Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Edition Graphics Card Review

Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the centre of your own adventure in the wizarding world.

Available now on Steam.

Moving over to Hogwarts Legacy at 1440p, the 7900 GRE comes in at 98 FPS which is on par with the RTX 3090 and only 4% behind the more expensive 4070 Ti SUPER. In comparison to the 7900 XT, the GRE comes in 19% slower, while in comparison to the 7800 XT, the GRE packs another 8% more performance, while beating the 4070 SUPER by the same 8% margin.

At 4K, performance on the GRE matches the 4070 Ti non-SUPER at 50 frames per second, which is a modest 9% ahead of the 7800 XT and now places the golden rabbit card 19% behind the bigger 7900 XT which comes in 34% more expensive, so price to performance favours the newer GPU from team red, even if upscaling would be needed to get over that 60 FPS threshold that most gamers crave.

Enabling Ray Tracing at 1440p only sees the GRE pack another 5% more performance over the 7800 XT, now at 37 FPS. This also means that NVIDIA take the win with the RTX 4070 with an 11% margin, and the 4070 SUPER which comes in 38% faster for only $50 more, but that was expected considering we’re looking at Ray Tracing performance where AMD typically fall behind NVIDIA anyway.

Moving up to 4K and the GRE comes in at 22 FPS which funnily enough comes in slightly ahead of the 7900 XT. Testing both cards repeatedly garnered the same results within margin of error, and it just seems like AMD ran out of steam on this game, and short of turning upscaling on, the RTX 4090 really is the only card that will give a somewhat playable experience, but even then the lows will cause the gameplay to suffer regardless.