With the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900 XT, and RX 7600, players all over the place are impatiently ready for even simply an announcement round AMD’s remaining GPUs — the RX 7800 sequence and RX 7700 sequence — and it is gotten to the purpose the place one tester needed to simulate the potential efficiency of the RX 7800 XT as an alternative.

The assessments carried out by Igor Wallossek of Igor’s Lab use the AMD Professional Radeon W7800 with a variety of tips to attempt to put it in step with potential specs for the RX 7800 XT, of which we have heard little or no.

Importantly, the Professional Radeon W7800 makes use of the identical Navi 31 GPU because the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, which the RX 7800 XT will seemingly use as properly, however that is not assured. The Navi 32 GPU nonetheless hasn’t been revealed by AMD, and this could possibly be the GPU utilized by the RX 7800 XT, which might positively skew the outcomes an excellent bit.

There may be additionally the difficulty of drivers, clock speeds, chiplet design, and all kinds of different variations that distinguish a Professional Radeon card from a gaming Radeon RX card, so Wallossek’s outcomes positively have to be taken with a large boatload of salt. 

All that mentioned, he discovered that the simulated RX 7800 XT was about 4% higher at 1080p, 8% higher at 1440p, and 12.5% higher at 4K than the RX 6800 XT. That’s clearly not a big enchancment, with solely the 4K efficiency being worthy of being known as “higher” in sensible phrases. 

However, truthfully, the purpose right here is to not really measure the efficiency of the RX 7800 XT, which these assessments completely don’t do. The purpose is what these assessments inform us in regards to the market and AMD’s lacking GPUs.

AMD’s gamble on the early launch of the RX 7600 paid off, however it is time to transfer on

The simulated specs on the Professional Radeon W7800 are about as helpful as a crystal ball when it comes to what it tells us in regards to the RX 7800 XT, and in additional methods than one. On the one hand, Igor’s Lab’s simulation is fascinating as a modding train however has so many caveats hooked up that it will possibly’t in any manner be predictive of the RX 7800 XT’s actual efficiency.

The truth that we now have to resort to a crystal ball in any respect is extra pertinent since AMD has been awfully quiet about its 7800 sequence and 7700 sequence, and with no leaked benchmarks or different info to go on, guesswork is admittedly all we now have at this level.

I used to be very adamant again in February of this 12 months that AMD skip the standard moving-down-the-stack launch cadence and launch its RX 7600 sequence GPUs forward of the RX 7800- and RX 7700 sequence. I argued then that it was a sensible play to undercut Nvidia by releasing a next-gen budget-friendly GPU forward of expectations to promote to arguably the most important and most underserved market, which is players with out a entire lot of money to spend. There’s all the time cash to be made promoting the most effective low-cost graphics card available on the market.

That appears to have paid off for AMD as gross sales of the RX 7600 seem like outpacing the RTX 4060 Ti (no must thank me, Dr. Su. Recommendation on behalf of players is all the time freely given). With that win below its belt although, it is now time for AMD to have a look at the a part of the stack we skipped, beginning with the RX 7800 XT.

The place the %$^# is the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT?

There may be going to be loads of fanatic curiosity within the RX 7800 XT, in addition to the RX 7700 XT, and the much less we heard about these playing cards the extra we’re simply going to baselessly speculate, and that is not an excellent factor for Workforce Purple.

The one factor you do not wish to do is let players’ speculations get out forward of what you might be really going to be releasing. The longer we go with out one thing to maintain these expectations in test, the extra seemingly we’re to overestimate the efficiency of those two (or 4) playing cards, which can solely result in disappointment at launch if the playing cards fail to fulfill these inflated expectations.

I am not saying AMD must make an early announcement earlier than it is prepared, however it actually does must “unintentionally” depart its inner take a look at benches linked to the web and begin doing a little benchmarks that may discover their manner into databases on-line (and subsequently into the press) to assist average expectations. 

Hell, you could possibly even undervolt the cardboard, run 3DMark Time Spy and ahead the outcomes to a Twitter leaker or run Geekbench’s Compute benchmark a bunch of instances whereas importing the outcomes, and decrease our efficiency expectations solely to blow these out of the water as soon as we will really get the ultimate product in hand for overview. 

Truthfully, we want something however lifeless silence on what could possibly be the most effective graphics playing cards of this era. Feed the hogs, AMD. We want sustenance!