AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards

[qarium]

So, Pascal is not supported as well as castrated Turing (1650/1660). Sigh.

you are a fool its open-source the support for any card can be added later.

its not rocket science to make it run on a Vega64...

[stormcrow]

you are a fool its open-source the support for any card can be added later.

its not rocket science to make it run on a Vega64...

Can be doesn't equate to will be. Historically, the only people that contribute new features to modern discrete GPU drivers outside of Nouveau for Nvidia are the developers at AMD & Intel. That means if they don't do it, no one is likely to step up to do so. After all, they're the people with all the internal documentation and access to the engineers that designed the hardware.

Open source is not a feature availability silver bullet, especially when patents get mixed up in the process.

Also, watch your mouth.

[cjcox]

...snip... Instead, my so-called overkill 5700 XT continues to soldier on at this resolution and still delivers 60 fps at max settings for the most part. .... snip...

I upgraded to a 5700XT for USD $100 earlier this year. For me, it's more than enough, and can't beat the value.

The only "feature" now that I might drool over are strictly on the higher end non-consumer Nvidia GPUs where you might be able to pull off vGPU successfully.

I moved from a "not good enough" Kepler based Quadro to the RX 5700 XT. Apart from the (unaffordable) above, I have no regrets.

And of course, there's the whole open source "ease" with team Red. Less risk.

[raystriker]

You'll be limited by PCIe generation and etc by that point. They'll probably have a fancy new thing like SAMv2 or something too. Feels like tech is moving faster again than it has since the late 1990s.

I really doubt it. Modern gaming-focused cards don't really saturate 16 lanes of Pcie4.0, so the RX8000 (next gen) probably won't either.

Besides, word on the street is that RDNA4 will be more of a RDNA1 type of affair as the top sku(s) have been cancelled and we'll probably only get a RX8700/8800 at max.

And it's doubtful that they'd be stronger than an RTX4090 (which is pretty happy with 16 lanes of gen 4).

[sophisticles]

Am I the only one that absolutely hates how physically large graphics cards are?

I know this isn't anything new, the Voodoo 5 5500 was huge and that was 23 years ago, but ram, CPUs and GPUs have advanced to the point where you can get a laptop with a 16 core processor, 64gb, and Quadro GPU, the AMD AMD Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores and reasonably capable graphics in a relatively compact design, yet add-in graphics cards are huge, consume significant amounts of juice, generate a lot of heat and require 1 or 2 power connectors.

I think we should boycott any graphics card that is so physically large that it looks like someone is trying to compensate some other shortcoming.

[citral]

Well the larger it is the quieter it is.

My 3 fans 6700XT is very quiet, I have the space for it, why should I botcott it?

[stormcrow]

Am I the only one that absolutely hates how physically large graphics cards are?

I know this isn't anything new, the Voodoo 5 5500 was huge and that was 23 years ago, but ram, CPUs and GPUs have advanced to the point where you can get a laptop with a 16 core processor, 64gb, and Quadro GPU, the AMD AMD Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores and reasonably capable graphics in a relatively compact design, yet add-in graphics cards are huge, consume significant amounts of juice, generate a lot of heat and require 1 or 2 power connectors.

I think we should boycott any graphics card that is so physically large that it looks like someone is trying to compensate some other shortcoming.

The size helps spread heat out. The more heat generated the more components spread out to help radiant dissipation. Heat dissipation is a function of the surface area of an object. (Watts/m²) While active cooling obviously helps, the basic physics of heat transfer remains the same. Hot components = large surface area. Cooler components = smaller surface area.

[justinkb]

I'm just a pleb gaming in 1080p, my 6800 can still handle anything I can throw at it. Wonder how long that'll last. Hope lots of older games also get fsr3 support with patches but considering adoption of fsr2 is still middling, I'm not hopeful for that

[Keats]

7700xt is a joke for this price. What is AMD thinking?

It'll do quite well against 4060ti, which is ALSO a joke.

[Slartifartblast]

So, Pascal is not supported as well as castrated Turing (1650/1660). Sigh.

I'm angry because my Cirrus 5446 isn't supported.