Sapphire NITRO+ RX 7900 XT Vapor-X

2-year warranty

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 7900 XT Vapor-X is Sapphire’s version of the Radeon RX 7900 XT. At 320 mm it’s 44 mm longer than the 276 mm reference design. Its TDP is 368W — 68W above the 300W reference. It uses 3 8-pin rather than the reference 2 8-pin. Its video outputs (2 HDMi 2.1, 2 DisplayPort 2.1) differ from the reference (1 HDMI 2.1a, 2 Displayport 2.1, 1 USB Type-C). At 4 slots it’s wider than the 2-slot reference design. Below you’ll find every current retailer price and the full spec sheet.

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Sapphire NITRO+ RX 7900 XT Vapor-X

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.

Radeon RX 7900 XTTop GPU
81.3
100.0

1080p Gaming

63.8
100.0

1440p Gaming

51.6
100.0

4K Gaming

The Radeon RX 7900 XT scores 81.3 at 1080p, 63.8 at 1440p, and 51.6 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.

Benchmarks

Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.

3D & gaming

3DMark Fire Strike Graphicstechnical.city
Radeon RX 7900 XT63,399 points
GeForce RTX 4090 (best)75,641 points
3DMark Steel NomadUL 3DMark
Radeon RX 7900 XT5,622 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)14,544 points
Radeon RX 7900 XT29,072 G3D Mark
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)38,974 G3D Mark

Render

Radeon RX 7900 XT3,618 samples/min
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)15,017 samples/min

Compute & AI

Geekbench 7 OpenCLGeekbench Browser
Radeon RX 7900 XT185,284 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)337,912 points

Where to buy

Every in-stock retailer we track, cheapest first.

Lowest price$1,550.54
In stock at 1 retailer
  • AmazonCHEAPEST$1,550.54
    In stockUpdated 2026-08-08
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Specifications

GPU chip

Chip
Radeon RX 7900 XT
Architecture
RDNA 3 Navi 31
Process node
TSMC N5/N6
Shader cores
5,376
SM count
84
Texture units (TMUs)
336
Render outputs (ROPs)
192
RT cores
84 · 2nd gen
Tensor / AI cores
168 · 1st gen

Memory

VRAM
20GB GDDR6
Memory bus
320-bit
Bandwidth
800 GB/s
Memory speed
20 Gbps
Infinity Cache
80 MB

GPU die

Foundry
TSMC
Die size
529 mm²
Transistors
57.7 billion
Generation
Radeon RX 7000

Display & connectivity

Max resolution
7680 × 4320
Max displays
4
HDCP
2.3

APIs & software

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12.2)
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
Shader model
6.8

Platform features

Upscaling
FSR 3
Resizable BAR
Yes

Video encoding & decoding

CodecEncodeDecode
H.264 / AVCSupportedSupported
H.265 / HEVCSupportedSupported
AV1SupportedSupported
VP9Not supportedSupported

Encoder: VCN 4.0 · Decoder: VCN 4.0

Board

Boost clock
2400 MHz(reference)
Base clock
1500 MHz
TDP
Reference design: 300WThis card: 368W
Recommended PSU
750W
Power connectors
Reference design: 2 8-pinThis card: 3 8-pin

Physical

Cooling
Air
Warranty
2 years
Length
Reference design: 276 mmThis card: 320 mm
Slot width
Reference design: 2 slotsThis card: 4 slots
Outputs
Reference design: 1 HDMI 2.1a, 2 Displayport 2.1, 1 USB Type-CThis card: 2 HDMi 2.1, 2 DisplayPort 2.1

Identifiers

ASIN
B0BR6KLPDW

Chip-level specs — cores, memory, die, APIs, media engine and platform features — are shared by every version of the Radeon RX 7900 XT. The Board, Physical and Identifier boxes are specific to this Sapphire variant; a struck-through value shows where it differs from the reference design.

Other versions of the Radeon RX 7900 XT

Same GPU, different board — picked by what buyers usually compare.

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