AMD reveals first RX 7900 XT game benchmarks

While AMD announced the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards earlier this month, we didn't get a ton of game benchmarks. Today, AMD has updated its press deck with new benchmarks, including the first in-game performance results for the upcoming RX 7900 XT. 

There are two new slides to look at. The first, offers a comparison between the RX 6950 XT, RX 7900 XT and the RX 7900 XTX, all running games at 4K with the highest settings enabled:

In these four benchmarks we get a better look at the gen-on-gen performance increase to expect from AMD's new high-end GPUs. While the RX 6950 XT could garner 43 FPS at 4K with max settings, the RX 7900 XT manages 60 FPS and the XTX goes a step further, averaging 72 FPS in AMD's benchmark tests.

The second slide gives us a look at ray-tracing performance, which is an area AMD is looking to significantly improve with RDNA 3, which features new ray-accelerating hardware:

The chart includes performance numbers with FSR both on and off. Judging by these benchmarks, you are still going to want to use upscaling techniques to save on performance when turning RT effects all the way up. Of the four games tested here, Resident Evil Village performs the best, but that offers more limited ray traced effects, which are less expensive to run compared to the effects you'll find in Cyberpunk 2077 and Hitman 3, which use global illumination and reflections too.

AMD's new graphics cards are set to launch in December, so expect to see a range of reviews around then too.

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