For my manual OC efforts, the card does run a fair bit quicker at 1080p and 1440p. A couple of frames on top of the factory OC, and thus even further ahead of the reference RX 7800 XT. Though it gobbles up significantly more power for that bump in performance. It also runs a touch hotter, though in reality this cooler isn't too phased even by the increased power surging through the card with the manual OC enabled.
Still, the RX 7800 XT does appear to pull a lead over the RTX 4070, and that's even more true of this more expensive model. There is another benefit to the RX 7800 XT, too: it comes with 16GB of memory across a wider 256-bit bus to the RTX 4070's 12GB and 128-bit bus. The impact of that memory superiority isn't as pronounced as, say, between this and the 8GB
Nevertheless, this isn't an exclusive benefit to the TUF Gaming model. A reference priced RX 7800 XT will deliver all that in a cheaper package, and grabbing a $500 RX 7800 XT at launch is the better value proposition frame-for-frame. There are also