AMD expanded its RX 7000 series graphics card lineup with the launch of the Radeon RX 7700 GPU. The company positioned this RDNA 3 graphics processor between the existing RX 7600 XT and RX 7700 XT models. ASRock became the first board partner to release a custom variant called the RX 7700 Challenger 16GB.
The new graphics card utilizes a reduced NAVI 32 die configuration with 40 Compute Units compared to 54 units found on the RX 7700 XT. Engineers equipped the card with 2560 Stream Processors and 16 GB of video memory operating through a 256-bit memory bus. Memory speeds reach 19.5 Gbps, surpassing the 18 Gbps specification of the RX 7700 XT model.
Power consumption measures 263 watts, representing an 18-watt increase over the XT variant. ASRock configured their Challenger edition with a 2041 MHz game clock and 2459 MHz boost clock speeds. AMD released Adrenalin Edition 25.9.2 drivers to provide full compatibility support for the graphics processor.
The new graphics card utilizes a reduced NAVI 32 die configuration with 40 Compute Units compared to 54 units found on the RX 7700 XT. Engineers equipped the card with 2560 Stream Processors and 16 GB of video memory operating through a 256-bit memory bus. Memory speeds reach 19.5 Gbps, surpassing the 18 Gbps specification of the RX 7700 XT model.
Power consumption measures 263 watts, representing an 18-watt increase over the XT variant. ASRock configured their Challenger edition with a 2041 MHz game clock and 2459 MHz boost clock speeds. AMD released Adrenalin Edition 25.9.2 drivers to provide full compatibility support for the graphics processor.
