MSI appears to have completely withdrawn from manufacturing AMD Radeon GPUs, with the company confirming to HardwareLuxx that it is solely focused on manufacturing custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX series GPUs.
Hardware Unboxed posted on X: “Did you miss this story? MSI was completely removed from AMD's Radeon 7000 series, all existing products were discontinued, and the 7700 XT / 7800 XT were never released. This is all very It seems to have happened quietly.” HBU is not wrong. This is actually happening very quietly.
MSI told HardwareLuxx:When it comes to graphics cards, we're focusing on RTX cards at the moment. Nevertheless, cooperation with AMD is essential and very important to us. We are seeing very positive developments, especially in the area of motherboards.”.
However, MSI announced and subsequently released a new Claw gaming handheld powered by Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” CPUs. Virtually all major gaming handhelds use AMD Ryzen APUs. It was an interesting move for MSI to go under Intel's umbrella with an untested CPU in MSI's first gaming handheld…but now that the fog has cleared, it makes more sense. It seems that.
Perhaps Intel offered MSI a deal they couldn't refuse if MSI no longer made Radeon GPUs: a super cheap and heavily discounted allocation of Meteor Lake CPUs. Not only in the CPU race, but also in the gaming handheld market, AMD is a bigger competitor to Intel than his NVIDIA, and his MSI move to put an Intel CPU in his Claw handheld is still a strange decision. …that would be terrible. Kicking off by his ASUS ROG Ally powered by AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme.
And now… MSI has quietly moved away from AMD Radeon GPUs and now only makes NVIDIA GeForce RTX series GPUs. Considering that MSI offers an astonishing 147 different SKUs of his NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs on the market, AIB's competitors GIGABYTE and ASUS each offer 86 SKUs for his RTX 40 Series. and has 100 cards.
MSI has manufactured only 4 custom RX 7000 series GPUs, while GIGABYTE has manufactured 12 cards and ASUS has 19 custom Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs on the market.
Fast forward to July 2020. MSI CEO Charles Chan dies In the four years since the company fell off a building in Taiwan, the company has done some — well, some pretty interesting — things. Their custom Radeon GPUs have never been as good as their custom GeForce GPUs, so this news of them moving away from Radeon GPUs isn't a huge surprise.
The deal with Intel for Meteor Lake inside the Claw is a big deal, as we're sure Claw 2 will feature the next-generation Intel Lunar Lake CPU design while its gaming handheld competitors pump. This will continue in the future. Announcing new AMD Ryzen APU-based designs.