Monday, February 26th 2024
AMD Announces Wider Launch of Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Adjusts Pricing of RX 7700 XT
AMD today announced wider availability of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) graphics card. The card is now available in certain western markets including in Europe and North America; although AMD wouldn't call this a global launch. The card was originally designed as a limited edition product meant for the Chinese market, and has been available there since July 2023. The decision to launch the card in other markets may have been driven by NVIDIA's January launch of the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, which have caused cascading price cuts among the older RTX 4070, RTX 4070 Ti; and AMD's RX 7800 XT, creating a rather big gap between this card and the RX 7900 XT, which is probably why AMD decided to launch the RX 7900 GRE at $550.
AMD carved the RX 7900 GRE from the "Navi 31" silicon powering the RX 7900 series, by disabling two MCDs (instead of disabling just one on the RX 7900 XT); which results in a 256-bit memory bus, which drives 16 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, for 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GCD sees 80 out of 96 compute units (CU) being enabled, for 5,120 stream processors, 320 TMUs, 160 AI accelerators, and 80 Ray accelerators. The card is configured with 160 out of 192 ROPs present on the silicon. The total board power (TBP) is set to 260 W, which is about the same as the RX 7800 XT; but there are 33% more shaders to go around. Several AMD board partners are expected to announce their custom RX 7900 GRE cards today, with market availability slated for tomorrow, February 27, 2024. Although AMD is known to have a reference design card, it is expected to be confined to the OEM/SI channel. In addition, AMD also cut the official MSRP of the RX 7700 XT to $419.
Our "launch" day reviews of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE include: Sapphire RX 7900 GRE NITRO+ | ASRock RX 7900 GRE Steel Legend | Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pure | Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pulse
AMD carved the RX 7900 GRE from the "Navi 31" silicon powering the RX 7900 series, by disabling two MCDs (instead of disabling just one on the RX 7900 XT); which results in a 256-bit memory bus, which drives 16 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, for 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GCD sees 80 out of 96 compute units (CU) being enabled, for 5,120 stream processors, 320 TMUs, 160 AI accelerators, and 80 Ray accelerators. The card is configured with 160 out of 192 ROPs present on the silicon. The total board power (TBP) is set to 260 W, which is about the same as the RX 7800 XT; but there are 33% more shaders to go around. Several AMD board partners are expected to announce their custom RX 7900 GRE cards today, with market availability slated for tomorrow, February 27, 2024. Although AMD is known to have a reference design card, it is expected to be confined to the OEM/SI channel. In addition, AMD also cut the official MSRP of the RX 7700 XT to $419.
Our "launch" day reviews of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE include: Sapphire RX 7900 GRE NITRO+ | ASRock RX 7900 GRE Steel Legend | Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pure | Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pulse
18 Comments on AMD Announces Wider Launch of Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Adjusts Pricing of RX 7700 XT
7900 GRE - $550
7800 XT - $450 (or maybe $470)
7700 XT - $400
As it is, the 7900 GRE will eat into the sales of the 7800 XT, likewise with the 7700 XT.
EDIT: Grammar
best bargain ever :laugh:
Nvidia have a bigger market share, obviously, but their card are overpriced, it's a bit backward, isn't it? and nope it's not because of performance gap, RT performance gap or driver are better for Nvidia, for me, i had less issues with ATI/AMD drivers than Nvidia since 24yrs now
so for instance the direct concurrent of the RX 7700 XT the 4070 the price are corrects more or less the same with a +95$ in favor of the 4070
the RX 7600 XT which compete with the RTX 4060 cost 30 more but beat it and cost 60 less than the RTX 4060 Ti which is faster
that's at MSRP ofc ....
because for me, the example is : RTX 4080 at 1230chf versus RX 7900 XTX at 900ish (Asus TUF : 899, Sapphire Pulse : 919) sooooo why would I get anything else than a RX 7900 XT ... Glad to be a part of the 8%
it's only because of Nvidia that AMD cards are priced, adequately imho, that way but they are priced cheaper most of the time... if Nvidia would drop their price like, for instance, they did recently due to the Super launch, AMD will drop their price like, oh? well they just did ...situational ofc, the RX 6800 XT is priced at 500ish for me, just like the RX 7800 XT and RTX 4070 :laugh:
I was going to get a 7800 XT in few months but I'm getting a 7900 GRE instead, thanks of its global release. Just stupid that its overclocking is artificially limited, just as with 6700 XT (with its limited VRAM OC'ing).
Tee-eeh* *dumbface*