Earlier today, Acer dropped its Nitro Shadow Knight RX 7800 XT in the Chinese market, just a few months after showing it off at CES 2024 [h/t ITHome.com]. Admittedly we didn't get our hands on it during the show— some other Acer oddities caught our attention at the time— but the latest "Shadow Knight" in Acer's lineup does seem interesting. The same card also launched as the "Nitro" in the U.S. and other areas, with the Acer Nitro RX 7800 XT priced at $519.99 at Newegg. That puts it in direct competition with the RTX 4070, and not far off the RX 7900 GRE, both of which are among the best graphics cards.
Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy puts the RX 7800 XT squarely between the RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 in rasterization performance. Ray tracing workloads as usual drop AMD quite a bit, with the RX 7800 XT performance landing just above the RTX 4060 Ti. Acer's card comes with a dual-fan 2.5-slot form factor, which may be a draw for those looking for something slightly more compact. Let's quickly look at the core specs.
