ASRock Unveils The First Radeon RX 7700 GPU While AMD Officially Adds Support Via Latest GPU Driver

Just like the previous-gen Ryzen families, AMD keeps on adding new GPUs to the RX 7000 series. Now it has officially added driver support for the newly launched RX 7700 GPU.

ASRock Launches Radeon RX 7700 Challenger; GPU Also Gets Official Driver Support in Adrenalin Edition 25.9.2

AMD recently unveiled its latest RDNA 3 GPU called Radeon RX 7700, which uses the NAVI 32 GPU. The card sits between the Radeon RX 7600 XT and the RX 7700 XT, which were launched in early 2024 and late 2023, respectively. Both GPUs are still available in many stores, but are usually more expensive compared to their launch prices.

The Radeon RX 7700 offers a cut-down NAVI 32 die, offering 40 Compute Units vs 54 CUs on the Radeon RX 7700 XT. Therefore, we have 2560 Stream Processors on the new card, but the memory is slightly faster at 19.5 Gbps vs 18 Gbps on the RX 7700 XT. Thankfully, the Radeon RX 7700 brings a higher memory capacity, featuring 16 GB VRAM through a 256-bit memory bus. This is a good upgrade over the XT variant, but it still won't surpass the RX 7700 XT in performance.

AMD advertises the RX 7700 as a great performer in modern titles at 1440p, and claims that games like COD: Black OPS 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4, Spider-Man 2, etc., can achieve 60+ FPS on ultra settings. As far as its power consumption is concerned, AMD lists 263W as its TBP, which is 18W higher than the RX 7700 XT.

As of now, ASRock is the only AMD board partner that has launched the first Radeon RX 7700 custom edition called RX 7700 Challenger 16GB. This GPU features a game clock of 2041 MHz and a boost clock of up to 2459 MHz. Unfortunately, we don't know the clocks of the reference design, but since the RX 7700 CL isn't an overclocked edition, the boost clock should be equivalent. The GPU will ship with 2x 8-pin power connectors and has a dual-slot, dual-fan design, measuring the same as the reference design, i.e., 267mm in length.

To ensure users can have full GPU driver support for the Radeon RX 7700, AMD has also released the latest Adrenalin Edition 25.9.2 driver, which was came out yesterday. The driver also brings several new bug fixes and adds support for Dying Light: The Beast, which we recently reviewed.

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

News Source: Videocardz

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