Introduction
Today, at Gamescom 2023 in Cologne, Germany, AMD is announcing its continuation of the Radeon RX 7000 Series lineup of GPUs based on the RDNA 3 architecture which debuted in December 2022 with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7600 in May 2023. You can read more about AMD at Gamescom here.
AMD is announcing the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT GPUs. The Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT fall in line between the Radeon RX 7600 and Radeon RX 7900 XT, filling up the mainstream GPU segment aimed squarely at the 1440p gameplay experience.
The Radeon RX 7800 XT will have an MSRP of $499 and the Radeon RX 7700 XT will have an MSRP of $449, competing squarely with the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, but will be interesting when compared to the more expensive $599 GeForce RTX 4070. The Radeon RX 7800 XT can be seen as a successor to the previous generation Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the Radeon RX 7700 XT can be seen as the successor to the Radeon RX 6700/6750 XT, but should be much faster. Don’t forget, you will also get Starfield with the purchase of an AMD Radeon Graphics Card.
| AMD Radeon RX 7600 | AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Units | 32 | 54 | 60 | 84 | 96 |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 3456 | 3840 | 5376 | 6144 |
| RT Accelerators | 32 | 54 | 60 | 84 | 96 |
| AI Accelerators | 64 | 108 | 120 | 168 | 192 |
| Game Clock | 2250MHz | 2171MHz | 2124MHz | 2000MHz | 2300MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2655MHz | 2544MHz | 2430MHz | 2400MHz | 2500MHz |
| GDDR6 | 8GB | 12GB | 16GB | 20GB | 24GB |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit | 320-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Speed | 18Gbps | 18Gbps | 19.5Gbps | 20Gbps | 20Gbps |
| Infinity Cache | 32MB | 48MB | 64MB | 80MB | 96MB |
| TBP | 165W | 245W | 263W | 315W | 355W |
| PCIe | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| MSRP | $269 | $449 | $499 | $899 | $999 |
Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT
The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT directly target the 1440p gameplay experience, which AMD says enjoyed large growth year on year. Gamers on older hardware, are ready to upgrade with GPUs from two generations past not able to hit 60FPS at 1440p max settings in the newest games. The new Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT should be available on September 6th, 2023.
The Cards and Performance
The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is a 60 Compute Unit, 3840 Shader Unit, RDNA 3 Chiplet-based GPU with 60 RT Accelerators (2nd Gen) and 120 AI Accelerators using 64MB of 2nd Gen AMD Infinity Cache. It consists of a 5nm GCD + 6nm MCDs. It will have a Game Clock of 2124MHz and a Boost Clock of 2430MHz. It will have 16GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus at 19.5Gbps which gives it 624GB/s of memory bandwidth, and it will use a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface with a TDP of 263W. Since this is the new generation, it will also have DisplayPort 2.1 and AV1 encoding support.
The Radeon RX 7700 XT will sit right under the RX 7800 XT as a 54 Compute Unit, 3456 Shader Unit RDNA 3 Chiplet-based GPU with 54 RT Accelerators (2nd Gen) and 108 AI Accelerators using 48MB of 2nd Gen AMD Infinity Cache. It consists of a 5nm GCD + 6nm MCDs. It will have a Game Clock of 2171MHz and a Boost Clock of 2544MHz. It will have 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus at 18Gbps which gives it 432GB/s of memory bandwidth, and it will use a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface with a TDP of 245W. Since this is the new generation, it will also have DisplayPort 2.1 and AV1 encoding support.
AMD is showing the Radeon RX 7800 XT performing up to 23% faster than the GeForce RTX 4070, though it will be game-dependent. We see performance ranging from the negative with Ray Tracing, in Raster edging toward the 7800 XT. AMD is showing the Radeon RX 7700 XT performing as much as 31% faster as the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, though again very game-dependent. With Ray Tracing enabled, we do see some numbers edging out towards the Radeon RX 7700 XT, which is very interesting. We will have to wait and see how it all pans out in our testing.
FSR3
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, or FSR3, is finally being announced and talked about, but you will have to wait a little bit longer to actually experience it. AMD’s method of frame interpolation will be called AMD Fluid Motion Frames, and it will be able to be used with AMD Super Resolution Upscaling and AMD Anti-Lag+ for a complete experience.
The caveat, for now, we will need to wait a little longer for it to come to some games, for example, Forspoken will be getting a patch later in September, and there are many games on the list. Right now, game developers do need to implement Fluid Motion Frames (FSR3) into games to demonstrate the technology, so it does require developer support at the moment, but this may not always be the case.
AMD has it in its plans to implement Fluid Motion Frames at a driver level in the future. What this means is that in the future, you will be able to enable Fluid Motion Frames in the driver for every DX11 and DX12 game. That’s right, you won’t have to wait for a game to support Fluid Motion Frames, you won’t have to wait for the developer to implement it in the game, and you won’t have to wait for game patches. Instead, you should, be able to go into the driver, enable it, and simply have it in any DX11 or DX12 game. We will have to see how this works out, but you’ll have to wait a few months till this happens. If this works out, it is truly an open philosophy.
Consider as well that FSR3 and Fluid Motion Frames will work across NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs as it uses the shaders, and is not a machine learning based algorithm. It does not require any sort of special hardware. This does bring into question what image quality will be like, and what performance will truly be like, as it will tax the shaders, and how it will affect latency. For all of that, we will just have to wait and see. To help answer the image quality question though, AMD is going to offer a new interesting type of mode with FSR3, called Native AA.
One interesting feature of FSR3 is what AMD is calling Native AA mode. This basically allows you to turn on AMD Fluid Motion Frames (interpolation) but without the upscaling part of it, no Super Resolution. This means you will be able to run at the native resolution, with frame interpolation turned on, and no upscaling. That is quite unique, and it should help to provide better quality with interpolated frames, yet still get a pretty big smoothness boost.
More AMD Radeon Features
AMD is also announcing Hypr-RX which will be an “easy” button in Readon software to turn on AMD Radeon Boost, AMD Radeon Anti-Lag+ and AMD Radeo Super Resolution in one fell swoop.
Naturally, with the new architecture you have all the benefits of AV1 Encode, AMD Noise Suppression, and other streaming-oriented options.
The new lineup will look as such: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB, AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12GB, and AMD Radeon RX 7600 8GB.
Radeon RX 7800 XT Pictures
The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT made-by-AMD video card is pictured below, images provided by AMD.
Be sure to check back here on our website (www.thefpsreview.com) for more information and full coverage when these video cards launch.