ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT Steel Legend 16GB OC, RX7800XT SL 16GO, 16GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP

Just two weeks ago, we've posted nine reviews of AMD's new Radeon RX 7700 XT/7800 XT lineup, followed shortly by the Sapphire Pure. Today we have our 11th review, the ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT Steel Legend. This SKU sits in-between the company's baseline Challenger and the more-premium Phantom Gaming models. The Steel Legend features a factory overclock, triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution, RGB lighting and a stylish white color theme. Under the hood, RX 7800 XT (and RX 7700 XT) cards are based on the same Navi 32 graphics processor, which, just like Navi 31 uses the chiplet design approach that made Ryzen processors so successful. Instead of a single large monolithic die, the processor is made up from several smaller pieces, which are easier to build, with a much lower defect rate. The chiplet strategy on Navi 32 is identical to Navi 31. A central GCD die, which contains all the shaders engines, is surrounded by several MCD dies, which provide the memory interface and L3 cache. On the RX 7800 XT there's four MCDs, to build a 256-bit memory interface, whereas RX 7700 XT uses only three MCDs, resulting in a 192-bit interface. The fourth die is not "missing," but AMD has placed a non-functional dummy die here instead, to provide structural stability.