AMD hardware didn't fare well in Avalanche's new blockbuster, Hogwarts Legacy. The other day we reported that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is falling behind Intel's significantly cheaper Arc A770 in some scenarios. It only reached 6 FPS on average in the TPU test scene, followed by the RX 6900 XT with 5.1 FPS. The $999 RDNA 3 flagship is beaten by the $300 RTX 3060 and the four-year-old RTX 2080 Ti.
Even Intel's Arc A770 is faster than the best Radeon GPU. It averages 17 FPS, making it almost 3 times faster than the RX 7900 XTX. Meanwhile, the GeForce RTX 4080 is over 4x faster than the RX 7900 XTX, and the RTX 4090 extends the lead to 6x. CPU performance on the Ryzen side isn't very good either.
The Ryzen 9 7950X, combined with the GeForce RTX 4090, displays 65 FPS at 1080p RT Ultra (DLSS set to performance). Its Raptor Lake-S rival, the Core i9-13900K, is much faster, averaging 94 FPS with the same configuration. These benchmarks were carried out with the E-cores on the 13900K disabled and a single CCD operational on the 7950X.
Both processors are faster with these adjustments. The flagship Raphael faces fewer dropouts due to all threads being close together on the same CCD, while the Raptor Lake-S part does not assign any threads to any of the slower Gracemont “E” cores.
Interestingly, the Ryzen 9 7950X is slower than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in this title, losing to the Core i9-12900K by 20%. CapFrameX further notes that GeForce drivers impart significant driver overhead, reducing performance by up to 9%.
As many users have noted, performance varies greatly from scene to scene, and you won't always see these kinds of deltas. That said, you will see the difference in demanding scenarios, where the game tends to stutter due to weak bass.
Source: CapFrameX