Are you tired of seeing the same old GPU gaming benchmark videos?
Well, get ready for something different.
In this video, we're going to take a closer look at how AMD’s RX 7900 XTX GPU performs
when it comes to content creation and video editing.
We'll analyze the latest PugetBench Adobe Premiere Pro and Blender results, and compare
AMD RX 7900 XTX with Nvidia RTX 4090 and 4080.
BTW, if you are interested in the specific hardware setup that was used to run all these
tests, you can find more details in the video description below
Alright, let's talk about video editing and the importance of a powerful GPU for GPU-accelerated
effects like color grading, blurring, and noise reduction.
In this department, RX 7900 XTX holds its own and performs on par with the top-end RTX
30-series cards and the RTX 4080.
But it falls behind RTX 4090 which comes out ahead by about 16%.
Considering the price difference between RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4090, I think this performance
gap is perfectly acceptable.
Okay, now let's focus on the geometric mean of H.264 and HEVC encoding and decoding results.
This test measures how good the hardware media encoders and decoders perform in a GPU.
So when it comes to Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software, AMD’s RX 7900 XTX really
shines.
It beats Nvidia RTX 4080 and 4090 by about 20%, and comes out ahead of the previous generation
RX 6900 XT by a whopping 60%.
These are impressive gains and show that AMD RX 7900 XTX is a strong contender in the video
editing space.
Next, let's take a closer look at debayering RED RAW performance.
In my last video, I mentioned how RX 7900 XTX performed extremely well in this test
while running DaVinci Resolve.
However, for some reason, 7900 XTX fails to deliver the same performance in Adobe Premiere
Pro.
In fact, we see extremely poor performance, even lower than RX 6900 XT.
This is strange and could potentially be due to some kind of driver or application bug
that is negatively impacting performance.
It's definitely worth keeping an eye on this issue.
Let's hope that AMD addresses it in their future driver updates.
Next, let's take a look at the extended overall score from Pugetbench.
Here we find RX 7900 XTX lagging behind RTX 4090 and 4080, but performing more in line
with RTX 3080 and 3090.
Now, it's important to note that this isn't a terrible showing by any means.
Afterall RX 7900 XTX is still beating the previous AMD flagship GPU by 22%, which is
a significant improvement.
One thing that I find really interesting is that even though the RX 7900 XTX has more
Video RAM than the RTX 4080, it still loses in the extended overall benchmark.
This makes me wonder, just how much of an advantage, more video RAM really offers in
a GPU when it comes to content creation.
To explore this further, let's take a closer look at the GPU rendering performance in Blender.
Although a lot of GPU renderers don't support AMD cards, Blender is an exception.
In this test, RX 7900 XTX was able to outperform the RX 6900 XT and the 12GB model of RTX 2080
Ti.
In fact it showed about 70% improvement over the previous generation RX 6900 XT cards.
But it couldn't keep up with the rendering power of Nvidia RTX GPUs.
AMD RX 7900 XTX lagged behind all Nvidia 30-series GPUs and its performance was significantly
lower than RTX 4080 and 4090.
Historically, AMD has been a reliable choice for gaming, but it has often lagged behind
Nvidia in content creation workflows.
Although RX 7900 XTX delivers some improvements for AMD, it still struggles in a number of
areas compared to Nvidia.
Its 24GB of Video RAM is definitely a nice feature, but many of the tasks that benefit
from high Video RAM still perform better on Nvidia GPUs
So overall, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX did excel in a few specific workloads.
For e.g in Premiere Pro, it did really well in handling H.264 & HEVC media codecs and
managed to outperform all other GPUs.
But in other areas its performance was underwhelming.
For e.g. when it comes to GPU rendering in Blender, RX 7900 XTX got absolutely trounced
by Nvidia RTX GPUs.
The fact that RTX 4080 is almost three times faster for a relatively small price difference,
I think most professionals would stick with Nvidia.
These results highlight the significant performance gap between AMD and Nvidia GPUs when it comes
to professional workloads.
Nvidia has a clear advantage in terms of raw rendering power thanks to their advanced CUDA
and RTX libraries.
Because of this, I think NVIDIA still offers the best GPUfor content creation.
But if you are a Davinci Resolve user, the latest pugetbench results will surprise you.
So checkout this video over here where I cover all the Davinci Resolve benchmarks in detail.
Go ahead and watch that video, and I will see you guys over there.
Bye!