Saturday, January 20th 2024
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE - More Custom Models Emerge at European E-tailers
AMD unveiled its Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE) Radeon RX 7900 GPU last summer—this Navi 31 XL-based card was first launched in China, with only a handful of customized options and a reference model (produced by XFX) available at the starting line. It later emerged that Team Red's special SKU (celebrating the Year of the Rabbit) would be heading West; by Autumn-time, system integrators in Europe started to sell full PC systems outfitted with Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics cards. By late 2023, a small smattering of board partner versions hit the European market in proper retail form—you no longer had to shell out €1500+ for a pre-built system in order to gain access to an exclusive model. Team Red's almost parallel launch of its Radeon RX 7800 XT GPU has overshadowed the slightly more powerful RDNA 3 model's limited release.
VideoCardz has received tips about price cuts affecting certain Radeon RX 7900 GRE models, and a new retail entry for an ASRock custom design. AMD has started to adjust its pricing at the higher mid-tier and flagship GPU level, in reaction to NVIDIA rolling out GeForce RTX 40 SUPER cards this month. This initiative has affected the Radeon RX 7900 GRE as well, despite its very restricted availability in Western markets. The article points to an example of the reference design with its price falling by ~€60 (over a two month period)—Italy's PSK Mega Store's offer currently sits at €542.66. The lowest price in Spanish and German markets appears to be €579—CoolMod Espagna has Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 7900 GRE Gaming OC 16 GB card listed at €579.95; it also qualifies for the AVATAR: Frontiers of Pandora promotion. Mindfactory DE lists a mysterious ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Challenger 16 GB OC Edition model (SKU 90-GA52ZZ-00UANF), ready to purchase and ship out immediately at €579. Photos of this twin-fan custom model can be viewed at Skinflint UK.
Sources:
PSK Mega Store, Mind Factory DE, Cool Mod, Video Cardz, Skinflint UK
VideoCardz has received tips about price cuts affecting certain Radeon RX 7900 GRE models, and a new retail entry for an ASRock custom design. AMD has started to adjust its pricing at the higher mid-tier and flagship GPU level, in reaction to NVIDIA rolling out GeForce RTX 40 SUPER cards this month. This initiative has affected the Radeon RX 7900 GRE as well, despite its very restricted availability in Western markets. The article points to an example of the reference design with its price falling by ~€60 (over a two month period)—Italy's PSK Mega Store's offer currently sits at €542.66. The lowest price in Spanish and German markets appears to be €579—CoolMod Espagna has Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 7900 GRE Gaming OC 16 GB card listed at €579.95; it also qualifies for the AVATAR: Frontiers of Pandora promotion. Mindfactory DE lists a mysterious ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Challenger 16 GB OC Edition model (SKU 90-GA52ZZ-00UANF), ready to purchase and ship out immediately at €579. Photos of this twin-fan custom model can be viewed at Skinflint UK.
39 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE - More Custom Models Emerge at European E-tailers
Another one from Greece, although I don't know the store/website the screenshot is taken from.
Does it look quite cheap or what??
Yours is from bestprice.gr, the second most used site of the same type in Greece. Because it is not as much used as Skroutz, it probably offers better deals to shops to get them included in it's searches, meaning there might be some small shops in it's lists that aren't in Skroutz. Now those two low prices at Bestprice results are from a shop in county with up to a month waiting time. So no guarantee someone will get those cards in the end, or what kind of warranty the customer gets.
Bestprice Greece
www.bestprice.gr/cat/2613/kartes-grafikwn.html?q=7900&from=search&o=2
Skroutz Greece
www.skroutz.gr/c/55/kartes-grafikwn.html?keyphrase=7900&order_by=pricevat&order_dir=asc&o=7900 Depending on how easy is to find GRE.
7900 GRE is the real 7800 XT
Current 7800 XT should have been called 7700 XT
www.techspot.com/review/2651-amd-radeon-7900-vs-radeon-6800/
The 7900 GRE is an atypical launch, should have been asia only but don't really make sense unless price comes down closer to 7800 XT
I expect AMD to sell very few 7900 GRE
In a certain game, it is on par with RX 6800.
www.techspot.com/review/2721-amd-radeon-7900-gre/
"7900 GRE is the real 7800 XT" is a statement and a half (=utter bollocks). This is just a weird GPU with a highly potent core and even more so highly castrated VRAM bandwidth. Why not 20 Gbps? Why not 22? This GPU made negative sense at 650 USD and it still makes very limited sense now since 4070 Super/6950 XT is roughly the same price and faster (of course you can OC that GRE to the moon and call that a moot point but that doesn't matter as much).
At 500+ USD/EUR, the only AMD GPUs still being reasonable are 7900 XT and XTX.
I would call it extremely unfair because the Chinese companies have always strived to give all customers the highest possible quality, while in return they get this kind of turds.
The 7900GRE is the spec of the 6800XT in terms of bus width but is a chiplet based design but the 6800XT is a monolithic die. The 7800XT only has 4 chiplets but is faster than the 6800XT. The 7900GRE is also a 7800XT in VRAM buffer. In truth the only thing that makes the cards similar is bus width. So the 7900GRE is the frankenstein that we think is. A 7900 series GPU with a 7800 series Vram buffer.
In CS 2 the RX 6800 XT is considerably faster.
This game is the highlight of the recent times and should be set as the benchmark to compare given GPUs.
4K:
1K:
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-6800-xt.c3694
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-7800-xt.c3839
RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 GRE are all in the same more or less performance tier.
You grab the cheapest of them.
RX 6800 is around 415 euros, RX 6800 XT is around 540 euros, RX 7800 XT is also around 520 euros, while 7900 GRE is 620 euros.
Let's check the reviews, information is there:
2K highest: 6800 XT - 106.8 FPS; 7900 XT - 139.9 FPS
4K highest: 6800 XT - 60.7 FPS; 7900 XT - 81 FPS
However, those who upgraded from 6800 XT to 7900 XT seem to be in a major hurry because +35% isn't much. 4090 and more powerful GPUs seem to be a more reasonable upgrade.
Don't think I'm saying 6800 XT is superior to 7900 XT. It's of course not. Spending 700+ USD on an upgrade for only getting <50% uplift AND ALSO NOT GETTING THE BEST GPU IN THE WORLD is cost inefficient.