AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Graphics Card Official: 16 GB & Full Navi 32 GPU For $499 US, Faster Than RTX 4070

AMD has unveiled its Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card which is designed to tackle the RTX 4070 at a price of $499 US.

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Graphics Card Official: Tackles RTX 4070 At $499 US

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is one of the two RDNA 3 GPUs being announced today that comes with the Navi 32 GPU. This graphics card is aimed at Enthusiast-Class 1440P gaming and features all the goodies that you'd expect from the Radeon software suite.

In terms of specifications, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card features 60 Compute Units or 3840 stream processors. The graphics card reaches up to 2430 Hz boost clocks which can provide up to 37 TFLOPs of FP32 Compute horsepower. There are also 60 RT Accelerator cores, 120 AI accelerator units, and 96 ROPs for this specific Navi 32 SKU. The graphics chip features a TBP of 263W.

• RX 7800 XT - Navi 32 XT / 3840 Cores / 16 GB GDDR6 / 263W / $499
• RX 6800 XT - Navi 21 XT / 4608 Cores / 16 GB GDDR6 / 300W / $649

Memory specifications include 16 GB GDDR6 memory which operates at pin speeds of up to 19.5 Gbps across a 256-bit wide bus interface. This provides the card with 624 GB/s but there's also 64 MB of Infinity Cache which provides increased effective bandwidth. The graphics card will feature a brand new dual-slot and dual-fan reference cooling solution along with custom variants.

In terms of performance, the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB graphics card is said to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB solution. It offers up to 23% better performance & 3.5% average performance bump over its competition. The card excels in standard rasterization performance but ends up slower when ray tracing is involved. The testing was done by AMD itself & the RT titles that were used are mostly favorable to RDNA 3 hardware with the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 & Hogwarts Legacy not shown with RT enabled.

Once again, AMD aims the Radeon RX 7800 XT as a graphics card that offers 60+ FPS on average across a range of AAA titles when running at 1440P (natively) and maxed settings. The card offers more VRAM and should tackle the RTX 4070 competitively but in terms of efficiency and features, NVIDIA might be a big step ahead, especially when it offers similar performance at -24% lower GPU power while supporting next-gen features such as DLSS 3.5.

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT GPUs will be available the same day on the 6th of September, 2023, the same day as the release of Starfield, & both cards will be bundled with a copy of the game.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 RDNA 3 GPU Lineup:

Graphics Card	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7600
GPU	Navi 31 XTX	Navi 31 XT	Navi 31 LE	Navi 32	Navi 32	Navi 33 XL
Process Node	5nm+6nm	5nm+6nm	5nm+6nm	5nm+6nm	5nm+6nm	6nm
Die Size	300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs)	300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs)	300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs)	200mm2(Only GCD) 150mm2(with MCDs)	200mm2(Only GCD) 150mm2(with MCDs)	204mm2
Transistors	58 Billion	58 Billion	58 Billion	28.1 Billion	28.1 Billion	13.3 Billion
GPU WGPs	48	42	40	30	27	16
Stream Processors	6144	5376	5120	3840	3456	2048
TMUs/ROPs	384 / 192	384 / 192	320 / 160	240 / 96	216 / 96	128 / 32
Game Clock	2.3 GHz	2.0 GHz	1.9 GHz	2.2 GHz	2.1 GHz	2.2 GHz
Boost Clock	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz	2.2 GHz	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz	2.6 GHz
FP32 TFLOPs	61 TFLOPs	52 TFLOPs	46 TFLOPs	37 TFLOPs	35 TFLOPs	22 TFLOPs
Memory Size	24 GB GDDR6	20 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Infinity Cache	96 MB	80 MB	64 MB	64 MB	48 MB	32 MB
Memory Bus	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	18 Gbps	19.5 Gbps	18 Gbps	18 Gbps
Bandwidth	960 GB/s	800 GB/s	576 GB/s	624 GB/s	432 GB/s	288 GB/s
Effective Bandwidth	3.5 TB/s	3.5 TB/s	2.2 TB/s	2.7 TB/s	2.0 TB/s	476.9 GB/s
TBP	355W	315W	260W	263W	245W	165W
PCIe Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Price	$999 US	$899 US	$649 US (5299 RMB China)	$499 US	$449 US	$269 US
Launch	Dec, 2022	Dec, 2022	July, 2023	September, 2023	September, 2023	May, 2023

Written by Hassan Mujtaba