But there are questions about energy consumption
So, the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT video cards went on sale, and thematic resources published their reviews. Now we can finally understand what happened to AMD in the middle segment.
It’s worth starting with the older model because due to AMD’s strange positioning, the RX 7800 XT model is much more profitable. It’s only $50 more expensive, but it’s noticeably faster and offers a lot more storage.
New products faster than GeForce RTX 40 competitors
So, if we talk about comparison with RX 6000 models, then in all resolutions the new product is on average 3-4% faster than the RX 6800 XT and by the same amount slower than the RX 6900 XT. That is, all three of these cards are as close as possible. Compared to the RTX 40, the new AMD model is 2-6% faster than the RTX 4070, with the gap widening as resolution increases. But we can also conditionally say that the cards are approximately equal. In all these cases, we are talking about games without activated effects based on ray tracing. At the same time, the RX 7800 XT costs $500, and the RTX 4070 costs $600.
Activating tracing puts the Nvidia card ahead, and it outperforms the RX 7800 XT by 13-16%.
At the same time, we recall that the $500 that they asked for the RX 7800 XT is the recommended price of the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. Yes, the other day many stores lowered the price of this card to $450, but in any case, this adapter, even with ray tracing, is 10–15% inferior to the new AMD product, and without ray tracing, the RX 7800 XT is ahead by 30–40%, that is, these are cards of different classes.
In terms of energy efficiency, of course, current Nvidia adapters are much better. The RTX 4070 consumes about 20% less power with approximately the same performance, but the RX 7800 XT consumes noticeably less than the RX 6800 XT.
What’s interesting is the very good overclocking potential of AMD’s new product. Through certain manipulations, productivity can be increased by 10–15%.
In terms of price-performance ratio, the RX 7800 XT is far from the leaders, but at the same time, it is more profitable than both the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 4070. However, among the current AMD and Nvidia adapters, the new product is second only to the RX 7600 in terms of profitability, ahead of all RTX 40.
If we talk about the RX 7700 XT, everything is somewhat worse. It is a little cheaper than the older model and a little slower. The RX 7800 XT outperforms the RX 7700 XT by 14-21% depending on the resolution. The RX 7700 XT is roughly equal to the RX 6800 and relative to Nvidia cards, it can be compared to the RTX 3070 Ti, but the former is 3-8% faster. The RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has become a direct competitor to the RX 7700 XT after the price cut, but the latter is still much faster, and only when ray tracing is enabled do the cards become comparable in performance.
In terms of price and performance ratio, the RX 7700 XT is inferior to the RX 7800 XT, and with a small difference in actual cost, there is no particular point in the younger card, because the older one also has more memory.
As a result, a strange situation arose. The RX 7700 XT, with a starting price of $450, is the direct successor to the RX 6700 XT, which at one time started at $480. In this comparison, the new model is 30-40% faster, which is an excellent increase in one generation. But the RX 7800 XT offers the same performance as the RX 6800 XT, that is, there seems to be no increase with the change of generation. But it’s worth remembering that the RX 7800 XT costs just $500, which is only $20 more than the RX 6700 XT’s starting price. And the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT once started at $580 and $650, respectively. Thus, if you go by the existing names, the new AMD model is not faster than the old one, but it is much cheaper.
At the same time, it should be understood that the current prices for the RX 6000 are much lower than the starting ones. Now the situation is that the RX 6800 XT costs about the same as the RX 7800 XT.
