Wednesday, December 27th 2023
AMD Readies Radeon RX 7600 XT, RX 7700, and RX 7800
Even as NVIDIA inches close to the launch of its RTX 40-series SUPER graphics cards in January, AMD could be preparing a product stack update of its own. While NVIDIA's refresh focuses on the higher end of its lineup, AMD looks to spread out more into the mainstream-performance segments. A regulatory filing with the Eurasian Economic Commission mentions the terms "RX 7600 XT," "RX 7700," and "RX 7800," which fill gaps between the RX 7600, RX 7700 XT, and RX 7800 XT.
There exists a rather big gap between the $230 Radeon RX 7600 and the $450 RX 7700 XT, which AMD is looking to fill with the RX 7600 XT and RX 7700 (non-XT). How AMD goes about carving out these two will be interesting to see. The RX 7600 already maxes out the 6 nm "Navi 33" silicon that it's based on, which means to create the RX 7600 XT, AMD might have to tap into the larger (and much more expensive) "Navi 32" MCM. There is a vast gap between the 32 CU (compute units) available to the RX 7600, and the 54 CU that the RX 7700 XT has (while the silicon itself has 60). Besides CU count, AMD has other levers, such as the MCD (memory cache die) count, which could be down to just 2 for the RX 7600 XT, or 3 for the RX 7700. The Radeon RX 7800 is a different beast. AMD faced quite some flack for positioning the RX 7700 XT within $50 of the RX 7800 XT, and now the former can be had for a street price of roughly $430. To be able to squeeze the RX 7800 between the two, AMD might need to widen the gap by pushing the RX 7700 XT down.
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There exists a rather big gap between the $230 Radeon RX 7600 and the $450 RX 7700 XT, which AMD is looking to fill with the RX 7600 XT and RX 7700 (non-XT). How AMD goes about carving out these two will be interesting to see. The RX 7600 already maxes out the 6 nm "Navi 33" silicon that it's based on, which means to create the RX 7600 XT, AMD might have to tap into the larger (and much more expensive) "Navi 32" MCM. There is a vast gap between the 32 CU (compute units) available to the RX 7600, and the 54 CU that the RX 7700 XT has (while the silicon itself has 60). Besides CU count, AMD has other levers, such as the MCD (memory cache die) count, which could be down to just 2 for the RX 7600 XT, or 3 for the RX 7700. The Radeon RX 7800 is a different beast. AMD faced quite some flack for positioning the RX 7700 XT within $50 of the RX 7800 XT, and now the former can be had for a street price of roughly $430. To be able to squeeze the RX 7800 between the two, AMD might need to widen the gap by pushing the RX 7700 XT down.
47 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon RX 7600 XT, RX 7700, and RX 7800
Maybe some nice surprise ?
I see it this way:
32 CU, 8 GB 18 GHz 7600 non-XT. $230.
36 CU, 8 GB 19+ GHz or 10 GB 18 GHz (less likely) 7600 XT. $300?
48 CU, 12 GB 18 GHz 7700 non-XT. $350?
54 CU, 12 GB 18 GHz 7700 XT. $430.
It's also possible for 7600 XT to sport 42 CU but it's impractical: too close to major leagues. And at 36 CUs, it'll already overrun 6700 XT in some games despite having less VRAM and lower bandwidth.
A 7600XT with 16GB (but just double the GDDR package density) would be an interesting sub-$300 proposition, but more excitingly, a 7600XT or 7700 with a Navi32 and 3xMCD for 192-bit 12GB would be what the market needs at the sub-$400 price point.
Honestly, the old 3060 12GB is still a solid option for lower-end gamers at about $250 and the 6600 is the only 8GB card I can recommend simply because at $190 people won't expect to run at anything other than low-med settings and therefore won't be angry like they would be if they'd dropped $400 on a 4060Ti to be denied high settings without stuttering and/or missing textures everywhere.
I'm disappointed there's nothing on deck for sub-$200 buyers. Are N33 yields too high, or margins too slim to allow for such a thing? I get that USD100 is realistically too low to make any money today, but it feels like there should be room for a viable $150 part.
I mean surprise with temps and power consumption ;)