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Duncan Robertson

I still have a soft spot for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX in 2026, but does this last-gen flagship hold its own against Nvidia's younger DLSS-obsessed rivals?

An XFX Merc Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card.

AMD chose not to dish out a "flagship" Radeon offering that would compete with Nvidia's RTX 5090 for its most recent generation of graphics cards. Sure, the RX 9070 XT is pretty much the stand-in, and sure, there are conversations to be had about what being a "flagship" PC component even means in this day and age. But, like it or not, the best graphics card from AMD this generation isn't trying to pick a fight with Nvidia's top dog.

In an era of civil unrest at the state of modern graphics cards that are too reliant on AI upscaling, though, I started asking myself something.

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