Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse Review 29

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse Review

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Introduction

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Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse is the company's cost-effective custom-design rendition of AMD's swanky new performance segment graphics card being launched today. We are celebrating the double launch of the new RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, be sure to check out our extensive coverage of 9 graphics card reviews on launch day. The Sapphire Pulse family of graphics cards is designed for those who want a Radeon RX graphics card that they can just install and forget about. There are no flashy product aesthetics or LED lighting, but you get a card that's compact, and which you can easily maintain over a long period of time.



The new Radeon RX 7700 XT is designed for maxed out 1440p gaming, just like the RX 7800 XT, but at a more attractive price-point, with prices starting at $450. You have all the muscle you need for AAA and e-sports gaming at 1440p, or high refresh-rate 1080p gaming. The RX 7700 XT is based on the latest RDNA 3 graphics architecture, which brings you generational performance improvements, new features such as AI acceleration and multi-draw indirect accelerator; and next-generation energy efficiency thanks to the new 5 nm foundry process where it matters.

The RX 7700 XT is carved out of the same Navi 32 chiplet GPU as the RX 7800 XT. Much like the Navi 31 GPU powering the RX 7900 series, the Navi 32 sees the GPU's main graphics rendering and number crunching machinery located on a centralized 5 nm die called the graphics compute die (GCD), surrounded by four dies that each contain a 16 MB segment of the GPU's Infinity Cache, and a 64-bit portion of the GPU's memory interface. The RX 7700 XT is configured with three out of four MCDs, which gives it 48 MB of Infinity Cache, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, which drives 12 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, yielding 432 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

The 5 nm GCD of the RX 7700 XT is configured with 54 RDNA 3 compute units, which work out to 3,456 stream processors, 108 AI accelerators, 54 Ray accelerators, 216 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. AMD runs the GPU at 2171 MHz game clocks, and 2544 MHz boost. Internally, the GPU's front-end runs at 10-15% higher clocks than the shader engines. Sapphire has configured the RX 7700 XT Pulse with a power limit of 230 W.

The Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse features a simple aluminium fin-stack based cooling solution that's ventilated by a pair of axial flow fans. Sapphire designed the cooler such that you can disassemble the cooler shroud holding these fans without disturbing the heatsink underneath, so you can periodically clean the fans. Besides this, as we mentioned earlier, the design focus really is to give the gamer a quiet card that's easy to install. The card is easy on the pocket, too, priced at the AMD MSRP of $450.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 9x RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT

Our goal with the videos is to create short summaries, not go into all the details and test results, which can be found in our written reviews.

Radeon RX 7700 XT Market Segment Analysis
 PriceCoresROPsCore
Clock
Boost
Clock
Memory
Clock
GPUTransistorsMemory
RTX 3060$2503584481320 MHz1777 MHz1875 MHzGA10612000M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 7600$2502048642250 MHz2625 MHz2250 MHzNavi 3313300M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 4060$2903072481830 MHz2460 MHz2125 MHzAD10718900M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
Arc A770$25040961282100 MHzN/A2187 MHzACM-G1021700M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080$2402944641515 MHz1710 MHz1750 MHzTU10413600M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti$2604864801410 MHz1665 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 4060 Ti$3904352482310 MHz2535 MHz2250 MHzAD10622900M8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RX 6700 XT$310
2560642424 MHz2581 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2217200M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti$3504352881350 MHz1545 MHz1750 MHzTU10218600M11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070$3005888961500 MHz1725 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti$3906144961575 MHz1770 MHz1188 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800$4303840961815 MHz2105 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 7700 XT$4503456962171 MHz2544 MHz2250 MHzNavi 3226500M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
Sapphire RX 7700 XT
Pulse
$4503456962171 MHz2544 MHz2250 MHzNavi 3226500M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 6800 XT$51046081282015 MHz2250 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080$4708704961440 MHz1710 MHz1188 MHzGA10228000M10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RTX 4070$6005888641920 MHz2475 MHz1313 MHzAD10435800M12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
RX 7800 XT$5003840962124 MHz2430 MHz2425 MHzNavi 3228100M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080 Ti$700102401121365 MHz1665 MHz1188 MHzGA10228000M12 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 6900 XT$58051201282015 MHz2250 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6950 XT$63051201282100 MHz2310 MHz2250 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3090$750104961121395 MHz1695 MHz1219 MHzGA10228000M24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RTX 4070 Ti$8007680802310 MHz2610 MHz1313 MHzAD10435800M12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
RX 7900 XT$75053761922000 MHz2400 MHz2500 MHzNavi 3157700M20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit
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