MSI is waiting until next year to announce its 7900 XTX and 7900 XT GPUs

[mongeese]

Recap: AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT last Tuesday and all their regular board partners participated, bar one. MSI was conspicuously absent and has almost entirely ignored the new generation, prompting fans to ask when the company plans on releasing its custom designs for the GPUs.

MSI has hardly acknowledged the two new AMD GPUs despite them being on the calendar for more than a month. Its website still hasn't been updated and continues to proudly advertise the 6950 XT. MSI's only comment on the new generation is a retweet of an AMD promotional video with a caption saying that the GPUs will be available soon.

Available soon! https://t.co/LbdVmlMmAq

— MSI Gaming (@msigaming) December 13, 2022

Define "soon."

As the rumors started to swell last week, Andreas Schilling from HardwareLuxx.de shared his understanding that MSI was waiting until next year to unveil its custom cards. He says that MSI has chosen not to use any AMD reference designs this generation, including the standard reference design that AMD encourages all its board partners to resell with their logos slapped on the side. MSI has sold reference designs like that in the past.

It's strange that MSI is so far behind. It's often one of the first companies to share pictures of its prototypes. In our testing, the reference designs for both the 7900 XTX and 7900 XT seemed pretty good -- the former peaked at 80c and the latter at 76c during an hour of strenuous gaming while the fans stayed under 2,000 RPM and the clocks and volume held at a reasonable level.

Reports MSI will not have any Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) cards are not true. MSI is skipping MBA (Made by AMD) designs and will present custom designs in Q1 2023.

— Andreas Schilling 🇺🇦 (@aschilling) December 16, 2022

Maybe MSI was apprehensive about investing in a pair of products that it knew AMD had overhyped. Yet despite the negative reactions that the launch drew from the press and the community, the GPUs have generated enough buzz to get themselves off store shelves. It looks like MSI has potentially lost a significant slice of the holiday sales by dallying.

MSI could rectify the situation and announce their custom cards in just a few weeks at CES 2023. But it might take them longer to get the GPUs on the market and into stores. At least if you want one, you have more time to save up the $1,000 for the 7900 XTX or the $900 for the 7900 XT.

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[emmzo]

They don't care, they are selling 4080s... not.

 

[Moochy]

Maybe MSI realized AMD rushed out an unfinished product? Drivers and maybe even hardware will be subject to change? AMD blew this release.

 

[yRaz]

Maybe MSI realized AMD rushed out an unfinished product? Drivers and maybe even hardware will be subject to change? AMD blew this release.

I'd say "blowing it" is an exaggeration and idea propagated by the tech news community to get clicks. Performance numbers are below what they advertised months ago and the drivers are fairly stable. On top of that, the performance numbers reflect the MSRP pretty well in the current market.

 

[VitalyT]

I’ll wait for 79000 XT-XXX, the adult edition.

 

[yRaz]

I’ll wait for 79000 XT-XXX, the adult edition.

Is it for rendering all those saucy kookaburras you've been after?

 

[VitalyT]

Is it for rendering all those saucy kookaburras you've been after?

The saucier, the better.

 

[yRaz]

The saucier, the better.

found this video of you

 

[urielejh]

Maybe MSI realized AMD rushed out an unfinished product? Drivers and maybe even hardware will be subject to change? AMD blew this release.

Unfinished what? Stop believing engineer wannabees

 

[AlaskaGuy]

They don't care, they are selling 4080s... not.

I've posted eight builds on build request threads on another site in the last two days. Five of those build threads requested a 4080 in their build.

 

[Burty117]

I follow a few Stock notifier bots and I gotta say, the 4080's are really starting to shift, they went from being in stock, almost everywhere to now selling out.

 

[Beerfloat]

I follow a few Stock notifier bots and I gotta say, the 4080's are really starting to shift, they went from being in stock, almost everywhere to now selling out.

Probably largely due to Christmas shopping, I reckon.

Also, many people advise to wait for reviews of the competing products to come out before making a purchase. Now that the 7900s are a known quantity keen buyers will know the 4080 is a good choice.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Looks like Biden is doing something right, people still have money to throw away.

Tom's Hardware used to get up to a dozen new build request on a given day. That was before Biden and the gpu / mining craze. Now that site is lucky to see half that number if that although it's starting to pick up some with the upcoming release of Intel's locked cpu's and B760 boards due on January 3rd. There's already a few leaked benchmarks showing up in Asia showing the i5 13400 / 13400F going head to head with the 12600K. That cpu is going to be a hit imo for people who don't have a big budget.

 

[WhoCaresAnymore]

The reason sales have ticked up is because of Christmas and end of year sales for people who have small businesses and want the tax write off.

Next year may end up being very painful for all sectors.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Maybe the harsh reality of Nvidia's 88% market share are rearing their head?

 

[highwind]

MSI is probably waiting until AMD realises the naming-mistake they did and "reintroduces" the two cards with the correct names "RX 7800 XT" and "RX 7800", so they dont have to reprint all the packages and advertisement

 

[Mr Majestyk]

I'd be waiting for A1 silicon too as well as the drivers to mature. The hardware is very good, but you just have to see how p!ss poor the compute speed is and how the frame rates are spectacularly good in a few games, but no better than last gen in other games. Performance is a shadow of where it should be. Once they sort this they will be terrific cards, but I wouldn't touch them with a 10' pole. I usually get MSI cards, so hopefully things are sorted, but new silicon revision will take 6 months and I don't think drivers can fix all the issues.

 

[punctualturn]

Sounds like dear leader jensen had a nice conversation with someone at MSI.

I wonder if it is a variation of their old GPP plan.

 

[punctualturn]

I'd say "blowing it" is an exaggeration and idea propagated by the tech news community to get clicks. Performance numbers are below what they advertised months ago and the drivers are fairly stable. On top of that, the performance numbers reflect the MSRP pretty well in the current market.

I said it even before the reviews came out, the only way that AMD would get any positive reviews would’ve been if they released a gpu that would beat a 5090Ti/Titan but only if the msrp was US$300.

And yes, I said 5090 and for the obvious comments that will twist my words, you know exactly what I meant.

Thats how screwed AMD is with the reviewers.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

I said it even before the reviews came out, the only way that AMD would get any positive reviews would’ve been if they released a gpu that would beat a 5090Ti/Titan but only if the msrp was US$300.

And yes, I said 5090 and for the obvious comments that will twist my words, you know exactly what I meant.

Thats how screwed AMD is with the reviewers.

That's ridiculous hyperbole.