AMD has quietly launched another new ‘old’ GPU, this time in the form of RX 7700 non-XT. This new GPU is slightly unusual though: while its core count is naturally less than the RX 7700 XT, it actually packs more VRAM, and clocked faster at that.
RX 7700 Quietly Shows Up
Let’s quickly go through the specs: the AMD Radeon RX 7700 features 2,560 Stream Processors (40 Compute Units) from the Navi 32 silicon, which is paired with 256-bit memory bus, forming 16GB of GDDR6 memory clocked slightly faster at 19.5Gbps. In comparison, while the XT model has 3,456 SPs (54 CUs), it packs a narrower 192-bit bus with 12GB GDDR6 VRAM clocked at 18Gbps.
That said, not all information has been published on AMD’s product page. Some of the omitted information includes total board power (TBP), clock speed, and pricing – though these metrics are likely dependent on individual AIB implementations, and it looks like the GPU maker is not making a first-party model for it, negating the need to publish such specs. The first-party performance figures did suggest the non-XT model is around 16-19% slower than the XT model.
Shortly after the reveal in AMD’s website, Videocardz discovered that ASRock made one such card based on this GPU – the ASRock Radeon RX 7700 Challenger. Here, the specs list 2041MHz game clock, 2459MHz boost clock, though TBP is still a mystery (as not all AIBs publish these figures, only a benchmark test could find out the real figure). Given this card’s existence, we can deduce that this GPU may be sold in DIY markets instead of just prebuilt PCs, though no pricing information has been published at this time.
Pokdepinion: Actually a pretty decent card on paper.
If its cheaper than the 7700 XT then I will buy it.