AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE goes global - arrives on US shores Tuesday, says report

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AMD is set to officially launch its Radeon RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE) globally on February 27, 2024, reports VideoCardz. For now, AMD's Radeon RX 7900 GRE is officially available only in China, as well as inside pre-built PCs in Europe and the U.S. However, the source asserts that AMD Radeon RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE) boxed graphics cards will hit retail in Western countries too, starting Tuesday.

AMD's Radeon RX 7900 GRE will carry a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $549, which is lower than the $649 price point indicated previously. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE will be just $50 more expensive than the Radeon RX 7800 XT and significantly cheaper ($354 cheaper) than the Radeon RX 7900 XT. At $549, AMD's Radeon RX 7900 GRE is set to be one of the best graphics cards available today and will likely become very popular among gamers with limited budgets.

It is noteworthy that Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics cards from ASRock, PowerColor, Sapphire, and XFX are pretty widely available in Europe today for €589 – €692 ($528 - $576 without VAT), so AMD's official launch of its Radeon RX 7900 GRE is not completely unexpected. Perhaps the biggest surprise is how long it has taken to come to the U.S.

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The AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE is based on the Navi 31 XL GPU, which has 5,120 stream processors operating at frequencies between 1.27 GHz and 2.245 GHz. This GPU has 256 fewer stream processors than the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which is one of the fastest graphics cards that AMD has to offer and provides compute performance ranging from 26 to 46 FP32 TFLOPS. This is marginally lower than the RX 7900 XT's 32 to 51.6 FP32 TFLOPS. The decrease in performance leads to reduced power consumption, with the new graphics card rated for a 260W TGP.

It is important to note that the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has a pared-down memory subsystem, with only four active memory controller dies (MCDs). As a result, it comes with 64 MB of Infinity Cache and 16 GB of 18 GT/s GDDR6 memory featuring a 256-bit memory interface. This configuration leads to an Infinity Cache bandwidth of 2.25 GB/s and a memory bandwidth of 576 MB/s for the Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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13 Comments Comment from the forums

The Historical Fidelity

You love to see it, it’s essentially a 6950xt with improved RT (if you care for such things) for $549.
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usertests

Mildly faster than 7800 XT, relatively low TDP, could be good for overclocking.
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ivan_vy

The Historical Fidelity said:
You love to see it, it’s essentially a 6950xt with improved RT (if you care for such things) for $549.
new Tech means longer features and driver support, I got stuck on RDNA1.
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Amdlova

Infinity Cache bandwidth of 2.25 GB/s and a memory bandwidth of 576 MB/s for the Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

sata speed for the mem
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bit_user

I really wish they used a faster cache and memory speed. That would've made it a proper midpoint between the 7800 XT and the 7900 XT. As is, it actually has lower memory bandwidth than the 7800 XT (576 vs. 624 GB/s). Had they used the same 20 Gbps GDDR6 as the other 7900 cards, it would've come in at 640 GB/s.

The way I see it, the main benefit this could have is putting more downward pressure on the price of GPUs that sit below it. That might be enough, but why stop there?
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usertests

Amdlova said:
Infinity Cache bandwidth of 2.25 GB/s and a memory bandwidth of 576 MB/s for the Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

sata speed for the mem
bit_user said:
I really wish they used a faster cache and memory speed. That would've made it a proper midpoint between the 7800 XT and the 7900 XT. As is, it actually has lower memory bandwidth than the 7800 XT (576 vs. 624 GB/s). Had they used the same 20 Gbps GDDR6 as the other 7900 cards, it would've come in at 640 GB/s.

The way I see it, the main benefit this could have is putting more downward pressure on the price of GPUs that sit below it. That might be enough, but why stop there?
Yeah it will be close to the 7800 XT, probably lose sometimes, may not be +10% faster on average in line with the price increase, etc. But nice and efficient.

Is there anything preventing AIBs from using 19.5 or 20 Gbps memory? That's not something I've looked into. This is launching globally 7 months after the China launch, so maybe there could be tweaks.
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Joseph_138

ivan_vy said:
new Tech means longer features and driver support, I got stuck on RDNA1.
It won't be on driver support any longer than any other RDNA3 card, and RTX 40 will be in driver support for just as long..
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Alvar "Miles" Udell

and will likely become very popular among gamers with limited budgets.

It would have last year, but since it's about 15% faster on average than the 4070, going by the Guru3D images, and the 4070 Super is about that much faster than the 4070, per TomsHardware's review, and the 4070 Super can be found for $600, I don't see many people OR review sites not sponsored by AMD recommending the 7900GRE over the 2070 Super.
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thestryker

This card absolutely doesn't make sense now except to say AMD needs to dump parts. It's been long enough since the last time I saw a video card running VRAM faster than whatever AMD/NV default it's fair to say that isn't happening. They could potentially use higher speed modules and run them slower, but I doubt that will happen. It's also hard to say how unlocked the TDP will be so the boost clocks may be severely limited even when overclocking.

usertests said:
Yeah it will be close to the 7800 XT, probably lose sometimes, may not be +10% faster on average in line with the price increase, etc. But nice and efficient.
No reason to guess about results when you can just see them (only raster): https://www.techspot.com/review/2734-amd-radeon-7800-xt/
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Joseph_138

thestryker said:
This card absolutely doesn't make sense now except to say AMD needs to dump parts. It's been long enough since the last time I saw a video card running VRAM faster than whatever AMD/NV default it's fair to say that isn't happening. They could potentially use higher speed modules and run them slower, but I doubt that will happen. It's also hard to say how unlocked the TDP will be so the boost clocks may be severely limited even when overclocking.

No reason to guess about results when you can just see them (only raster): https://www.techspot.com/review/2734-amd-radeon-7800-xt/
Hardly seems worth paying $50 over a 7800 XT. You don't even get a VRAM bump for your money. If it was a 20gb card, instead of a 16gb card, the higher price would be easier to justify.

AMD has always had difficulty shifting their broken flagship chips. Look at the HD 4830, HD 5830, and HD 7870 XT ( aka HD 7930). The value equation was always worse than the next card down the pricing tier. Power efficiency was also bad, compared to the next card down, consuming as much power as the top tier card, with a fraction of the performance.
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