The massive gap in AMD’s graphics card lineup should not be too far-off from being plugged. Simply final week Powercolor erroneously set its RX 7800 XT Purple Satan webpage on-line, giving us a take a look at the cardboard and its close to full specs. Particulars concerning the RX 7700 XT have been extra elusive, however now we have got a sign that it’s coming quickly too.
A product itemizing was noticed by @momomo_us on the Eurasian Financial Fee (through VideoCardz). It reveals an inventory of ASRock graphics playing cards, two of that are RX 7800 XT 16GB fashions. They’re joined by one other three RX 7700 XT 12GB fashions. The 5 playing cards will make up a part of ASRock’s Phantom Gaming, Metal Legend and Challenger sub-brands.
The RX 7700 XT playing cards carry a 12GO suffix. In ASRock parlance, that signifies 12GB of VRAM and absolutely a 192-bit reminiscence bus. That is actually a good configuration in comparison with the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti, although in fact it is simply considered one of many components that decide efficiency.
Given final week’s full Powercolor RX 7800 XT leak, and ASRock’s RX 7700 XT itemizing, the launch of the playing cards absolutely is not far-off. Only a week in the past, AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su promised new “enthusiast-class” graphics playing cards earlier than the top of October. It appears to be like just like the wait will not be that lengthy, though the RX 7800 XT launch is more likely to happen first.
Each the RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT are wanted to plug the large hole between the $269 RX 7600 and the excessive finish $899 RX 7900 XT. AMD has been utilizing RX 6000-series playing cards to fill that hole.
If the RX 7700 XT is to be a hit, it’s going to have to compete with the RTX 4060 Ti, or if not, it’s going to have to be cheaper. On the similar time, the RX 7800 XT needs to be an RTX 4070 competitor, although the RTX 4070 Ti appears to be like to be a bit past it. It’s going to all come right down to an acceptable worth/efficiency ratio ultimately. At the very least we all know AMD’s challengers may have superior reminiscence configurations in comparison with their Nvidia counterparts.
We can’t have to attend too lengthy to know the solutions to all of those questions. Let the battle resume!
