SW team was better/had more funding so they can deliver good SW at the release. Eventhought AMD cards have better SW nowadays it is still no near the quality of team Greed
I have it for a month now. It is basicly silent. Usualy sits at 75 C temp and 92 on junction temp. Havent undervolted or anything. Is future prof with 20 gigs of vram. Best feature are very good and quiet fans vs same cards of other brands
"There are no bad GPU's only bad prices" AMD should really have called it the 7800xt. It would be intersting to see if you can undervolt this a little to save power for minimal fps loss.
Idk about 7800xt. Even for the 7900xt model name it beats the predecessor 6900xt by up to 30% in performance, so I'd say naming it the 7900 is some what acceptable. Better than what nvidia is doing right now with their "4060 ti". Just wish AMD didn't hard lock their vbios like the avaricious people they are.
I own this exact 7900 XT model, and I do undervolt by about 50mv and decrease the power limit by 5%. The FPS loss isn't something you'll notice in game, but the reduction in power consumption is quite substantial depending on the game.
My guess is that AMD will release a 7950 XTX that will be in between the performance of a 4080 and a 4090 being closer to the 4090 excluding things such as ray tracing. Hopefully companies like ASROCK and Sapphire will save the day again making better cooling / overclocking card housing with not too much price difference like what happened with the 6900 xt and 6950 xt recently.
Just bought, received and installed one of these a few days ago. At stock speeds, my 7900XT Sapphire has awful Coil whine. Almost returned right away, but decided to play with the settings. Using AMD's Adrenaline tool, I settled on a Core speed of 2400Mhz Maximum and 1050mV on the top end instead of 1100mV, which effects the full voltage curve. So far, it's stable, fast, and has negligible coil whine at worst. Debating on ordering another card and swapping to see if the whine is any less, and then returning the worse of the two. I also bumped up to 2600mhz on memory clocks, but it can probably go higher. I still have to run benchmarks and compare the configuration to stock, but this seems be WAY faster than the 3070 that it replaced (Which I was running at a lock 1980Mhz Core Clock and undervolt under load) Overall, I REALLY like the AMD software, and it's miles ahead of Nvidia, surprisingly. But I already ran across one driver hiccup that is documented. One of the new Call of Duty Warzone maps has a split second hiccup every 10 seconds or so, which is pretty annoying. Otherwise, every other game I've booted has been as smooth or better than the 3070 it replaced. Watching my power consumption through the AMD tool, I'm getting similar power consumption to the 3070 with better performance. 100 to 220 watts in most cases. Some games push it up to 309 watts, even with my undervolt, but I've only seen it testing things like RT or not limiting FPS. I generally limit FPS to 100-140FPS on my FreeSync Monitor. I'd rather see a constant 100 FPS than a constant variation of 140 to 100FPS, as I find the change more noticeable than the lack of frames, if that makes sense.
Bad luck. I had a hell hound that had REALLLY loud coil wine. I read online that if you just leave the card on a main menu that is at like 1000fps (or just in the hundreds) for hours, like go outside do somehting. When you come back it'll be allot more quiet. And they were right, the card after that I couldn't even hear it, before it was actualy LOUD. I've seen others who bought your exact card, and brand. And they said it was whisper quiet. Guess you're lucky or you aren't. I wouldn't underclock it tho, 2400mhz? that's really low man. You're lossing like 6-10fps real talk. You should put that bad boy to max, leave it at max coil wine ALL day while you're out. come back and if the game didn't crash, then likely it'll be much quiet. And you'l have a nice warm room :)
@@MrExdous69 I returned it got a 4070 super. Too hot where I live, wanted a power friendly card. Max draw for me is usually around 195watts max. And I only play world of warcraft lol so anything else was a waste.
@@TheRandomDude-qy1ev tbh if all you do is play that kind of game, you could get the 3050 6gb card that doesn’t even require power from the psu. It only draws 70w and is fully powered by the mobo But mine is no louder than my system was with the Intel arc a750 or with my rx7600. I had both before my sapphire pulse rx7900xt. He either had bad luck or maybe he had a different sapphire model. They have more than 1
you can oc/uv. i have a peak @315 watts, 1040 mv, 2850 mhz max that you don't reach, 2650 memory oc. minus 10 power availability. instead of 350w+.....stock when i mean 315, it's full load whis RT enabled. you get around 2600 mhz then gpu freq
Is there really a lot of overclocking room for growth from these AIB cards when compared to FE style cards? I think what sells AIB cards these days is the brand, the size, the cooling solution and the appearance of the card. If you are counting on overclocking these AIB cards to get a significant performance boost, it seems like many will be disappointed, regardless if they are Nvidia, AMD or Intel.
Yea it's weird, I bought one for 700 bucks on Amazon but once I got it I saw the prices dropped by like 140 bucks! The nitro+ 7900xtx is also around 720 bucks right now
I'm impressed to see how much better it performs compared to the 4070 ti. Here in Brazil they're pretty much the same price, the 7900 XT being cheaper in most stores. My only concern is about noise. Is it really a quiet card? No loud fans? No coil whine?
I bought this card a few days ago. Unless you deliberately put it on high RPM settings, the card is virtually inaudible. And with proper airflow in your system there should be no reason to do that in the first place. No coil whining at all so far. I ran the card through multiple benchmarks. It's absolutely bonkers how silent it is. The last AMD card I had was a 5700XT, which in comparisson was a nightmare when it came to noise levels.
I've built an absolutely quiet (can't hear it) PC. When running, the only noise I hear is from a fan that's right in front of the card (airflow blocked). The card itself makes nothing audible. I should just move that fan...
AMD has the best software suite now, better than Nvidia's, and as the video says, you try to tweak an Nvidia GPU and you're often wasting your time. Adrenaline is set up to undervolt the GPU, at least with both RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs. You can turn down the GPU power from default, or turn it up, you can fine tune the fan curve, you can set min/max clock speeds although I don't touch the min. speed because I think that will lead to crashes, like if your GPU needs to drop the clock speed momentarily but you've set the min. too high. You can OC the VRAM and it gives more performance. Really, Adrenaline is a JOY to work with. If you have a modern AMD GPU, go into Adrenaline to Tuning and set the control to manual, enable ALL the toggles so you can manually set everything and you can play around with it to figure out the best settings for more fps or being more quiet, but undervolting is the start point. Next is setting the power control from its default to allowing more or less power depending on what you're trying to do. In 3DMark testing I can get most RDNA 2 GPUs to be rated excellent or great. That doesn't mean quiet though. I wear a gaming headset so noise isn't such a big deal. But my temps are still really good while scoring high in 3DMark and that's what I'm concerned with, temps. If you get it right you can get really good scores while keeping the fans at about 80%. That's audible, but depending on the GPU it's not obnoxious. As another said, and I assume they left the GPU defaulted, these will run quiet and so will almost any RDNA 2/3 GPU. Your temps will be higher though. When I look at the default fan curves most don't go up over something like 60 - 70%. You can set it to run quiet at the loss of some performance, you can reach a balance between the noise and performance or you can really push the GPU and the GPU will be running better that what you see in these videos. Go to the channel "Ancient Gameplays" and watch his comparison videos and you can see how much boost he gets from an undervolt/OC setup.
I understand that you've probably done the actual filming of the video a while back but I was wondering if you maybe took the dimensions on the cooler and the board itself? I have a SFX PC and I will probably need to deshroud it to put on two 120mm fans of the exhaust, was wondering if you have the dimensions 😅
I'm guessing you didn't uv the card when overclocking. Lipton in Poland got +10% fps on average, 4% over the referent and 2,85GHz clock. Then pulse 7900xt is mostly faster than 4080 stock. Dying light 2 does +21% fps and reaches 60fps with ray tracing and fsr2q. I'm guessing that is the advantage you've expected to find. OC+UV is your difference.
Unfortunately, that's how it is with rdna3. Even with low temps they still make you UV to allow for higher clock speeds. Totally unnecessary on AMD's part.
It's a €200 (~23%) difference between Sapphire Pulse XT and XTX cards. So basically 1:1 price to performance increase. I guess one should choose cards based on what performance they want and not price. Prices suck for all new releases.
U mean Merc 310? It's great card.. but it's extra huge (headache to most cases) I found it around $800 ($920 with Tax) but most mid-tower people will prefer 290m to 320m GPUs Merc 310 is around 345m (375m) with it's GPU holder.. which might need full-tower space Also, RAM sticks will get hot with extra huge GPUs, because it will blow hot air on rams (already seen this issue with my 6800xt with it's 310m length)
@MemoriesAreLost Lol.. who knows.. if the Nvidia & AMD war continues with higher wattage (plus the 3rd player around the neighborhood "Intel) We might see 290m GPU with a truck size heatsink xD
i had the 7900XT Pulse ,and i can say that the card stay cool under laod 60 C and 76 junction temp,work perfect ,but just cant stand the coil whine ,ive try to undervolt the card i lower the clock speed to 2400 just then the whine disapire but whats the point having a card like this and do this .. realy had high hopes for it but had to return it as the noise was unabarable espacialy when you play night time when is quite and 1 last thing as the fans are quite at 1800 RPM but anything more sound like a get engine ,they can readch 3500 RPM
@@nabilhamza71 i end up get nothning and stick wiht my 3070 is good for what i need at the moment ,still can play modern games jut not on max settings ,i think to spend all this money for a graphics card and have a coil wine is terrible ,for some people maybe not but when you play in quite room and want your pc to be silence and have this wine chaning all the time wiht what happens on the screen is bad ,ill skip this generation maybe next one ,definetly 4070 /4070ti is not a good choice wiht that less VRM ,NVIDIA again think only for the money .they know that 2k resolutiuon on max settings already use 11k on some games but stll they dont want to give to people good afordable card,dotn want to speak about cards over 1k beause thats crazy .
My son is worried he bought this card today on Amazon. I stopped pc gaming 5 years ago. Is this a good purchase, he is going to the new amd platform. His first build at 18 years old. I don't mind as I did the same when I was 18 but he was a new born.
Is it maybe silicone lottery? Another Reviewer had way higher differences between the reference and the Pulse. As for spending money, rather on Sapphire who makes great products compared to AMD who went along with the price hike.
I feel Nvidia should’ve created standard models and all Ti variants should come with a higher power limit as they’re charging;g noticeably more for their designs….. the same sorta thing should apply to AMD as well giving AIBs the opportunity to distinguish themselves apart from Nvidia / AMD and adding value to the customers choice …. Imo anyways.
But more than 85 degrees of junction temperature isn't it too much i thought there was some problem with my Rx6600 when it was also touching peak temp of 85 degrees junction but it seems like it's same with evey sapphire model
I made the same comment in the main thread. I tweaked mine to run at 286W max (-10% power). I also tweaked my case fans to run at higher speed under load. I suspect that most reviewers test those cards with an open bench / case. That help a lot compared to a close case.
Why "Reference" have similar temps even while it's have smaller dimensions? simple.. Because it's runs fans 15% louder, also have lower electricity (less volts = less heat) Saphire Pulse have bigger heatsink, lower temps & VRAM temps, lower speed fans, & can go up to 365w (Reference is 310w) So yeah.. Saphire Pulse is better.. the funny thing is Saphire Pulse model is 5% cheaper compared to Reference design lol Note: With 50- undervolts.. it's might go up to slightly higher clocks, or same clock but with slighltly less volts Undervolt can lead to high OC in AMD cards (at least that's what I seen in my 6800XT)
I see so many comments talking crap about this card. Saying it should be the 7800xt. Did you people not watch the video? It beats out a 4080 in most games. WtF are you people smoking? I want some
This seems to be an exclusive to US choice at least right now. Comparing Pulse to Pulse, the 7900XT is $1300Cad. The 7900XTX is $1370. When you convert Cad to US, that's $1000 US for XTX, $970 US for XT. I'm under the impression that US prices might bleed in to Canada (and the rest of the world) soon. Canada is now seeing $600 6800's. They were always in the $800+ bracket. Time will tell.
Not sure where you're looking in Canada, but Canada Computers has all their XTs under $1200 CDN... the Pulse XT is Actually $1199 right now, and actually the better MERC Black 7900XT was on sale last week for $1099 after $40 coupon, lol... today it's $1139.
@@reng.5934 They have an XT that popped up the day I made this comment, for $1099 Cad. ($800 US) I don't know if it's limited time or if it's a new price for Canada but that puts the XT where it "should" be.
I have this GPU inside of a Fractal Design Meshify C and boy is she thicc. Between the end of the GPU and a case mounted fan I have roughly 1mm of space in between lol
![Sapphire RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ Review [Overclocking | Power | Thermals]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWtdWczjFdo/mqdefault.jpg)
I bought the Sapphire Pulse to replace a RTX 3070. My first impression was how much louder the Pulse is compared to the MSI 3070 Gaming X Trio. Of course, the 3070 is a 220W card compared to the 320W of the 7900 XT. The MSI was dead silent (closed case) when at full load. When the Pulse passed 1400 RPM, you can hear it. If your case has average ventilation, the Pulse will definitively runs over 1600 RPM. This is noisy. Also, there is a bit of coil whine when the GPU goes over 300W. It's not bad but it's there. To remedy all this, I made a preset to run the card at 286W max. Beside that, this card runs every game at max settings / high frame rate with ease. Also, the AMD Adrenalin software is a real plus. I don't regret switching brand.
Should’ve stayed with nvidia
@@z1209I2EE for less performance?
@@KG-kp3le not in rt or when u use dlss
Did you undervolt it?
My remedy for GPU noise is a good gaming headset with 5.1 emulated sound.
And I can say my experience with the Sapphire Pulse in general, regardless of the reviews is that the noise is more obnoxious. The PowerColor models are better, and surprisingly the Asrock Challenger models are better. In fact for noise, based on my experience with RDNA 2 GPUs is the Asrock Challenger noise isn't bothersome to me at the same decibels. Probably next would be the PowerColor Red Devil/Red Dragon models.
Adrenaline is wonderful, better than Nvidia's package. Instead of hard capping the power, undervolt it, boost your VRAM timings by adding about 5 - 10% and set it to fast timing, boost the power available by maybe 5% and set the fan curve. Run 3DMark tests and check your temps and clock speeds and scores. Play with that a while and you should be able to get that Pulse to where it's acceptable to you. Enable EVERYTHING for manual settings for the GPU and it gives you much better control. There's maybe 6 - 7 different toggles to turn on, and some appear after you turn on something that's already visible.
Really dude, play with that software and you should get it to where you want it while still getting excellent performance.
@@z1209I2EE No, 7900 xt is better in RT games too, quite a few. It's just like...2-3 games with supe rheavy RT tech demo settings that run better on the Nvidia.
But even then for this price, you can only get a 12gb card, and that's not worth it PERIOD.
Today instead of OC people prefer to do an undervolting. :)
I would like to see how this card performs at 80% of the power level because most probably it could be 5% slower but use 20% less power.
Kind of weird this was omitted as it probably cuts the power use by A LOT and only loses minimal FPS. Even on NVIDIA, it seems like a thing to do if you don't want to crank it up 24/7.
Not quite the same but I have the XTX version of this card. I run at an 85% power limit and lost maybe 5% performance. I still beat the 4080 in raster and tie the 3090ti in RT performance for the games I play, and it's damn near silent. Highest draw I've seen from it was 370W in a second-long spike, but other than that it's happy at 280-310W under load.
Love my Sapphire 7900 XTX Nitro... the RGB makes it go faster :D
For anyone watching 1 year later on amazon:
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD 24 Go GDDR6 - 982,46€
Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming OC 20GB GDDR6 Dual HDMI/Dual DP - 777,72€
I just purchased 7900 XT - and spent the 200€ difference on new PSU.
From what I gathered online it looks like AMD did some good work on the drivers and the card is performing much better these days.
And yes - if I would be able to spend more money I would get XTX but with 'limited' budget after Christmas and some amazon giftcards I got - both GPU and PSU were in my range.
For anyone interested I got: Corsair RM1000x 80 PLUS Gold 1000 Watts for 154,90 €
The issue is, you should have undervolted. Even though the temps may be fine, rdna3 still requires undervolting to allow higher clock speed EVEN if you havent reached near the temp throttle limit. RDNA2 is much better when it comes to this.
RDNA 2 is now a joy to work with. I REALLY like the Adrenaline software package, and I can undervolt and OC RDNA 2 to get 3DMark score up to excellent or great pretty easily and yet the temps are STILL really good, with 85 - 90% fan speed. On some models it means some noise but on some, running at 85% is decent. You can hear it but it's not obnoxious.
@johndoh5182 I very much enjoyed overclocking my "old" 6900 xt, even though it hit pretty hot Temps. It was fun unlike the 7900xt, which throttles at 80c. Crazy.
@@johndoh51822 years after release. I wish AMD SW team was better/had more funding so they can deliver good SW at the release. Eventhought AMD cards have better SW nowadays it is still no near the quality of team Greed
Every over 40% fan speed is too loud on the 7900xt. You don't wan't a hair dryer on your desk.
What do you think of the Sapphire Pulse range of cards?
Its fine. Perfectly happy with my reference card tho.
I have it for a month now. It is basicly silent. Usualy sits at 75 C temp and 92 on junction temp. Havent undervolted or anything. Is future prof with 20 gigs of vram. Best feature are very good and quiet fans vs same cards of other brands
Perfect balance between decent cooling, decent price, and SILENCE.
How about overclock + undervolt?
Late to the game.. About to pull the trigger on one... What are the noise levels compared to a, reference model
Wow, how did you get that giant case to make that promo?
"There are no bad GPU's only bad prices" AMD should really have called it the 7800xt. It would be intersting to see if you can undervolt this a little to save power for minimal fps loss.
100%
Idk about 7800xt. Even for the 7900xt model name it beats the predecessor 6900xt by up to 30% in performance, so I'd say naming it the 7900 is some what acceptable. Better than what nvidia is doing right now with their "4060 ti". Just wish AMD didn't hard lock their vbios like the avaricious people they are.
I own this exact 7900 XT model, and I do undervolt by about 50mv and decrease the power limit by 5%. The FPS loss isn't something you'll notice in game, but the reduction in power consumption is quite substantial depending on the game.
@@venatorxtemps?
My guess is that AMD will release a 7950 XTX that will be in between the performance of a 4080 and a 4090 being closer to the 4090 excluding things such as ray tracing. Hopefully companies like ASROCK and Sapphire will save the day again making better cooling / overclocking card housing with not too much price difference like what happened with the 6900 xt and 6950 xt recently.
Just bought, received and installed one of these a few days ago. At stock speeds, my 7900XT Sapphire has awful Coil whine. Almost returned right away, but decided to play with the settings. Using AMD's Adrenaline tool, I settled on a Core speed of 2400Mhz Maximum and 1050mV on the top end instead of 1100mV, which effects the full voltage curve. So far, it's stable, fast, and has negligible coil whine at worst. Debating on ordering another card and swapping to see if the whine is any less, and then returning the worse of the two. I also bumped up to 2600mhz on memory clocks, but it can probably go higher.
I still have to run benchmarks and compare the configuration to stock, but this seems be WAY faster than the 3070 that it replaced (Which I was running at a lock 1980Mhz Core Clock and undervolt under load)
Overall, I REALLY like the AMD software, and it's miles ahead of Nvidia, surprisingly. But I already ran across one driver hiccup that is documented. One of the new Call of Duty Warzone maps has a split second hiccup every 10 seconds or so, which is pretty annoying. Otherwise, every other game I've booted has been as smooth or better than the 3070 it replaced.
Watching my power consumption through the AMD tool, I'm getting similar power consumption to the 3070 with better performance. 100 to 220 watts in most cases. Some games push it up to 309 watts, even with my undervolt, but I've only seen it testing things like RT or not limiting FPS. I generally limit FPS to 100-140FPS on my FreeSync Monitor. I'd rather see a constant 100 FPS than a constant variation of 140 to 100FPS, as I find the change more noticeable than the lack of frames, if that makes sense.
Bad luck.
I had a hell hound that had REALLLY loud coil wine. I read online that if you just leave the card on a main menu that is at like 1000fps (or just in the hundreds) for hours, like go outside do somehting. When you come back it'll be allot more quiet.
And they were right, the card after that I couldn't even hear it, before it was actualy LOUD.
I've seen others who bought your exact card, and brand. And they said it was whisper quiet. Guess you're lucky or you aren't. I wouldn't underclock it tho, 2400mhz? that's really low man. You're lossing like 6-10fps real talk.
You should put that bad boy to max, leave it at max coil wine ALL day while you're out.
come back and if the game didn't crash, then likely it'll be much quiet. And you'l have a nice warm room :)
You must of gotten a bad fan or something. I have this exact card on stock settings and it’s near silent. It’s not significantly louder than my rx7600
@@MrExdous69 I returned it got a 4070 super. Too hot where I live, wanted a power friendly card. Max draw for me is usually around 195watts max.
And I only play world of warcraft lol so anything else was a waste.
@@TheRandomDude-qy1ev tbh if all you do is play that kind of game, you could get the 3050 6gb card that doesn’t even require power from the psu. It only draws 70w and is fully powered by the mobo
But mine is no louder than my system was with the Intel arc a750 or with my rx7600. I had both before my sapphire pulse rx7900xt. He either had bad luck or maybe he had a different sapphire model. They have more than 1
@@MrExdous69 no I needed the 4070 super cause I wanted to do 120 4k.
And it does it very well. for wow
Love this card! absolutely fantastic card.
you can oc/uv.
i have a peak @315 watts, 1040 mv, 2850 mhz max that you don't reach, 2650 memory oc. minus 10 power availability.
instead of 350w+.....stock
when i mean 315, it's full load whis RT enabled. you get around 2600 mhz then gpu freq
Is there really a lot of overclocking room for growth from these AIB cards when compared to FE style cards? I think what sells AIB cards these days is the brand, the size, the cooling solution and the appearance of the card. If you are counting on overclocking these AIB cards to get a significant performance boost, it seems like many will be disappointed, regardless if they are Nvidia, AMD or Intel.
Just bought one brand new for 555 on amazon. I'm pretty sure it was a mistake by Amazon but the deal was too good to resist.
Yea it's weird, I bought one for 700 bucks on Amazon but once I got it I saw the prices dropped by like 140 bucks! The nitro+ 7900xtx is also around 720 bucks right now
I saw the same deal, but I think it was a scam. They cancelled my order lol
Also kudos for the effort in the sponsor spot .... Very "I shrunk the kids"
I'm impressed to see how much better it performs compared to the 4070 ti. Here in Brazil they're pretty much the same price, the 7900 XT being cheaper in most stores. My only concern is about noise. Is it really a quiet card? No loud fans? No coil whine?
I bought this card a few days ago. Unless you deliberately put it on high RPM settings, the card is virtually inaudible. And with proper airflow in your system there should be no reason to do that in the first place. No coil whining at all so far.
I ran the card through multiple benchmarks. It's absolutely bonkers how silent it is. The last AMD card I had was a 5700XT, which in comparisson was a nightmare when it came to noise levels.
I've built an absolutely quiet (can't hear it) PC.
When running, the only noise I hear is from a fan that's right in front of the card (airflow blocked). The card itself makes nothing audible.
I should just move that fan...
AMD has the best software suite now, better than Nvidia's, and as the video says, you try to tweak an Nvidia GPU and you're often wasting your time.
Adrenaline is set up to undervolt the GPU, at least with both RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs.
You can turn down the GPU power from default, or turn it up, you can fine tune the fan curve, you can set min/max clock speeds although I don't touch the min. speed because I think that will lead to crashes, like if your GPU needs to drop the clock speed momentarily but you've set the min. too high.
You can OC the VRAM and it gives more performance.
Really, Adrenaline is a JOY to work with. If you have a modern AMD GPU, go into Adrenaline to Tuning and set the control to manual, enable ALL the toggles so you can manually set everything and you can play around with it to figure out the best settings for more fps or being more quiet, but undervolting is the start point. Next is setting the power control from its default to allowing more or less power depending on what you're trying to do.
In 3DMark testing I can get most RDNA 2 GPUs to be rated excellent or great. That doesn't mean quiet though. I wear a gaming headset so noise isn't such a big deal. But my temps are still really good while scoring high in 3DMark and that's what I'm concerned with, temps. If you get it right you can get really good scores while keeping the fans at about 80%. That's audible, but depending on the GPU it's not obnoxious.
As another said, and I assume they left the GPU defaulted, these will run quiet and so will almost any RDNA 2/3 GPU. Your temps will be higher though. When I look at the default fan curves most don't go up over something like 60 - 70%.
You can set it to run quiet at the loss of some performance, you can reach a balance between the noise and performance or you can really push the GPU and the GPU will be running better that what you see in these videos.
Go to the channel "Ancient Gameplays" and watch his comparison videos and you can see how much boost he gets from an undervolt/OC setup.
2:33 and 3:52 thermal pads don't cover the vrm as they should. Haven't seen this with any other Sapphire card :/
I understand that you've probably done the actual filming of the video a while back but I was wondering if you maybe took the dimensions on the cooler and the board itself? I have a SFX PC and I will probably need to deshroud it to put on two 120mm fans of the exhaust, was wondering if you have the dimensions 😅
+1
Do all 4 ports enabled for 4 similtanous monitors at the same time?
I'm guessing you didn't uv the card when overclocking. Lipton in Poland got +10% fps on average, 4% over the referent and 2,85GHz clock. Then pulse 7900xt is mostly faster than 4080 stock. Dying light 2 does +21% fps and reaches 60fps with ray tracing and fsr2q. I'm guessing that is the advantage you've expected to find. OC+UV is your difference.
Unfortunately, that's how it is with rdna3. Even with low temps they still make you UV to allow for higher clock speeds. Totally unnecessary on AMD's part.
I have the Msi Rx7900xt Gaming trio. I love this card. My first ever high end card !! i had a 3060 12gb before. So glad i upgraded!
i have the Sapphire 7900 XT Pulse coming from a ASUS STRIX GTX 980 i like the card so far
@drakesjamal I still own 2 MSI GeForce GTX 970s. won't part with them, own a Rx 590 sapphire pulse too. and my back up card is a 12 gig rtx 3060 lol.
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It's a €200 (~23%) difference between Sapphire Pulse XT and XTX cards. So basically 1:1 price to performance increase. I guess one should choose cards based on what performance they want and not price. Prices suck for all new releases.
I had ordered 7900xt sapphire nitro+ and paid the extra 250 to go the XTX, think i made the right decision
@eTeknix Would you go for this or the XFX Merc Black XT? OR... go to the XTX (Pulse or Gaming OC, same price here, but $200 more than XT)
1:50, the 3 fans are actually spinning the same direction on this card though
I was desperately looking for this comment, thank you. Those fans are NOT contra rotation.
13600k with 7900xt is the cooler master sfx 850v gold full modular enough for this combo?
4070Ti is a joke compared to this card .
Worse raster performance
8GB less Vram
Slightly more expensive
Yet all the Nvidia fans keep defending the 12gb VRAM, in 2023 this is not acceptable for high textures at 1440p,
here the 4070ti is much more expensive and considering it even loses in some games with ray tracing on, there's no reason to buy it
I have an itx case. Nr200 I just need to know if sapphire was actually quieter. I care more about noise
XFX's speedster looks pretty slick. wonder if it would fare any differently next to the reference
U mean Merc 310?
It's great card.. but it's extra huge (headache to most cases)
I found it around $800 ($920 with Tax) but most mid-tower people will prefer 290m to 320m GPUs
Merc 310 is around 345m (375m) with it's GPU holder.. which might need full-tower space
Also, RAM sticks will get hot with extra huge GPUs, because it will blow hot air on rams (already seen this issue with my 6800xt with it's 310m length)
@@Jack_Sparrow131 There's a big difference in measurements between a single "m" and two "mm"s, but it would be very daft to assume you mean metres 😅
@MemoriesAreLost Lol.. who knows.. if the Nvidia & AMD war continues with higher wattage (plus the 3rd player around the neighborhood "Intel)
We might see 290m GPU with a truck size heatsink xD
Hi.. Thanks for video... What is the thickness of termal pad
i had the 7900XT Pulse ,and i can say that the card stay cool under laod 60 C and 76 junction temp,work perfect ,but just cant stand the coil whine ,ive try to undervolt the card i lower the clock speed to 2400 just then the whine disapire but whats the point having a card like this and do this .. realy had high hopes for it but had to return it as the noise was unabarable espacialy when you play night time when is quite and 1 last thing as the fans are quite at 1800 RPM but anything more sound like a get engine ,they can readch 3500 RPM
what did you get instead
@@nabilhamza71 i end up get nothning and stick wiht my 3070 is good for what i need at the moment ,still can play modern games jut not on max settings ,i think to spend all this money for a graphics card and have a coil wine is terrible ,for some people maybe not but when you play in quite room and want your pc to be silence and have this wine chaning all the time wiht what happens on the screen is bad ,ill skip this generation maybe next one ,definetly 4070 /4070ti is not a good choice wiht that less VRM ,NVIDIA again think only for the money .they know that 2k resolutiuon on max settings already use 11k on some games but stll they dont want to give to people good afordable card,dotn want to speak about cards over 1k beause thats crazy .
My son is worried he bought this card today on Amazon. I stopped pc gaming 5 years ago.
Is this a good purchase, he is going to the new amd platform. His first build at 18 years old. I don't mind as I did the same when I was 18 but he was a new born.
its one of the best graphics cards out there currently. manufacturer of the card shouldn't matter as long as there's no actual issues.
What is the thickness of thermal pads?
I have a question. Is a rx 7900xt good with a 7900x?
of course
Get the 7600x or 7700
Is it maybe silicone lottery? Another Reviewer had way higher differences between the reference and the Pulse.
As for spending money, rather on Sapphire who makes great products compared to AMD who went along with the price hike.
I feel Nvidia should’ve created standard models and all Ti variants should come with a higher power limit as they’re charging;g noticeably more for their designs….. the same sorta thing should apply to AMD as well giving AIBs the opportunity to distinguish themselves apart from Nvidia / AMD and adding value to the customers choice …. Imo anyways.
I just bought this along with a EK water block. So fans and stock cooling isn’t a factor
But more than 85 degrees of junction temperature isn't it too much i thought there was some problem with my Rx6600 when it was also touching peak temp of 85 degrees junction but it seems like it's same with evey sapphire model
Is it simple to deshroud the card?
Hello everyone ! I found this exact model on amazon for 400 dollars new. Is it even possible that it is not a scam ?
Weird to see this review based on the launch proce when you can get it today for $670
Anyone know what mm thickness pads this card have?
750 w is good enough for this videocard?
yes
Yup
Its the card that i have, its ok but just a lil noisy when gaming at full load
I made the same comment in the main thread. I tweaked mine to run at 286W max (-10% power). I also tweaked my case fans to run at higher speed under load. I suspect that most reviewers test those cards with an open bench / case. That help a lot compared to a close case.
Anyone know if the 7900XTX version have the same PCB?
People moan about this card but you can buy this card AND one for your best mate for less than the 4090
O ile można obniżyć pobór prądu tej karty bez underwoltingu tylko o W
Why "Reference" have similar temps even while it's have smaller dimensions? simple..
Because it's runs fans 15% louder, also have lower electricity (less volts = less heat)
Saphire Pulse have bigger heatsink, lower temps & VRAM temps, lower speed fans, & can go up to 365w (Reference is 310w)
So yeah.. Saphire Pulse is better.. the funny thing is Saphire Pulse model is 5% cheaper compared to Reference design lol
Note:
With 50- undervolts.. it's might go up to slightly higher clocks, or same clock but with slighltly less volts
Undervolt can lead to high OC in AMD cards (at least that's what I seen in my 6800XT)
Well, Newegg US has this Card priced at $720 US as of 7/10/23. Much nicer Price/Performance!
How loud is fan noise?
The top cover of my graphics card is very hot, is it normal? Plss
Question, since you didn't say, are the temps from default fan curve?
In europe past month there was the asus tuf (monster with rgb) with 80 euros cashback that made it a nice deal of around 770 euros after cashback
I see so many comments talking crap about this card. Saying it should be the 7800xt. Did you people not watch the video? It beats out a 4080 in most games. WtF are you people smoking? I want some
Coil whine?
This seems to be an exclusive to US choice at least right now.
Comparing Pulse to Pulse, the 7900XT is $1300Cad. The 7900XTX is $1370. When you convert Cad to US, that's $1000 US for XTX, $970 US for XT.
I'm under the impression that US prices might bleed in to Canada (and the rest of the world) soon. Canada is now seeing $600 6800's. They were always in the $800+ bracket. Time will tell.
Not sure where you're looking in Canada, but Canada Computers has all their XTs under $1200 CDN... the Pulse XT is Actually $1199 right now, and actually the better MERC Black 7900XT was on sale last week for $1099 after $40 coupon, lol... today it's $1139.
Also CC has their XTX mostly under $1399 actually, but the Sakura and Vapor-X are over $1500.
@@reng.5934 They have an XT that popped up the day I made this comment, for $1099 Cad. ($800 US)
I don't know if it's limited time or if it's a new price for Canada but that puts the XT where it "should" be.
@@OcihEvE yeah that was the XFX Merc Black XT, had the $40 coupon.
@@reng.5934 Actually it's a Newegg listing for 1099. It's an MSI Gaming trio card.
ffs, why would they kill the type-c...
3100?
Silicon lottery. Either way the XT is still a great card going into 2025.
I have this GPU inside of a Fractal Design Meshify C and boy is she thicc. Between the end of the GPU and a case mounted fan I have roughly 1mm of space in between lol
Worth it for 500$?
Yes!!! Where did you find one for $500??
Is that even a question
You didn't properly overclock it, you have undervolt the card or you're going nowhere fast.
This card is dead quiet, should had tested the sound you would see a huge difference
GPUs these days are a lottery. You can have super quiet fans and then super noticeable coil whine which is unacceptable
I just bought one for £699.
Nope. I'd prefer the extra C port. Sim games use a lot of peripherals.
Went with a sapphire 7900xtx nitro+ and am so blown away by this thing...7900xt at its price makes zero sense.
At it's current price it makes sense. only cost me 699 for mine at microcenter.
I’d buy it at $649.
память горячая.
why not test the nitro + vapor-x , the pulse is useless , it is the cheapest sapphire card
Performance too close to the 6800xt-6950xt to make any sense. This needed to launch at $599.
i hope every one got house insurance becouse the gpu keeps frying tho from the 8 pins 🤯🤯
This card can be found on Amazon at a price of $699. Is this card worth $699?
Absolutely!
Yes
It's $624 on newegg
@@JahonCross I know. Now I'm waiting for 7900 XTX to be $799