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This week AMD announced two new graphics cards aimed squarely at the 1440p gaming market, the Radeon RX 7800 XT and the Radeon RX 7700 XT. Both cards are aiming for that 1440p sweet spot while still being able to deliver high-performance at an affordable price point.
The cost of these cards sits at $449 for the 7700 XT and $500 for the 7800 XT. That puts the 7700 XT at about $50 more than NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 Ti, but you are getting more performance. The 7800 XT meanwhile should deliver better performance than NVIDIA’s RTX 4070. But it’ll also cost $100 less. And that savings is tempting enough to at least consider choosing AMD over NVIDIA if you’re due for an upgrade. Especially so if you’re already running an AMD card.
AMD claims the Radeon RX 7800 XT is the “ultimate GPU for 1440p gaming”
The big claim here is that with this card, you can handle games at 1440p resolution at a stable 60 frames per second. If the card can live up to those claims, then $500 seems like a pretty good price point for someone who wants to push above that 1080p resolution while still having more than playable performance.
The RX 7800 XT comes with 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a game clock of 2124 MHz, a boost clock of up to 2430, and utilizes 60 AMD RDNA 3 compute units. AMD says the card offers up to 20% more performance than comparable cards. The RX 7700 XT meanwhile has 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM, has 54 compute units, a game clock of 2171MHz, and a boost clock of up to 2544. Both cards should have no problem hitting 1440p with stable frame rates based on AMD’s data. But your mileage may vary a bit.
Both cards come with a free copy of Starfield
This is, not surprising at all if you think about. AMD is the official partner of Starfield. It’s made a Starfield GPU. So naturally when buying its latest graphics cards, Starfield was the game of choice to add in to entice buyers. If the price points and promises of 1440p gaming at 60 frames per second wasn’t enough, then maybe a free copy of Starfield to play at those values does the trick. AMD is hoping so at least. Both cards will be available on September 6 from both AMD and from its partners including ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX, and Yeston.