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PowerColor RX 7800 XT Hellhound Review

Driver Notes

  • AMD GPUs (except RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT) were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 23.8.1 driver.
  • AMD's RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 23.20.01.05 driver supplied to press.
  • All Nvidia GPUs were benchmarked with the 537.13 driver.

Results are only directly comparable where this exact configuration has been used.

Test System:

We test using a custom built system from PCSpecialist, based on Intel’s Rocket Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and configure your own PCSpecialist system HERE.

CPU
Intel Core i9-13900KS
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z790 Gaming X AX
Memory
32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5 6000MHz
Graphics Card
Varies
SSD
4TB Seagate Firecuda 530 Gen 4 PCIe NVMe
Chassis Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered Glass Gaming Case
CPU Cooler
Corsair iCUE H150i Elite RGB High Performance CPU Cooler
Power Supply
Corsair 1600W Pro Series Titanium AX1600i Digital Modular PSU
Operating System
Windows 11 22H2
Monitor
MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD
Resizable BAR
Enabled for all supported GPUs

Comparison Graphics Cards List

  • AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB
  • AMD RX 7800 XT 16GB
  • Gigabyte RX 7800 XT Gaming OC 16GB
  • PowerColor RX 7800 XT Hellhound 16GB
  • Sapphire RX 7800 XT Nitro+ 16GB
  • AMD RX 6800 XT 16GB
  • AMD RX 6800 16GB
  • AMD RX 6700 XT 12GB
  • AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
  • Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Gaming 12GB
  • Nvidia RTX 4070 FE 12GB
  • MSI RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2X 16GB
  • Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti FE 8GB
  • Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti FE 8GB

All cards were tested at reference specifications.

Software and Games List

  • 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
  • 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
  • 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test (DXR Synthetic)
  • Assassin's Creed Valhalla (DX12)
  • Control (DX12)
  • Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
  • F1 23 (DX12)
  • Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)
  • God of War (DX11)
  • Hitman 3 (DX12)
  • Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
  • The Last of Us Part 1 (DX12)
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12)
  • Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (DX12)
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 (DX12)
  • Resident Evil 4 (DX12)
  • Returnal (DX12)
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
  • Total War: Warhammer III (DX11)

We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.

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