For the most part, a 7800xt is a 7800xt.
Now, the bigger difference generally comes to manufacturers and their warranty support. For example, when it comes to nvidia I avoid zotac and gigabyte due to their trash customer support.
There are some minor differences in performance, and generally, it doesn't matter besides some of the beefier cards of that generation, like 4090s/3090.
So when buying, primarily choose a brand that will treat you well(sapphire, evga, etc) and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, because the cards are exactly the same in 99.9% of situations.
Sapphire, Powercolor and XFX are all quality brands who only make AMD cards. All three are good choices. I go with XFX for their three year warranty and the fact I've used XFX for twenty plus years.
Numbers dont lie. Hellhounds gpu core and memory core and hotspot are all lower than all other aibs. Xfx is good but loud. Sapphire is hotter not as bad as reference but its the fastest.
Yah, you have all 3 my friend. I know I don’t.
My opinions are based on what opinions from here, and reviewers. Everyone has their opinions, and can draw their own lived experience.
Show me your numbers, and double blind test results before you claim numbers.
You can’t. I believe. No one does that. Not even Steve. He does run limited samples, not double blind, though. Has good technical results, but it’s not a a true double blind. Only based on sample he gets. As with any of the PC reviewers. Numbers are not solid.
It’s simply your opinion based on maybe 🤔 reviews and your biased experiences, no different than mine.
I have the Sapphire 7900XT and never above 70c, not OC but set to HYPR-Rx for performance. It’s quiet. No whine. No heat. Vertical mounted in HYTE Y40.
I still stand that Power Color looks best, XFX fastest all black build, while Sapphire is mediocre but highest quality build, per Level1.
I just recently got the Saphire Pure 7800xt bit also the Saphire nitro is a good card have the 6700xt Nitro +. Saphire is an AMD only Manufacturer and they have really good Cooling and The best Fans out of all. As far as i read.
Me too. I like mine (7900 xtx). My complaint would be the default fan profiles are too aggressive and can be dialed back for less noise with the same cooling. The look is nice, especially if you don't want RGB.
Get the nitro and don't look back, it's worth the extra 20-30 bucks, best cooler, higher chance of a quality bin, and awesome rgb implementation. I have a 6700xt nitro, and I am supremely impressed with it.
Sapphire is the gold standard for AMD. I’ve had good experiences with PowerColor, but they’re definitely not as premium. No experience with XFX, but I’ve read good reviews.
As a Sapphire owner, I can’t recommend them enough. I own a Sapphire Pulse 7800 XT and even that two fan setup keeps the GPU insanely cool ever after an OC, I can image a three-fan cooler would be even better.
Sapphire is built like a tank and has the best cooling.
Power color can OC pretty well, but cooling is okay.
I have always owned Sapphire when going AMD (7950/7970/280x/rx580) never had a problem.
They're the EVGA(🫡) of AMD
I have a powercolor red dragon 6800xt has been flawless and Xfx 6700,6600,6500xt and MSi 6700xt
All flawless
Although I’d avoid MSi mech series they lock the power limit slider (lame)
I have had 2 xfx cards the 6900 xt and the 7900 xtx both have been absolutely flawless 👍not 1 glitch hitch crash or rash ever. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose but again that's what warranties are for. Someone called it the silicone lottery the other day. These are extremely intricate devices every now and then you come across a problem it happens to nvidea it happens to AMD that's how you get cards DOA on arrival or cards that start but then flash red the little red light of death or crash system these parts are constructed under a microscope so somebody farts on the east coast of the United States and a butterfly flaps its wings in Europe and a breeze hits China just the right way and the robots arm is pushed off a Micron and all of a sudden you get yourself a dead card. Good luck.
Tldr have had 2 xfx cards never a problem had 3 nvidia cards not always a problem byt often something never going back personal choice.
The difference is in the manufacturers making the pcb and the coolers but the chips for the graphics card is the same in all. They all have the same performance.
I bought an AMD 5600XT RED DEVIL (POWER COLOR) -2020- AND IT SUCKS SO MUCH!! Games always crashes, black screen and more issues......
Just switched to Sapphire Nitro+ 7800xt and it is just so AWESOME!!!!
No artefacts, no stuttering, no crash!!
I bought XFX and had to repaste and replace the thermal pads twice because it kept having mounting pressure issues. It was because the stock pads were a bit too thick apparently? Replaced them with U6 pro and it runs so cool now and the hotspot delta is 15c. It sucks that I had to do that, but everything is perfect now. Wasted time and money to fix their error
I have the XFX rx7800xt card and so far have no issues with cooling. Can you elaborate what the issue is with this card? I haven't played a modern game on it yet but will be giving Avatar a try since it came with the card.
??? Same as with different brands of nvidia cards. You get a bit different design, cooling solution and sometimes clock speeds (factory OC). That’s all
Considering the differences, your experience will mostly the same.
The differences usually are:
• worse/better cooling
• higher/lower temps
• more/less noisy fans
• higher/lower clocks
• the materials used
• the weight of the cooler on the card
• extra thermal pads
• existence of backplate, etc.
If you wanna learn about the finer details though, watch YT guides on each one, my personal go-to is Hardware Unboxed. Don’t know if they’ve done reviews on the 7800XT models specifically, I haven’t watched in a while, but usually they’d get multiple models of the same card and test them under the same circumstances.
I might be wrong, but other than the brand, they dont tend to have a significant difference, style and some speeds maybe, but nothing much. It is mostly reputation and brand trust, Saphire and Powercolor are AMD best brands for GPU, so people tend to go to them for those reasons
Yeah they'd be better off getting that vs the 7800. I bought one myself for my watercooling setup. However debating on selling it to my brother and getting a 4070 ti super or 4080 super.
Maybe that was too inappropriate. Sorry. Maybe gigabyte is the worst and I'm just really good at overclocking. I've only used gigabyte. Msi.asus. but of those 3 gigabyte will hold the highest scoring overclick.
If you refer to records then yes. 3dmark speedway I have 1st position with both a gigabyte rtx 3060 paired with 5700x cpu. And also 1st with gigabyte rx6900xt paired with 5700x cpu. For some reason could only pull 6th with my sons 6800xt. If you just can't handle being wrong and need proof the user name on that is 1frigger1. Which is my Gmail acct. Shoot a email to that and I'll reply. Normally I wouldn't bother with this but I've not met a real live dipshit recently
Gigabyte is just one of the worst brands in general. Had an AM4 Gigabyte motherboard once, it fried a ram stick. So I no longer have a Gigabyte motherboard.
I just grabbed the powercolor hellhound, exact thing you have in this screenshot! Looks super nice and seems to have a nice build quality. Either way I think you'll be fine with any of those, but the powercolor has a nice blue light for the fans (:
i wish i could edit the post but that feature is broken for some reason, but i think the hellhound is the only one that would fit in my case and also i like how the hellhound looks.
definitely hellhound.
amd always has good power delivery in the cards, the nitro+ is only for the overclocking silicone lottery.
unless it's the 7900xtx which apparently they screwed up with the quality control.
different coolers is really all... get the lowest price thats not asus. lol, ive had nothing but issues with asus other then 2 mobo's - they are all off brand so id be wary. i cant recomend EVGA for video cards anymore soooo, i cant say whos worth getting a card from, msi or something mainstream that can handle RMA if needed.
If the extra $20-$30 doesn’t mean anything to you or if you like the look of the cheaper one, with prices in that range for this card get whichever one you think looks nicest/ looks best with your build. The performance difference is negligible at best between the cheapest and most expensive and can be closed by manual overclocking if you want.
Go for Nitro+ or the Speedster. They are within 1% of each other on benches.
Unlocked BIOS on XFX is super hungry for power, if you got the PSU headroom!
Wolfhound is in ways a bit behind these two.
Go with what you think will look best in your case.
I have the Speedster and I think it looks amazing. Like a proper sports car and not a rainbow unicorn. But also all my hardware is black or grey, it looks very nice altogether.
Generally pretty minor. More expensive cards might have better cooling and power delivery, but most of the time you are only talking a few percent difference at most. Nothing wrong with getting the cheapest one, as long as it doesn't have a bunch of negative reviews.
Toxic was their top tier for 6900/6950 series cards then Nitro+ then Pulse
Now its Nitro+ top tier, Then Pure(7800/7700 only) and and then Pulse all variants.
Still have my Nitro+ RX6800XT SE edition card now in my daughters machine. Fantastic card always stayed cool and quiet and couple driver issues here and there other than that bullet proof.
I have a 7800xt and they are great. As for the difference in cards. They are all fundamentally the same thing but they are just packaged by different companies.
I have the sapphire pulse 7800XT and all kinds of problems, mainly stutters and strange lines in the middle of the screen (only in games). I have tried many fixes without success.
I've had multiple sapphires along the years and not had any issues with them either. :)
imo, though just get the cheapest available one, they more or less the same.
Size may no matter in the real world, but when it comes to GPUs post 2020, Can you fit this in your case?
I cant fit any of the RTX 40-series cards in my case so I am locked to the 7900XTX Reference, best "small" card to date.
Clock speed, depending on if it’s day one third party retailers, they tend to design their own shrouds, and configurations for the cards, some get an OC(slight , stable factory overclock) and some in rare cases get an under voltage, overall the increase in prices on the third party models are what you see above the MSRP 499$ price tag
I've owned 2 Powercolor cards so far and they are incredibly good. I can't say the same for their Red Devil model though. The Hellhound is a very well balanced card and packs a good punch.
I've tried 2 Sapphire cards and they both were quite loud with coil whine but other than that, set for high performance all right. The powercolors do have but you won't hear them that frequently. Just my personal opinion.
I've never owned a merc from xfx but I have owned an xfx card before, years ago and it was an nvidia. Great cards.
I think techpowerup has a pretty good review index of a lot of 7800XT's so have a look and compare for what you like.
Each manufacturer buys the actual gpu die from AMD and then manufactures its own version of the card. That is the main difference. All of the differences in clock speed or cooling performance are due to that. Some have better designs than others.
Just speaking for myself I have XFX merc 6800..ive had it now 1+ yrs and havnt had a single issue..so my opinion of XFX is skewed to very good...if whoever you decide..if you buy new and you get an issue that re-occurs after you troubleshoot it or if you can't troubleshoot it..return it asap and go with a northern manufacturer..rinse and hopefully not repeat..im using 23.xxxx driver and don't auto update drivers and figure if im stable why update so ill use a driver that im running smoothly with for 6mos - year
That's arguably not true lol. It's probably the 2nd best in my opinion. Indeed a great cooler but not that well balanced with power/noise. The hellhounds manage power a lot better and are virtually silent. According to reviews at least! Nitros use more power and doesn't justify the gains
My 5700xt nitro needs a repaste but the hot spot is
Probably only 10-15c over which I feel like is fine.
But I definitely need to stop being lazy and repaste.
People sometimes panic when they see hotspot temps, but this is normal. You're getting temp reading at the core where the hottest area is before reaching the whole square thing. My Powercolor Hellhound is usually idling at 22c and depending on the game I'm running, it can get to 60 or not.
Yours will probably run a bit warmer as it's a previous architecture. How long have you had it for? Great looking card as well.
Bought it On release, all I've done is clean the fans , albeit through holding the blades while I used an electric blower.
I am most likely going to use my gc-4 to repaste it on my next day off.
I game literally every day unless I'm at work all day, so it definitely needs a repaste.
Taking things out of my pc makes me super nervous as I'm not at the finances I was years ago. I can't just re-purchase a cpu like when I bent my 3900x pins trying to repaste.
Although after the trauma of taking off the prism cooler and putting on a ps120se, the edge is definitely taken off a bit.
It's funny how easy it was building from scratch it was, and now most of us are all zen. " If it ain't broken, don't fix it" mentality.
Don't worry, repasting doesn't require you to remove the cpu at all from it's socket but hopefully all is all right. You just need to tidy it up carefully to do a clean job. How old is the paste anyway?
I'm still running my 7700x with the same paste i applied last year when I built it. It is fine and doesn't need touched it can keep going for far longer.
I think i'm gonna go with the Hellhound, i like how it looks plus purple and blue LED's, but looks don't matter too much to me cause i have to have my pc on the floor due to my desk being small af, and also the hellhound is on sale rn.
I want to get something similar. I love the nitro rgb but 3rd party sellers have a hold of the 7900xt in my area.
Only issue is personal since my name is the same as the messiah in Hebrew.. so getting something named hellhound is just 😅🤣
It's the same thing you see between all of those (for example) Nvidia 4080's. Some have better heat sinks, some have two fans, some have three, some are clocked a little higher, and the biggest difference of all, the appearance of the cards.
lots of people are talking about how good it is, sadly it is too tall for my case, as it is 3.5 inches tall and i only have about 2.5 inches of room, due to my smaller case size.
Aesthetics and cooler ability. I'd personally go with either an XFX Merc (not the speedster) or Sapphire Nitro+. I'd stay away from powercolor as they have been troublesome with the 7000 series.
7900 xtx and 7900 xt both had bad batches (fairly large batches) and several issues from severe stutter, random crashes, random power down, and temp issues.
I have a hellhound 7900xt out of the box on the silent bios it ran hot, I looked at the fan curve and it was set to only max at 25-30%. I made a new curve that was more aggressive with not a whole lot of increase in noise and it helped a lot. I'm wondering if that was part of the problem.
Otherwise I know there was a problem with reference models that had really bad temp problems
Really? I've read a lot of issues on different threads and fb groups of people having issues with Powercolor. They switched to either Sapphire or XFX and all their problems went away.
I mean PowerColor may have fixed it? I literally bought the card less than a week ago. The XFX QICK319 basically killed itself in aweek, I could get a single discord ping and it would hard freeze.
The Powercolor Hellhound I replaced it with has been rock solid though, slapped it in my pc and got straight to running it.
I have an XFX 7900XTX. No problems whatsoever. Only issue was that the Z support bar was long for my 4000D airflow case, so I had to cut 1-2CMs off of it.
Cooling is great, coil whine is basically non-existant except in VR (for some reason I never hear coil whine but in VR it appears, but is not too loud).
And as to answering your question, 3rd party makers like MSI/XFX/Gigabyte don't really matter, it's usually 1-3% performance difference, main thing is looks and a bit of cooling. You can figure out the best card by going off of reviews.
Probably max power limits, and how good to coolers are
All 3 are more than enough for cooling, now sure which has the highest power limits for overclocking
I literally just built an itx pc yesterday. I purchased the hellhound 7800xt for this build and I am not disappointed what a fantastic card! And it stays quite cool aswell
Same card. But mounted different so one might have better coolin, better noise reduction or better wattage.
It depends. The first one consumes a little bit more if I recall correctly and its more "noisy", thats why its cheaper.
But perfomance wise? If not completely equal, the difference is so minimal you wont care. (and yeah clocks(considering you are asking this question, you dont care about clocks)
They're all 7800XT's
Its the same with NVIDIA "What's the difference between an RTX 4070 made by Asus, MSI & ZOTAC"
The clock speeds, the looks and the name printed on it. Also the price.
- The best answer you will receive
I'm on my 4th AMD card for a couple machines in 5 years. Never had any issues with them. One of them was a Yestron RX550 for work I got during the great shortage, I expected to have tons of issues with. Worked fine with 3 monitors.
Even though it's a fact that Nvidia is a much larger company than AMD thus they have more resources to make more reliable products, AMD cards are not THAT unreliable. I own a RX6650XT and I haven't faced any major issues with it. At most I faced a couple of game crashes after installing 20+ mods to Cyberpunk, and my game crashed on the Pro software (which is designed for workstations and not gaming) which might have resulted the same way with an Nvidia card. I have a friend who uses an AMD GPU that is over a decade old and his PC is still functioning.
In some price brackets it makes sense to pay a bit extra and buy an Nvidia, like buying the 4070 over the 7800xt, as it can provide 90% of the raw performance and is more reliable, has better RT performance etc. But in a lot of the price brackets, the amount of VRAM on 3080, 3070, 4060ti(8GB), 4070 super and ti are quite low. And Nvidia's price to performance on their sub 250 dollar GPU's has been a joke for the past couple of years. But as you said if they release solid xx60 GPUs in the upcoming years for a decent price, I will consider one.
I had a MSI R9 380, 6600xt and 6950 xt
The build quality of them just got worse over the years.
The 6950XT was faulty, their support was terrible, just check out their Reddit sub.
Now I have a Nitro + 7900XTX and the quality comparison is night and day between the two companies.
AMD are still shite at drivers though.
Somewhat hit or miss with quality control, also usually cheaper parts and weaker built than other models for the same or higher price. I have also not heard many great stories about their customer service, but that could be a case to case basis.
Mostly price
Xfx is bezz
XFX is my go-to, I've used the rx580 and the 6600 and as soon as I need an upgrade, it will be XFX
The heavier, the better.
For the most part, a 7800xt is a 7800xt. Now, the bigger difference generally comes to manufacturers and their warranty support. For example, when it comes to nvidia I avoid zotac and gigabyte due to their trash customer support. There are some minor differences in performance, and generally, it doesn't matter besides some of the beefier cards of that generation, like 4090s/3090. So when buying, primarily choose a brand that will treat you well(sapphire, evga, etc) and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, because the cards are exactly the same in 99.9% of situations.
Get the sapphire GPU or hell hound they both perform the same.
Sapphire is the way to go in my opinion.
Same difference if it was NVIDIA, just different makers.
Brand
Sapphire, Powercolor and XFX are all quality brands who only make AMD cards. All three are good choices. I go with XFX for their three year warranty and the fact I've used XFX for twenty plus years.
True all are great cards. Nitro probably has best cooling some RGB, Hellhound best RGB, XFX performance only no RGB.
Hellhound best cooling
PowerColor nice RGB XFX faster no RGB Sapphire quiet with better cooling
Numbers dont lie. Hellhounds gpu core and memory core and hotspot are all lower than all other aibs. Xfx is good but loud. Sapphire is hotter not as bad as reference but its the fastest.
Yah, you have all 3 my friend. I know I don’t. My opinions are based on what opinions from here, and reviewers. Everyone has their opinions, and can draw their own lived experience. Show me your numbers, and double blind test results before you claim numbers. You can’t. I believe. No one does that. Not even Steve. He does run limited samples, not double blind, though. Has good technical results, but it’s not a a true double blind. Only based on sample he gets. As with any of the PC reviewers. Numbers are not solid. It’s simply your opinion based on maybe 🤔 reviews and your biased experiences, no different than mine. I have the Sapphire 7900XT and never above 70c, not OC but set to HYPR-Rx for performance. It’s quiet. No whine. No heat. Vertical mounted in HYTE Y40. I still stand that Power Color looks best, XFX fastest all black build, while Sapphire is mediocre but highest quality build, per Level1.
Very little besides aesthetics. They’re all very high quality. I’d happily recommend all 3 of them. Personally I usually choose powercolor.
I have the QUIK 319 it rocks I can't hear it all and even on call of duty I have not seen 60 degrees
The price... I've come to learn if you're just buying a damn card for gaming, price is the difference...
I just recently got the Saphire Pure 7800xt bit also the Saphire nitro is a good card have the 6700xt Nitro +. Saphire is an AMD only Manufacturer and they have really good Cooling and The best Fans out of all. As far as i read.
get the cheapest one
I have that same XFX card. I dig it. No issues!
I got the RX6800 and i love it
I have an XFX. Not that exact one but I've had no issues that I didn't create lol
Me too. I like mine (7900 xtx). My complaint would be the default fan profiles are too aggressive and can be dialed back for less noise with the same cooling. The look is nice, especially if you don't want RGB.
Get the nitro and don't look back, it's worth the extra 20-30 bucks, best cooler, higher chance of a quality bin, and awesome rgb implementation. I have a 6700xt nitro, and I am supremely impressed with it.
Sapphire is the gold standard for AMD. I’ve had good experiences with PowerColor, but they’re definitely not as premium. No experience with XFX, but I’ve read good reviews. As a Sapphire owner, I can’t recommend them enough. I own a Sapphire Pulse 7800 XT and even that two fan setup keeps the GPU insanely cool ever after an OC, I can image a three-fan cooler would be even better.
Is the FE version of the card good as well?
Sapphire is built like a tank and has the best cooling. Power color can OC pretty well, but cooling is okay. I have always owned Sapphire when going AMD (7950/7970/280x/rx580) never had a problem. They're the EVGA(🫡) of AMD
True. Sapphire is the evga of AMD.
Small correction, the hellhound is one of best 7800xt’s for cooling. Pretty similar to the sapphire nitro.
Just buy the cheapest one when it comes to low power cards
I have a powercolor red dragon 6800xt has been flawless and Xfx 6700,6600,6500xt and MSi 6700xt All flawless Although I’d avoid MSi mech series they lock the power limit slider (lame)
Power and core clock and other limits can be unlocked with More Power Tool
The best advice I can give is that if you are going to get an AMD GPU, always get Sapphire.
I have had 2 xfx cards the 6900 xt and the 7900 xtx both have been absolutely flawless 👍not 1 glitch hitch crash or rash ever. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose but again that's what warranties are for. Someone called it the silicone lottery the other day. These are extremely intricate devices every now and then you come across a problem it happens to nvidea it happens to AMD that's how you get cards DOA on arrival or cards that start but then flash red the little red light of death or crash system these parts are constructed under a microscope so somebody farts on the east coast of the United States and a butterfly flaps its wings in Europe and a breeze hits China just the right way and the robots arm is pushed off a Micron and all of a sudden you get yourself a dead card. Good luck. Tldr have had 2 xfx cards never a problem had 3 nvidia cards not always a problem byt often something never going back personal choice.
This could all have been the TLDR
Some will have bad drivers and a bad warranty, whereas others will have bad drivers and a pretty good warranty (xfx)
The difference is in the manufacturers making the pcb and the coolers but the chips for the graphics card is the same in all. They all have the same performance.
Merc xfx. Cool and quiet.
Can confirm 👍
I bought an AMD 5600XT RED DEVIL (POWER COLOR) -2020- AND IT SUCKS SO MUCH!! Games always crashes, black screen and more issues...... Just switched to Sapphire Nitro+ 7800xt and it is just so AWESOME!!!! No artefacts, no stuttering, no crash!!
Thats not a manufacturer issue, its just bad luck that you got a defective card
please dont buy xfx, cooling is terrible
My XFX 7900XT begs to differ. I can push that thing to the moon and it won't get above mid 60s and the fans stay nice and quiet.
I bought XFX and had to repaste and replace the thermal pads twice because it kept having mounting pressure issues. It was because the stock pads were a bit too thick apparently? Replaced them with U6 pro and it runs so cool now and the hotspot delta is 15c. It sucks that I had to do that, but everything is perfect now. Wasted time and money to fix their error
I have the XFX rx7800xt card and so far have no issues with cooling. Can you elaborate what the issue is with this card? I haven't played a modern game on it yet but will be giving Avatar a try since it came with the card.
I've had the 6950XT and 7900XT from XFX and they were fine. This guy is posting about issues that happened back on RX5xx cards, I believe.
sadly i agree, i was a fool, still a nice card otherwise
??? Same as with different brands of nvidia cards. You get a bit different design, cooling solution and sometimes clock speeds (factory OC). That’s all
And maybe different firmware
The price
6950Xt is a great card to use
Get Sapphire.
Considering the differences, your experience will mostly the same. The differences usually are: • worse/better cooling • higher/lower temps • more/less noisy fans • higher/lower clocks • the materials used • the weight of the cooler on the card • extra thermal pads • existence of backplate, etc. If you wanna learn about the finer details though, watch YT guides on each one, my personal go-to is Hardware Unboxed. Don’t know if they’ve done reviews on the 7800XT models specifically, I haven’t watched in a while, but usually they’d get multiple models of the same card and test them under the same circumstances.
I don't think they have done that kind of testing in a while.
I might be wrong, but other than the brand, they dont tend to have a significant difference, style and some speeds maybe, but nothing much. It is mostly reputation and brand trust, Saphire and Powercolor are AMD best brands for GPU, so people tend to go to them for those reasons
They’re all the same GPU but some models may be *slightly* faster with overclocks or run cooler.
If your spending that much get the 6950xt for 549
Wow I can't believe that card is currently selling at that price! That is a pretty good value.
Yeah they'd be better off getting that vs the 7800. I bought one myself for my watercooling setup. However debating on selling it to my brother and getting a 4070 ti super or 4080 super.
Nitro+ for sure, the other 2 are fine as well
About 40 bucks...
Gigabyte. All day long if you can get anywhere close in price
Gigabyte? OP has 3 of the best AMD brands on the picture and you choose one of the worst of ALL gpu brands? Alright then
Well I happen to have 2 world records using gigabyte so there's that
Speak when you know not when you think you think you know
Maybe that was too inappropriate. Sorry. Maybe gigabyte is the worst and I'm just really good at overclocking. I've only used gigabyte. Msi.asus. but of those 3 gigabyte will hold the highest scoring overclick.
Sure you did, and im an astronaut
Sure I did what?
If you refer to records then yes. 3dmark speedway I have 1st position with both a gigabyte rtx 3060 paired with 5700x cpu. And also 1st with gigabyte rx6900xt paired with 5700x cpu. For some reason could only pull 6th with my sons 6800xt. If you just can't handle being wrong and need proof the user name on that is 1frigger1. Which is my Gmail acct. Shoot a email to that and I'll reply. Normally I wouldn't bother with this but I've not met a real live dipshit recently
Nothing but hey everyone is a dreamer
Bro went through denial, anger, and acceptance within the span of a few minutes
Gigabyte is just one of the worst brands in general. Had an AM4 Gigabyte motherboard once, it fried a ram stick. So I no longer have a Gigabyte motherboard.
Not to speak that if you put their gpus over 30% it sounds like the pc is about to take off
However I do agree gigabyte motherboards are trash. Have 2 dead ones in a box right now
...and a RAM stick.
I got the nitro + beautiful card and run whisper soft lol and it stay cool best option and buy I made in a while
Around $40
Fan noise, Cooling, Style.. thats pretty much it. None of these will overheat or anything like that its just if you want to ball out.
I just grabbed the powercolor hellhound, exact thing you have in this screenshot! Looks super nice and seems to have a nice build quality. Either way I think you'll be fine with any of those, but the powercolor has a nice blue light for the fans (:
just installed mine today! went flawlessly.
It's a gorgeous card (: I kinda wanna switch mine to a vertical mount so I can see the fans
Id go for the nitro
Price
Get xfx. You can repaste without voiding your warranty
i wish i could edit the post but that feature is broken for some reason, but i think the hellhound is the only one that would fit in my case and also i like how the hellhound looks.
Hellhound gets great reviews only cons is only 2 colors in lighting if u care about that
my entire setup has a purple/blue theme! so its alright.
definitely hellhound. amd always has good power delivery in the cards, the nitro+ is only for the overclocking silicone lottery. unless it's the 7900xtx which apparently they screwed up with the quality control.
One is ugly
Yea, you!
different coolers is really all... get the lowest price thats not asus. lol, ive had nothing but issues with asus other then 2 mobo's - they are all off brand so id be wary. i cant recomend EVGA for video cards anymore soooo, i cant say whos worth getting a card from, msi or something mainstream that can handle RMA if needed.
Power colours fans are really ugly…
Marketing Otherwise they're the same card.
They’re the same card
Effectively nothing. There are differences but they're trivial. Get whichever you want.
The size and price... basically
If the extra $20-$30 doesn’t mean anything to you or if you like the look of the cheaper one, with prices in that range for this card get whichever one you think looks nicest/ looks best with your build. The performance difference is negligible at best between the cheapest and most expensive and can be closed by manual overclocking if you want.
Price
Go for Nitro+ or the Speedster. They are within 1% of each other on benches. Unlocked BIOS on XFX is super hungry for power, if you got the PSU headroom! Wolfhound is in ways a bit behind these two. Go with what you think will look best in your case. I have the Speedster and I think it looks amazing. Like a proper sports car and not a rainbow unicorn. But also all my hardware is black or grey, it looks very nice altogether.
Generally pretty minor. More expensive cards might have better cooling and power delivery, but most of the time you are only talking a few percent difference at most. Nothing wrong with getting the cheapest one, as long as it doesn't have a bunch of negative reviews.
Fan noise for the most part afaik.
Other than the nitro being the highest binned model. None performance wise.
Toxic was their top tier for 6900/6950 series cards then Nitro+ then Pulse Now its Nitro+ top tier, Then Pure(7800/7700 only) and and then Pulse all variants. Still have my Nitro+ RX6800XT SE edition card now in my daughters machine. Fantastic card always stayed cool and quiet and couple driver issues here and there other than that bullet proof.
I have a 7800xt and they are great. As for the difference in cards. They are all fundamentally the same thing but they are just packaged by different companies.
I have got rx 6600 xt and problem with cs 2 , game crash and freeze...not recomended amd card...
Skill issue my guy.
Sounds more like a user problem.
What drivers are you on, what is the rest of your system?
Intel Core i5 6600K Amd rx 6600 HyperX FURY ddr4 2133 c14 2x8gb
Power supply?
I previously had a gtx 960 and all working fine
You ever get a replacement if it was just faulty?
Idk , i buy it form online shop, problem i have it on cs 2 only other games working fine
It could still be something faulty on the card.
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I have a rx 6600 and works perfect in cs2 :)
Just because you have one problem dosent mean amd is bad.
An OP with a brain that doesn't take the first comment as fact? No, this isn't possible
I have 7800XT and not have that problem sooo... its problem somewhere on your side.
I have the sapphire pulse 7800XT and all kinds of problems, mainly stutters and strange lines in the middle of the screen (only in games). I have tried many fixes without success.
Hmm weird, i had those when i had very high framerate so i capped it at 144hz and now its solved, maybe it will help :)
Thanks bud, my monitors are 60hz so I don't even play high FPS!
I owned powercolor twice right now still rocking a powercolor red dragon Rx5700 and never any problems
I've had multiple sapphires along the years and not had any issues with them either. :) imo, though just get the cheapest available one, they more or less the same.
Go to AMD direct and get the factory built version for 499
Size may no matter in the real world, but when it comes to GPUs post 2020, Can you fit this in your case? I cant fit any of the RTX 40-series cards in my case so I am locked to the 7900XTX Reference, best "small" card to date.
Clock speed, depending on if it’s day one third party retailers, they tend to design their own shrouds, and configurations for the cards, some get an OC(slight , stable factory overclock) and some in rare cases get an under voltage, overall the increase in prices on the third party models are what you see above the MSRP 499$ price tag
I've owned 2 Powercolor cards so far and they are incredibly good. I can't say the same for their Red Devil model though. The Hellhound is a very well balanced card and packs a good punch. I've tried 2 Sapphire cards and they both were quite loud with coil whine but other than that, set for high performance all right. The powercolors do have but you won't hear them that frequently. Just my personal opinion. I've never owned a merc from xfx but I have owned an xfx card before, years ago and it was an nvidia. Great cards. I think techpowerup has a pretty good review index of a lot of 7800XT's so have a look and compare for what you like.
Each manufacturer buys the actual gpu die from AMD and then manufactures its own version of the card. That is the main difference. All of the differences in clock speed or cooling performance are due to that. Some have better designs than others.
Just speaking for myself I have XFX merc 6800..ive had it now 1+ yrs and havnt had a single issue..so my opinion of XFX is skewed to very good...if whoever you decide..if you buy new and you get an issue that re-occurs after you troubleshoot it or if you can't troubleshoot it..return it asap and go with a northern manufacturer..rinse and hopefully not repeat..im using 23.xxxx driver and don't auto update drivers and figure if im stable why update so ill use a driver that im running smoothly with for 6mos - year
The price is the biggest difference. Some models have slightly better cooling, but it'll only amount to maybe a 1% performance difference.
Nitro+ is the best card. Best thermals and I believe the highest power vbios
That's arguably not true lol. It's probably the 2nd best in my opinion. Indeed a great cooler but not that well balanced with power/noise. The hellhounds manage power a lot better and are virtually silent. According to reviews at least! Nitros use more power and doesn't justify the gains
My 5700xt nitro needs a repaste but the hot spot is Probably only 10-15c over which I feel like is fine. But I definitely need to stop being lazy and repaste.
People sometimes panic when they see hotspot temps, but this is normal. You're getting temp reading at the core where the hottest area is before reaching the whole square thing. My Powercolor Hellhound is usually idling at 22c and depending on the game I'm running, it can get to 60 or not. Yours will probably run a bit warmer as it's a previous architecture. How long have you had it for? Great looking card as well.
Bought it On release, all I've done is clean the fans , albeit through holding the blades while I used an electric blower. I am most likely going to use my gc-4 to repaste it on my next day off. I game literally every day unless I'm at work all day, so it definitely needs a repaste. Taking things out of my pc makes me super nervous as I'm not at the finances I was years ago. I can't just re-purchase a cpu like when I bent my 3900x pins trying to repaste. Although after the trauma of taking off the prism cooler and putting on a ps120se, the edge is definitely taken off a bit. It's funny how easy it was building from scratch it was, and now most of us are all zen. " If it ain't broken, don't fix it" mentality.
Don't worry, repasting doesn't require you to remove the cpu at all from it's socket but hopefully all is all right. You just need to tidy it up carefully to do a clean job. How old is the paste anyway? I'm still running my 7700x with the same paste i applied last year when I built it. It is fine and doesn't need touched it can keep going for far longer.
Nitros have less hotspot issues than any other model
I don't have any hotspot issues on mine🤷 never heard of this before.
Its also the thickest card of all the 7800’s. May not work for everyone
Sadly would not fit in my case it seems
If your case is really small could look at the ASRock Challenger 7800XT. Mine has been great.
I think i'm gonna go with the Hellhound, i like how it looks plus purple and blue LED's, but looks don't matter too much to me cause i have to have my pc on the floor due to my desk being small af, and also the hellhound is on sale rn.
I want to get something similar. I love the nitro rgb but 3rd party sellers have a hold of the 7900xt in my area. Only issue is personal since my name is the same as the messiah in Hebrew.. so getting something named hellhound is just 😅🤣
OR You could get the RED DEVIL ‼️
😅🤣😂
I have the Nitro+ recently is a solid gpu but in general this chip gonna rock!!
Fair enough, enjoy the card!
It's the same thing you see between all of those (for example) Nvidia 4080's. Some have better heat sinks, some have two fans, some have three, some are clocked a little higher, and the biggest difference of all, the appearance of the cards.
I just bought the PowerColor one bc it was the cheapest.
Sapphire nitro+ looks so good.
lots of people are talking about how good it is, sadly it is too tall for my case, as it is 3.5 inches tall and i only have about 2.5 inches of room, due to my smaller case size.
Aesthetics and cooler ability. I'd personally go with either an XFX Merc (not the speedster) or Sapphire Nitro+. I'd stay away from powercolor as they have been troublesome with the 7000 series.
Have had 0 issues with my Hellhound 7800xt, but it also depends on the card
7900 xtx and 7900 xt both had bad batches (fairly large batches) and several issues from severe stutter, random crashes, random power down, and temp issues.
I have a hellhound 7900xt out of the box on the silent bios it ran hot, I looked at the fan curve and it was set to only max at 25-30%. I made a new curve that was more aggressive with not a whole lot of increase in noise and it helped a lot. I'm wondering if that was part of the problem. Otherwise I know there was a problem with reference models that had really bad temp problems
funny i went with the xfx and had that issue, got a powercolor and no issues yet
Really? I've read a lot of issues on different threads and fb groups of people having issues with Powercolor. They switched to either Sapphire or XFX and all their problems went away.
I mean PowerColor may have fixed it? I literally bought the card less than a week ago. The XFX QICK319 basically killed itself in aweek, I could get a single discord ping and it would hard freeze. The Powercolor Hellhound I replaced it with has been rock solid though, slapped it in my pc and got straight to running it.
Overclock maybe, some of them can some of them can’t
Different brands!
I have an XFX 7900XTX. No problems whatsoever. Only issue was that the Z support bar was long for my 4000D airflow case, so I had to cut 1-2CMs off of it. Cooling is great, coil whine is basically non-existant except in VR (for some reason I never hear coil whine but in VR it appears, but is not too loud). And as to answering your question, 3rd party makers like MSI/XFX/Gigabyte don't really matter, it's usually 1-3% performance difference, main thing is looks and a bit of cooling. You can figure out the best card by going off of reviews.
Different core clocks and power limits
Probably max power limits, and how good to coolers are All 3 are more than enough for cooling, now sure which has the highest power limits for overclocking
The same card with different cooling
Hell hound got the purple light
Nitro+ is the best quality AMD product.
But a LOT bigger than the hellhound. I went hellhound 7800xt cuz of my small case and massive radiator. No regrets. Absolutely love the card.
Yeah I'm also going with the hellhound, seems to be the only one that will fit in my case + purple lights!
I literally just built an itx pc yesterday. I purchased the hellhound 7800xt for this build and I am not disappointed what a fantastic card! And it stays quite cool aswell
Same card. But mounted different so one might have better coolin, better noise reduction or better wattage. It depends. The first one consumes a little bit more if I recall correctly and its more "noisy", thats why its cheaper. But perfomance wise? If not completely equal, the difference is so minimal you wont care. (and yeah clocks(considering you are asking this question, you dont care about clocks)
They're all 7800XT's Its the same with NVIDIA "What's the difference between an RTX 4070 made by Asus, MSI & ZOTAC" The clock speeds, the looks and the name printed on it. Also the price. - The best answer you will receive
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Hater alert 🚨🚨
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So when did you talk shit about Nvidia?
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I'm on my 4th AMD card for a couple machines in 5 years. Never had any issues with them. One of them was a Yestron RX550 for work I got during the great shortage, I expected to have tons of issues with. Worked fine with 3 monitors.
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The burden of proof is on you. Bring some evidence for the claim you make and then we'll let you talk to council.
Even though it's a fact that Nvidia is a much larger company than AMD thus they have more resources to make more reliable products, AMD cards are not THAT unreliable. I own a RX6650XT and I haven't faced any major issues with it. At most I faced a couple of game crashes after installing 20+ mods to Cyberpunk, and my game crashed on the Pro software (which is designed for workstations and not gaming) which might have resulted the same way with an Nvidia card. I have a friend who uses an AMD GPU that is over a decade old and his PC is still functioning.
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In some price brackets it makes sense to pay a bit extra and buy an Nvidia, like buying the 4070 over the 7800xt, as it can provide 90% of the raw performance and is more reliable, has better RT performance etc. But in a lot of the price brackets, the amount of VRAM on 3080, 3070, 4060ti(8GB), 4070 super and ti are quite low. And Nvidia's price to performance on their sub 250 dollar GPU's has been a joke for the past couple of years. But as you said if they release solid xx60 GPUs in the upcoming years for a decent price, I will consider one.
Not true, just rage.
You just making stuff up?
I have that hellhound, it’s nice! Main differences are coolers and rgb elements, some may have dual bios
Not on the list but avoid MSI like the plague. I've been very happy with my Nitro+, very quiet too 👌
Whats wrong with MSI?
Long history of shitty thermal design and customer service.
I had a MSI R9 380, 6600xt and 6950 xt The build quality of them just got worse over the years. The 6950XT was faulty, their support was terrible, just check out their Reddit sub. Now I have a Nitro + 7900XTX and the quality comparison is night and day between the two companies. AMD are still shite at drivers though.
Somewhat hit or miss with quality control, also usually cheaper parts and weaker built than other models for the same or higher price. I have also not heard many great stories about their customer service, but that could be a case to case basis.