Summary
Amid a busy 2024,AMDrevealed that the Radeon RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE) graphics card would launch globally on February 27 for an MSRP of $549. Originally exclusive to China, the latestAMDgraphics card to hit the global market is aimed at competing against Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, including the RTX 4070.
Originally released in China in July 2023, theRadeon RX 7900 GREwas labeled as such to coincide with the Year of the Rabbit celebrations in the country. In terms of specifications, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is aimed at PC gamers looking to play games at 1440p resolution with high framerates. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE will have 16GB of GDDR6 video memory and comes with 80 combined ray tracing and AI accelerators. The RX 7900 GRE will also be compatible with AMD technologies such as Fluid Motion Frames, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), and HYPR-RX in supported titles, and is compatible with AMD’s Adrenalin Software out of the box.
Though the global release of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE fell on the Year of the Dragon instead, AMD sought to capitalize on the mid-range GPU market with this new card. Starting at $549, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE will launch on Tuesday, February 27.According to VideoCardz, some of the aftermarket partners that will sell the Radeon RX 7900 GRE include Gigabyte, XFX, and PowerColor, with each of them offering the graphics card as a three-fan configuration that will have two 8-pin PCIe power connectors. When paired with an AMD processor such asthe Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE can use Smart Access Memory to further boost performance in games and take some load off the CPU.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Details
The arrival of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE outside of China came at a busy time for AMD, following price cuts to other RDNA 3 graphics cards, including the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7800 XT. With theRadeon RX 7800 XT marked down to $499, the price difference between that and the RX 7900 GRE is only $50. For that $50 markup, the 7900 GRE has 25% more accelerators but has a slightly lower base clock speed of 1.8 GHz, compared to the 7800 XT’s base speed of 2.1 GHz.
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE will directly compete with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, which saw its price cut from $599 to $549 followingthe release of the RTX 40 SUPER Seriesof graphics cards. Only time will tell how the market will respond to AMD’s latest release.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7700 XT GAMING OC 12G
The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7700 XT GAMING OC 12G graphics card is a mid-tier offering in the Radeon 7000 series. Based on the Navi 32 platform, the graphics card comes with a boost clock speed of up to 2599 MHz and a game clock speed of up to 2276 MHz. The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7700 XT GAMING OC 12G comes with a triple-fan cooler design, two 8-pin connectors, two DisplayPort 2.1, and two HDMI 2.1 ports.
PowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
PowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is the ultimate mid-range GPU that takes over its competitors with a bigger VRAM size of 16GB. This allows it to dominate in gaming performance at 1440p resolution where the wider memory bus of 256-bit helps it immensely. The GPU features a fantastic triple fan design with blue LED fans that dissipate the heat quickly.
XFX Radeon RX 7900XT GPU
The XFX Radeon RX 7900XT is based on AMD’s latest and most powerful graphics chips. The AMD RX 7900 XT is powered by the new RDNA 3 architecture, which delivers AI acceleration, a new AMD Radiance display engine, and a Chiplet design. There’s also an improved 2nd generation of ray-tracing and AMD Infinity Cache features.This specific XFX GPU features 20 gigabytes of graphics memory on a 320-bit memory interface, a clock speed of 2560 MHz, and a powerful triple fan cooling solution.
