PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX Spectral White Review
We tested all of the graphics cards represented in this article on a Gigabyte X570 Pro Wi-Fi motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU and 16GB of G.SKILL DDR4 RAM clocked at 3,200MHz. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" defaults, then we disabled any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use and enabled Resizable BAR support. The memory clock was dialed-in to its optimal performance settings using its XMP profile and the solid-state drive was then formatted and Windows 11 Professional installed and fully updated. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers, applications and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 9 5800X3D (3.4GHz - 4.5GHz, 8-Core) Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro Wi-Fi 16GB G.SKILL DDR4-3200 Samsung SSD 970 EVO Integrated Audio / Network ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon 23.4.1 NVIDIA Drivers v527.62 |
Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition CryTek Neon Noir Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Assassin's Creed Valhalla FarCry 6 F1 2022 Guardians Of The Galaxy |
LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks
IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks
The PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX also trailed the AMD reference design by the tiniest of margins with both IndigoBench models, which put it well behind the NVIDIA powered cards.
