Some points to note about other reviews I have seen:
I have seen many reviews not done on an AMD platform, but rather Intel platform, with 13900K's used. That's fine, CPU-wise. However, those systems do not take into account AMD Smart Access Memory, which does improve performance on AMD cards in several games. I've also seen some reviewers purposefully turn off AMD Smart Access Memory, thinking it is more of a fair comparison. I'd argue it is fairer to use it. For example, NVIDIA has Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows, and it's turned "On" by default. Therefore, if you really want to be "fair" by claiming you turn off AMD Smart Access Memory, you'd also need to turn that off as well, but they don't. In addition, I think it is absolutely fair to use AMD Smart Access Memory/Resize BAR on ALL GPUs, if you turn it on everything, then it is FAIR. Just as it is fair to have Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows turned on for NVIDIA GPUs. In our reviews, we use AMD Smart Access Memory/Resize BAR ENABLED for EVERY GPU, as well as Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, we take those things into account, as any gamer would, because you'd want to do everything you can system-wise to optimize your experience with said hardware. So those also not using AMD platform systems, won't benefit from AMD Smart Access Memory, and I think that is a travesty, and misleading.
I have also seen a lot of reviews focus more heavily on the RTX 4090 comparison to RX 7900 XTX, and I believe that is not the intended comparison. AMD made it clear the RX 7900 XTX is an RTX 4080 competitor. That is the closer GPU in price and the primary one that should be compared and focused on with the RX 7900 XTX. You could even throw the RTX 4090 out, it's the outlier in price. That said, I think it is telling that the 7900 XTX can come that close to the 4090. I've seen so many people overlook how competitive the RX 7900 XTX is to the 4080, and how close it comes to the 4090 and they forget the 4090 is 60% more expensive, and in a completely different price segment, a halo pricing. It doesn't make sense to me when you see the 7900 XTX come that close to it, yet costs $600 less, to me, that's a value. RT performance, notwithstanding, which I do agree could be a justification to spend more money. But then, as stated, I don't think the 7900 XTX is that far behind RT performance in newer, more optimized RT games. It is on par with NV's last-generation top-end GPUs, so it has made improvements.
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