AMD RX 7700 XT Review ft. Sapphire Pulse

Starfield is an action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.[4] It was announced during Bethesda's E3 presentation in 2018.[4] The game takes place in a space-themed setting, and is the first new intellectual property developed by Bethesda in 29 years.[5] It is scheduled to release for Windows and Xbox Series X/S on September 6, 2023.

Engine: Creation Engine 2. We test using the Ultra preset, with FSR and VRS disabled, DX12 API.

Just before we get into our ray tracing results, as a bonus I tested just 4 GPUs in Starfield. I would have loved to test more but simply ran out of time after re-testing all the GPUs for this review with the latest drivers – but I still wanted to show performance of the new GPUs in this title.

At 1440p, the RX 7700 XT isn't able to maintain 60FPS using Ultra settings in the New Atlantis area. it is, however, on-par with the RTX 4070 despite being priced significantly lower, and it comes in 38% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. 4K is too heavy for the 7700 XT without adjusting image quality settings or enabling FSR, but performance is still on par with the RTX 4070 which is highly impressive.

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