Summary
Sapphire outbids the former MSRP of the Radeon RX 7700XT of 489 Euros by at least 20 Euros with the Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pure 12GB and is still above the 500 Euro mark with about 30 Euros compared to the currently cheapest RX 7700XT from Gigabyte. However, it is optically, haptically and technically a whole class higher. You can get the cheapest RX 7800XT (ASRock Challenger) for just under 50 Euros more, but Sapphire’s Pure primarily wants to be beautiful and white. The customer has to pay for this unique optical feature. I’m sure that quite a few will. You don’t have to be a drama queen because of 20 Euros more than the RRP. But that doesn’t change the fact that the prices are still much too high.
The PCB makes a high-quality impression and the cooler including pads is rock-solid, even if it is a bit overbuilt. But that will surely keep many a hobbyist away from the inner workings. In the end, there is almost nothing that speaks against the Sapphire Radeon RX 7700XT Pure 12GB, but a lot for it. The performance is roughly on par with a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti when you consider the sum of average FPS, the P1 Low and the DXR performance. Only in terms of efficiency does NVIDIA still have a clear lead (not only) in this performance class.
The ray tracing performance has at least made a considerable step forward and is now on the level of the biggest Ampere cards. This also has to be acknowledged, even if there are still up to double-digit gaps in DXR performance to be observed. But the gap has narrowed. This also affects things like the excellent video encoder. AMD has completely turned telemetry upside down in RDNA3, which has also worked well in most aspects. The fact that you can finally read out a TBP that is reasonably correct, even if it is only a good estimate, is a big step forward. NVIDIA has long relied on real monitoring of the rails via shunts, while AMD now at least uses the summation of all values from the DCR and some mathematics, which is also possible. Sapphire doesn’t make a slip either.
The fact that there is no MBA card from AMD is justified with a lack of buyer interest in MBA cards. I can’t quite understand that, because these cards are usually the most reasonable offers in the respective chip class. And you wouldn’t even have risked fragmentation here, because apart from one less voltage converter phase and a lower power limit in the firmware, the cards are identical. However, you won’t earn much from it if you don’t reduce the price further.
The gap to the currently around 270 euro Radeon RX 7600 is huge. Especially since the small Navi33 card can’t really do anything. If you prefer AMD as a provider, you’ll inevitably have to buy an RX 7700XT if it’s not quite enough for the RX 7800XT. Yes, he could of course climb the ladder more slowly and go for an RX 6750XT that costs at least 365 Euros, but he would then have a significantly slower card. How big the shadow of the RX 7800XT then remains as a burden remains to be seen in the course of various price adjustments.
NVIDIA doesn’t really have anything in this performance class, which already makes the card interesting. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 8 GB, which costs at least 396 Euros, is no opponent at all. The small Ada card simply lacks the basic performance and is slower than the just mentioned RX 6750XT anyway. The 16 GB variant for around 500 Euros doesn’t help either; the Radeon RX 7700XT simply offers more here. AMD gratefully pokes into a huge gap with this card that NVIDIA has criminally (or even intentionally?) left open. And that’s exactly why I feel the lack of the MBA card as a loss. But in the end, there are still such white beauties that can score over their looks.
The graphics card was provided by Sapphire for this test. The only condition was the adherence to the blocking period, no influence or remuneration took place.
Sapphire Pure Radeon RX 7700 XT, 12GB GDDR6, 2x HDMI, 2x DP, lite retail (11335-03-20G)
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- 1 - Introduction, technical data and technology
- 2 - Test setup and methods
- 3 - Teardown: PCB and components
- 4 - Teardown: Cooler and material analysis
- 5 - Gaming-Performance Full-HD (1920 x 1080)
- 6 - Gaming Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440)
- 7 - Details: Power consumption and balancing
- 8 - Transients and PSU recommendation
- 9 - Temperatures, clock rate and thermal imaging
- 10 - Fan curves and noise
- 11 - Summary and conclusion
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