I know I want a 7800XT but how do I know which 7800XT I should get?

[Hello2]

Hi,

 

So I want to use the 7800XT in my 1st build. After searching for the card I stumbled upon a lot of different 7800XT's all from different manufacturers with their own respective prices.

So I searched for benchmarks where they compare all the 7800XT models but I can't find any.

 

Does anyone know where I can find these benchmarks, or do you know how I should decide on which one to get?

[PDifolco]

Get the cheapest one

They all have same performance with 5% overclocking possible on the more expensive ones, not interesting

[will0hlep]

9 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Get the cheapest one

They all have same performance with 5% overclocking possible on the more expensive ones, not interesting

This,

 

except I'd say it's more like 1-2% these days (if that)

[PDifolco]

6 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

This,

 

except I'd say it's more like 1-2% these days (if that)

Clocks can be OCed +5%, power draw is +15% but performance is +2% indeed  

[Hello2]

Thankyou,

 

Maybe a very stupid question but since there are different manufacturers how does it work with updating the drivers?

 

Do they all share the same reference PCB which means driver updates will be available by AMD themselves, or will this be provided through the manufacturer of each card?

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Hello2 said:

Maybe a very stupid question but since there are different manufacturers how does it work with updating the drivers?

 

Do they all share the same reference PCB which means driver updates will be available by AMD themselves, or will this be provided through the manufacturer of each card?

PCBs are different, GPU is the same so they use the same drivers. The vBIOS on the card itself will inform the drivers of the power limit and such (some will let you raise it higher than others, this will show up in both AMD's own Wattman OC utility and 3rd party stuff like MSI Afterburner). 

[Middcore]

2 minutes ago, Hello2 said:

Thankyou,

 

Maybe a very stupid question but since there are different manufacturers how does it work with updating the drivers?

 

Do they all share the same reference PCB which means driver updates will be available by AMD themselves, or will this be provided through the manufacturer of each card?

 

You get the drivers from AMD no matter what. Every 7800 XT is the same driver, there isn't like one driver for the Sapphire model, one for the XFX model, etc.