Packaging

The Card

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT looks great, just like a smaller RX 7900 XT. AMD has refined their design approach even further, the card is dominated by black in various shades of gray. On the metal backplate you get some red highlights, and three fins on the side have been painted red to represent the third generation of the RDNA architecture.


Dimensions of the card are 27.0 x 11.0 cm, and it weighs 1083 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 50 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and one HDMI 2.1a (same as RDNA 2).

AMD has upgraded their encode/decode setup. It now comes with two independent hardware units that can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel, or one stream at double the FPS rate. There's support for VP9, H.264, H.265 and AV1 decode, and encoding is supported for H.264, H.265 and AV1.


All AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT designs use dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the AMD RX 7800 XT uses a copper base, paired with four heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.