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JEMC said:

I agree with the others, that Intel-Nvidia partnership came out of nowhere and it's unsettling. More so with Nvidia purchsing a part of Intel. Well, Nvidia couldn't make their own x86 CPUs because Intel refused to sell them a license and now they've managed to make Intel do the CPUs they want. What a time to be alive.

Also yes, this move does cast a dark shadow for Intel's ARC.

Meanwhile, AMD goes and launches the 7700 out of nowhere. Why? Why now? What's the point of this card?

AMD would have had a stockpile of GPU's that wouldn't have been able to meet the 7700XT spec... And is dumping enough volts/amps to maintain a decent clockspeed, which puts it's power consumption in bed with the 7800XT.

They threw in more and faster VRAM, likely will appeal to compute/A.I markets... Otherwise better off with the 9060XT 16GB.

It will likely be sold to 2nd/3rd world markets and/or OEM's.

JEMC said:

Darc Requiem said:

To get rid of all the dies that couldn't hit at least 7700XT performance. With how high yields are at TSMC, they likely had very few dies with more than 6 bad CUs. Now they have enough to make a SKU, this will probably be OEM only. Any die with 40 to 53 functional CUs would have been set aside for this card.

But launching it more than two years after the launch of the RDNA3 GPUs and when AMD has already launched the 9060XTs makes it a difficult product to sell, as Boffer has pointed out.

Furthermore, AMD has the 9060, that is an OEM only GPU, at least for now, which puts this product in an even worse position.  

AMD has to guarantee supply to some customers for prolonged periods. For example... Signage tends to have a guaranteed 10 year life for parts.