I'm leaving "value for money" blank, because the GPU market is what it is, and I got this in Dec. 2021. For $1500. This card feels premium out of the box. Comes with a stand to help support it, and it's a big, thick monster of a card. I do not overclock or tweak it. It has not been noisy and I have not noticed any excessive heat issues with it. Performance is strong. Anyone interested in these cards will know that while it is capable of ray tracing, it does not necessarily do it well. I have only tried in on Cyberpunk 2077, and it was not worth the performance hit. That game looks amazing either way. I am able to play at 4k/UItra and get about 70FPS. In many other games, I'm reaching over 100FPS, but my screen cannot display more than 120, so I do not know how much farther it'd go. I am very happy with the performance I've gotten from this upgrade. I've seen Dying Light, and Forza Horizon 5 pegged at 120fps. AC: Odyssey stays around 90, RDR2 70-90, Cyberpunk at around 70, and AMD's FSR - the static one - works as well as DLSS does as far as I can tell. Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Breakpoint range from 70-100fps. I have a Ryzen 7 5800x and 32gb DDR4 3600. I do not overclock or tweak anything, other than enabling PBO and SAM in the bios. Also - if you are curious, my motherboard is a Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite. I expect this system to last through the current gen of consoles, their inevitable Pro/Whatever refresh, and into the next generation and it's pro refresh. AMD does raytracing through software, so the "Finewine" meme should apply here. Additionally, if you are shopping for GPUs, I noticed that this thing was a steal compared to the 3080 series, which is what I originally set out for. It was also cheaper than the 6800XT for some reason. I definitely recommend this card. I also strongly recommend you buy from Amazon directly, to be sure you're getting what you're paying for, at the fairest price, with customer service and a return policy. Be wary of the third party vendors - check ratings, etc.
Jason Foglesong · 2021-12-24 · via amazon
★★★★★A gaming BEAST!
Unfortunately I had to purchase this back in December when the price was closer to $1700 due to my 1080Ti dying. At the time of this review, the price has dropped down to what I believe is MSRP for this particular card, around $1100. The AMD base model is $999.99 MSRP, so, I believe the current price is justifiable. That being said, this card is a MAJOR BEAST! Not only in performance but also in size! This has to be the largest card I've ever use. So if you have a Mid-ATX tower, please make sure that it fits your build. It just barely fits my NZXT S340 Elite, but it fits comfortably. I had to upgrade my PSU too since this has a 900W PSU requirement, however, in gameplay, this card seems to be more efficient than my 1080Ti and seems to suck just as much power as when my 1080Ti was overclocked, about 250w to 300w. I've had this card for 6 months now and my power bill hasn't changed. As for performance, and this goes for Win10 and Win11, this thing eats up everything you throw at it. I can run RE3 remake in virtual 5k at over 60FPS. At my native resolution of 1440p, it will run the game at over 200FPS with everything maxed out. RE Village is the same at 223FPS at 1440p. This card will seem to run most games at 4k/60+ FPS with no issues. Doom Eternal Runs at around 400 FPS @1440p and 200FPS @ 4k. As for benchmarks; coming from my 1080Ti which had a graphics score of 10,553, the 69(nice)00XT Red Devil scores at 20,480! That's pretty much double the performance! Conclusion, if you have the money, and don't want to support Nvidia's anti consumer pricing and practices, this is the way to go. It will laugh at any game you throw at it and then some. It's cheaper than a 3080Ti (at the time or writing), runs as fast or within margin of error, and has more Vram at 16GB vs 12GB which helps with 4k gaming and games that will add more detail in the future. BUT if ray-tracing is really important to you, go with a 3080 or 3080Ti.
JRBD · 2022-05-01 · via amazon
★★★★★Good, but maybe should’ve waited.
I got this GPU for a good price considering prices thru covid for anything, especially GPUs. My only two qualms are there is a audible hissing noise from the power delivery on the back of the GPU when launching any GPU intensive activity, yes gaming included. The 2nd is not really Powercolor’s problem, but AMD’s. The video driver has been known to blackscreen or crash randomly or when the GPU is under load. Well, even after a couple of years, this card still crashes from time, where unplugging & reinserted my HDMI cable resolves it. AMD seems to have focused on RDNA3 vs getting drivers ironed out. Otherwise, this is a beautiful card.
Jerad C. · 2022-11-21 · via amazon
★★★★★Handles what you'll throw at it.
Given how ludicrously overpriced the 650 dollar gpus are at the moment, I decided that if I'm going to pay for a production grade gpu as opposed to a high end gaming gpu, I'm going to get a production/titan level gpu for the same money. My 1080ti, was still doing what I needed it to for gaming, but it's time for an upgrade. This card runs quieter most of the time than the 1080ti I had, and to say it's a huge performance upgrade is an understatement. Most of the stuff I play this will easily throw up over 100 fps in 4k at. (Warframe, some older fps games, star trek online, the remake tomb raider games etc) and what it doesn't, it'll still hit 70+ in easy without FSR or Radeon super resolution on, in games like Horizon Zero Dawn, and God of War. My only gripe is this thing is dummy thicc. It's a full 3 slot card, and I'm kind of glad I have 7 x16 slots at my disposal, or else I'd be having to worry about heating up my sound card, wifi card, etc if I could fit them at all on a normal ATX machine. My other gripe is the 3 8 pin connectors, but I knew what I was getting into there. it's stable, it runs cool if you set frame caps, it also does look pretty boss. I'm probably going to end up putting a water block on it to free up some slot space in the pc, but all in all I'm pleased with this buy.
Aaron Keating · 2022-03-29 · via amazon
★★★★★Extremely powerful, great cooling, stomps my 2080 ti. Glad to be back on team red.
I paid 1499. probably a hundred dollars over priced. (in this market that's a screaming hot deal) However, I did pay $1200 for my 2080 ti which in turn I will sell for $900-$1000 due to gpu shortage. My card overclocked to 2750 mhz stable with nothing more than a +10% on the slider. Not sure why you would buy the ultimate version of this card. I have a 170 hz 1440p monitor with settings on high and the amd version of (dlss) set to super quality. Warzone, Vangard comfortably stays well over that 170 fps. Paired with a amd 5900 cpu. I also feel like amd's version of the dlss is better at 1440p, everything is crystal clear. Please take note she is a Thicc and long card. :) Final thoughts; Why did I go with Amd? Well the facts are this card trades blows with the 3080 ti and 3090. You can have your ray tracing, for me it really won't be worth while for another generation or 2 of the gpus and the game makers actually using it more in everyday multiplayer games. Version 2.0 of the Amd's dlss is right around the corner. Also from a consumer stand point I appreciate how Amd treats us gamers. Examples: gysnc vs freesync. Nvidia tried to make that proprietary. Amd came in and said here is a free version that anyone can use. Nvidia Dlss proprietary. Amd, here is our version of it for free, anyone can use. I am excited to see what comes next from Amd. Cheers.
