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

[Admin]

China-exclusive Radeon RX 7900 GRE to launch globally on February 27.

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[The Historical Fidelity]

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

 

[usertests]

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

 

[ivan_vy]

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.

 

[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

 

[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?

 

[usertests]

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

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.

 

[Joseph_138]

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..

 

[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.

 

[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.

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/

 

[Joseph_138]

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.

 

[bit_user]

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.

It costs 10% more than the RX 7800 XT, but provides up to 23% more TFLOPS (boost). For people with bursty, compute-bound workloads, it could make sense.

 

[evdjj3j]

A review would have been nice, but what do you expect. In case anyone is looking for a hardware site that actually reviews hardware, here you go.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-amd-radeon-rx-7900-gre-review

 

[AgentBirdnest]

Jarred's review is up.