It is said that "3,000 budget into the card, add money to 98,000", we see that the most popular discussion on the Internet is always those flagship high-end graphics cards, and others will also tell you how strong these graphics cards are, and how cool it is to play games. But in fact, the reality is that the vast majority of players do not have so much budget, and many people's budgets for buying consoles are generally in the range of 4000 to 8000, and the perennial Steam hardware rankings will always be dessert-level products.
If your budget is also so much, and your usual demand for games is 2K or 1080P, which can meet the needs of high-frame online games and medium-high special effects to play triple-A, then RX 7700XT is a very good choice. As a product positioned at the dessert level, it can bring a fairly excellent gaming experience at a low price, and the following two sapphire non-public cards are RX 7700XT products with outstanding appearance, performance, and heat dissipation.
一、RX 7700 XT 12G 极地版 OC
In the past two years, it has become more and more popular to assemble light-colored, especially white-colored cases, but there are not many white graphics cards, and there are very few options. Fortunately, Sapphire launched this RX 7700 XT 12G Polar Edition OC, which is painted in white and has a metal backplate, which is particularly outstanding in both appearance and texture. What's more, it does not shrink the heat dissipation because of the positioning of the dessert level, and still uses five heat pipes and three axial fans with dual ball bearings, which can not only ensure that it maintains high-frequency operation when running at full load for a long time, but even leaves a lot of overclocking space, which is very playable for players who like to toss.
Considering that the vast majority of gamers who buy graphics cards in this range use 2K monitors, we will use 2K resolution for the actual performance test. In the current popular competitive game APEX, when the 2K resolution special effects are fully turned on and the FOV is set to 110, the average frame of this graphics card can directly come to more than 260 frames, even if it is 1% low frame, it exceeds 144Hz, which can fully meet the needs of e-sports games; Even if it is recognized as a graphics card killer "Cyberpunk 2077", this graphics card can run to more than 60 frames per second under the setting of 2K full height, no ray tracing and no FSR superresolution algorithms, and if you turn on another FSR, the frame rate can be increased a lot, which is quite good.
The dessert-level products of this generation of N cards next door have been complained by many players, because not only the performance improvement is limited, but also the video memory is even toothpaste gasp, and there is even a strange regression compared to the previous generation of graphics cards of the same level from video memory capacity to video memory bit width. In contrast, the A card camp is much more sincere, RX 7700 XT 12G Polar Edition OC not only maintains 12GB of video memory, but also upgrades the video memory rate from the previous generation of 16Gbps to 18Gbps, so there will be no memory anxiety at all.
Overall, this RX 7700 XT 12G Polar Edition OC is not only excellent in performance and cost-effective, but also has a unique appearance and workmanship, which is a pretty good dessert-level product.
二、RX 7700 XT 12G 白金版
There are also some gamers who are keen on dessert-level graphics cards because they like the small-sized chassis of the ITX small steel cannon, while the dessert-level graphics card is not high in power consumption, easier to make smaller, and more convenient to stuff into the ITX case. A prime example of this is the RX 7700 XT 12G Platinum Edition, which is a dual-fan two-slot half-slot graphics card with a length of only 280mm, which can be said to be quite small and suitable for the ITX platform.
In fact, Sapphire has tuned the heat dissipation specifically for the characteristics of the RX7000 series graphics card, and has used thickened fins and flying wing axial fans to improve heat dissipation efficiency while ensuring low noise. In the actual test, when the RX 7700 XT 12G Platinum Edition lasted for 30 minutes with a full roast, the core temperature of the RX 7700 XT 12G Platinum Edition was only 67 degrees, and the frequency was almost a straight line without too many fluctuations, which is not much better than many three-fan graphics cards.
Of course, as Sapphire's graphics card, the RX 7700 XT 12G Platinum Edition must also have support for its own special software TriXX. In addition to being able to visualize the working status of the graphics card, adjust the details and other functions, there is also a unique TriXX BOOST feature that allows you to adjust the actual rendering resolution in the game and use sharpening to output the image for higher game frame rates, which is very useful for those who play the game.
Capable of being compact and not compromising on heat dissipation, the RX 7700 XT 12G Platinum Edition is indeed a qualified Sapphire Platinum series graphics card. And in terms of price, it is also more cost-effective, which is a quite suitable choice for dessert-level console players who are not too budget-sufficient.
Summary:
Compared to those graphics cards that are often tens of thousands of dollars larger, these two RX 7700XTs are more in line with the choice of most gamers, they are not expensive but can provide a decent performance, and with the blessing of technologies such as TriXX BOOST and AMD's FSR, even those graphics card killer games can be calmly handled. For those of you who have installation needs in the near future, I would highly recommend putting these two graphics cards in your installation list.