But as an RX 6700XT owner, I’m guessing an RX 7900xt would be FAR from disappointing for me. 
Looking at that chart I’m seeing rock-stable frame rates for the 7900 XTX, with the 1% low frame rate coming in higher than any of NVidia’s offerings including the 4080 and 4090. Sounds like exactly what I’d want for a lot less $$$.
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I will stay with AMD. AMD still announced FSR 3.0 and Hypr-RX for '23, (hopefully) catching up with DLSS 3.0 and Nvidia Reflex. I’m already curious about the Fluid Motion Frames technology. I don’t see any reason to join NVidia’s price games.
I think whilst this is true today…
The potential uptake from AMD driver improvements is higher.
It’s fair to say that 6000 series cards did not perform at launch like they do today, and it is highly likely that the same will happen with the new cards.
On the other hand, I’ve read reports on power management issues with the new AMD cards, wondering if actual owners could chime in.
After 20 plus years, I’ve decided to take the plung and get a desktop for myself. Specifically for MSFS 2020.
Ive already got the HP reverb G2, Honeycomb Alpha, Logitech Rudder pedals and Thrustmaster TCA throttles.
Am waiting for my i9 13th gen, with 7900XTX (in the form of Speedster Merc 310) ETA 5 days.
Let me know if there is anything you’d like me to test out, and I’ll post my thoughts after I’ve had a bit of a play around with it.
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5700XT owner here, I’m really tempted to pull the trigger on a new GPU, just not sure which to go for at the moment…Do I upgrade to a 6800XT or a 6900XT or straight to a 7000 series GPU…
I’ve just purchased a 5800X3D to replace my 3700X which should hopefully be delivered in time for Xmas so I’m tempted to get a new GPU too…
I pulled the trigger and got a 7900XT which has just been delivered to go with my 5800X3D CPU.
I’m aware for a little more I could have got a 7900XTX but I would have also needed to get a new PSU and case as they are too big..
Can’t believe how small the GPU is, it’s smaller than my old 5700XT. No idea on performance yet as not installed it so that’s planned for later this afternoon.
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Ok good news, tell us if you have good performances whith this new GPU please.
Had a little play and it’s a massive improvement from my old GPU. It looks like there quite a bit of room for overclocking too.
This is with everything on ultra settings at 1440p. I think LOD is at 300 but can’t remember
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Great choice! Congratulations!
What kind of performance are you getting on the tarmac at a busy airport like JFK or similar?
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I’m out at the moment, will have a look later and post back
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I have the same hardware as you and can tell you (VR only) has been the smoothest I experiensed since launch of MsFs.
Edit: This is changing out my Sappire 6900xt Nitro SE for the basic 7900xt Asrock
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Congrats ! Have u tested with A32nx or Fenix320 ?
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I have a core i9-12900K , 64GB DDR5 Ram and a RTX 3090 . I use HP Reverb G2 for VR experience and sometime i get little Stuttering in VR , very often with FSTL for real life traffic .
How is it with the new AMD RX 7900 XTX or XT in VR ? I Plan to Buye a card.
Can Somebody say Something about FPS in VR with the HP Reverb in Ultra Settings?
I can share your thoughts very well, especially the driver related. I have had my AMD „episode“ and I am still cured. There has much more to come than Ryzen or Navi to let me have another try.
For the note I qouted there is to mention that AMD has to drive their cards hard on the limit to match the 4080 performance wise. So the price point is the remaining reason to justify an AMD card by now.
And yeah, that includes the ugly wiggly moronic positioned underengineered 12VHPWR power connector. Even such an iconic fail dont push me back in arms of AMD.
I was more than happy to jump on the Ryzen bandwagon starting with the 2700X when it first launched. It was nearly as fast for gaming as the 9900k at the time at half the price. And slayed it in multi-core workloads.
I game on my computer, but I also use it for video and photo processing (astrophotography in particular). Ryzen absolutely destroyed Intel in those types of workloads at half the price. I now have a a Ryzen 5950X. And until the recent launch of the 7950X, it murdered everything else on the market including Intel’s Xeon lineup in the same workloads.
Ryzen are top tier CPUs and unrelated to their GPUs. They need to be judged on their own merit vs just by the brand name attached to them. And they’re the reason we now see such large generational performance leaps in Intel CPUs after that company stagnated for over decade with their CPUs. And now, they’re the ones playing catch up as AMD and ARM CPUs are stealing their crown.
And make no mistake. AMD is also the reason we’re seeing such huge generational leaps in GPU performance the last couple of generations as well. And gamers (and simmers) as a whole owe them a huge debt of gratitude, even if we’re not using their product.
From the GTX400 series until the RTX2000 series, the generational performance increases of nVidia cards was pretty minimal. Assuming you didn’t own an entry level x50 or x60 card, you could easily skip 3-4 generations of video cards and still have a relatively performant system for the latest games. There was no reason for them to innovate and invest. AMD were so far behind the performance curve they didn’t really matter to anyone but gamers on the tightest budgets.
Now AMD are doing the same to nVidia as they did with Intel. The performance gap is closing slower in the GPU space than it did with CPUs, but they’re firmly in nVidia’s rearview mirrors. And nVidia is having to rely more and more on gimmicks like AI upsampling and fake frames to “stay ahead”. And if you’re buying midrange, AMD is by far the best bang for the buck you can get for a GPU. They’re even very compelling on the higher end too for the price.
But all that said, AMD still have some way to go. And particularly in the drivers department. And while I’d love to give them my money to keep them going, it’s a hard sword to willingly fall on.
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This 100%. I remember the days when you classed as insane if you upgraded each generation as the peformance gains were minimal, it’s why I hung onto my 3770k until 2020. Nowadays, each generation is upto a 50% uplift. I’m still sticking to my “every other” method though, I’m not Bill Gates! Hi Bill if you’re watching. 
I bought a Asus RX 7900 XTX gaming now and i was surprised about the good 4K gaming performence but i can tell you at the moment MSFS 2020 in VR is terribel with the new AMD card. Low FPS and the picture is shaking. Maybe they will bring out a new driver which can fix this.
Couple of things about Nvidia’s ‘greed’. The flagship 4090 which YouTubers told us not to buy is selling like hotcakes. If you think the card is expensive, then it’s unlikely a card you really need. The ‘upselling’ Nvidia did to the 4080 (to sell 4090s) card AMD are doing exactly the same with the 7900 XT (to sell XTXs).
My personal view as a value proposition, you can’t really go too far wrong with either the XTX, 4080 or 4090 and ultimately it’s going to be down to budget and what features are most important. The poor value card amongst this lot is the 7900 XT.
By the way I bought the a new 13900K / 4090 PC and I have absolutely no regrets, it produces a VR experience like no other!
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My comment had nothing to do with what we can afford. We all just go out and get what we want no matter the price. We ALL do that, not just you. It is about getting more performance for most of us at any price for some unknown reason. We will still go out and buy them up like “Hotcakes” Then, the Corporate Greed Managers realize they can up the price to $2300.00 each and we will still buy them… They will reap even larger profits to disburse … result of every increasing Corporate Greed.