AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT/7700 XT review vs RTX 4070/4060 Ti

So far, the RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT have expectedly trailed in the RT benchmarks, though upscaling narrows the gap somewhat. Now it's time to move onto rasterisation, where we expect AMD to deliver far more impressive results - and make the case for its latest RDNA 3 cards as raster value champions.

Owing to the way users may be jumping around our benchmarking pages, you may be missing out on an explainer of how our benchmarking system presents. Our system offers a number of ways to get to the data you want, the presentation varying according to the device you're using. You'll get a basic overview of our findings on mobile, with metadata from the video capture of each GPU being translated into simple bar charts with average frame-rate and lowest one per cent measurements for easy comparisons.

On a desktop-class browser, you'll get the full-fat DF experience with embedded YouTube videos of each test scene and live performance metrics. Play the video, and you'll see exactly how each card handled the scene as it progresses. Below the real-time metrics is an interactive bar chart, which you can mouse over to see different measurements and click to switch between actual frame-rates and percentage differences. All the data here is derived from video captured directly from each GPU, ensuring an accurate replay of real performance.

Control

As the 'Corridor of Doom' is such a demanding area of Remedy's Control, we've relocated our rasterisation benchmark to the same area because it turns out that it's not the RT element that makes this place so demanding - it's inherent to the corridor whether you're running RT or not.

Control is also a game that seems to cause real issues for the RTX 40-series cards, allowing the RX 7700 XT to come within spitting distance of the RTX 4070 - and the RX 7800 XT to run away with a 14 percent advantage over the same card. Our 7800 XT to 7700 XT frame-rate gap is up to 21 percent too, one of the larger such differences we've noted and a clear vote in favour of the RX 7800 XT in the value stakes.

Cyberpunk 2077

It's almost a shame to play Cyberpunk without upscaling and ray tracing, given how transformative these technologies can be - especially with frame generation and path tracing on RTX 40-series hardware - but it does at least level the playing field for AMD. The 7800 XT streaks ahead of the RX 7700 XT by 20 percentage points, while thumping the RTX 4070 by more than 30 points. There's also a massive uptick gen-on-gen, with a 55 percent lead for RX 7700 XT against 6700 XT and a more measured 16 percent lead for the 7800 XT against the 6800 XT. I'm genuinely surprised at how well the latter is holding up.

Forza Horizon 5

We return to Forza Horizon 5 in perhaps its most natural configuration: RT disabled with native rendering for the best mixture of fine detail and performance. This results in a capable 104fps average for 7700 XT and 128fps for 7800 XT, representing a 17 percent and seven percent margin over their intended Nvidia counterparts respectively. That's a nice win, but perhaps more intriguing is the large gap between the cut-down and fully-enabled Navi 32 parts (23 percent advantage for 7800 XT over 7700 XT) and the relatively modest gen-on-gen improvements (19 percent for 7700 XT over 6700 XT and just a five percentage point lead for 7800 XT over 6800 XT).

F1 22

F1 22 is a legitimate esports title often played on high refresh rate displays, so even with averages in the hundreds of frames per second, having a powerful enough graphics card can be impactful. There's a 22 percent lead for the 7800 XT over 7700 XT, making it well worth the 11 percent extra cash, but owners of the last-gen RX 6800 XT see essentially no improvement from adopting the RX 7800 XT. In terms of the Nvidia vs AMD fight, we're looking at a 30+ percentage point lead for the 7700 XT against the 4060 Ti, while the 7800 XT is 18 points to the better versus the 4070.

AMD RX 7800 XT/7700 XT Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Control
• RT benchmarks: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, F1 22
• RT/DLSS/FSR2/DLSS3 benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Control, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 22, Forza Horizon 5 [This Page]
• Game benchmarks: Hitman 3, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Returnal
• Conclusions and recommendations