AMD just unveiled the Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards, both of which are designed to handle 1440p gaming setups. In terms of VRAM, the red team chose the latter over both the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti.
With AMD’s release of the Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT, we’ve been waiting for more AMD contenders to enter the best graphics card race. Nvidia already has a full line-up of GPUs following the GeForce RTX 4090, but every other model should now have a strong competitor. That means midrange players now have a decent selection of components to choose from, instead of just new-gen GeForce options.
Upon release on September 6th, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT will cost $499, while the Radeon RX 7800 XT will cost $449. They occupy a gap between the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti, with the RX 7800 offering better performance than the latter. AMD could capture players interested in dabbling in 4K PC gaming without paying premium prices.
Radeon RX 7800 XT features 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a 256-bit memory bus, while RX 7700 XT has 12GB. Even though the former has less memory, it has 54 CUs (Compute Units) instead of 60 with the RX 7800 XT, which isn’t a huge difference. Boost clock speeds aren’t drastically different either, with both cards delivering 2,544Mhz and 2,430Mhz respectively.
VRAM is the main difference between the RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT, and offering 16GB is somewhat commendable. AMD’s last graphics card, the Radeon RX 7600, used the same 8GB setup as the GeForce RTX 4060, but the new midrange card outperforms the 12GB RTX 4070 Ti. The green team’s card has faster GDDR6X modules, at least in terms of raw volume.
We’ll continue our comparison with AMD’s RX 7800 XT, which AMD claims will provide 3.5% better performance on average at 1440p than its RTX 4070. It is up to 23% faster with ray tracing, but victory isn’t assured across all internal benchmarks. RX 7700 XT is 12% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti, so it may serve as a middle ground option between the two.
Performance perceptions could drastically change with AMD FSR 3, as DLSS 3’s rival will arrive this fall. There won’t be every game that includes fluid motion frames, but we should see a huge boost in titles that do. We’re eager to see what AMD is truly cooking up in terms of AI upscaling when it comes to maintaining decent performance on PC.
