Packaging

The Card

The unique selling point of the Sapphire Pure is its white color theme. Sapphire sprinkled on some gray highlights, which look good. The cooler shroud is made of plastic, but the backplate is metal.


Dimensions of the card are 32.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 1146 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 52 mm.


Sapphire's card comes with one lighting zone near the top edge of the card. A Sapphire logo is lit up in a fixed, non-adjustable red.


You may turn off the red lighting with this switch.


Display connectivity includes two standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and two 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

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pure is easy to take apart. The cooler shroud comes off easily, so you can clean its fans without having to take the whole cooler apart (and disturb the TIM or thermal pads). This approach also allows Sapphire to send you a replacement, should one of the fans break at some point.


The main heatsink uses five heatpipes. It 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.