Friday, July 19th 2024
Acer Regulatory Filings Reveal Radeon RX 7900, RX 7800, and RX 7700 non-XT GPUs
Regulatory filings by PC OEM major Acer, with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), drop some of the first references to three upcoming performance-segment graphics card SKUs by AMD. These include the Radeon RX 7900, the Radeon RX 7800, and the Radeon RX 7700. Acer is an AMD Radeon add-in board partner under its Acer Predator brand, which makes graphics cards not just for Predator and Nitro gaming PCs, but also graphics cards for the retail channel.
At this point, there are no specs known for the three, not even their memory sizes. It would be interesting to see how AMD slots the three into its product stack, particularly the RX 7900. The company currently has three RX 7900 series SKUs—the flagship RX 7900 XTX, and the second-best RX 7900 XT, but then the SKU next to this is the RX 7900 GRE, which saw a worldwide launch. Then there are the RX 7800 and RX 7700, which are pretty straightforward to predict. The RX 7800 will slot in between the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, and will probably feature a 256-bit wide memory interface with 16 GB of memory, much like the RX 7800 XT; whereas the RX 7700 will be positioned below the RX 7700 XT. It wouldn't surprise us if AMD further cuts down the memory interface to 160-bit (10 GB).
Sources:
VideoCardz, EEC
At this point, there are no specs known for the three, not even their memory sizes. It would be interesting to see how AMD slots the three into its product stack, particularly the RX 7900. The company currently has three RX 7900 series SKUs—the flagship RX 7900 XTX, and the second-best RX 7900 XT, but then the SKU next to this is the RX 7900 GRE, which saw a worldwide launch. Then there are the RX 7800 and RX 7700, which are pretty straightforward to predict. The RX 7800 will slot in between the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, and will probably feature a 256-bit wide memory interface with 16 GB of memory, much like the RX 7800 XT; whereas the RX 7700 will be positioned below the RX 7700 XT. It wouldn't surprise us if AMD further cuts down the memory interface to 160-bit (10 GB).
22 Comments on Acer Regulatory Filings Reveal Radeon RX 7900, RX 7800, and RX 7700 non-XT GPUs
AMD is dropping the ball here. These video cards which IMHO are nothing but chips that did not pas quality control (or cut down to get rid of them) are being made so they can make... mo mo mo money without much overhead involved.
They are just milking for whatever they can get on the XT series because these should have been out a long time ago.
Personally, I'd like to hear more about RDNA 4, but AMD seems to be awfully quiet about it.
Just imagine if you could flash these to get the XT model, just like the old days.
If people found out they probably would have sold quite a few more as everybody likes getting something extra for free!
Reminds me the fumble with the 6500XT name too, where when it launched it didn't meet the expectations that the name would bring, based on RDNA2 cards that launched before it.
Get RDNA 4 ready faster plz
www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-is-missing-out-on-a-golden-opportunity-with-rdna-4/
In fact, if you take the MSRP of the 5700 XT and adjust that for inflation it would be $491, if you adjust the 6700 XT launch price for inflation it is $556.
Basically, AMD screwed up the naming. The 7900 XT is the true successor to the 6800 XT ($790 dollars MSRP adjusted for inflation), the 7900 GRE is the successor to the 6800 non-xt ($696 adjusted for inflation).
It is a new architecture with supposedly fixed function RT cores, meaning its RT performance should be significantly increased, we are talking an even larger leap than what the leap was between RDNA 2 and RDNA 3. The rumor is that due to chiplet issues they discovered with RDNA 3 meant that in order to fix the design issue and keep timelines from being delayed they had to cancel the high end of RDNA 4 and are going to be releasing the planned monolithic die they had always planned with RDNA 4 mid-range but because there is no planned high-end they can now push the midrange as hard as possible performance wise. RDNA 5 is going to see the return of the chiplet high end.
AMD might be quiet, but plenty of others are saying good things, and they are all in lock step on the performance being at least 7900XT in raster and much faster than 7900XTX in RTing all for about $500 in what will probably be called 8800XT. AMD are keeping quiet as they are trying to run out 7900 stock. It could release in a month or two if they wanted, but they don't want a repeat of the RDNA3 fiasco, where they had huge stockpiles of RDNA2 due to the crypto crash. So at this stage N48 is coming Q1 2025 but was once slated for late Q3 early Q4 this year. AMD does not want people holding off buying RDNA3.