Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.
The pricing on the Radeon RX 7800 XT will come in around $499 USD while the Radeon RX 7700 XT has an SEP of $449 USD.
Still unreasonably expensive. These cards should be at least $150 cheaper.
Then don’t buy it, they keep the price because people keep buying over priced GPUs.
The good thing is, older AMD cards tend to drop in value a lot more compared to nVidia. So now that these cards have been announced, expect a decent price drop in the near future for m the 6000 series cards (which are still pretty good, especially if you consider the price/performance ratio vs nVidia).
Meh, nothing like having the official AMD video drivers crashing several times a day on Ubuntu with a flagship Sapphire RX 7900 XTX. And if you’re extra lucky it will kick you out of the session too.
Why would you use the official ones? Mesa is better
Yeah I don’t think I’ve had a single crash with the mesa drivers after my overclock was dialed in. And I’ve ran some pretty janky stuff (like my vega 56 that was flashed with a 64 bios).
Are you talking from personal experience? If so, I might give them a try.
I tought AMD official drivers where the best option for graphics and performance.
Yes, personal experience, but also from benchmarks, the open source mesa drivers are just faster at this point, unless you’re turning on raytracing in everything.
Nah, I may play around with raytracing in the future, but it’s not a must for me.
Well, I will give the open source drivers a try, thanks.
How is ROCm these days? I remember needing the official AMD drivers for OpenCL stuff a while ago and ROCm was in very early development.
For ROCm you need the official drivers. For OpenCL, RustiCL (OpenCL implemented over Vulkan) works perfectly for me.
How are Intel’s drivers? My new PC has an A750 because I like to live dangerously. It’s been great in Windows for the few games I want to play (the older stuff that has performance issues with Arc I’m largely not interested in or can play on my old PC)
Sorry, I don’t know. I ended up with a full AMD build.
Intel has historically had very good Linux drivers. Last time I checked (8 months ago), there were still some bugs when the cards were new, but I’m sure they’re mostly ironed out by now.
The drivers themselves are fine, but the problem is game compatibility. Several games require you to fake your card vendor so that the game thinks you’re on nVidia or something, but even then, there may be some compatibility issues.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy
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AMD used the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Germany for announcing the Radeon RX 7700 XT and Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards as the newest consumer cards in the RDNA3 family.
The Radeon RX 800 XT carries a slightly higher board power rating of 263 Watts.
AMD also shows the Radeon RX 7800 XT standing up great against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card.
Of course, all of the launch-day metrics shared by AMD were tested under Microsoft Windows… You’ll need to wait for my Linux reviews of the Radeon RX 7700 XT / Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards for once these graphics cards are actually shipping.
It will be very interesting to see how they perform with AMD’s open-source graphics driver stack on Linux.
So far RDNA3 graphics with the open-source Linux graphics stack has worked out well – even the new Radeon PRO cards had great open-source upstream support on launch-day – so for those running a modern Linux distribution and interested in the RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT presumably you’ll be in good shape, but stay tuned to Phoronix.
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