AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance
With the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards running well on the open-source, upstream Linux graphics drivers ahead of launch day, it was quickly off to the races for seeing how these new graphics cards would perform relative to the rest of the Radeon RX 7000 series as well as the NVIDIA competition. For this launch-day testing though the comparison is lighter than what I typcially deliver. With re-testing all GPUs each time on the latest drivers and then some timing complications this time around plus the Linux 6.6 merge window happening and planning to test DRM-Next / Linux 6.6 Git state soon, this comparison for the launch day doesn't have the prior generation graphics cards yet re-tested as well as some games missing due to Steam Play (Proton) issues in the past week. Additionally, NVIDIA hasn't been supplying many RTX 40 series review samples to Phoronix for reasons unknown so the comparison there is light as well for lack of hardware access.
In any event these are the preliminary results for the Radeon RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT graphics cards on Linux with the open-source driver stack. The graphics cards tested for today's article included the:
- AMD Radeon RX 7600
- AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
The NVIDIA 535.104.05 Linux driver was used with the RTX 40 series graphics cards while Linux 6.3.13 + Mesa 23.2-devel Git via the Oibaf PPA was used on the open-source Radeon driver side.
Let's see how AMD is looking in the sub-$500 space with these new RDNA3 graphics cards.