MSI Radeon RX 7900 XTX Gaming Trio Classic Listed at $1100

[btarunr]

MSI Radeon RX 7900 XTX Gaming Trio Classic, the company's first Radeon 7000 series RDNA3 graphics card, is finally listed online. American retailer Newegg put it up for sale at $1,100, a $100 premium over the $1000 AMD baseline price for the RX 7900 XTX. This is a "sold and shipped by Newegg" listing. MSI showed this card off last month, at the 2023 International CES. It pairs a custom-design PCB with a previous-generation Tri Frozr 2.0 cooling solution—the same one it used with its RX 6950 XT Gaming series. The PCB, however, is an MSI in-house design, with a meaty VRM that draws power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and should hence feature a higher power-limit than the reference-design board, which has been known to scoop out a far greater overclocking headroom on other cards with a similar power setup (such as the ASUS TUF Gaming RX 7900 XTX).

The MSI RX 7900 XTX Gaming Trio Classic comes with clock speeds of 2.30 GHz game, and 2.50 GHz boost, which surprisingly are AMD's reference clocks. Perhaps MSI is saving factory-overclocks for the RX 7900 XTX Gaming X Trio Classic, which it will price even higher. Maxing out the 5 nm "Navi 31" GPU, the RX 7900 XTX offers 6,144 stream processors across 96 RDNA3 compute units, with 96 Ray Accelerators, 384 TMUs, 192 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface, running 24 GB of memory at 20 Gbps (960 GB/s memory bandwidth).



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[konga]

The MSRP for the 7900 XTX is $1000, not $900. It's the XT that's $900.

 

[claes]

Perhaps MSI is saving factory-overclocks for the RX 7900 XTX Gaming X Trio Classic, which it will price even higher.

This card is the classic

 

[AsRock]

And with it being a AIB it's bound to be $100 extra too, as the other guy said it $900 for the XT and $1k for the XTX.

 

[mama]

Wow. Tone deaf MSI.

 

[claes]

Deaf to what tone? One of the few <4-slot cards on the market (besides reference)

 

[KrazyT]

The card's design is definitely a "Classic" now !

 

[TheDeeGee]

That PCB is triple the size compared to my 4070 Ti.

 

[Vayra86]

This card is the classic

There's the little X there, I missed it too.

But damn, MSI, you're trying really hard to make this a no-effort release. Last gen's cooler, Classic.

 

[GamerGuy]

Unlike the MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio where MSI further put the 'GeForce RTX' branding on the backplate, it seems they didn't do the same for the RX 7900 series. I mean, I half expected to see 'AMD Radeon' on the backplate.

 

[Shtb]

Unlike the MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio where MSI further put the 'GeForce RTX' branding on the backplate, it seems they didn't do the same for the RX 7900 series. I mean, I half expected to see 'AMD Radeon' on the backplate.

Don't forget, GPP is "dead".

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[TheinsanegamerN]

Don't forget, GPP is "dead".

NVIDIA Ends Controversial GeForce Partner Program (GPP)

NVIDIA late Friday announced that it is ending the controversial GeForce Partner Program (GPP). The "program" was a revision in the terms of sale of NVIDIA graphics processors to AIC (add in card) partners (such as EVGA, ASUS, GIGABYTE, etc.), which in regulator-baiting language, called for AIC...

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It IS "dead". There is a much simpler answer: nvidia outsells AMD 10 to 1, and everyone believes EVGA in that margins for high end products are slim. If so, then there is no reason for MSI to put that much work into a second tier product heading into a bear market.

 

[systemBuilder]

It IS "dead". There is a much simpler answer: nvidia outsells AMD 10 to 1, and everyone believes EVGA in that margins for high end products are slim. If so, then there is no reason for MSI to put that much work into a second tier product heading into a bear market.

If you would bother to log into steam and think for yourself, you would not post such foolishness, it's 7:1.

Other - 9.67%
Intel - 7.52%
AMD - 10.81%
NVidia - 72.03%

Steam Hardware & Software Survey

And the top 4 NVidia desktop cards (20% of all steam registrations) are old bargain-bin tech from NVidia (1060, 1650, 2060, 1050 Ti). Not exactly a recommendation for the company in its current state ...

NVidia Bigots love to quote this stat because Mac users (100% amd gpus) don't register on steam, and consoles are not registered on steam. If you included console sales & Macs, I believe AMD would have 38% market share, and maybe NVidia would have 46% share.

 

[claes]

I believe the stat is from JPR, but not even sure what your point is (also Macs can and do register on steam and are not 100% amd, consoles are also using legacy hardware, etc etc)

I mean, throw-in igpus and all numbers are wrong, probably 80% of GPUs are Intel :shrug:

 

[Hecate91]

GPP isn't dead with products like this, MSI is using an old cooler yet still charging a premium for it, it shouldn't cost them anything to repurpose an Nvidia cooler which is what MSI has done before. Asus is also reusing an old cooler, though at least they have Radeon branding on their cards.
And EVGA is a good example of the partnership being so bad it even hurts Nvidia's own partners, EVGA didn't want to sell cards at a loss or 5% margin, but its a shame they're out the market I would've liked to see them go to AMD or Intel.

 

[mama]

I believe the stat is from JPR, but not even sure what your point is (also Macs can and do register on steam and are not 100% amd, consoles are also using legacy hardware, etc etc)

I mean, throw-in igpus and all numbers are wrong, probably 80% of GPUs are Intel :shrug:

If you are gaming on a Mac you need an external GPU. AMD is the only horse in the race as Nvidia GPUs don't work.

 

[claes]

I mean, there’s every Mac with an nvidia, Intel, or apple GPU in it, laptops and desktops, the latter of which don’t necessarily need an external GPU… Intel and Apple are still supported, and not everyone threw away their computer once they dropped nvidia support with 10.13. Millions of Apple users don’t use amd gpus. I’d actually wager the majority, since MacBook pro’s, iMacs, and mac pro’s are probably outsold by MacBook and MacBook airs by a significant margin.

Aside, Apple silicon doesn’t support external GPUs, but I suppose that’s neither here nor there.

Edit: google says, based on a survey, that pro models make up 51% of the market, so maybe I was incorrect