There is no doubt that, generation after generation, graphics cards become more and more powerful but also much more expensive, to the point that a single high-end graphics card today costs the same price as a complete gaming PC. cost so long ago hardly a few. years. NOW, AMD confirmed its intention to launch new models in the series RX7000 of a new generation, logically mid-range graphics but which will be quite cheaper and therefore affordable than the current ones.
Despite the fact that the Radeon RX 7000 family was introduced to the market at the end of last year, as happened with NVIDIA, new models are slowly released to the market, and at this stage there are still many more models to come out.
AMD’s new cheap graphics cards will arrive in June
AMD has confirmed that the new Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card models will hit the market at the end of June, so we’ll still have to wait around two months to see if they really are as cheap as they are supposed to be. This announcement follows a series of leaks and model speculation. RX 7700XT and 7800XT of the last few days, and are supposed to offer a more affordable alternative to the previously released RX 7900 XT and XTX models.
The RX 7800 XT is expected to feature an AMD Navi 32 GPU with 60 compute units, along with 16GB of dedicated GDDR6 graphics memory via a 256-bit memory bus and up to 64MB of Infinity cache. This graphics card, classified in the medium-high range, would have a TBP (total board power) of 285W.
For its part, the RX 7700 XT is positioned as the cheapest graphics card of this generation (for now), and would have a Navi 32 GPU with 54 calculation units, 12 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory on a bus 192 bits, and 48 MB of Infinity Cache. This graph would have a lower TBP of 225W.
And what about the price?
Despite the fact that AMD has just presented its financial results and, for the first time in many years, posted a loss, the company remains optimistic about its financial performance. AMD managed to sell $5.4 billion, 9% less than the previous year but still a very high figure. In total, the net profit was -145 million (i.e. losses), which contrasts sharply with the 786 million profit they had made in the same period of the previous year .
Perhaps having generated losses during the last fiscal quarter has caused AMD to reflect on the market strategy they have adopted when it comes to graphics cards, because as we noted at the beginning, a high-end graphics card is nowadays only within the reach of lucky pockets, since the graphics alone already cost practically as much as an entire gaming PC.
When it comes to price, we should supposedly be looking at cheap graphics cards, but when AMD talks about something affordable, it doesn’t exactly mean cheap… but cheaper than what they have now , something obvious because they are technically inferior graphics. The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is expected to have a price range that will go from 650 to 900 dollars in the TOP models of the assemblers, while the RX 7700 XT is speculated that it could arrive in the market at from “only” 399 dollars/euro.
