AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Now as Low as $399

[Zareek]

This card should be $300 Canadian period.

For that price, I'd take two! I think $350 USD is reasonable, $400 doesn't really set it apart from the 7800 XT for me.

 

[Cheeseball]

This card should be $300 Canadian period.

That would be impossible even without inflation. The original 5700 XT (2019) came out at USD $400. The 6700 XT (2021) launched at $480. So this coming out at $450 was unfortunately appropriate/slightly better (unfortunate due to keeping a high price, but better than previous gen), but coming down to $400 is a fair deal, which IMO should have been the launch price. It is a good mid-range 1440p144 card (compared to the 5700 XT being a great 1080p144 and 1440p60 GPU), with the 7800XT making up for 1440p144+.

 

[Macro Device]

That would be impossible even without inflation. The original 5700 XT (2019) came out at USD $400. The 6700 XT (2021) launched at $480. So this coming out at $450 was unfortunately appropriate/slightly better (unfortunate due to keeping a high price, but better than previous gen), but coming down to $400 is a fair deal, which IMO should have been the launch price. It is a good mid-range 1440p144 card (compared to the 5700 XT being a great 1080p144 and 1440p60 GPU), with the 7800XT making up for 1440p144+.

It would because names only mean something across one gen and one gen only. N700 is not a direct successor of (N-1)700. A $500 N gen GPU, however, is a direct successor of a $500 N-1 gen GPU.

That way, RX 6700 XT is a comme ci, comme ça successor of 5700 XT but 7700 XT is more a successor of RX 6700 non-XT with RX 7800 XT, inflation adjustments being made, equalling RX 6700 XT's MSRP and thus being a direct successor thereof. At $400, 7700 XT is effectively succeeding RX 6600 XT ($380 MSRP).

Of course this naming is a wee on a misleading side but a properly seeking end user would end up comparing $ per FPS and not FPS per names.

 

[kapone32]

It would because names only mean something across one gen and one gen only. N700 is not a direct successor of (N-1)700. A $500 N gen GPU, however, is a direct successor of a $500 N-1 gen GPU.

That way, RX 6700 XT is a comme ci, comme ça successor of 5700 XT but 7700 XT is more a successor of RX 6700 non-XT with RX 7800 XT, inflation adjustments being made, equalling RX 6700 XT's MSRP and thus being a direct successor thereof. At $400, 7700 XT is effectively succeeding RX 6600 XT ($380 MSRP).

Of course this naming is a wee on a misleading side but a properly seeking end user would end up comparing $ per FPS and not FPS per names.

One of the good things about the release of the 7700XT and 7800Xt were the price pressure they put on the 6800XT. Though that does not hold to all cards. We can use inflation but that is an excuse. The truth is that Nvidia used mining to justify the skyrocket in GPU pricing. Then when mining died they did not adjust their prices and in some cases increased them. This is the current AMD stack in Canada

7900XTX: $1399
7900XT: $1199
6900XT: $999
7800XT: $699
6800XT: $699
7700XT: $589
6750XT: $499
6700XT: $449
7600: $369
6650XT: $349
6600: $269
6500XT: $149 (Cheapest)

The price of the 7700XT has not forced the price of the 6700Xt down and the need is still there for compelling prices.

 

[Minus Infinity]

90% of a 7900 XTX will be a tall order. It would require increasing performance by 2.25x in one generation; Battlemage is very unlikely to pull that off. Matching a 7800 XT in raster while beating a 7900 XT in ray tracing would be a pretty fantastic outcome for Intel. To forestall disappointment, I'm expecting the raster performance of a 7700 XT and the ray tracing performance of a 3070 Ti.

Top Battlemage B770 is said to be performing about 4070 levels in raster but still a long way from release. They were hoping for 4080 but apparently that's not going so well.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Top Battlemage B770 is said to be performing about 4070 levels in raster but still a long way from release. They were hoping for 4080 but apparently that's not going so well.

Even 4070-equivalent would be huge if they can manage it within the same power envelope of the A770 and keep the price not too far on the wrong side of $400.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Even 4070-equivalent would be huge if they can manage it within the same power envelope of the A770 and keep the price not too far on the wrong side of $400.

Agreed, if they price it right and it really is 225W max as per the leaks. I want them to succeed and hopefully keep Celestial and Druid alive. AMD and Nvidia need a kick up the arse even if it is from Intel.

 

[AnotherReader]

Top Battlemage B770 is said to be performing about 4070 levels in raster but still a long way from release. They were hoping for 4080 but apparently that's not going so well.

Matching a 4070 would be progress compared to matching the 3060 despite using a better process. Given Intel's good raytracing performance, this could be a compelling alternative if it meets that bar at a lower price.

 

[prtskg]

For what? It's pretty well known that Nvidia has always outperformed AMD in AutoCad, Adobe, ETC.

That's old news. AMD is already on heels of Nvidia now in terms of compute aside from optix case.