Sapphire May Be The Only Brand To Offer Reference RX 7800 XT GPUs

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Whenever AMD launches its new products, it releases reference 'Made by AMD' (MBA) graphics cards that its partners then resell, allowing the latter to design and build their own Radeon products. As a result, MBA boards are available widely from all makers of graphics cards around. But this may not be the case with AMD's Radeon RX 7800 XT, which will likely compete with the best graphics cards

All AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards announced to date are designed by their producers, such as Asus, Gigabyte, and XFX. These companies are motivated to develop and sell their design since this allows them to either increase the performance of their Radeon RX 7800 XT offerings or reduce their bill-of-materials and cut costs. In both cases, graphics card manufacturers maximize their profitability.

Since AMD did not precisely rush its Navi 32 to market, add-in-boards (AIBs) manufacturers had enough time to design their cards, which is why they did not need to resell MBA graphics board to deliver Radeon RX 7800 XT faster to market.

As noted by VideoCardz. Sapphire may be the only company to offer Radeon RX 7800 XT MBA models. PC Partner, a prominent Hong Kong-based conglomerate that makes PC hardware, manufactures graphics cards for Sapphire and AMD. That said, it is not surprising that Sapphire is linked with being the sole vendor to sell Radeon RX 7800 XT MBA GPUs.

Of course, AMD's reference MBA Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards will also be available from the company's website on September 6. Those who want a 'pure' Navi 32-based board can get it directly from AMD.com for $499.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • scottslayer
    "which will likely compete with the best graphics cards. "
    According to who? The current leaks suggest it might be 6800XT +5%
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  • The Historical Fidelity
    scottslayer said:
    "which will likely compete with the best graphics cards. "
    According to who? The current leaks suggest it might be 6800XT +5%
    Strange, I saw a leak that says +5,000,000% performance. Oh well, let’s wait for the real data comes out before writing this one off shall we?
    Reply
  • hannibal
    Only one AIB using reference model?
    Does this means that most AIB are targeting much above MSRP prices with their 7700, 7800 models?
    Well, we will know soon enough.
    Reply
  • TJ Hooker
    scottslayer said:
    "which will likely compete with the best graphics cards. "
    According to who? The current leaks suggest it might be 6800XT +5%
    I think they're pretty much required to plug a link to the 'Best Graphics Cards' page in every graphics card related article.
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