AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

The RX 7900 XTX and XT sport AMD's latest and greatest RDNA 3 architecture, with impressive rasterization performance. Ray tracing remains a second class citizen, and while faster than the previous generation, AMD can't touch Nvidia's in DXR games — and that's not even counting DLSS, which continues to see widespread use.

With its excellent performance and extremely competitive price, AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX is late 2022's best graphics card option for around $1,000.

AMD had an enormously high bar to clear with the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, and it successfully pulls off a major upset against Nvidia's rival RTX 4080 in all the ways it needed to. It isn't always the better graphics card in this test or that test, and its ray tracing ability lags behind the RTX 4080 (not to mention its creative performance), but between its outstanding overall performance and its very competitive price point, it is exactly the kind of enthusiast graphics card that our current moment calls for.

AMD makes an excellent showing with its first RDNA 3 graphics cards, and the RX 7900 XTX is a strong competitor – especially when it comes to price for performance compared to Nvidia’s latest and greatest GeForce RTX 40-series cards. Nvidia still holds the crown in ray tracing scenarios and in games that benefit from DLSS – and it’s not even close in those cases – but AMD’s own FSR technology has helped shrink the gap, and often wins out in pure rasterization workloads. If you want the absolute best visuals and performance, Nvidia still wins out, but for good old-fashioned frames at slightly more reasonable prices, AMD is hard to beat.