AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

The AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT is a desktop graphics card in the Radeon RX 7000 Series. AMD describes it as designed for next-generation gaming and streaming experiences at 1440p, and that target resolution is a useful way to read the rest of the specification: this is a mid-high-range card meant for 1440p monitors rather than for 4K at maximum settings. AMD's page lists no price and no launch date, so this entry gives neither. Everything below is the manufacturer's published specification, plus a few clearly marked pieces of arithmetic that check whether the numbers agree with each other. We have not tested the card ourselves and we do not quote benchmark results.

Compute resources

AMD lists 54 compute units, 3456 stream processors, 54 ray accelerators and 108 AI accelerators, together with 216 texture units and 96 ROPs. The boost clock is listed as up to 2544 MHz and the game clock as 2171 MHz. AMD explains the two terms in its footnotes: the boost clock is the maximum frequency achievable on the GPU running a bursty workload, and the game clock is the expected clock when running typical gaming applications at typical total graphics power. Real clocks vary with thermal conditions and the application. The transistor count is 28.1 billion. Our explainer on GPU naming tiers helps put the 7700 XT name in context, since vendors use suffixes and numbers to signal where a card sits inside a generation.

Do the throughput numbers agree?

A quick arithmetic check is useful because spec sheets sometimes mix figures from different configurations. AMD lists a peak pixel fill rate of up to 244 GP/s and a peak texture fill rate of up to 550 GT/s. Multiplying the 96 ROPs by the 2544 MHz boost clock gives about 244 GP/s, and multiplying the 216 texture units by the same clock gives about 550 GT/s, so both numbers follow directly from the page's own clock and unit counts. The peak single-precision figure of 35.2 TFLOPs is consistent with 3456 stream processors at 2544 MHz if each processor is counted as completing four floating-point operations per clock; that factor is our reading of how AMD counts and is not stated on the page. AMD also lists 35.2 TFLOPs for FP16 vector work, 70.3 TFLOPs for FP16 matrix work, 70.3 TOPs for INT8 matrix work and 141 TOPs for INT4 matrix work. These are theoretical peaks; they say what the hardware could do under ideal conditions, not what a game achieves.

Memory subsystem

The card carries 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit interface at up to 18 Gbps. Multiplying 18 Gbps by 192 bits and dividing by eight gives 432 GB/s, which matches AMD's listed memory bandwidth exactly. AMD adds 48 MB of AMD Infinity Cache and quotes an effective memory bandwidth of up to 1995 GB/s, a figure that combines the cache and the raw memory bus and should be read as a marketing-style peak, not a sustained rate. For 1440p gaming, 12 GB is a comfortable amount today for most titles, while very high texture settings at 4K can ask for more; our guide on how much video memory you really need explains the trade-offs in plain terms.

Power, cooling and physical size

The typical board power is 245 W. AMD lists two 8-pin additional power connectors, a card length of 267 mm and a thickness of 2.5 slots. The recommended minimum power supply is 700 W with 54 A on the 12 V output, and AMD notes that this figure assumes a system built around a Ryzen 9 7950X plus typical other components, so a more modest system may differ. Board partners build their own versions, and their power connectors, lengths and coolers may differ from the reference description on AMD's page. Before you buy, measure the space in your case, and read our guidance on GPU power connector daisy-chain and adapter safety if your power supply has fewer 8-pin cables than you need.

Display outputs and media features

The listed outputs are DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1. AMD states 4K support through HDMI and lists 4K decode and encode for H.264 and H.265/HEVC as well as AV1 decode and encode. That makes the card capable of the modern streaming and recording codecs in hardware, which is the main reason people look at it for streaming setups. The supported-technology list on the page includes AMD Software Adrenalin Edition, FidelityFX Super Resolution, Noise Suppression, Radeon FRTC, Radeon Super Resolution, Smart Access Memory, Smart Access Video, Privacy View, Radeon Boost, Radeon Anti-Lag, Radeon Image Sharpening, Enhanced Sync, FreeSync, Radeon Chill and Virtual Super Resolution. Which of these features work on a given system depends on the operating system and the games or applications involved, as AMD's own footnote says. The page lists Windows 11 and Windows 10 (64-bit), Ubuntu and other Linux as supported operating systems.

Where it sits in our database

The closest sibling in our database is the Radeon RX 7800 XT, which lists 60 compute units, 3840 stream processors, 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, 64 MB of Infinity Cache, a 263 W typical board power and a 700 W power supply recommendation. Set against it, the 7700 XT has 90 percent of the stream processors (3456 divided by 3840), 75 percent of the memory capacity, 69 percent of the memory bandwidth (432 divided by 624) and about 93 percent of the typical board power (arithmetic from the two pages). It lists the same two 8-pin connectors and the same length of 267 mm. One quirk worth noticing: the 7700 XT's boost clock of up to 2544 MHz is higher than the 7800 XT's 2430 MHz, which is why a clock number alone is a poor guide to speed when the unit counts differ. Above both sits the Radeon RX 7900 GRE with 80 compute units and 16 GB. You can see the two closest cards side by side in our comparison of the RX 7700 XT and the RX 7800 XT, and the whole graphics card category is available for wider browsing.

What the page does not say

AMD's page does not list a price, a launch date, the die size, the process node or the display-engine details beyond the connector versions. It also shows a bar chart of average frame rates at 1440p in ten games, with a footnote describing testing done by AMD's performance labs in August 2023 on a Ryzen 9 7900X test system. We deliberately leave those frame-rate numbers out: they are the manufacturer's own marketing test data on one configuration, they are not independent, and they would age badly as drivers change. If you need performance guidance, look for independent testing that matches your monitor and your games, and use this entry to check whether the card fits your power supply, your case and your connector situation.