Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 19th Sep 2023

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Introduction

Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT Pulse is the company’s cost-effective custom-design rendition of AMD’s swanky new performance segment graphics card being launched today. We are celebrating the double launch of the new RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, be sure to check out our extensive coverage of 9 graphics card reviews on launch day. The Sapphire Pulse family of graphics cards is designed for those who want a Radeon RX graphics card that they can just install and forget about. There are no flashy product aesthetics or LED lighting, but you get a card that’s compact, and which you can easily maintain over a long period of time.

The new Radeon RX 7700 XT is designed for maxed out 1440p gaming, just like the RX 7800 XT, but at a more attractive price-point, with prices starting at $450. You have all the muscle you need for AAA and e-sports gaming at 1440p, or high refresh-rate 1080p gaming. The RX 7700 XT is based on the latest RDNA3 graphics architecture, which brings you generational performance improvements, new features such as AI acceleration and multi-draw indirect accelerator; and next-generation energy efficiency thanks to the new 5 nm foundry process where it matters.

The RX 7700 XT is carved out of the same Navi 32 chiplet GPU as the RX 7800 XT. Much like the Navi 31 GPU powering the RX 7900 series, the Navi 32 sees the GPU’s main graphics rendering and number crunching machinery located on a centralized 5 nm die called the graphics compute die (GCD), surrounded by four dies that each contain a 16 MB segment of the GPU’s Infinity Cache, and a 64-bit portion of the GPU’s memory interface. The RX 7700 XT is configured with three out of four MCDs, which gives it 48 MB of Infinity Cache, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, which drives 12 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, yielding 432 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

The 5 nm GCD of the RX 7700 XT is configured with 54 RDNA3 compute units, which work out to 3,456 stream processors, 108 AI accelerators, 54 Ray accelerators, 216 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. AMD runs the GPU at 2171 MHz game clocks, and 2544 MHz boost. Internally, the GPU’s front-end runs at 10-15% higher clocks than the shader engines. Sapphire has configured the RX 7700 XT Pulse with a power limit of 230 W.

The Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse features a simple aluminium fin-stack based cooling solution that’s ventilated by a pair of axial flow fans. Sapphire designed the cooler such that you can disassemble the cooler shroud holding these fans without disturbing the heatsink underneath, so you can periodically clean the fans. Besides this, as we mentioned earlier, the design focus really is to give the gamer a quiet card that’s easy to install. The card is easy on the pocket, too, priced at the AMD MSRP of $450.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 9x RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT

Our goal with the videos is to create short summaries, not go into all the details and test results, which can be found in our written reviews.

Radeon RX 7700 XT Market Segment Analysis
  Price Cores ROPs Core

Clock		 Boost

Clock		 Memory

Clock		 GPU Transistors Memory
RTX 3060 $250 3584 48 1320 MHz 1777 MHz 1875 MHz GA106 12000M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 7600 $250 2048 64 2250 MHz 2625 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 33 13300M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 4060 $290 3072 48 1830 MHz 2460 MHz 2125 MHz AD107 18900M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
Arc A770 $250 4096 128 2100 MHz N/A 2187 MHz ACM-G10 21700M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 $240 2944 64 1515 MHz 1710 MHz 1750 MHz TU104 13600M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti $260 4864 80 1410 MHz 1665 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 4060 Ti $390 4352 48 2310 MHz 2535 MHz 2250 MHz AD106 22900M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RX 6700 XT $310

 2560 64 2424 MHz 2581 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 22 17200M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti $350 4352 88 1350 MHz 1545 MHz 1750 MHz TU102 18600M 11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070 $300 5888 96 1500 MHz 1725 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti $390 6144 96 1575 MHz 1770 MHz 1188 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800 $430 3840 96 1815 MHz 2105 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 7700 XT $450 3456 96 2171 MHz 2544 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 32 26500M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
Sapphire RX 7700 XT

Pulse		 $450 3456 96 2171 MHz 2544 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 32 26500M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 6800 XT $510 4608 128 2015 MHz 2250 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080 $470 8704 96 1440 MHz 1710 MHz 1188 MHz GA102 28000M 10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RTX 4070 $600 5888 64 1920 MHz 2475 MHz 1313 MHz AD104 35800M 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
RX 7800 XT $500 3840 96 2124 MHz 2430 MHz 2425 MHz Navi 32 28100M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080 Ti $700 10240 112 1365 MHz 1665 MHz 1188 MHz GA102 28000M 12 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 6900 XT $580 5120 128 2015 MHz 2250 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6950 XT $630 5120 128 2100 MHz 2310 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3090 $750 10496 112 1395 MHz 1695 MHz 1219 MHz GA102 28000M 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RTX 4070 Ti $800 7680 80 2310 MHz 2610 MHz 1313 MHz AD104 35800M 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
RX 7900 XT $750 5376 192 2000 MHz 2400 MHz 2500 MHz Navi 31 57700M 20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit
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