XFX 7800 XT & 7900 XTX Magnetic Air Review

Alan Wake II

A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.

Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.

Available now on Epic.

Starting with game performance and looking at Alan Wake II on the 7800 XT and it’s here where the Magnetic Air isn’t off to the best start being beaten by both the Sapphire Nitro+ and MERC 319 Black Edition cards, albeit only by between 3 and 4%, so could be argued margin of error or just not binning in terms of the GPU core.

Switching over to the 7900 XTX and cranking the resolution up to 4K and we find in Alan Wake II that the performance is a little better from the Magnetic Air card this time round. It matches that of the XFX MERC 310 Black Edition and comes in just under 2% faster than the AMD reference card, though this only equates to 1 FPS in the averages, and the same in the 1% lows.