The Radeon RX 7700 XT could cost $ 399 and operate at the RX 6900 XT level

Radeon RX 7700 XT It is one of the most anticipated graphics cards within the next generation of AMD. It will be based on the RDNA3 architecture, but will use a different node and design than the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XT, a topic we talked about earlier and which we will look at in this article.

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 7700 XT will use 6nm node from TSMC and will have a GPU with a monolithic core designwhile the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XT will be built on a 5nm TSMC node and will have a GPU with a modular design, which means they will have two chips connected together to form a super GPU.

According to a recent leak, the price of the Radeon RX 7700 XT will be hovering around between $ 399 and $ 499, numbers that are very interesting and thanks to which this graphics card could become one of the most competitive solutions of the new generation within the middle class. With everything in mind and given the price of the Radeon RX 6700 XT (€ 489.99), I am inclined to believe that the Radeon RX 7700 XT will almost certainly be in the $ 499 range.

Radeon RX 7700 XT: Similar to Radeon RX 6900 XT, better than ray tracing

This is the “image” that gives us the latest information. The Radeon RX 7700 XT performs better than the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 1080p, similar to 1440p, but less at 4K, which means it will be a graphics card designed primarily for 1440p resolution. In contrast, when watching the rays your performance will be higher thanks to improvements which AMD will present at the architectural level.

As for the possible specifications of the Radeon RX 7700 XT, we have new information which we have grouped for you in an orderly manner:

• RDNA3 architecture with monolithic 6nm core design.
• GPU with 5,120 shaders.
• 160 texturing units.
• 64 raster units.
• 40 CU (computing units).
• 40 units of ray tracing acceleration if AMD maintains the base we saw in RDNA2.
• 128-bit bus.
• 128 MB of infinite cache, although it is said that it could come with 256 MB (unlikely).
• 8 GB GDDR6 memory at 18 GHz or 20 GHz.
• TBP about 180-230 watts.
• PCIE Gen5 x8 interface.

This new specification list remained more or less in line with the previous leaks, although we found important changes to the GPU structure because these 5,120 shaders would be spread over only 40 computing units, which would leave us with 128 shaders per computing unit. This would mean doubling the number of shaders on the CU that we saw in RDNA2, which is not confirmed and what we should take with a grain of salt.

Overall, I have to say this list of specifications I quite like it with performance predictions, storing the details of the number of shaders per computing unit that I have already mentioned. On the other hand, increasing the number of shaders per CU reduces the total number of cores to speed up beam tracking, which means that RDNA3 would need to significantly strengthen these core types for the Radeon RX 7700 XT to outperform the Radeon RX 6900. XT, as the first would have 40 cores for ray tracing and the second 80.

Finally, I can’t ignore the interface problem. Limit the Radeon RX 7700 XT interface to the PCIE Gen5 x8 standard considering that It is a technology that has emerged recently and has a minimal acceptance ratethis would be a manual error as connecting the graphics card to the PCIE Gen4 motherboard would operate in x8 mode with lower bandwidth and it could reduce its performance.