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RX 7700XT - Which model to pick?

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Hey guys so I'm just about to place my order of RX 7700XT, but I'm not sure which Model I should pick since the price is pretty much the same/20$ difference (in my region)

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT PULSE 12GB GDDR6 (2 fans)

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT NITRO+ OC 12GB GDDR6 (3 fans)

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT PURE OC 12GB GDDR6 (3 fans)

Gigabyte Radeon RX 7700 XT 12GB GAMING GDDR6 (3 fans)

I realize its the OC that makes the price abit different but gow about overall model quality?

I'd appreciate your feedback!
 
Why not go 7800XT? You get a lot more performance for 50usd more.
 
The cheapest one possible otherwise better off with the much better 7800XT even at a full 50usd difference the 7700XT is a meh choice over the 7800XT.


If would also be more helpful if you listed each ones price next to them but even at 100 usd difference I would still choose the 7800XT.
 
Why not go 7800XT? You get a lot more performance for 50usd more.

The cheapest one possible otherwise better off with the much better 7800XT even at a full 50usd difference the 7700XT is a meh choice over the 7800XT.


If would also be more helpful if you listed each ones price next to them but even at 100 usd difference I would still choose the 7800XT.

It's indeed a 100-120$ difference BUT, the card is gonna be paired with i5-10400 and Corsair PSU 750w RMx, wouldn't the card get bottlenecked?
The PSU will handle it?
Thanks!

*I've just noticed there's a dedicated AMD forum so I'm sorry for posting in the wrong section..
 
It's indeed a 100-120$ difference BUT, the card is gonna be paired with i5-10400 and Corsair PSU 750w RMx, wouldn't the card get bottlenecked?
The PSU will handle it?
Thanks!

*I've just noticed there's a dedicated AMD forum so I'm sorry for posting in the wrong section..

I would still go 7800XT its generally 20% faster and the extra 4GB of vram will make it viable longer.

Your power supply will handle it no problem, and yeah a 10400 is getting long in the tooth but I would still rather have the extra gpu horsepower.

if the Nitro+ is 100 usd cheaper than the 7800XT that is the one I would go for if you are dead set on a 7700XT.
 
I would still go 7800XT its generally 20% faster and the extra 4GB of vram will make it viable longer.

Your power supply will handle it no problem, and yeah a 10400 is getting long in the tooth but I would still rather have the extra gpu horsepower.

if the Nitro+ is 100 usd cheaper than the 7800XT that is the one I would go for if you are dead set on a 7700XT.

yep as much as I went thru my max budget it's definitely worth it long-time wise.

This are the prices:

7700XT:
-Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT PULSE 12GB GDDR6 (638$)
-Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT NITRO+ OC 12GB GDDR6 (648$)
-Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT PURE OC 12GB GDDR6 (656$)
-Gigabyte Radeon RX 7700 XT 12GB GAMING GDDR6 (661$)

7800XT:
-Sapphire Radeon RX 7800 XT PULSE 16GB GDDR6 (726$)
-Sapphire Radeon RX 7800 XT PURE OC 16GB GDDR6 (750$)
-Sapphire Radeon RX 7800 XT NITRO+ OC 16GB GDDR6 (778$)

So for our discussion the Pulse version wid be fine?

I might also get an i7-10700 soon so the bottleneck will reduce by some I guess.
 
either the 7700XT Nitro or the 7800XT Pure would be my choices. I am sure the Pulse is fine but the extra 24 usd for a 3 fan model is something I would go with.


I would still lean 7800XT but its your money and those are the two cards I would be most happy with out of the 6.
 
either the 7700XT Nitro or the 7800XT Pure would be my choices. I am sure the Pulse is fine but the extra 24 usd for a 3 fan model is something I would go with.


I would still lean 7800XT but its your money and those are the two cards I would be most happy with out of the 6.

Understood! I'd probably go for the Pure then since I maxed my budget out.

Thank you mate!
 
It's indeed a 100-120$ difference
I'm guessing that you must live in Australia because the RX 7800 XT really is $120AUD more expensive than the RX 7700 XT.
BUT, the card is gonna be paired with i5-10400 and Corsair PSU 750w RMx, wouldn't the card get bottlenecked?
Not if you're gaming at 1440p or higher it won't. Besides, are you going to have an i5-10400 for the rest of your life? ;)
The PSU will handle it?
Kinda need to know what PSU you have before being able to tell you that. TechPowerUp recommends a 550W PSU for the RX 7700 XT and a 600W PSU for an RX 7800 XT.
Thanks!

*I've just noticed there's a dedicated AMD forum so I'm sorry for posting in the wrong section..
There's nothing wrong with posting here. If we weren't allowed to post here about Radeons or GeForces, what would be the subject in this forum, Matrox? :laugh:

I'll add another option for you, the RX 6800. It's less expensive, has 33% more VRAM capacity (16GB instead of 12GB) and has the same performance as the RX 7700 XT (in fact, it's ever so slightly faster). As long as it's still available, the RX 6800 is the biggest RX 7700 XT-killer on the market. Until the RX 6800 sells out, anyone choosing the RX 7700 XT over it had better have good use for that AV1 Encoder because that's the only advantage that the RX 7700 XT really has over the RX 6800 (and that's a very small advantage). The RX 7700 XT isn't even more power-efficient because the RX 6800's TDP is 2% greater (by 5W) but it's also 2% faster. Remember, the RX 6800 is more power-efficient than any other RDNA2 card and since RDNA2 is more efficient than Ampere, the RX 6800 is the most efficient card of its generation.

The RX 6800 is definitely the card that I would recommend to anyone looking at an RX 7700 XT. Get it while you still can! :rockout:
 
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I have the 7800 XT Sapphire Pulse, and it's absolutely brilliant. If you don't want RGB or any other extras, you can't go wrong with it. :)
 
He stated he has a RMx 750 more than enough.
Thank you, I didn't see that (too many posts to look through). I agree with you that a Corsair RMx 750 will effortlessly handle an RX 7800 XT.
 
I'm guessing that you must live in Australia because the RX 7800 XT really is $120AUD more expensive than the RX 7700 XT.

Not if you're gaming at 1440p or higher it won't. Besides, are you going to have an i5-10400 for the rest of your life? ;)

Kinda need to know what PSU you have before being able to tell you that. TechPowerUp recommends a 550W PSU for the RX 7700 XT and a 600W PSU for an RX 7800 XT.

There's nothing wrong with posting here. If we weren't allowed to post here about Radeons or GeForces, what would be the subject in this forum, Matrox? :laugh:

I'll add another option for you, the RX 6800. It's less expensive, has 33% more VRAM capacity (16GB instead of 12GB) and has the same performance as the RX 7700 XT (in fact, it's ever so slightly faster). As long as it's still available, the RX 6800 is the biggest RX 7700 XT-killer on the market. Until the RX 6800 sells out, anyone choosing the RX 7700 XT over it had better have good use for that AV1 Encoder because that's the only advantage that the RX 7700 XT really has over the RX 6800 (and that's a very small advantage). The RX 7700 XT isn't even more power-efficient because the RX 6800's TDP is 2% greater (by 5W) but it's also 2% faster. Remember, the RX 6800 is more power-efficient than any other RDNA2 card and since RDNA2 is more efficient than Ampere, the RX 6800 is the most efficient card of its generation.

The RX 6800 is definitely the card that I would recommend to anyone looking at an RX 7700 XT. Get it while you still can! :rockout:
Actually I have a chance to get from a friend a i5-11400 or i7-10700, I wonder what woud be better :ohwell:

Anyway, I will mainly play at 1080p ATM (Standart 24" Dell) altho I might try a 29" WHQL screen that I have aswell (2560x1080). but as much as I understand it wouldn't be much of a problem for that gpu.

as for the 6800XT - seems it's not for sale anymore over here so I guess i'll go max for the 7800 and maybe get some long term quiet.
 
Actually I have a chance to get from a friend a i5-11400 or i7-10700, I wonder what woud be better :ohwell:


The 10700 is likely the better bet from reviews I remember the 11400 being about the same as a 10400.


For non gaming it's decent though.
 
Actually I have a chance to get from a friend a i5-11400 or i7-10700, I wonder what would be better :ohwell:
For gaming, there's no question, the i7-10700.
Anyway, I will mainly play at 1080p ATM (Standart 24" Dell) altho I might try a 29" WHQL screen that I have aswell (2560x1080). but as much as I understand it wouldn't be much of a problem for that gpu.
If you play at those resolutions, I would call even the RX 7700 XT "overkill". It would be like hunting crocs with an elephant gun. For what you want to do, I would say that the RX 6750 XT would be the ideal card for you and it only costs $589 at Computer Alliance.
as for the 6800XT - seems it's not for sale anymore over here so I guess i'll go max for the 7800 and maybe get some long term quiet.
But the RX 6800 is and that's the card I was recommending.

It doesn't matter though because that RX 6750 XT for only $589AUD at Computer Alliance is by far the best deal that I've seen on any of the cards we're talking about here and is still more than enough for your uses. The RX 6750 XT is a 1440p card that will put out tonnes of FPS at 1080p. I think that, for your purposes, getting more than the RX 6750 XT would be an unfortunate waste of money. The RX 7800 XT is 33% faster but costs 49% more money and you're gaming at 1080p. There really is no reason for you to spend the extra money as you'll get no benefit from the extra speed or the extra VRAM. Someone who games at 1080p has no need for more than 8GB of VRAM at the present time. The RX 6750 XT has 12GB which means that you'll not only be set for 1080p for many years to come, you'll even be alright at 1440p. The RX 7800 XT is meant for gamers who game at a minimum resolution of 1440p and sometimes 4K.

You'll be saving $290 by getting the 6750 XT over the 7800 XT and that would go a long way to saving up for the platform upgrade that you seem to also desire. I don't think that anyone here would disagree with me that for someone who games at only 1080p or 1080p ultra-wide, this is the best course of action.
 
The RX 7800 XT is meant for gamers who game at a minimum resolution of 1440p and sometimes 4K.

I think it depends on the user both the 7800XT and 4070 I would use at 1080p/1440p maximum.

6700XT/6750XT is definitely 1080p territory for me though I just did a build with one it's definitely a good card for that resolution.

Although I do prefer RT performance over Raster so that is part of it.
 
While the advice is very good (buy the cheapest 7800xt because it's a better [especially long-term] value), you're not wrong that a 7700xt is the exactly-correct performance level to pair with that CPU.

With that in mind, I'd BOLO a used 2080ti/3080/6800xt/6900xt/6950xt on facebook/ebay/whatever and scoop up whatever you can find that's cheapest. For 1080p or 2560x1080 (which is ~equivalent to FSR/DLSS balanced at 4k), none of those cards will do you wrong. The 4070/7800xt is the next performance/efficiency tier, but you will pay quite a bit more for it, and if you plan to stay on a relatively older/lower-end CPU and/or resolution for some time, it might be worth it to save the cash.
 
I think it depends on the user both the 7800XT and 4070 I would use at 1080p/1440p maximum.
I can honestly say that I never gamed at below 1440p with my RX 6800 XT.
6700XT/6750XT is definitely 1080p territory for me though I just did a build with one it's definitely a good card for that resolution.
And much better for the OP with the savings of $290.
Although I do prefer RT performance over Raster so that is part of it.
You have things a bit confused there because you can't compare "RT Performance" with Raserisation Performance (aka GPU Performance) as there really is no such thing as "RT performance". The correct way to say it would be "RT Resilience" because no matter if you have RT on or off, everything that you see on the screen is rasterised. The reason that RT slows rasterisation down is that the raster engine has to wait for the RT cores to finish calculating the ray-traced lighting, shadows and/or reflections before it can draw them on the screen. AMD has a slower RT calculation engine which is why its GPU performance is far less resilient to RT than a GeForce card in the same price category.

However, on the flip side, you can counter having a slower RT calculation engine by having a faster raster engine because, as we've seen, the RTX 4060 Ti cannot match the performance of the RX 6800 XT even when RT is on despite the tensor cores of the 4060 Ti being two generations more advanced than the RT accelerators of the RX 6800 XT. This is because the raster engine of the RX 6800 XT is more than fast enough to more than make up the performance difference of the two RT engines (this is the correct usage of the term "RT Performance").

The RTX 4060 Ti still has superior RT performance to the RX 6800 XT even though it gets out-performed by the RX 6800 XT with RT turned on.
 
Go for the cheapest 7800XT or a 6800XT.
 
I can honestly say that I never gamed at below 1440p with my RX 6800 XT.

And much better for the OP with the savings of $290.

You have things a bit confused there because you can't compare "RT Performance" with Raserisation Performance (aka GPU Performance) as there really is no such thing as "RT performance". The correct way to say it would be "RT Resilience" because no matter if you have RT on or off, everything that you see on the screen is rasterised. The reason that RT slows rasterisation down is that the raster engine has to wait for the RT cores to finish calculating the ray-traced lighting, shadows and/or reflections before it can draw them on the screen. AMD has a slower RT calculation engine which is why its GPU performance is far less resilient to RT than a GeForce card in the same price category.

However, on the flip side, you can counter having a slower RT calculation engine by having a faster raster engine because, as we've seen, the RTX 4060 Ti cannot match the performance of the RX 6800 XT even when RT is on despite the tensor cores of the 4060 Ti being two generations more advanced than the RT accelerators of the RX 6800 XT. This is because the raster engine of the RX 6800 XT is more than fast enough to more than make up the performance difference of the two RT engines (this is the correct usage of the term "RT Performance").

The RTX 4060 Ti still has superior RT performance to the RX 6800 XT even though it gets out-performed by the RX 6800 XT with RT turned on.

Poor choice of words I value how a card performs in something like CP2077 PL with RT more than I value how general rasterization performance is although There are a lot of other factors I weight like how much the card cost anything under the 4070 I wouldn't want to use with RT and honestly even then I would use a 4070 at 1080p or 1440p with DLSS quality.

off topic though but the 7800XT is a very good 1440p card and a great 1080p card saving 100 and grabbing the 7700XT isn't the most terrible choice but the OP probably want's to keep the card for a long while seeing as they still have a 10 series based platform so I would go with the faster card I could afford. Save up and do the platform next down the road if that is an option.

How good a 6700XT is depends on how much it cost in his country.
 
Well putting things that way, the 6750 sounds enough.

The one sold here is:
Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT PULSE 12GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP - ~543$

This is pretty much 150$ difference of the 7800XT. I would say that another upgrade for the mobo/cpu is indeed what I plan in the next 6month I guess.
What would be the wiser choice?
 
Well putting things that way, the 6750 sounds enough.

The one sold here is:
Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT PULSE 12GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP - ~543$

This is pretty much 150$ difference of the 7800XT. I would say that another upgrade for the mobo/cpu is indeed what I plan in the next 6month I guess.
What would be the wiser choice?

543 for a 6750xt sucks is what I think

7800xt is like 40% faster.

I would pick either pulse 7700xt or 7800xt over that.

I feel for you man prices in your country suck. How bad are Nvidia cards priced? lol
 
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What about used RX 6800? Must be cca 300 USD give or take and will be as fast as 7700 XT. 6800 non-XT usually don't die so it's a low-risk investment. Saved money could be used to get an i7-11700.
 
It's indeed a 100-120$ difference BUT, the card is gonna be paired with i5-10400 and Corsair PSU 750w RMx, wouldn't the card get bottlenecked?
The PSU will handle it?
Thanks!

*I've just noticed there's a dedicated AMD forum so I'm sorry for posting in the wrong section..
That PSU could power like three of those.

6700XT/6750XT is definitely 1080p territory for me though I just did a build with one it's definitely a good card for that resolution.
And yet still I play at 4K with my 6700 XT :laugh:
 
That PSU could power like three of those.


And yet still I play at 4K with my 6700 XT :laugh:

Well keep in mind I Have a 4090 in my 4k pc and a 3080ti in my 1440p pc and then it starts to make sense why I would use the card for 1080p.

Everyones ok level of performance varies.
 
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