AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT will go up against Nvidia’s 4070 and 4060 Ti

AMD has been slower than Nvidia to fill out its next-generation GPU lineup, and for months there was an enormous hole between the Radeon RX 7900 XT (at the moment retailing between $750 and $850) and the Radeon RX 7600 (holding regular at $270ish). Today, the corporate is lastly filling in that hole with the brand new Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT, each marketed as 1440p graphics playing cards and out there beginning at $449 and $499, respectively. Both playing cards will be out there on September 6. And most Radeon RX 6000 and RX 7000 GPUs bought between now and September 30 will include a free copy of Bethesda’s upcoming “Skyrim in space” title, Starfield.

AMD saved the costs of each playing cards below wraps whereas pre-briefing members of the press in regards to the announcement, which is uncommon however not onerous to elucidate. AMD’s RX 7600 launch was spoiled a bit by Nvidia, which preempted the 7600’s announcement by providing a extra highly effective GeForce RTX 4060 on the identical $299 value that AMD had deliberate for the 7600. This prompted AMD to chop the 7600’s value to $269 earlier than it was even introduced; we’ll have to attend and see if Nvidia chooses to alter its costs in response to the brand new Radeon playing cards’ launch.

The RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT are primarily based on the identical RDNA 3 graphics structure as the opposite 7000-series GPUs, which implies a extra environment friendly manufacturing course of than the RX 6000 sequence, DisplayPort 2.1 help, and {hardware} acceleration for encoding with the AV1 video codec, which guarantees sport streamers both higher-quality video on the identical bitrate as older codecs or the identical high quality with a decrease bitrate. AMD in contrast the 7800 XT and 7700 XT favorably to Nvidia’s $600 upper-midrange RTX 4070 and the $500 16GB model of the RTX 4060 Ti.

The new Radeon playing cards additionally help FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) model 3, a brand new model of AMD’s GPU-agnostic AI upscaling expertise that additionally guarantees additional AI-generated frames à la Nvidia’s proprietary DLSS 3 and DLSS Frame Generation function. But in contrast to Nvidia, AMD is not proscribing FSR 3 to its newest playing cards, and customers of RX 6000-series playing cards plus latest Nvidia GeForce and Intel Arc playing cards will have the ability to profit, too, a minimum of when video games begin supporting it. You can learn extra about FSR 3 and AMD’s different software program bulletins right here.