Wednesday, February 7th 2024
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Pricing Slides Down to Under $355, Threatening RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7600 XT
Retailer specific discounts are creating quite the pileup of graphics card options between the $300 to $500 mark. With enough time spent finding the right deal, you could potentially buy a much faster graphics card that you'd planned for, at a given price. Hot on the heels on a recent Best Buy deal that brought the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB down to $344, or within just $15 of the Radeon RX 7600 XT, we're hearing about a couple of Newegg deals that see the Radeon RX 7700 XT down to just $353, or $9 more than the RTX 4060 Ti, and $24 more than an RX 7600 XT.
At $353, the RX 7700 XT changes the game, as it is a firmly 1440p-class GPU, compared to the 1080p-class RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7600 XT. In our testing, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is an incredible 17% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti at 1080p for just $9 more; and 19% faster than it at 1440p. Compared to the RX 7600 XT, the RX 7700 XT is a staggering 39% faster at 1080p, and 44% faster at 1440p. Even with ray tracing enabled, the RX 7700 XT dominates the RTX 4060 Ti. At 1080p with ray tracing enabled, the RTX 4060 Ti averages just 2% faster than the RX 7700 XT, but at 1440p, the RX 7700 XT in fact ends up 14% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti thanks to its much heavier SIMD engine, and 50% higher memory bandwidth. The Newegg deal doesn't even cover a cheap custom design, but the mighty PowerColor RX 7700 XT Hellhound and Fighter.
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At $353, the RX 7700 XT changes the game, as it is a firmly 1440p-class GPU, compared to the 1080p-class RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7600 XT. In our testing, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is an incredible 17% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti at 1080p for just $9 more; and 19% faster than it at 1440p. Compared to the RX 7600 XT, the RX 7700 XT is a staggering 39% faster at 1080p, and 44% faster at 1440p. Even with ray tracing enabled, the RX 7700 XT dominates the RTX 4060 Ti. At 1080p with ray tracing enabled, the RTX 4060 Ti averages just 2% faster than the RX 7700 XT, but at 1440p, the RX 7700 XT in fact ends up 14% faster than the RTX 4060 Ti thanks to its much heavier SIMD engine, and 50% higher memory bandwidth. The Newegg deal doesn't even cover a cheap custom design, but the mighty PowerColor RX 7700 XT Hellhound and Fighter.
66 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Pricing Slides Down to Under $355, Threatening RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7600 XT
EDIT: Lol at everyone who can't differentiate between CPU and GPU side, cherry picking timeframes, and not normalizing for sector wide movements.
$355 is really good for a card with this performance.
BTW, 5800X3D best CPU ever released until the 7950X3D and then the 7800X3D.
350ish is way more realistic
Whether or not her previous strategy will work going forward is up for debate. But for sure, she saved a company headed toward bankruptcy by making it a contender in the CPU marketplace. And right now she has two coveted "custom GPU" contracts (PS5 and Xbox Series X|S).
AMD's battle for relevance over the next 24-36 months won't be in the consumer GPU space anyhow. It will be about datacenter/machine learning.
Damn living in wrong continent -_-
Past 3 years, AMD is up 100%, great! Nvidia is up 500% in the same time period. CEOs aren't retained for what they did 5 years ago. 3 years of underperformance is already beyond what most boards will tolerate.
The hardware survey being published every month only collect data on the second day of every month, I got surveyed maybe once a year
Also, have you ever taken the time to research what these companies spend on R&D? Up until the last two years I believe, AMD's R&D budget was around $2 Billion (It's now at $5 Billion, but still smaller than both their direct competitors) which had to be divided between x86 and graphics (obviously with the larger T.A.M. of x86, it would get the majority of that budget). So, that approximately $1+billion in x86 R&D had to compete with Intel's $15-$17 Billion in the same time period and on the graphics side, AMD's probably less that $1 Billion had to go up against Nvidia's $5+ Billion. So, with Intel outspending AMD by a factor of 15x, is it REALLY that impressive that Intel could throw huge piles of money at something and develop openVINO faster than AMD with a comparatively shoestring budget? Is it really that surprising that Nvidia could develop capabilities that AMD cannot?
There's a tendency to compare and contrast these companies as if they exist on an even playing field when that couldn't be further from the truth. The bottom line is that AMD has done more with less, and the fact that not only could they compete with Intel, but beat them while being at such an incredible disadvantage with respect to resources is seriously impressive. Radeon deserves a lot of criticism, but when you consider the fact that Intel's graphics division is having such difficult despite for all intents and purposes, having unlimited money when compared to Radeon, it really shows how difficult it is to compete in graphics and how it's impressive that AMD is able to match Nvidia in raster and slowly catch up in raytracing despite being seriously outspent and definitely having a smaller, less experienced staff.
I honestly cannot think of another example from any other industry in which a company in AMD's position was able to compete an beat such an entrenched monopoly like Intel while AT THE SAME TIME competing against another entrenched monopoly in Nvidia and still offering compelling products despite being at such a serious disadvantage. I'm not trying to love on AMD, but I'm tired of these "analyses" that start from the completely unrealistic assumption that AMD and Nvidia are competing on a fair playing field or that AMD has all the resources Nvidia has and it's merely Radeon's business choices that are screwing everything up (a lot of people around here seem to forget that there are shareholders that can bring lawsuits against companies that don't maximize profit when they say things like "AMD should just lower prices by $200 on every GPU" as if it were that easy).
Fast forward a bit and now this happens, funny how things work out.