AMD RX 7900 XT Reportedly Brings 40% Performance Uplift Over RX 6900 XT

Uskompuf · May 10, 2021

AMD's RDNA 2 architecture provided a significant performance increase for the company and allowed them to re-enter the high-end GPU market. AMD hopes to keep this momentum up with the launch of its RX 7900 XT card featuring the RDNA 3 architecture which will reportedly bring a further performance increase of at least 40% over the RX 6900 XT with internal projections as high as 60% - 80%. The RDNA 3 architecture is expected to feature a chiplet-based design with discrete I/O and compute dies similar to Ryzen processors. AMD has officially said they are targetting a 50% performance/watt increase over RDNA 2 with the new architecture which lends weight to this rumor. The RX 7900 XT is not expected to launch in the foreseeable future so take these rumors with a healthy dose of skepticism but if these performance improvements are anything close to accurate AMD could have a winner with RDNA 3.

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Cybrshrk · May 10, 2021

What happened to 3x the performance from just a couple days ago rumors? Lol

Legacy-ZA · May 10, 2021

This is amazing, but... will you be able to buy it one day? :roll:

pavle · May 10, 2021

So, only 40%? That would be similar to the original HD6900 to HD7900 series upgrade. Warning, history is about to repeat itself.

evernessince · May 10, 2021

pavl3 said:
So, only 40%? That would be similar to the original HD6900 to HD7900 series upgrade. Warning, history is about to repeat itself.

AMD's 7000 series was pretty fantastic. Great overclockers, good performance out of the box, and good power efficiency. Very forward looking to boot.

The article title is a bit misleading, the leak says a minimum of a 40% increase to performance per watt and a 60-70% performance increase.

Chomiq · May 10, 2021

Cybrshrk said:
What happened to 3x the performance from just a couple days ago rumors? Lol

Nah, the 3x was in regards to price increase.

yeeeeman · May 10, 2021

))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) it went from 3x (which was actually 2.5x in the original article) to 40% so fast!

DeathtoGnomes · May 10, 2021

yeeeeman said:
))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) it went from 3x (which was actually 2.5x in the original article) to 40% so fast!

what original article? You do realized this is still just speculation, always take such PR "leaks" like this with a grain of salt.

Arkz · May 10, 2021

Wasn't the power efficiency from navi to big navi already like 40%? Will be interesting to see power difference between navi and... erm... obese navi?

medi01 · May 10, 2021

Looming.

napata · May 10, 2021

evernessince said:
AMD's 7000 series was pretty fantastic. Great overclockers, good performance out of the box, and good power efficiency. Very forward looking to boot.

The article title is a bit misleading, the leak says a minimum of a 40% increase to performance per watt and a 60-70% performance increase.

I haven't watched the video but the included slide does not match with what you're saying. It's 40% minimum with internal targets being 60-80% so the title isn't misleading at all.

Chomiq · May 10, 2021

medi01 said:
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Looming.

That grim ripper should have "Global chip shortage" written on him, that would be accurate.

medi01 · May 10, 2021

Uskompuf said:
AMD could have a winner with RDNA 3.

As if AMD doesn't have a winner with RDNA2, chuckle (most recent 7 games):

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT im Test: Taktraten, Benchmarks in FHD, WQHD und UHD sowie Raytracing

Radeon RX 6900 XT im Test: Taktraten, Benchmarks in FHD, WQHD und UHD sowie Raytracing / Testsystem und Testmethodik

www.computerbase.de

Chomiq said:
That grim ripper should have "Global chip shortage" written on him, that would be accurate.

The global chip shortage (real one) has nothing to do with either RDNA2 or Ampere GPUs, which are in shortage only because entire planet is involved crypto buble/ponzi.

olymind1 · May 10, 2021

+40% performance? Not bad, but i think they'll just increase its price again by 50% at least, that's the AMD way since RDNA.

medi01 · May 10, 2021

olymind1 said:
+40% performance?

No, just another title on TPU that dowplays AMD news.
+40% perf/watt, +60-70% perf.

kayjay010101 · May 10, 2021

Ugh, MLID. I give zero credibility to that channel. Can we stop treating it as 'news'?

watzupken · May 10, 2021

Cybrshrk said:
What happened to 3x the performance from just a couple days ago rumors? Lol

I will not believe that AMD can improve performance by 3x in a single generation, considering RDNA2 itself is not a slow graphic solution. If its pointing to a specific function, for example, RT performance, then that could be possible.

evernessince · May 10, 2021

napata said:
I haven't watched the video but the included slide does not match with what you're saying. It's 40% minimum with internal targets being 60-80% so the title isn't misleading at all.

Yes the title is misleading because it is quoting the minimum, not the average.

And yes my numbers differ from the slide as I always take conservative values of any rumors. 50% to performance per watt whereas I stated 40 and a max uplift of 80% whereas I stated 70%. I take rumors with a big grain of salt. Given AMD's progress with RDNA thus far saying 40% minimum is less a leak and more something anyone who's been following the market could come up with based on an educated guess.

watzupken · May 10, 2021

medi01 said:
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Looming.

I think this scenario is possible since both the giants were asleep. Nvidia is likely caught by surprise this round as well by going with a matured node, i.e. Samsung 8nm (a refined 10nm). But that's only in the retail space. Their cash cow is still their HPC products which Intel is trying to have a go as well.

Minus Infinity · May 10, 2021

Cybrshrk said:
What happened to 3x the performance from just a couple days ago rumors? Lol

That was talking about a dual GPU card with 160CU's and much higher clocks, coupled with the 50% performance increase per watt.

JB_Gamer · May 10, 2021

Lucky those who can get hold of one

cyneater · May 10, 2021

Legacy-ZA said:
This is amazing, but... will you be able to buy it one day?

Nope they are just paper launch got to wait 12 months

Octopuss · May 10, 2021

So GPU chiplet design is the new "internal crossfire"?

aindriu · May 10, 2021

paper tiger

jesdals · May 10, 2021

Cybrshrk said:
What happened to 3x the performance from just a couple days ago rumors? Lol

Ill gues its going to be less on launch in 2023 - but 40% better than 6900xt I wonder if that going to be 10% less than next gen nvidia....

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