AMD's Sub-$500 Radeon RX 7800, 7700 XT Arrive Next Month
AMD is going after Nvidia in the midrange PC graphics card market with the Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT, which launch on Sept. 6 for $499 and $449, respectively.
AMD designed the cards for 1440p gaming. Expect them to offer 60+ frames per second on the latest cutting-edge games. Both cards also contain about two-thirds the graphics power found in the $959+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which launched in December with 96 compute units built on the RDNA 3 architecture.
The Radeon RX 7800 XT contains 60 compute units while the 7700 XT features 54. AMD is also pointing out both cards contain an ample amount of GDDR6 video memory to help future-proof them for memory-demanding PC games.
The 7800 XT comes with 16GB of RAM on a 256-bit interface. The company is positioning it to take on Nvidia’s RTX 4070, which retails for more at $599, but features only 12GB of video memory on a 192-bit interface.
AMD’s benchmarks show the 7800 XT often beating the RTX 4070 across 20 different games when playing at max settings, even with ray tracing activated, although it can lag behind in others.
The 7700 XT, on the other hand, has 12GB of video memory on a 192-bit interface. The product is looking to compete against Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti, which starts at a lower $399, but offers only 8GB of memory on a 128-bit interface. (The RTX 4060 Ti 16GB starts at $499, but with minimal performance improvements over the 8GB version.)
AMD’s benchmarks also show the 7700 XT mostly outperforming the 4060 Ti, a card that's mainly designed for 1080p gaming instead of 1440p.
The pricing combined with the stronger frame rates make the new Radeon cards a better deal for consumers over Nvidia's competing GPUs, AMD claims.
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