WE KNOW, WE KNOW—for the last few issues now, we’ve been infatuated with all things AMD. Part of it is down to the lack of new Intel hardware coming through (which won’t be a problem next issue, as we already have Raptor Lake in-hand), and part of it is just the pure excitement of what AMD’s been doing of late in bringing the fight to Nvidia in the graphics card space. But somehow, despite all of this AMD love, we’ve still managed to avoid doing a build with the company’s top-end offering, the RX 7900 XTX. Well, we’re very pleased to address that oversight here.
While the RX 7900 XTX is nearly one year old at time of writing, there’s no heir apparent that we’re aware of in the works from AMD, nor a competitor product from Nvidia at the $1,000 mark. Officially anyway. What has happened is that Nvidia seems to have found a
