AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, RX 7800 XT Overview: Good Buys for 1440p Gaming | Digital Noch

AMD’s duo of GPUs are constructed for the 1440p center floor, and so they provide the value and efficiency to suit neatly into that area of interest. Beginning at $449 for the RX 7700 XT — although the value of the XFX Speedster Qick 319 card I examined is $460 — and $499 for the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, on value they compete roughly with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (round $400) whereas typically outperforming it. 

Nvidia’s RTX 4070 playing cards, which typically rank greater, begin at about $600. There aren’t any Nvidia playing cards within the $400 to $600 hole occupied by these AMD GPUs, although they compete for a similar 1440p crowd. 

AMD provides its personal mannequin of the 7800 XT on its web site, along with these of third-party suppliers, however the 7700 XT is simply accessible from its board companions. 

XFX Speedster Qick 319 RX 7700 XT

Like

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  Glorious 1440p efficiency so long as you do not care about ray tracing
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  DisplayPort 2.1 help

Do not like

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  The ability connectors are uncomfortably near the highest grille
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  Card could also be too lengthy to suit comfortably into midsize or smaller programs

In the event you’re selecting between these two AMD fashions and the value distinction is $40, you are higher off spending extra and getting the 7800 XT. It is notably higher for 1440p and extends as much as 4K play higher, so it’s going to final you longer. (For instance, in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K with the Highest preset, the RX 7700 XT clocked 65 frames per second whereas the RX 7800 XT averaged 81fps.)

AMD has additionally launched its one-click optimization possibility, Hypr-RX, which it introduced in January at CES 2023. It is much like Nvidia’s DLSS 3, utilizing AMD’s Increase and Anti-Lag optimization with its Tremendous Decision upscaling. It requires developer participation, although, as a result of the settings should be custom-tuned for every sport. 

Amongst different issues, the RX 7000 collection added help for DisplayPort 2.1, which has the required bandwidth to help 165Hz at 8K and 12 bits per colour (up from 10 bits) for HDR, and to allow full gamut protection of Rec.2020 or as much as 480Hz in 4K. That is a hyperlink bandwidth of as much as 54Gbps, up from 20Gbps in DP 1.4a, which Nvidia’s playing cards nonetheless use. I can not think about making an attempt to play in 8K with considered one of these, however extra bandwidth for HDR is at all times welcome.  

I am unsure the RX 7700 XT runs scorching sufficient to require the triple-fan cooling of the XFX, however the security internet does not damage for those who plan to overclock it. Even the backplate has air flow, not like lots of playing cards which simply have stable slabs. It is a lengthy card and got here comparatively near the entrance followers of my Corsair 4000D midsize tower case. 

My greatest quibble is the positioning of the ability connectors, which requires a bit an excessive amount of jiggering close to the sharp-bladed grille. In the event you do not swap GPUs that usually, chances are you’ll not care.

The AMD mannequin of the Radeon RX 7800 XT card, however, is the everyday dual-fan AMD design.

Efficiency

The RX 7700 XT outperformed the higher-end 7800 XT in some instances, regardless of all of the 7800 XT’s incremental spec benefits. The 7700 XT’s greater clock speeds could also be liable for these instances the place it outperformed the dearer card with out operating any hotter. 

As a result of AMD was an enormous accomplice for Starfield’s improvement, and the Xbox makes use of AMD’s GPUs, it is unsurprising that there is not any ray tracing within the sport. AMD appears to lastly be catching up however continues to lag by about 17% (based mostly on 3DMark’s DXR take a look at). FidelityFX Tremendous Decision 2.1 high quality is lastly at some extent the place it is actually usable and improves efficiency with out noticeable degradation in high quality, nevertheless it seems terrible with ray tracing. That is a disgrace, as a result of the sport’s graphics would profit from it in locations. 

Regardless of many complaints about Starfield’s efficiency on the PC, which comes as a part of a bundle on these and different AMD playing cards and CPUs, each GPUs run it pretty effectively at 1440p  — within the 80 to 130fps vary — with Extremely settings. At one level I did not even notice I would been operating at 4K on the RX 7800 XT (as a result of the way in which Starfield handles non-native resolutions is… not elegant) which exhibits how far FSR 2.1 has come.

You may manually overclock each of the playing cards, however I simply set it on Hypr-RX and left it at that. There does not appear to be any magic: It activates AMD’s Anti-Lag Plus and Increase and activates FSR set to High quality. In the event you’ve bought a Ryzen CPU, it is going to benefit from all-AMD applied sciences, like Good Entry Reminiscence, to additional bump up efficiency. In Cyberpunk 2077, Hyper-RX delivered 14 to 17% enchancment in body charges in 1440p Extremely settings, as an example.

It is simple to sound repetitive when reviewing AMD GPUs. Their greatest downside continues to be meh raytracing efficiency, and the largest caveat to that criticism continues to be that lots of people do not actually care. Whereas the RX 7700 XT delivers stable 1440p efficiency, the RX 7800 XT looks as if an all-around higher purchase. It provides first rate 1440p, wonderful 1440p for those who invoke FSR, and enough 4K body charges so that you can develop on.