MSI Will Be Launching Its Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT Graphics Cards Later on Due to Manufacturing Delays

It has been confirmed that MSI will be launching its next batch of Radeon RX graphics cards sometime after next week’s official September 6 date. This news comes as MSI was mysteriously absent from the list of partners included in AMD’s announcement for the forthcoming final additions to its current RDNA 3-based GPUs. MSI is a part of a shrinking list of graphics card manufacturers that still produce products using NVIDIA and AMD GPUs so it did cause some speculation if the agreement between MSI and AMD had changed leading to them becoming an NVIDIA-only partner.

From AMD:

“AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics cards will be available from leading board partners including ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston beginning September 6, 2023. AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards will also be available from AMD.com beginning September 6, 2023.”

It turns out though that the reason for MSI’s absence is nothing more than hardware production delay difficulties. Andreas Schilling (Editor at Hardware Luxx) was able to get confirmation from the manufacturer that its own Navi 32 cards will be arriving, just at a later date.

Confirmation: MSI will not have any cards on the market at the launch of the Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT. The reason for this is that they are not yet ready on the manufacturer's side. That is also the reason why they are not yet listed as a partner by AMD. https://t.co/LzB56iNJWj

— Andreas Schilling 🇺🇦 (@aschilling) September 1, 2023

Since MSI will be launching its own versions of Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards potential customers needn’t worry about missing out if they were hoping to get one from the manufacturer but it is still currently unknown when they will become available. Meantime it’s worth checking out the official press release info that AMD provided recently which we have here. Additionally, here are the official specifications for the base model cards from AMD for a quick reference.

Product Specifications (per AMD):

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