AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE To Launch Globally on February 27

[GFreeman]

AMD's Radeon RX 7900 GRE, or Golden Rabbit Edition, which was previously available only to the Chinese market, will launch globally on February 27. According to the leaked slides, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE will launch at $549, and AMD is comparing it to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 non-SUPER graphics card. In case you missed it, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE is based on the Navi 31 XL GPU with 80 Compute Units (CUs), which leaves it with 5120 Stream Processors, and comes with 16 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory interface, which adds up to a maximum bandwidth of 576 GB/s. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE should fit nicely between the Radeon RX 7900 XT and the Radeon RX 7800 XT.

According to the leaked slides, AMD is comparing the Radeon RX 7900 GRE against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 non-SUPER, which now shares the same price after the recent $50 price cut. According to AMD's own slides, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE should provide around 14 percent more performance per buck on average, and is between 1 and 32 percent faster, at least in games tested by AMD.



AMD AIB partners should be gearing up for the launch, and some versions have already leaked earlier, including Powercolor's Hellhound version, Gigabyte's Gaming OC version, and some others.

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[Daven]

I think with the worldwide launch of the 7900 GRE and the 4000 super series we have seen the last of the RDNA3 and Ada lovelace releases. Time for Blackwell and RDNA4!

 

[Ruru]

I hope that it's not overpriced. Been thinking about 7800 XT, but if this isn't that much more expensive, I may consider getting this instead.

 

[jesdals]

I was puzzled about the european release of these cards a coupple of months ago because why would AMD cannibalize their own product stack - but I cant help to think along the others who think this is to empty out stock for next gen GPUs. Fun oberservation in Denmark one of the local vendors have pulled the product listing - perhaps to make an announcement tomorrow - not that its going to fool any one

 

[Daven]

I hope that it's not overpriced. Been thinking about 7800 XT, but if this isn't that much more expensive, I may consider getting this instead.

Prices are getting jammed together:

7700XT $449
7800XT $499
7900 GRE $549

Usually the first two can be found for a little cheaper but these prices are very close together.

 

[Ruru]

Prices are getting jammed together:

7700XT $449
7800XT $499
7900 GRE $549

Usually the first two can be found for a little cheaper but these prices are very close together.

The cheapest 7700 XT is 473EUR, the cheapest 7800 XT is 570EUR. I hope that it doesn't go near to the 700EUR area.

 

[3valatzy]

Another useless, nonsensical release by AMD. After RX 6400, then RX 6500 XT, then RX 7600 XT, now this RX 7900 GRE.

I promise I will buy it if AMD decreases the SEP to $300 max. That's 50-100$ profit margin per GPU.
Else, let them stay on the shelves as long as possible until gotten EOLed.


On a more serious note - Dr Lisa Su maybe really needs to leave AMD?

Where is the 7900 XTX refresh, where is the 7900 XT refresh?

 

[Denver]

I initially thought that GRE was just a way to sell inferior/defective N31 chips, and the product seem nonsensical compared to the 7800XT. However, after some research, I've found that it's not as bad as I thought:

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Saw a 7900xt on Newegg last night for $699 and a 7900XTX for $899 on Newegg last night... man I was really tempted, but I think I'm going to see if they go down further

 

[Tomorrow]

Another useless, nonsensical release by AMD. After RX 6400, then RX 6500 XT, then RX 7600 XT, now this RX 7900 GRE.

Bruh. 7900GRE has way more compute units despite it's castrated memory system. Even then it has 256bit 16GB VRAM.
You are comparing it to 6400/6500 repurposed low end laptop chips.

I promise I will buy it if AMD decreases the SEP to $300 max. That's 50-100$ profit margin per GPU.
Else, let them stay on the shelves as long as possible until gotten EOLed.

You really think 7900GRE only takes $200-250 to make?

On a more serious note - Dr Lisa Su maybe really needs to leave AMD?

Based on what?

Where is the 7900 XTX refresh, where is the 7900 XT refresh?

Aside from faster VRAM and bigger cache there's not too much to refresh. Even the CGD and memory controller chiplets are 5nm and 6nm and considering capacity constraints the 4nm node is the only one that's available right now but that is being gobbled up by AI chips.

 

[phints]

Meanwhile my RTX 4070 FE is almost a year old and they are still comparing it to it. Love this GPU. Welcome to the party AMD but you still don't have fast Ray tracing, RTX features, etc. AMD GPUs aren't impressive, meanwhile their CPUs are top tier and will probably do a 9700X3D build once they ship.

 

[Ruru]

Meanwhile my RTX 4070 FE is almost a year old and they are still comparing it to it.

I find it completely reasonable to compare cards from the same price range.

 

[Charodiy_91]

I think both AMD and Nvidia make capable Videocards, what really matters - !price! I want to see much cheaper Videocards like they were before the "shitty cryptocurrency storm".

 

[3valatzy]

I find it completely reasonable to compare cards from the same price range.

Nividia's average sold price is 200$ higher than Radeon's. Because Nvidia is the premium brand and the customers do pay 200$ more on average.
So, you must compare a 550$ Radeon to a 750$ GeForce.

 

[Chaitanya]

As mentioned above 7700xt, 7800xt and 7900GRE are far too closly priced to each other and there needs to be a bit of price correction needs to happen especially with 7700XT.

Bruh. 7900GRE has way more compute units despite it's castrated memory system. Even then it has 256bit 16GB VRAM.
You are comparing it to 6400/6500 repurposed low end laptop chips.

You really think 7900GRE only takes $200-250 to make?

Based on what?

Aside from faster VRAM and bigger cache there's not too much to refresh. Even the CGD and memory controller chiplets are 5nm and 6nm and considering capacity constraints the 4nm node is the only one that's available right now but that is being gobbled up by AI chips.

 

[Ruru]

Reviews are out and it's a better product than I thought. Especially on 4K.

 

[Readlight]

Cheapest i3 with H610 motherboard RAM 400 euro.

 

[mechtech]

Interesting

Basically tied with the 4070 super
I wonder what prices will be here......................

I posted this under one of the reviews.............same amount of shaders as 6900xt but 32 more rops, but over double the transistors?!?!?

 

[Macro Device]

I hope that it's not overpriced. Been thinking about 7800 XT, but if this isn't that much more expensive, I may consider getting this instead.

I'd get a 7900 XTX when it becomes cheaper after RTX 5000 series release.