The launch of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX did not leave anyone indifferent, but the truth is that it seems to have been marked some controversy for their performance, consumption and the price-to-performance ratio they offer when directly compared to their closest NVIDIA equivalents.

We also have to take into account problems that have been identified both at the level of the power profiles, which affect the frequency scaling, so that they range between 2400 MHz and 2900 MHz, and the silicon, which theoretically affects shader preloading at the hardware level. If we put all this together and combine with decisions made by MSI Clearly, there is something that definitely does not paint well.

A few days ago there were rumors that MSI might decide to pass on this generation of graphics cards to AMD, which meant that we won’t see any models from the well-known assembler. In the end, those rumors turned out to be false, as MSI confirmed that it plans to release its own versions of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX, but these will not arrive until the first quarter of 2023.

With this in mind, and with everything I’ve already told you, I can’t help but wonder why MSI decided to delay the launch of two such important products for so long, and even more so when both were adopted by other assemblers. There must be something very important behind that decisionbecause we’re talking about the delay it can cause millions of dollars in revenue that the assembly company decided to forgo.

As a result, there were comments that MSI didn’t care about AMD and that they would simply choose to “ride” a company that, frankly, There is no point in looking at the history of the assembler and its relationship with the Sunnyvale giant. Others simply attribute it to a supply issue, but that doesn’t make sense either because higher or lower availability doesn’t need to affect a high-end assembler to that extent, let alone have a few designs of their own ready. day of market launch.

You can call me suspicious, but with all this on the table I see something strange and it seems to me that MSI preferred to wait for very important reasons that could be related to the technical side of the Navi 31 and to those problems that we already told you about. commented. I do not rule out that there are other causes that are beyond our knowledge, but of course it is clear to me that it cannot be a coincidence and that it cannot even be for minor reasons, since we’re talking about a big launch and money in revenue that MSI gave up by not having their RX 7900 XT and XTX ready in time.