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Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pictured: A Unique China-specific SKU

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So it basically a cut Radeon RX 7900XT, a Nitro+ heatsink cut from 3 to 2 slot and obsolete on day one due the 16GB RAM.
What are they trying to tell with this?

Did I miss something, when did GPUs with 16 GB of fast VRAM become obsolete? This is fine, it's not the first time AMD has released a Radeon built of top tier silicon scaled back. Cards like the HD 5830, the elusive UA/RU-only 6930, 7870 XT, etc. Nvidia does the same, perhaps the supremely egregious example of this exact same practice: the almighty RTX 4090! Yes, that's right, the AD102 used in the 4090 has 12.5% of its SMs and 25% of its cache disabled.

The purpose behind this is to sell poorly binned chips to a budget conscious Chinese market. That's all it's intended for.
 
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