Acer stunned many people when it determined to enter the discrete graphics card market just a few years in the past. Nevertheless, its first choices have been based mostly on Intel GPUs that, with the perfect will on this planet, werenβt probably the most in-demand choices. Since then itβs added the entry-level AMD Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 GRE however has in any other case maintained a modest choice. Now, although, the corporate has actually ramped up its choices, by bringing outΒ Acer Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT playing cards.
Whereas the RX 7700 XT isnβt our absolute favourite GPU, thatβs solely as a result of its barely extra highly effective sibling the RX 7800 XT is the higher alternative of those AMD GPUs, and our choose for the perfect graphics card beneath $500. With this card specifically, Acer may lastly make some main inroads into the discrete graphics card house.
The corporate has two variants of the RX 7800 XT popping out, together with a single model of the RX 7700 XT.Β These encompassΒ the Acer Radeon RX 7800 XT BiFrost, theΒ RX 7800 XTΒ Nitro, and the RX 7700 XT Nitro.
The BiFrost model of the 7800 XT has a triple-fan cooling setup thatβs for much longer than the Nitroβs cooler, with the latter using simply two followers. The BiFrost β a reputation additionally connected to a number of of its earlier playing cards, such because the Intel Arc A770 BiFrost β additionally has a fetching all-black design with a black bac plate, and blue Predator emblem on the highest.
Its GPU is the usual AMD Radeon 7800 XT with 3,840 stream processors, nevertheless it has an affordable overclock, with its enhance clock hitting 2,560MHz, in comparison with 2,430MHz for non-overclocked playing cards. Regardless of this enhance, the massive triple-slot cooler ought to guarantee itβs a really quiet, cool-running card, even beneath heavy masses.
The Nitro card is prone to be the exact opposite, with its a lot shorter coolerΒ being not as thick and customarily having far much less warmth capability. Meaning the followers might want to run loads sooner to maintain the cardboard cool. Thatβs why it prices $50 lower than the BiFrost design, although. So, in case youβre not too fussed about warmth and noise, itβll be the cheaper possibility at $519.99 whereas the BiFrost prices $569.99. Each are on the upper aspect of pricing for 7800 XT playing cards, however each embrace the first rate manufacturing unit overclock.
As for the 7700 XT Nitro, it makes use of the identical cooler design because the 7800 XT Nitro however, due to the 7700 XT GPU being rather less energy hungry, the cooler will cope higher with the lowered warmth output of the cardboard. This card arrives with a way more modest $419.99 MSRP. By way of uncooked specs, this card has the usual 3,456 stream processors of the RX 7700 XT and comes with a really slight enhance overclock of two,590MHz, in comparison with 2,545MHz for non-overclocked playing cards.
When youβre not satisfied by AMDβs GPU choices proper now, although, we advocate trying out theΒ Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous. Itβs a bit costlier than the 7800 XT however has higher ray tracing efficiency and DLSS help.
