AMD or Nvidia that's the Eternal
question that many people are trying to
answer and the one that I seek to look
at in today's video taking a look at the
higher tier cards that these companies
have to offer especially after they've
had time to mature the 4070 TI came out
in January of 2023 whereas the 7900 XT
came out sometime late in 2022. driver
changes and advancements have taken
place and the big impetus for doing this
video was the fact that Galax has
recently launched a lot of their
graphics cards on Amazon's store Page
here in the US a very compelling price
points when you compare them to other
cards in their class this Galax RTX 470
TI ex gamer is going for 30 dollars less
than the average 4070 TI that I've been
able to find on any other retailer
Galaxy sent over a lot of other parts in
order to enable me to make this
comparison like the revolution 05 white
case and their Vyvanse oh won 1440p 165
Hertz gaming monitor because when the
4070 TI launched the conversation
essentially was that the 7900 XT
provided a lot more value but again the
landscape has shifted to some extent
there have been driver revisions there
have been price drops on things like the
7900 XT the version that we're going to
be using here for the comparison is this
power color red devil 7900 XT that I
picked up with my own money in order to
take a look at a bunch of AAA games
using both Ray tracing and non-ray
tracing but we did not enable DLS S3 to
have frame generation turned on which is
something that the 7900 XT is just not
capable of but as somebody who has
played games with frame generation
personally even though the FPS is higher
it does raise the latency and it
actually makes it a much less enjoyable
experience for me even though Nvidia has
things like reflex that are supposed to
drop the latency reflex does work but
it's still at a higher latency than you
would get than just running the game
natively or using something like DLS S2
or fsr2 so those aren't going to be
included for the sake of the
conversation here and all of the testing
and comparison is going to be done at
1440p with high settings because number
one I think that's where these cards are
absolutely suited for but also in order
to show off the Vyvanse 01 monitor which
is 1440p 165 Hertz one millisecond
response time has 95 percent of the DCI
P3 color space 10 bit color depth HDR
supported and g-sync certify with
compatibility with adaptive sync for
amd's Technologies as well it's got two
display port inputs as well as two HDMI
inputs as well as audio out and a
tiltable stand that you can use it's 27
inch QHD IPS panel that looks good while
it was playing on it and allowed me to
get all of the testing done the rest of
the system to give you an understanding
of what we're working with here is the
ryzen 5 7600 this will not really bother
bottleneck these gpus at 1440p
especially with the high frequency that
it's running at the improved IPC of
ryzen 7000 it does perform really well
and it is cooled by the sigma Tech air
killer s Arctic White in order to match
the revolution 05 white case that's here
the motherboard we're using is the MSI
MPG b650 Edge Wi-Fi for its silver
accents to match the cooler as well as
the gunmetal aesthetic of the ex gamer
GPU that Galax did send over we've got a
two terabyte crucial P3 plus SSD 32 gigs
of Corsair Vengeance ddr5 5600 White
Edition to match again the Aesthetics
and the Corsair rm750 80 plus gold white
power supply which was enough to power
both the 4070 TI as well as the 7900 XT
even though the 7900 XT does draw a
little bit more power the revolution 05
white fit both the 4070 TI which is a
triple slot card and significant in
length as well as the 7900 XT which is a
bit wider and a bit thicker but still
managed to fit into this case no problem
I can't say how it would fit the longest
case on the market because there is not
much clearance between the end of the
GPU and the front three fans but it does
work for these higher end cards
additionally Galax includes four fans so
overall this is a very balanced system
for 1440p gaming and we actually have
already drawn the winner for this PC as
it stands right now including the Galaxy
Vyvanse monitor they've won the whole
setup and as soon as I'm done filming
this video I'm going to reset the PC and
ship it off to them which we give away
PCS all the time over on our twitch
Channel which you can come watch us
typically it's done about once a month
where we're drawing high-end PCS this
next giveaway that we have coming up has
a 7950x for the CPU and a 7900 XTX for
the GPU now let's dive on into the
numbers to see where each of these
graphics cards lie in Call Of Duty
Modern Warfare 2 the 7900 XT absolutely
wipes the floor with the 4070 TI coming
in at 171 FPS PS average versus the 126
making it 35 faster in a game like
cyberpunk 2077 again this is not with
Ray tracing turned on while Ray tracing
benchmarks in a second the 7900 XT is
nine and a half percent faster in the
redone version of The Witcher 3 which
was updated late in 2022 that is one
percent faster so they're actually
roughly comparable in that game f1440p
high but in a game like return all the
7900 XT is 15 faster Hitman 3 gives the
XT a 17 Advantage but the only game
where the 4070 TI came out on top
despite the fact that it has less vram
than the 20 Gigabytes that you find on
the 7900 XT the 4070 TI only having 12
gigabytes the 7900 XT managed to be four
percent slower at least in the benchmark
test run of the area that I do the
gameplay in The Last of Us Part One so
for the most part in big AAA titles the
7900 XT is significantly faster but it
does cost at least this model versus the
4070 TI model that I use about 60
dollars more or about seven and a half
percent now the average win for the 7900
XT was larger than seven and a half
percent but that's not all of the story
because the 4070 TI as I mentioned does
pretty dang well when it comes to Ray
tracing titles so in cyberpunk with Ray
tracing turned on not on RT overdrive
just Ray tracing medium the 4070 TI was
19.8 percent faster in The Witcher 3 it
was only three percent faster these
cards seem to be very evenly balanced in
CD projekt Red's rework of the 2015 game
and Hitman 3 the 4070 TI was 13 faster
but in a game like Metro Exodus enhanced
Edition the 4070 TI loss by six and a
half percent with the 7900 XT coming out
on top so it's not always 100 guaranteed
that the 4070 TI is going to win in Ray
tracing performance but it doesn't
appear to be a very significant
advantage that it does have in many
games and again this doesn't cover the
scope of other Technologies such as
having the nvank encoder that are
available for things like streaming or
for GPU rendering or additionally having
DLS S3 with frame insertion in case you
do want to get those faster FPS at the
cost of actually having increased
latency AMD has promised that there will
be an fsr3 for their AMD gpus upcoming
at some point but as we're sitting here
in the middle of August it hasn't been
announced some people are speculating
that it's going to coincide with the
launch of Starfield but that still
remains to be seen so those are the
performance benchmarks but the 7900 XT
has a different story to tell if you're
concerned about things like power
consumption because the overall system
draw with the 4070 TI installed was
385 Watts during active gaming sessions
with the 7900 XT installed it was a
hundred Watts more at 485. the 470 TI
was typically drawing 233 Watts whereas
as you could guess by 100 more the 7900
XT was drawing 333 Watts which means
very intriguingly one of the metrics
that doesn't get examined very often
because most people don't tend to care
about their power consumption over the
lifetime of their gaming systems the FPS
per watt of the 4070 TI tends to be
higher than the 6900 XT in Modern
Warfare 2 e even though the 7900 XT is
35 percent faster the 4070 TI returns an
FPS per watt of 0.54 whereas the 7900 XT
only gives you 0.51 so despite the
increased speed it's not large enough to
make up for the increased power
consumption and then in My Last of Us
Part One testing the 4070 TI has a 50
increase in fps per watt coming in at
0.45 versus the 7900 XT is 0.3 so there
are a multitude of conversations that
you can have when choosing between these
gpus if you just want the raw fastest
overall graphics card in most games with
no Ray tracing turned on the 7900 XT
looks like it's going to be your choice
but if you care about things like power
consumption the 4070 TI does make a
compelling argument as well as other
tangible benefits it has that aren't in
the gaming sector again such as the
nvank encoder whereas AMD tends to rely
on other processes at the current moment
and the price of these two is still feel
very close Nvidia hasn't really dropped
the price of the 4070 TI all that much
but again this Galax version is 30
dollars cheaper than any other 4070 TI
that I've seen recently the 7900 XT
power color red devil is about 75
dollars cheaper than the initial MSRP of
the 7900 XT but it's not necessarily the
cheapest that you can see this GPU go
for you can find this for around 749
dollars at some points that's not the
case as of the time of recording but
there tends to be more sales on the 7900
XT and then there's other benefits that
you can get currently again at the
moment at the time of recording the 7900
XT has the game bundle of star field
which allows you to get a very popular
game for free with the purchase of the
GPU and nvidia's gpus come with
OverWatch 2 which is already a free to
play game so even though the Cadillac's
is 60 dollars cheaper you're getting at
least a 60 game bundle out of the 7900
XT which even if you don't want to play
it you potentially give to a friend or
family member I think understanding the
landscape of where we are between these
two gpus the 7900 XT seems to be an
obvious choice within a very small scope
of purely gaming it is a very obvious
choice if all you're going to do is play
AAA games at 1440p high on something
like the Galax 5 and so one monitor but
there are other considerations that can
make the 4070 TI worth it I was really
hoping that I could have a definitive
conclusion but it looks like the answer
between these two gpus is it depends
maybe that will change as more games
come out let me know if you would like
me to revisit this comparison in about a
year between these two graphics cards to
see how the landscape has changed both
in terms of performance driver support
but also with pricing let me know which
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