A while ago, we got the news that AMD is partnering with the highly anticipated space adventure Starfield as its official PC partner. This meant that the Xbox game would be optimized to give its best performance on PCs that have AMD hardware, especially Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon 7000 GPUs.
The semiconductor company is now looking to press its advantage with the partnership. Details have emerged of its plans to bundle the new game with its hardware when it arrives this September. Simply put, people who buy a new AMD 7000 series hardware will get a Starfield game for free.
We have Newegg to thank for this information. Recently, the online retailer published a minisite titled AMD Starfield Game Bundle Promotion Store. While it didn’t provide much detail about AMD’s plans, it revealed that every Ryzen 7000 SKU is eligible for the promo.
We believe AMD’s plans with Starfield are similar to what it did with Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Resident Evil IV, where gamers got the former if they bought an AMD Ryzen 7000 GPU and the latter if they bought an AMD Radeon 7000 GPU.
These deals ended on June 30 and July 1, respectively and it appears the inclusion of Starfield is the company’s strategy to continue driving strategy for its latest line of hardware. We don’t know whether the deal will extend to the Radeon 7000 GPU, though, as Newegg doesn’t mention anything of the sort.
We should mention that neither AMD nor Starfield has said anything about this development. Because of this, we advise gamers to keep their excitement in check. Due to the relative lack of information, there is no telling what the terms and conditions of the promo will be.
Even though AMD’s partnership with Starfield is a win for the semiconductor company and gamers who use its hardware, it has proven unpopular with gamers who use rival hardware.
The reason for this is simple: Optimizing Starfield for AMD hardware, including the FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) technology, portends a lack of support for other hardware and their technologies like Nvidia’s DLSS and Intel’s XeSS.
However, since the game hasn’t been released, we can’t say for sure how it will perform on PCs with non-AMD hardware. Until that happens, we can only speculate as to its performance.
Console users have nothing to worry about, though, since both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S use AMD hardware anyway.
By the way, Starfield, which will not ship with a physical disc, will require a whopping 125 GB of storage space on both the console and PC. If you have intentions of playing it, we advise you start making space for it on your gadget.
Starfield will arrive on the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC on September 6. It will be available on early access before that, though, on September 1 with people in some regions having access to it as early as August 31.
