The RTX 4080 Super and RX 7900 XTX fill out the upper echelons of the gaming market, representing two of the best GPUs for Gaming you can buy. Nvidia has the even faster RTX 4090, but there's no direct AMD competitor for that extremely expensive card. If you don't have the deepest of pockets and are looking for a high-end GPU with at least a somewhat reasonable price point, the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super and AMD RX 7900 XTX are currently as good as it gets.
The RTX 4080 Super debuted earlier this year as a refreshed variant of the fast but ultimately overpriced RTX 4080. The RTX 4080 Super rectified the RTX 4080's pricing problem by dropping the MSRP $200, though it failed to provide any noteworthy performance improvements over the vanilla 4080. The card sits in a good position overall, thanks to the price cut, and it effectively replaces the original 4080 which is now being phased out — cards still exist, but without a price drop there's no reason to pick them up.
The RX 7900 XTX remains AMD's flagship GPU, now coming up on two years old. There are rumors that AMD originally wanted to make a RTX 4090 competitor, but it underestimated just how potent and large Nvidia's AD102 die was going to be. AMD ditched any hope of claiming the overall performance crown, opting instead to compete with Nvidia's penultimate GPU. It also undercut the RTX 4080 by $200, but now officially it has the same $999 MSRP as the 4080 Super.
How do the RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 Super stack up in today's market? We'll discuss the strengths and weaknesses of both GPUs to declare a victor, as we check out the performance, pricing, features, technology, software, and power efficiency — listed in order of generally decreasing importance.
