Monday, July 24th 2023
Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pictured: A Unique China-specific SKU
Here are some of the first pictures of the Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE, a unique China-specific product that isn't just its own Sapphire custom-design, but also a whole different SKU. We first learned about the existence of the RX 7900 GRE earlier this month, and this would be one of its first custom design implementations. The Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE), is a limited edition SKU of the Radeon RX 7900 series. It's neither the RX 7900 XTX nor the RX 7900 XT, but positioned a notch below the latter. Based on the same "Navi 31" silicon as the two, the RX 7900 GRE is equipped with 84 CU (5,376 stream processors), or the same GCD core-configuration as the RX 7900 XT. It however, gets just 16 GB of memory, across a narrower 256-bit wide memory bus.
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is carved out of the "Navi 31" by disabling two of the six MCDs, which reduces the Infinity Cache size to 64 MB, and the GDDR6 memory bus width to 256-bit. The 5 nm GCD is carried over from the RX 7900 XT—you get 5,376 stream processors, 168 AI accelerators, 84 Ray accelerators, 336 TMUs, and 192 ROPs. It is possible that the Sapphire RX 7900 GRE uses a variation of the company's NITRO+ cooling solution that's similar to the NITRO+ Lite SKUs available in markets outside China. The key difference here is that the cooler lacks a vapor-chamber plate, and instead uses a solid copper base-plate to pull heat from the GPU and memory. AMD needs to fill the vast gap in its product stack between the $250 RX 7600 and the $700+ RX 7900 XT, and SKUs such as the RX 7900 GRE could help it compete better against the likes of the RTX 4070 Ti in competitive markets such as China.
Sources:
wxnod (Twitter), VideoCardz
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is carved out of the "Navi 31" by disabling two of the six MCDs, which reduces the Infinity Cache size to 64 MB, and the GDDR6 memory bus width to 256-bit. The 5 nm GCD is carried over from the RX 7900 XT—you get 5,376 stream processors, 168 AI accelerators, 84 Ray accelerators, 336 TMUs, and 192 ROPs. It is possible that the Sapphire RX 7900 GRE uses a variation of the company's NITRO+ cooling solution that's similar to the NITRO+ Lite SKUs available in markets outside China. The key difference here is that the cooler lacks a vapor-chamber plate, and instead uses a solid copper base-plate to pull heat from the GPU and memory. AMD needs to fill the vast gap in its product stack between the $250 RX 7600 and the $700+ RX 7900 XT, and SKUs such as the RX 7900 GRE could help it compete better against the likes of the RTX 4070 Ti in competitive markets such as China.
25 Comments on Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pictured: A Unique China-specific SKU
3 years later
"Let's cut another couple VRAM modules outta our GPU, it's a cool idea"
They're selling a crappier version for presumably less money in one region of the world, how exactly is that greedy ?
Also, surely you must be aware both AMD and Nvidia, and Intel and every other major corporation that sell products internationally have been selling tons of different SKUs for different regions since forever. Are you having an epiphany over this or what exactly ?I do and this is proof of it, you're hating on this for no reason whatsoever. If they were selling the same product for less money in China I would agree with you that they are trying "to rip off the poor(or richer I guess) westerners" but they objectively aren't, the product is inferior as well.
As if AMD would care about ripping some people off but not others, lol, what are you even on about.
We have cards coming to fill in the gap, the 7700xt and the 7800xt..... and then still how does this equate greed? a cutdown version of a card is what they all do all the time....
"Ah the old fanboy defence, "NO U". Since you refuse to acknowledge that if NVIDIA was pulling this s**t I'd call them out in exactly the same way."
I mean, you might because I dont understand how your mind works atm, but most really wouldnt, if Nvidia would sell a cutdown version of the 4080, aka a worse version, for a bit less money and do that in China only because the amount of "failed to meet the requirements" 4080's is so low....and they even need to attach some pandering GRE nonsense to make it seem slightly appealing....I could not care less, go right ahead.
"Because they're not selling it in the West, you numpty. And the simple reason for that is because they think Westerners are happier to get ripped off than Easterners."
That is such an assumption, its crazy to me you are willing to even type that up.
So if this was a "USA" version and was only sold in America....you would use the same argument but then in reverse or something?
but whatever, you are in full on defensive mode so nothing really productive will come from this discussion, this is just a way to get some money out of yield issues, happens all the time.
Now, what's a golden rabbit? :D
The fact this card has 84 CU's it's not based on defective 7900XT dies I presume. So I could when there were rumours of a 70CU 7900 possibly coming that was from dies that didn't make the grade for XTX or XT versions and it would be limited release, but this just looks like a modified XT card. Why make this China only? Why not just make it 72CU and call it the 7800XT and base a non XT 60CU 7800 on N32. 7800XT could be $649, 7800 $549.
AMD should have made a single-die GPU to have lower latencies and thus more performance, not a "MCM GPU".
AMDs got plenty of time to milk the east but no time for mid-tier 7000-series? What are they waiting for, bugs bunny in silver?
What are they trying to tell with this?
The purpose behind this is to sell poorly binned chips to a budget conscious Chinese market. That's all it's intended for.