PowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Graphics Card

Just title. It was really easy to install. REMEMbER TO NOT DAISY CHAIN THIS CARD! coil whine will be terrible, if you do it right, coil whine will be minimum but you can still hear it in a quiet room. If you use headphones, it doesn't matter

This GPU is MASSIVE, I mean absolutely vast, huge, enormous, gigantic. Be warned if you have a small case. It has two switches on it, a silent mode / OC mode toggle and another switch that can select one of two lighting schemes or no lights at all.The photo is of this thing installed, it comes with an anti-gpu sag (because it is so big) stand which I don't think I needed but installed anyway, it can just be seen in the photo.The benchmark screenshot is from userbenchmark with OC mode on. I toggled it into silent mode for personal use after so for all other observations that are with silent mode on. I'm not sure if it's just my card or this class of card that is performing at an outstanding level.When sitting in windows with light work like watching a video and browsing the internet the GPU temps are 46C (with new drivers temps sit at 36C at idle (9/23/23)) with a junction temp of 55C. Unfortunately for my setup, 1 4k 144hz monitor and 1 1080p 144hz monitor both plugged in via display port the card pulls close to 100 watts at idle (with new drivers power draw is as low as 18 watts at idle(9/23/2023)). It should not do this, it should be closer to 20 watts. There is chatter out there on this issue and AMD thinks they can fix this with a future driver update. Because it's a new launch I will not ding it for this flaw, but if it hasn't been fixed in 3-6 months I would consider it to be a problem.Temps underload can be seen in the final screenshot. GPU temps peak at 69C with a junction temp peaking at 82C after about 10 minutes of intense usage in a game. It is clear that the 7900XTX reference cooler issue is not present with this card and the cooler works just fine.Overall this card is not cheap. But this thing about it is, you can buy this product now at MSRP when its closest competitors, 7900XTX and 3070ti, you can not buy unless you want to pay scalper prices. So it's not great value, but it's not terrible value and importantly you can actually buy it. Given the state of the GPU market in the last year or so this is a huge improvement and this card gets a 5 star review for excellent performance and being buyable.

Impressive performance and price. Well built, great driver support. Quiet cooling, but coil whine us the worst of the pack at certain power draws. Nonissue with closed back headphones.

I WANTED to like this card so badly. I WANTED to give AMD/ATI another try.I've been building PC's since 2004, back when Athlon's came on the scene and dethroned Intel for a while and the power struggle went back and forth since then. I always supported AMD CPU's and I still do to this day, I'm running a 7800x3d.However, I have ALWAYS had issues with Radeon video cards. Always a driver issue in a game, crashes, bsod's, stuttering, hard locks, you name it. For quite a few years I swore off ever buying another Radeon card again, until I read all the material and reviews online promising how AMD had come in and fixed all the issues and Radeon is now on the same level as Nvidia when it comes to hardware/software issues.I bought the 7900 XT, and it was great in the beginning. Then I started getting crashes in various games. My buddies all bought the same CPU/Mobo/Ram combo as me, and went with Nvidia cards at my recommendation (because I'm the one that always has to fix issues they have) and I still wasn't sold fully on AMD/Radeon cards. My buddy's PC's weren't crashing... they weren't having a single hiccup playing any of the newest games. And I would know because often times we were playing the same games together at the same time.Then I started getting this AMD backup cmd window that likes to just pop itself up over the top of any priority window that I have up at the time. Talk about maddening.Helldivers 2, could barely play without adjusting settings (which may be the game itself I get that.) and then when you got the settings right be prepared for a crash every few hours.Space Marine 2, a pretty graceful launch, I crash every couple hours.World of Warcraft... has always been stable for me. No longer. I will crash at random to desktop.I also have this issue where I run 2x 4k monitors side by side. Whichever monitor is not hosting an active window at the time runs at about 10 fps. It's not a game setting. My games are set specifically to run at 60 fps when they are not the active window. Still 10 fps or lower. Gifs and other media on my non active monitor will stutter and lag.It's just ridiculous at this point. The amount of one off issues with random things is not worth the time and effort that it takes to troubleshoot when I can buy an Nvidia card and have NONE of these issues. I ran a 1080 Ti for years and had not a single issue besides maybe a driver update that fixed games here and there.I'll be listing this card on marketplace after I order an Nvidia card today. And I will never buy another AMD card again. This experience has completely sealed the deal for me.

So, I had a 1000w platinum rated corsair psu from 6 years ago. I thought it could handle the 7900xt hellhound, but it kept crashing when I started any stress test or intensive game. I did ddu and bios tune down and nothing helped. I finally bought 1200w psu and now it works

Going from a 6700 XT Red Devil to this 9700 XT Hellhound was night and day for me. I get over 100 fps in all games I play with a 5700X3d CPU, when I used to get 70 at most without using FSR at 1440p. The card runs a little warm, but that is to be expected from AMD. Raytracing ins't that bad with this card. I am very pleased.

Love the product. the downside was having to wait a month to get the item. i dont know if this was a power color issue or amazon. but pretty ridiculous