AMD has unveiled its Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card which is designed to tackle the RTX 4070 at a price of $499 US.
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Graphics Card Official: Tackles RTX 4070 At $499 US
The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is one of the two RDNA 3 GPUs being announced today that comes with the Navi 32 GPU. This graphics card is aimed at Enthusiast-Class 1440P gaming and features all the goodies that you'd expect from the Radeon software suite.
In terms of specifications, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card features 60 Compute Units or 3840 stream processors. The graphics card reaches up to 2430 Hz boost clocks which can provide up to 37 TFLOPs of FP32 Compute horsepower. There are also 60 RT Accelerator cores, 120 AI accelerator units, and 96 ROPs for this specific Navi 32 SKU. The graphics chip features a TBP of 263W.
- RX 7800 XT - Navi 32 XT / 3840 Cores / 16 GB GDDR6 / 263W / $499
- RX 6800 XT - Navi 21 XT / 4608 Cores / 16 GB GDDR6 / 300W / $649
Memory specifications include 16 GB GDDR6 memory which operates at pin speeds of up to 19.5 Gbps across a 256-bit wide bus interface. This provides the card with 624 GB/s but there's also 64 MB of Infinity Cache which provides increased effective bandwidth. The graphics card will feature a brand new dual-slot and dual-fan reference cooling solution along with custom variants.
In terms of performance, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card is said to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB solution. It offers up to 23% better performance & 3.5% average performance bump over its competition. The card excels in standard rasterization performance but ends up slower when ray tracing is involved. The testing was done by AMD itself & the RT titles that were used are mostly favorable to RDNA 3 hardware with the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 & Hogwarts Legacy not shown with RT enabled.
Once again, AMD aims the Radeon RX 7800 XT as a graphics card that offers 60+ FPS on average across a range of AAA titles when running at 1440P (natively) and maxed settings. The card offers more VRAM and should tackle the RTX 4070 competitively but in terms of efficiency and features, NVIDIA might be a big step ahead, especially when it offers similar performance at -24% lower GPU power while supporting next-gen features such as DLSS 3.5.
The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT GPUs will be available the same day on the 6th of September, 2023, the same day as the release of Starfield, & both cards will be bundled with a copy of the game.
AMD Radeon RX 7000 RDNA 3 GPU Lineup:
| Graphics Card | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7700 (NEW) | AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 7600 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Navi 31 XTX | Navi 31 XT | Navi 31 LE | Navi 32 | Navi 32 | Navi 32 | Navi 32 | Navi 33 XL |
| Process Node | 5nm+6nm | 5nm+6nm | 5nm+6nm | 5nm+6nm | 5nm+6nm | 5nm+6nm | 5nm+6nm | 6nm |
| Die Size | 300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs) | 300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs) | 300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs) | ~200mm2(Only GCD) 150mm2(with MCDs) | ~200mm2(Only GCD) 150mm2(with MCDs) | ~200mm2(Only GCD) 150mm2(with MCDs) | 204mm2 | 204mm2 |
| Transistors | 58 Billion | 58 Billion | 58 Billion | 28.1 Billion | 28.1 Billion | 28.1 Billion | 13.3 Billion | 13.3 Billion |
| GPU WGPs | 48 | 42 | 40 | 30 | 27 | 20 | 16 | 16 |
| Stream Processors | 6144 | 5376 | 5120 | 3840 | 3456 | 2560 | 2048 | 2048 |
| TMUs/ROPs | 384 / 192 | 384 / 192 | 320 / 160 | 240 / 96 | 216 / 96 | 160/64 | 128 / 32 | 128 / 32 |
| Game Clock | 2.3 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 1.9 GHz | 2.2 GHz | 2.1 GHz | 2.0 GHz? | 2.47 | 2.2 GHz |
| Boost Clock | 2.5 GHz | 2.4 GHz | 2.2 GHz | 2.5 GHz | 2.4 GHz | 2.45 GHz? | 2.76 | 2.6 GHz |
| FP32 TFLOPs | 61 TFLOPs | 52 TFLOPs | 46 TFLOPs | 37 TFLOPs | 35 TFLOPs | 25 TFLOPS | 23 TFLOPs | 22 TFLOPs |
| Memory Size | 24 GB GDDR6 | 20 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 |
| Infinity Cache | 96 MB | 80 MB | 64 MB | 64 MB | 48 MB | 40 MB | 32 MB | 32 MB |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 20 Gbps | 20 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 18 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 800 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 624 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 624 GB/s | 288 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| Effective Bandwidth | 3.5 TB/s | 3.5 TB/s | 2.2 TB/s | 2.7 TB/s | 2.0 TB/s | 1.9 TB/s | 476.9 GB/s | 476.9 GB/s |
| TBP | 355W | 315W | 260W | 263W | 245W | 263W | 190W | 165W |
| PCIe Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Price | $999 US | $899 US | $549 US | $499 US | $419 US | TBD | $329 US | $269 US |
| Launch | Dec, 2022 | Dec, 2022 | July, 2023 | September, 2023 | September, 2023 | September, 2025 | January, 2024 | May, 2023 |
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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