Of course, whether AMD's new GPUs can compete with the top-tier offerings from Intel and Nvidia remains to be seen. And now AMD has brought its most powerful new toys to market at prices that are hundreds of dollars cheaper. We were already feeling a bit uncomfortable about being asked to pay upward of $1,299 for a new Nvidia 40-series GPU that probably delivers more power than all but the most hardcore 4K game fans need. With these new Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs AMD has fired a shot across the bow of Nvidia's 40-series cards. Plus, these 7000-series cards now support the AV1 codec, which is already supported by the latest Nvidia and Intel Arc cards. You also get upgraded dual media engines capable of supporting a pair of 8K/60fps (frames per second) streams, so you can encode video with one and decode with the other or focus on one encode at full power. Notably, you get support for DisplayPort 2.1 and up to 480Hz refresh rates on a 4K monitor, or up to 165Hz on an 8K display. If you care about working with video, the new AMD Radiance Display engine in these cards expands their support for video output formats in intriguing ways. FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.1 is available now in many games, and AMD expects to roll out the upcoming FSR 2.2 as soon as November 8 in Forza Horizon 5. If you care about game performance and ray tracing you should get excited about the fact that AMD claims to have improved the Ray Accelerators in this generation of cards, meaning they can handle up to 1.5x more rays in a more efficient fashion.ĪMD also talked up its FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling technology, which is similar to Nvidia's DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) graphical upscaling tech. These new AMD GPUs come with a smorgasbord of improvements and new features which should make them more versatile and performant than previous generations. Still it seems like nothing compared to the new Nvidia GeForce 40, which recently went on sale for an eye-popping $1,299 and $1,599 respectively. This is a bit of a price hike from the previous generation, as the Radeon RX 6900 XT cost $679 while the more powerful 6950 XT sold for $849.
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