AMD announces Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT, starting at $449
“I just wish there were an option between the $300 to $400 marks that offered enough performance to push us firmly into the 1440p era.” That was my colleague Tom Warren’s conclusion reviewing the $399 Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and $269 AMD Radeon RX 7600.
On September 6th, AMD may come close — that’s when it’s shipping the brand-new $449 RX 7700 XT and $499 7800 XT, with a free copy of Starfield to sweeten the pot.
The company claims both cards can average over 60fps in the latest games at 1440p with maximum settings and no fancy upscaling tricks — including troubled PC ports like The Last of Us Part I and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Both GPUs average over 100fps in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, the company claims.
Where things get really interesting is in comparisons with Nvidia, where the $450 7700 XT might trounce the $400 GeForce 4060 Ti — and the $500 7800 XT may beat the $600 RTX 4070 in rasterized games (and even a couple of ray-traced ones), while leaving an entire hundred-dollar bill in your pocket.
Now remember, we weren’t particularly impressed with the generation-over-generation upgrades from either of Nvidia’s cards, and we can’t yet say if AMD has offered enough of an improvement to tempt gamers away from previous-gen cards. But as of yesterday, a last-gen 6800 XT still cost over $530 at retail. Are GPUs headed in the right direction again?
They are still a little large; even AMD’s Radeon RX 7800 XT reference design takes up 2.5 slots’ worth of width in a desktop computer, compared to Nvidia’s two-slot design for the RTX 4070 Founders Edition and below. They require more power, too, at up to 265W versus the 200W GeForce. Some will appreciate that they are sticking with a pair of eight-pin PCI-E power sockets,
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