This AMD RX 7800 XT might be the best graphics card value right now: $429, plus two free games
Good rasterization and large amounts of VRAM
There's not been a great deal of movement in the graphics card market for some time now, but we do know there are going to be some high-end cards releasing soon-ish from Nvidia in the early part of 2025 - prices are yet to be confirmed. So what do you do if you need a GPU now? Do you wait, not knowing a precise launch date and price, or do you pull the trigger and get something now? That's for you to decide, but there are some graphics card deals to find at the moment, especially on the AMD side of things, where some of the Radeon cards have dropped to their lowest-ever prices and offer very good value-to-performance ratios.
One of the best-value AMD GPUs available at the moment is the ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7800 XT available for just $429 at Newegg, which if you don't give two hoots about ray tracing, offers superior rasterization compared to its similarly priced competition. Plus, the extra VRAM and AMD offer for two free games Unknown 9: Awakening and Warhammer 40K: Space Marine II make for an attractive little package.
The Radeon RX 7800 XT comes with comes with 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a 256-bit memory bus. Offering 3840 stream processors with core clock speeds of 2169 MHz with the ability to boost to 2475 MHz.
ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7800 XT: now $429 at Newegg with code (was $469)
The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7800 XT comes with a large 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 3840 stream processors, 2169 MHz core clock speed, and 2475 MHz boost clock speeds.
Also, claim two free games with a qualifying AMG GPU purchase (Unknown 9: Awakening and Warhammer 40K: Space Marine II).
Use code FTT224DX7452 to receive a $20 discount at the checkout and achieve the deal price of $429.
We reviewed the Radeon RX 7800 XT and found the card to be rather underwhelming at release because of the lateness of its arrival in the 7000-series stack, and even though it has good 1440p and 1080p performance, it was only slightly faster than the RX 6800 XT, albeit with some minor power efficiency improvements.
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
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Geef When I bought my 7800XT it came with Starfield and I'm still happy with the purchase. I played through that game and enjoyed it. I'm sure two games will make it even more worth it.Reply -
Pierce2623
He’ll I paid $490 with no free game and it was still easily the best value in the midrange when the 4070 was $60 more with less VRAM and slower until you use ray tracing. Now I’m even able to fully use my 7800xt for any AI stuff I want to do (which doesn’t really go beyond image generation or code generation) and it’ll run larger models than a 4070. I’m sure somebody will tell me the 4070 is “faster” in AI, and I have no doubt it is, but the stuff I do runs in real time anyways so faster is just an abstraction.Geef said:When I bought my 7800XT it came with Starfield and I'm still happy with the purchase. I played through that game and enjoyed it. I'm sure two games will make it even more worth it. -
TheHerald The 7800xt is one of the not so many great AMD cards this generation. Hit a nice price point although I'd prefer it a little bit cheaper at launch. But every other model, oh man, AMD just decided to go ballistic and overcharged.Reply -
LordVile I bought one of these and just experienced constant crashing on the original card and the replacement. 4070 works fineReply -
Loadedaxe
ahhhh, the "It didnt work, buy nvidia" response.LordVile said:I bought one of these and just experienced constant crashing on the original card and the replacement. 4070 works fine
you obviously did something wrong, you dont get two bad cards back to back. Cmon man, stahp! -
LordVile
I tested with two PCs, bought new parts, tried various hardware configs and went to the point of reinstalling windows which didn’t rectify it and the issue has been asked multiple times on several forums.Loadedaxe said:ahhhh, the "It didnt work, buy nvidia" response.
you obviously did something wrong, you dont get two bad cards back to back. Cmon man, stahp! -
yahrightthere
And Nvidia didn't overcharge? OMG!TheHerald said:The 7800xt is one of the not so many great AMD cards this generation. Hit a nice price point although I'd prefer it a little bit cheaper at launch. But every other model, oh man, AMD just decided to go ballistic and overcharged. -
Loadedaxe
Did you buy it off Aliexpress?. Link the card you bought please. I am curious. I have been using AMD (ATi) since 1999, various ones from Hercules (My favorite) to Diamond, from the Rage and All-in-Wonder to current AMD cards, and only had one that went bad, it wasnt bad out of box. It was a RX580 from Asus. https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/dual/dual-rx580-8g/LordVile said:I tested with two PCs, bought new parts, tried various hardware configs and went to the point of reinstalling windows which didn’t rectify it and the issue has been asked multiple times on several forums.
The RMA went smooth actually and I still have the card. I have owned both, Nvidia and AMD and I know its anecdotal, but I have bought a <Mod Edit> ton of cards over the years, both have been pretty reliable. -
oofdragon
Troll bot detectedLordVile said:I bought one of these and just experienced constant crashing on the original card and the replacement. 4070 works fine