Thanks. Wanted to post this, but you already did.
However, this lineup doesn't make sense to me, at least with the 7700 XT. In most likelihood, based on rumours and current RDNA 3 cards, Navi 33 will be slower than Navi 22. Therefore having a 7700 XT based on Navi 33 doesn't make sense. It also means that Navi 32 won't have a lower end SKU, which is problematic for yields.
My thought is that it's either a typo or, as someone speculated on the Reddit thread, a placeholder for the real list.
Confidence is low at this point, but I'd love to see a compelling 7700 XT to replace my 5700 XT.
This is a response to you both.
The problem is that AMD did something
really slimy with the RX 7000-series. The RX 7900 XTX
should have been named the RX 7900 XT and the RX 7900 XT
should have been named the RX 7800 XT. The tech press was so up in arms about nVidia trying to sell two RTX 4080 cards with different performance levels (and rightfully so) that they didn't realise the crap that AMD was trying to pull.
However, AMD really screwed themselves because now they can't properly deliver the correct performance uplift on the rest of their product stack. The 7800 will really be a 7700, the 7700 will really be a 7600 and the 7600 (that they're releasing next) is really a 7500. AMD saw what nVidia was doing and decided to get in on it instead of ignoring nVidia and just doing their own thing like they should have.
Now before anyone thinks otherwise, I'm not blaming nVidia for AMD's actions, like, at all. This was a choice that AMD made and it was a terrible one. By the time anyone realised what AMD had done, it was too late for them to be forced to pull the same 180 that nVidia did when they re-named their RTX 4080 12GB as the RTX 4070 Ti.
As a result,
every single card that AMD releases in the RX 7000-series is going to be a grave disappointment because the uplift is going to be barely worth talking about. I'm actually taking some pleasure in this because AMD is now adrift in the video card space as they can't hope to compete with their own 6000-series which are all fantastic values ATM.
The RX 7600 / 7600 XT are rumoured to be in the same performance ballpark as the RX 6700 /6700 XT but with only 8GB of VRAM. With the RX 6700 being currently available for $280 and the RX 6700 XT being currently available for $320, AMD has no choice but to offer the RX 7600 for no more than $200 and the XT for no more than $250.
They have no way out of this situation because in the current environment, people will happily pay a bit extra to get more than 8GB of VRAM. If they try to charge more, the cards will get terrible reviews and nobody will buy them until they get down to those price points anyway. That means all that AMD will be doing is screwing themselves because they won't get more money than $200 and $250 for these cards anyway.
Meanwhile, the tech press will, quite rightly, tell people to stay away from these cards and so sales of the card will be virtually non-existent, just like the RTX 4070. OTOH, if they
do price them as I said, they'll get more money because the tech press will hail them as great buys which means that more people will buy them.
They're squirming right now and this can be seen by the fact that the sole AIBs that are releasing 7600-series cards are the AMD-Only brands like ASRock, Powercolor, Sapphire, and XFX. Other AIBs like ASUS, Gigabyte and MSi have opted out for now, probably because they see the clusterfrack coming and they know that whatever profit they receive from these cards won't be worth the effort to make them.
AMD is squirming because of their own jackassery and I am absolutely loving it. They had the opportunity to avoid this situation but they decided against it. The greed and cynicism involved in their decisions regarding card nomenclature is unlike anything that I'd ever seen from AMD before. They deserve all the suffering that they reap and I for one am going to laugh my butt off.
Hopefully, they learn a lesson from this because after the fantastic launches of Zen3 and RDNA2, this kind of conduct is inexcusable.