The launch of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX has not left anyone indifferent, but the truth is that it seems to have been marked by a certain controversy for their performance, their consumption and the price-performance ratio they offer when we compare them directly with their closest NVIDIA equivalents.
We must also take into account the problems that have been identified both at the level of consumption profiles, which affect frequency scaling, making them vary between 2,400 MHz and 2,900 MHz, and silicon, which, in theory, affect the preloading of shaders at the hardware level. If we put all this together and associate it with the decision that MSI has made It is clear that there is something that definitely does not paint well.
Rumors arose a few days ago that MSI could choose to pass on this generation of AMD graphics cards, which meant that we would not see any models from the well-known assembler. In the end those rumors have turned out to be false, since MSI has confirmed that it plans to release custom versions of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX, but these will not arrive until the first quarter of 2023.
With this in mind, and with everything I’ve already told you, I can’t help but wonder why MSI has chosen to delay the launch of two such important products for so long, and even more so when both have been adopted by other assemblers. There must be something very important behind that decisionsince we are talking about a delay that can mean millions of dollars in revenue that the assembler has chosen to forego.
As a result of this, comments have emerged saying that MSI does not care about AMD and that it would have simply decided to “pass” the company, which, frankly, It doesn’t make sense looking at the history of the assembler and its relationship with the Sunnyvale giant. Others simply attribute it to a supply issue, but it doesn’t make sense either because higher or lower availability doesn’t have to affect a top-tier assembler to this extent, let alone having at least a couple of custom designs ready on the market. launch day.
You can call me suspicious, but with all this on the table I see something strange, and it seems to me that MSI has preferred to wait for very important reasons that could be related to the technical side of Navi 31, and with those problems that we have already told you about. commented. I do not rule out that there are other causes that are beyond our knowledge, but of course what is clear to me is that it cannot be a coincidence, and that this cannot be due to minor reasons either, since we are talking about a major launch and money in the form of revenue that MSI has given up by not having their RX 7900 XT and XTX ready on time.
