AMD will begin selling the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) graphics card in the US, offering users a detuned version of its flagship 7900 XT for $549. According to AMD, with a saving of around $350 over the latter, it has performance on par with NVIDIA's RTX 4070 Super for some games at some settings.
It offers impressive specs for that sum, including a Navi 31 XL GPU with 80 compute units (5,120 stream processors), 160 ai accelerators, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory. That's slightly less than the 7900 XT's 20GB of GDDR6, 96 compute units, and 168 ai accelerators. With that, it offers 26 to 46 FP32 TFLOPS, a little less than the 32 to 51.6 FP32 TFLOPS of the 700 XT. However, that means it also consumes less power: 260W TGP compared to 315W for the XT.
All of that should make it a powerhouse at its 1440p resolution sweet spot. AMD claims it delivers 14 percent more FPS per dollar at 1440p settings than the $549 RTX 4070 12GB. That includes games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and others in 4K. In some configurations (comparable DLSS/FSR modes), it outperforms the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super, AMD claims.
At the same time, the 7900 GRE comes with new ai accelerators as part of the AMD RDNA 3 unified computing unit. With 160 ai accelerators and 16GB of DDR6 memory, it can generate stable diffusion images in less than a second, it said AMD, or allow you to load your own large language model (LLM).
The 7900 GRE isn't exactly an unknown entity, as it has been sold with PC versions (and even standalone) in Europe for a while now, as well as in China. Overall, you can expect better performance and lower power consumption than the 7800 XT (for just $50 more), and about a 20 percent drop compared to the 7900 XT (for $350 less).
The 7900 GRE goes on sale starting tomorrow (February 27, 2024) for $549. It's likely a sweet spot for many American buyers, so if you're looking to get one, act quickly. And if you want to spend a little less, AMD is also dropping the US price of the RX 7700 XT to $419, $40 off the original price, starting today.
