AMD RX 7800 XT Review

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.

It's undoubtedly a GPU-heavy game, and at 1440p the RX 7800 XT barely averaged over 60FPS in New Atlantis. That's still a huge leap ahead of the RTX 4070 though, to the tune of 25% at Ultra settings.

It's about the same margin ahead at 4K too, though the 7800 XT is only delivering 40FPS here, so you'd want to lower the settings or enable upscaling if you plan on using this GPU at 4K.

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