AMD’s inbound RX 7900 XTX graphics card has been noticed in leaked benchmarks which put the efficiency of the RDNA three flagship in the identical ballpark because the RTX 4080 – and as Staff Purple’s GPU is a good chunk cheaper, that might have Nvidia frightened.

As Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) noticed, Benchleaks – which is a daily supply of benchmark spillage on Twitter – picked up on Geekbench outcomes for the RX 7900 XTX (add your personal seasoning, as with all leakage).

[GB5 GPU] Unknown GPUCPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (8C 16T)Min/Max/Avg: 5245/5443/5417 MHzCodename: RaphaelCPUID: A60F12 (AuthenticAMD)GPU: Radeon RX 7900 XTXAPI: VulkanScore: 179579, +71.5% vs RTX 3070https://t.co/mkOspAbgFCDecember 5, 2022

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As you possibly can see above, within the Vulkan efficiency take a look at for Geekbench 5, the 7900 XTX achieved a results of 179,579. That’s only a smidge sooner than the RTX 4080, which as Tom’s factors out, hits 178,105 as averaged throughout a lot of person scores our sister website uncovered.

The opposite consequence shared is for the OpenCL take a look at (opens in new tab), the place the 7900 XTX hits 228,647, however on this case the RTX 4080 outstrips that by a way with a mean results of 264,482.

Evaluation: Nvidia counterattack is within the playing cards?

Taking a look at these outcomes, then, actually the Vulkan rating seems to again up the assertion that AMD has made in its prelaunch advertising – specifically that the 7900 XTX is the equal of the RTX 4080. Actually, it’s completely neck-and-neck going by that benchmark (technically, the RDNA three flagship is slightly below a share level sooner, however that’s hardly going to make any distinction).

Then again, the OpenCL benchmark sees Nvidia’s RTX 4080 open up a 15% lead, which is extra noticeable for positive. Not that we should always get carried away with any pre-release benchmarking, in fact – whichever manner it leans – and talking of pre-release, AMD’s drivers aren’t completed but, both. And Geekbench is way from the strongest of benchmark gamers on the gaming entrance, so we should always bear that in thoughts, on high of every little thing else.

Nonetheless, this can be a clear suggestion that the RX 7900 XTX goes to have the ability to efficiently sq. as much as the RTX 4080 and tackle Nvidia’s dearer second-tier Lovelace GPU.

That is the place it will get actually attention-grabbing, diving elsewhere into rumor-ville, the place we’ve heard experiences that Nvidia may reduce the value of the RTX 4080 in mid-December, when the 7900 XTX (and 7900 XT) are occurring sale. As we just lately mentioned, that very a lot appears like a counterattack on AMD’s RDNA three launch, because the 7900 XTX is pitched an excellent deal cheaper than the RTX 4080 (the MSRP is $999 within the US, in comparison with $1,199).

The sources of the RTX 4080 value reduce rumor contend that Nvidia isn’t reacting to AMD, however purely desires to regulate the general worth proposition – that essential value/efficiency ratio of the 4080 – to stoke lackluster gross sales, and there’s likely fact in that. Actually, the RTX 4080 has very a lot underperformed sales-wise from the leaked figures we’ve seen (the RTX 4090 has bought way more models), and the 4080 has suffered an unpopular reception to place it mildly.

So, Nvidia does must act, however the timing of the value chopping coinciding just about straight with when AMD is pushing out its new RDNA three GPUs is definitely not a coincidence. It’s not a giant leap to make to theorize that possibly Nvidia is taking AMD’s next-gen flagship critically as a full-on rival to the RTX 4080 within the gentle of all this.

Regardless of the case, we will however hope for a extra competitively priced RTX 4080 preventing it out with the 7900 XTX, as that’d clearly be excellent news for fanatic customers dropping a grand or so on a graphics card.

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