AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT/7700 XT review vs RTX 4070/4060 Ti

A pair of excellent ray tracing titles are put through their paces in this second battery of RT testing. Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition remains the first - and only - triple-A gaming experience to be released requiring a GPU capable of hardware-accelerated ray tracing, while F1 22 is an interesting example of a fully-featured RT game that perhaps doesn't benefit from all of those effects, especially when it's so brutally fast from a rasterisation perspective.

To reiterate if you're jumping straight to this page without looking at prior results, our benchmarking system offers a number of ways to get to the data you want, the presentation varying according to the device you're using. You'll get a basic overview of our findings on mobile, with metadata from the video capture of each GPU being translated into simple bar charts with average frame-rate and lowest one per cent measurements for easy comparisons.

On a desktop-class browser, you'll get the full-fat DF experience with embedded YouTube videos of each test scene and live performance metrics. Play the video, and you'll see exactly how each card handled the scene as it progresses. Below the real-time metrics is an interactive bar chart, which you can mouse over to see different measurements and click to switch between actual frame-rates and percentage differences. All the data here is derived from video captured directly from each GPU, ensuring an accurate replay of real performance.

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition

4A Games' revised version of its excellent action adventure shooter remains the only triple-A title that demands the use of a graphics card that allows for the use of hardware-accelerated ray tracing and we'd therefore expect that the game performs better on Nvidia and Intel hardware. However, AMD is closing the gap, with fairly playable 55fps and 63fps averages for the RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT respectively. That's a 16 percent advantage for the aggressively priced RX 7800 XT, placing it ahead of its Navi 32 brother in the value stakes, but the RTX 4070 it's meant to compete against is a further 16 percent to the good.

F1 22

We're running the Codemasters racer fully maxed at its ultra high setting for this one, with the full complement of RT features engaged - though it's fair to say that their impact in improving the visuals is difficult to spot in the thick of the race. There's a laudable 54 percent average frame-rate increase gen-on-gen from the 6700 XT to 7700 XT, but the 7800 XT is only 10 percent faster than the RX 6800 XT. Against the Nvidia competition, the RTX 4070 and RX 7800 XT are neck-and-neck, and the 7700 XT even puts the 4060 Ti in the rear view mirror with an 11 percent average frame-rate lead. The difference between the two new AMD cards is as small as we've seen it, at just 13.5 percent.

AMD RX 7800 XT/7700 XT Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Control
• RT benchmarks: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, F1 22 [This Page]
• RT/DLSS/FSR2/DLSS3 benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Control, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 22, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Hitman 3, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Returnal
• Conclusions and recommendations