While Nvidia released a refresh of GeForce RTX 4000 graphics this year (models marked Super), nothing of the sort has yet come from AMD, although in the previous generation refresh models marked with the number “50” existed. However, some new Radeon graphics for the desktop could appear, but perhaps they would be “non-XT” cards with lower performance (and lower consumption) added to the lineup below the current XT models.
The source of this information is again the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) database, where companies register various hardware, including graphics card models, and this often happens before release, so only planned news can be spotted here. This time graphics from Acer appeared in the database, which recently started producing graphics cards with Arc GPUs from Intel and Radeon from AMD and started offering them in “retail” as separate components.
According to the EEC database, Acer should prepare new graphics models “Radeon RX 7700“, „Radeon RX 7800“ a „Radeon RX 7900“, which do not exist yet, so it is possible that AMD is planning to launch them on the market as cards that complement the range of standard models marked XT. Acer also has “XT” models registered in this way at the same time, which suggests that perhaps it is not just an omission and we should really be talking about separate “non-XT” new models.
According to this database, Acer (and AMD) are planning RX 7700, RX 7800 and RX 7900 Radeons in Predator Bifrost and Nitro finishes, while there should be base versions and “OC” models with increased clocks (and presumably TDP). Similar coolers to the existing Radeon Predator Bifrost and Nitro cards should probably be used.
Less consumption, less performance, less memory (for less money)?
The database does not specify the configuration of these possible new models. Perhaps it could be an analogue of the Radeon RX 6700 (non-XT) graphics, released quite late in the cycle of the RX 6000 generation. The GPU would probably have lower clocks and also about a bit less compute units than their XT versions. At the same time, consumption could perhaps also be reduced against the XT models.
At the same time, there could also be less graphics memory, which allows the graphics to be sold a little cheaper. The Radeon RX 7700 could theoretically be a card with, say, 3072 shaders (48 CU) and 10GB of memory, which would still be somewhere between the Radeon RX 7600 (XT) and the Radeon RX 7700 XT. The Radeon RX 7800 could theoretically only have 12GB of memory. We’ll see what AMD comes up with for the Radeon RX 7900, because it already has such a slower, reduced memory capacity, but also more efficient card (with a lower TDP) in the form of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE model. The RX 7900 could possibly be similar with some minor differences.
It should be noted that sometimes products that the company will not release in the end, either due to cancellation or such a model should never have existed, sometimes end up in these databases. Reliability is therefore far from 100%, and it cannot be guaranteed that this is not the case for these non-XT Radeons as well.
However, in the later stages of GPU production, various alternative versions of cards of this type are often created, in which different parameters probably help to clear the stock of manufactured chips, including, for example, silicon with various defects or lower achieved clocks that do not fit into the already sold configurations, but can still be used.
Resources: VideoCardz, EEC
Source: www.cnews.cz
