Thoughts on the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX after two weeks of using it every day

I made a post about my initial thoughts/impressions on the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX here: https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1hma1st/first_impressionsexperience_with_the_sapphire/

Anyways, I just wanted to give an update after about 2 weeks. My primary interest with this card is gaming at 4K 60FPS and I've not been disappointed when it comes to the actual performance of the card. I've been playing a lot of Horizon Forbidden West and it's SUPER nice playing a game at 4K and not constantly having framerate drops, like how I would with my RTX 3080. Games like Hogwarts Legacy, Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Lords of the Fallen and every VR game I've tried run great.

I use two 4K 60hz screens and I often like to watch a tv show, video or a stream my second monitor while gaming, which works well! I have enough VRAM to run games at 4K AND watch a youtube video easily. With Horizon Forbidden West + a youtube video I'd occasionally see VRAM usage get up to 18GB. In VR, with supersampling, I saw about 20GB of VRAM usage (In Kayak VR: Mirage), which is pretty crazy, but I guess at very high resolutions you need more VRAM.

I did some more testing with rendering in Blender and I've yet to have a crash or any problems with it. Sure, it's about as fast as my old RTX 3080, but using blender is just an occasional hobby and I don't need things to render blazingly fast and perhaps it will improve in the future.

Now onto the issues I've had. I think that they're pretty minor, but I want to be completely honest. I've had about 2 or 3 crashes in Horizon:Forbidden West in about 20 hours of gameplay. The exact error was "(0x887A0006: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG)". I haven't experienced a crash in any other game that I've tried out. Once in a while the adrenaline software will take a bit of time to open. I've actually had it happen once or twice where it wouldn't open at all and I had to open task manager, end the process" and start it up again.

Overall I'm happy with things despite not having an entirely flawless/perfect experience (but to be completely honest, I still had occasional crash and issues with my previous RTX 3080 anyways). Overall I'm pretty happy with this card for my use-case. The temperatures and noise levels are all really great with the Nitro+. Coil whine is very minimal as well thankfully. I've mostly been running this GPU at 310ish watts max, just because I prefer the lower temps and for 4K 60fps gaming I don't seem to need the extra power just yet, but it's there if I ever need it.

I'm still waiting for CES to see what the new GPUs will look like before I decide whether or not I'm keeping this 7900XTX, but I'm leaning towards keeping it because I'm happy with it. And with new GPUs in a similar price range potentially having only 16gb of VRAM (RTX 5080), that doesn't sound too appealing to me anyways. But I suppose we'll see tomorrow at CES. I'll admit though, part of what makes me want to keep this card is the fact that it's probably the best looking graphics card on the market at the moment. BUT if something amazing is announced at CES I'd hesitantly be willing to part with it.