PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX Spectral White Review


PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX: In Game Performance

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker launched at the end of last year, and as usual, Square-Enix updated its free character creator and benchmark tool. The free utility checks in at approximately a 2.21GB download. It will test your PC's ability to run the game at various settings and presents a final result with an overall rating upon its conclusion. We tested Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker at 1440p and in 4K UHD, with maximum image quality settings.

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Benchmarks

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Final Fantasy Endwalker

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Final Fantasy: Endwalker had the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX putting up somewhat better minimum framerates than AMD's card, but the reference design put up better averages at both resolutions.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Benchmarks

The open-world Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an action-adventure game in which the player controls Viking raider Eivor Varinsdottir as he and his compatriots battle Anglo-Saxons through various regions. The game uses the AnvilNext 2.0 engine, which requires DirectX 12...

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Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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Assassin's Creed: Valhalla also had the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX offering slightly better minimums than AMD's card, but ultimately the reference design pulled ever so slightly ahead.

Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game where you play as Star-Lord and lead the rest of the Guardians from mission to mission. The game’s minimum requirements call for a Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060-class GPU, but it also supports some of the latest graphics technologies, including DXR and DLSS.

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Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

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The PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX performed well in the Guardian's benchmark, besting AMD's card by a couple of percentage points at both resolutions.

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With ray tracing enabled, the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX falls down the stack a few rungs, but still manages to outrun the AMD reference Radeon RX 7900 XTX by a small margin.

Far Cry 6 Benchmarks

Next up, we’ve got some benchmark scores from Far Cry 6, the latest installment in the storied franchise. Like its predecessors, Far Cry 6 is a fast-action shooter set in an open world environment with lush visuals and high graphics fidelity. The game is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Yara, ruled by dictator "El Presidente" Antón Castillo, famously played by actor Giancarlo Esposito. We tested all of the graphics cards here at multiple resolutions using Ultra Quality settings to see how they handled this AAA title.

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Far Cry 6

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FarCry 6 somewhat mirrors Guardians, with the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX outgunning the AMD RX 7900 XTX, but the powerful GeForce RTX 4090 remains at the top of heap.

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With ray tracing enabled, the CPU limitation in this game results in some funky results at 1440p, but once the resolution is increased to 4K, we once again see the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX sneaking past the AMD card and trailing only the RTX 4090.

F1 2022 Benchmarks

F1 2022 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and NVIDIA technologies (like DLSS). We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray-tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what the graphics cards could do.

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F1 2022

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With the F1 22 benchmark, the PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 XTX once again trailed AMD's reference design by a couple of percentage points, at both resolutions.

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