AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Shares rank 29 of 42 graphics cards by recommenders
Owners report it runs fine with few technical issues, and Linux support is good. The most common caveat is occasional amdgpu driver hangs in some games.
Owners report it runs fine with few technical issues, and Linux support is good. The most common caveat is occasional amdgpu driver hangs in some games.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Happy, trouble-free owners
“I'm pretty happy with just a 7800 XT and DDR4.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All” “Im running fine on my AMD 7800xt 16gb”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Microsoft to Stop Sharing Revenue with Main AI Partner OpenAI” “I've had zero technical issues.”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI” - Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Nvidia RTX Spark”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Driver hangs in some games
“I've had two amdgpu hangs playing The Finals which were a Mesa bug”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “KDE onboarding is good now”
Other graphics cards people recommend
The four most recommended other graphics cards, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 116 | 21 | 85% | 12 | 5 yrs14 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 102 | 37 | 73% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | 77 | 26 | 75% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia GPUs | 67 | 67 | 50% | 11 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTThis page | 8 | 1 | 89% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“handles memory contention by freezing”
“Never had the issue again.”
“Im running fine on my AMD 7800xt 16gb”
“I'm pretty happy with just a 7800 XT and DDR4.”
“I've had two amdgpu hangs playing The Finals which were a Mesa bug”
“it's amazing. Linux support is great too”
“I've had zero technical issues.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.