Thursday, August 10th 2023
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 7800X3D Starfield Limited Edition
As a part of its promotional deal with Bethesda for the upcoming Starfield game, AMD has announced a limited edition release of both its Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card and its Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU. The latter is in all fairness a bit dull as far as limited editions go, as the only thing really limited is the packaging the CPU comes in. Despite being a limited production run of only 500 units, AMD didn't bother adding any extra marking on the CPU itself, making it less of a collectors edition than it could've been.
On the other hand, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX Starfield Special Edition gets a custom white shroud with a lot of little quirky bits of text on the card and an overall different feel to it compared to AMD's reference design cards. Again, we're looking at a limited run of 500 cards here too and it's not clear if these will be numbered or not. Neither product will be available to buy though, so the only way to get your hands on one or the other, is to enter one of multiple giveaways that either AMD or its partners will host in the near future. There's a video after the break with more details.
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On the other hand, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX Starfield Special Edition gets a custom white shroud with a lot of little quirky bits of text on the card and an overall different feel to it compared to AMD's reference design cards. Again, we're looking at a limited run of 500 cards here too and it's not clear if these will be numbered or not. Neither product will be available to buy though, so the only way to get your hands on one or the other, is to enter one of multiple giveaways that either AMD or its partners will host in the near future. There's a video after the break with more details.
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Here's the details, some of the hardware gets you the Premium edition, while others get you the Standard edition of the game.
www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/free
This makes the RX 6950 XT pretty tempting right now because you can get it for around $580, and it has pretty decent performance and a lot of VRAM. It also qualifies you for the premium edition of the game, which retails for $100 on Steam.
Do not hope for much lower prices of high tier GPUs, unless you find something on sale. Vast majority of silicon is dedicated to much pricier products for server and AI, both by Nvidia and AMD. The same silicon that goes into 7900XTX can be sold as W7900 Pro for five times more money. So, there is that.
7900XTX can be found 50-80 bucks less expensive than MSRP, plus buyers get a free Starfield, so up to 150 of saving. Not enough? Look for different cards.
I just don't understand what's the point here of making 500, either you don't make or you make but for sale to a general audience...
Special edition aren't licensed necessary it can be an atypical design, something that changes from the boring RGB designs we keep seeing
Working closely with the developer my arse.
The 7800X3D one is... not so enticing since I'm sure they got a normally-binned CPU and put it in the uniquely-colored box, aimed at collectors.