Introducing the Restricted-Version Starfield Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 7 7800X3D
AMD is releasing a limited-edition, Starfield-themed model of its RX 7900 XTX graphics card (which presently sits on prime of our rating of the very best graphics playing cards). Sadly, you gained’t have the ability to purchase it.
The corporate is just making 500 of the unique GPUs, and it says you’ll have the ability to win one by means of “particular promotions and giveaways from AMD, Bethesda Softworks, and companions.” This can be a results of AMD’s partnership with Bethesda, by which AMD says it’s the “unique PC companion” for Starfield.
Though it comes with a distinct end, the Starfield RX 7900 XTX is an identical to the bottom mannequin of the graphics card. As you’ll be able to learn in our RX 7900 XTX evaluate, it affords efficiency that’s aggressive with the RTX 4080, although it falls behind while you activate ray tracing. Starfield‘s official system necessities solely name for an RX 7900 XT for 4K gaming, so the flagship XTX mannequin ought to maintain up.
Along with the GPU, AMD is making 500 Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPUs with limited-edition Starfield packaging. It’s not fairly as a lot of a collector’s merchandise because the graphics card — you’ll be able to’t take a lot creative license with a CPU, in any case — however it should even be out there by means of promotions and giveaways.
AMD and Bethesda’s partnership has been the middle of some controversy. The sport will assist AMD’s FidelityFX Tremendous Decision 2 (FSR 2), however it doesn’t seem it should assist Nvidia’s Deep Studying Tremendous Sampling (DLSS). That’s left some Nvidia customers upset, speculating that the partnership may have blocked Nvidia’s tech from being within the recreation.
Starfield is about to launch on September 6, with 5 days of early entry granted to gamers who buy the deluxe model of the sport. AMD is presently working a promotion that bundles a duplicate of the sport with choose RX 7000 and Ryzen 7000 GPUs and CPUs.
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