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[rdenmon]

I recently saw an article saying October 2022 the 7900xt is coming out.

https://latestgamestories.com/2022/06/15/radeon-rx-7900-xt-and-more-new-amd-graphics-cards-coming-la...

I also read in another article it was going to come out q4 2022 and be 3x's the speed of the 6900xt. I have three questions to anyone who has an inkling.

1.) when is the projected release date?

2.) Is it really 3x faster?

3.) What is the estimate price range, the 6900xt's were pretty expensive.

[Sam_AMD]

Hi @rdenmon 

I'm excited about our new products being released this year, however, I can't answer your questions at this time, as I'm not allowed to share undisclosed information; I'd get in trouble if I did - I hope you understand.  

Rest assured we will make an official announcement across all our platforms when ready. 

[MikeySCT]

i had overpaid for my Sapp Nitro+ RX 6900 XT at about 1350USD equivalent in local cash, so I ain't willing to spend that much for another AMD flagship. IF the RX 7900 XT were to cost about the 1k USD mark at launch, I"d be all over it like a bad rash. The RX 6900 XT would go into my 2nd gaming rig, or my HTPC, I've not quite decided yet.

I hope the RT (NOT RTX as nVidia fanatics like to refer to it as) performance has improved by 3x (by whatever metrics it was measured with) as rumored. I love my RX 6900 XT, but when I enable RT at Very High in Metro Exodus PC Ehanced, its performance tanks hard. Still playable at between 40fps to 80fps at 3840x1080, but a constant 60fps and higher would be very much appreciated.

[Racq]

RT is going to tank performance no matter what display device you have right now. Some more than others, yes but it's a technology limitation for what has been released so far. That's why we have FSR, DLSS, etc. to try to make up some of the difference.

I believe once that technology becomes more wide-spread and adopted, we'll find even better ways to implement it than what we know right now. It's a "nice to have" right now, but not something I personally have as a priority.

[addiepie79]

   I agree its more of a nice to have and personally I still think Ray Tracing is very gimmicky at this point in time and something I  do not take seriously at all, so being that's said i have a 6950xt paired with a 5950x processor and I can play the titles with ray tracing very well but all I really see is some nice reflections that's not worth the performance hit no matter what GPU you're playing on and everyone I know turns it off its just not a big deal the game is still going to look awesome without it!

[MikeySCT · Accepted solution]

I know RT is not a 'must have, it's a nice to have feature, I'd only mentioned Metro Exodus PC Enhanced because it only runs with RT capable cards. Besides, I'm running the game at exactly half the res of 4K (3840x1080), hence I'm glad that the 6900 XT is still beefy enough to do it with RT. 

I'm merely stating that since the RX 7900 XT, with its rumored 3x RT performance uplift vis-a-vis the RX 6900 XT, should help performance with RT enabled. I just hope that the day would come, and soon I might add, when GPUs are powerful enough to do 4K at min of 100fps, with RT enabled with all ingame graphics maxed out.

[rdenmon]

Exactly 100fps 4k