Monday, February 12th 2024
GIGABYTE Intros Radeon RX 7900 GRE Gaming OC, European Availability Expected
GIGABYTE is ready with its first custom design graphics card based on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition). Originally designed for the Chinese domestic market, the RX 7900 GRE is finding its way across other Asian markets, and is also available in Europe. This GIGABYTE graphics card could be among the RX 7900 GRE cards to make it to the old continent. The card's design resembles that of the company's RX 7800 XT Gaming OC, which is slightly smaller than that of the RX 7900 XT Gaming OC. It features a triple-slot WindForce 3X cooling solution with a dual aluminium fin-stack heatsink that uses a copper base-plate, four heatpipes, and a trio of 80 mm fans. The card is about 30 cm long, 13 cm tall, and 5.6 cm thick. It uses a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is based on the "Navi 31" XL silicon, which is essentially the "Navi 31" chiplet GPU on a compact package that's about the size of a "Navi 32." AMD designed this smaller package for its mobile RX 7900 series SKUs. The RX 7900 GRE is configured with 80 RDNA3 compute units, which make up 5,120 stream processors, 160 AI accelerators, 80 Ray accelerators, and 320 TMUs. It gets the full 192 ROP count of the silicon. The SKU only has four out of six MCDs (memory cache dies) enabled, which gives it 64 MB of Infinity Cache, and a 256-bit wide memory bus, driving 16 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 for 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The total board power (TBP) of the RX 7900 GRE is configured at 260 W, which is about the same as that of the RX 7800 XT. The GIGABYTE Gaming OC card is expected to come with a slight factory overclock for the GPU.
Source:
VideoCardz
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is based on the "Navi 31" XL silicon, which is essentially the "Navi 31" chiplet GPU on a compact package that's about the size of a "Navi 32." AMD designed this smaller package for its mobile RX 7900 series SKUs. The RX 7900 GRE is configured with 80 RDNA3 compute units, which make up 5,120 stream processors, 160 AI accelerators, 80 Ray accelerators, and 320 TMUs. It gets the full 192 ROP count of the silicon. The SKU only has four out of six MCDs (memory cache dies) enabled, which gives it 64 MB of Infinity Cache, and a 256-bit wide memory bus, driving 16 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 for 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The total board power (TBP) of the RX 7900 GRE is configured at 260 W, which is about the same as that of the RX 7800 XT. The GIGABYTE Gaming OC card is expected to come with a slight factory overclock for the GPU.
12 Comments on GIGABYTE Intros Radeon RX 7900 GRE Gaming OC, European Availability Expected
From a mechanical point of view, it is impossible to crack even that small a PCB, if it has a metal backplate attached to it, which will distribute the heavy load of the cooler on it.
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Otherwise, we will begin to suspect that intellectually disabled people cut these PCBs.
On a nother note - in Denmark we have seen a lot of these "China" only market cards and I wonder if the sale of the Year of the Golden Rabit Edition have been so week in China that they simply have made to many of them. There isnt any good reason for a 7900 lite edition in the product stack with the recent low end AMD cards so it seems poor market management to release these cards in EU and US.
In Denmark the cards is about 10% more expensive then the 7800XT but often comes with the reference 7900XTX/XT cooler - wonder if theres a refurbish use of the RMA coolers from the XTX line?
I mean I saw a lot of cards had that issue, but their warranty is just a joke. I did RMA through shop that I bought it in, and not only was their service not replying to me, that's understandable, but also not replying from shop itself.
Got to a point that even a seller gave up and just refunded my card.
all nvidia gaming gpus are wastes from the ai segment ;) they sell you the literall trash that they cant sell for a 5 figureanother nothingburger just like the nvidia power adapter.
I don't get AMDs angle here, either. Had they given 20Gbps memomry and slightly more TDP and core clock to the 7900GRE, the card would fit neatly between 7800XT and 7900XT. The way it is now, either 7800XT or 7900GRE is superfluous, depending on price.
What's the issue then? (if the tdp and clocks can be manually adjusted?)
It's a phenomenon I often see in modern GPU. TDP = performance, at least to a degree. An otherwise identical card with less shaders will perform about the same as another card with more shader by using the TDP-headroom for higher clocks. You can see that with NVs new Super cards, too, since 4080S and 4070TiS clock slightly lower than their predecessors with the same TDP. Thus, 4080S is not even 5% faster than 4080. Of course, much more shaders or other improvements (wider memory bus and more memory in case of 4070TiS) lead to performance gains, but nowhere near as big as the difference in shader count. Plus, since about Pascal, all GPUs of the same generation seem to have about the same clock limit, given enough TDP.