PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC Lined up for Possible EU Wide Release

[Dr. Dro]

No. Many people claim that they don't see the difference. Either because they support Nvidia so much that they don't want to, or simply because they use old 1K screens which are horrendous with image quality, anyways.
The situation is such that some people even claim that they don't see a difference between 1K and 4K. How can we discuss anything more?

That's because there's no difference, not because "they can't tell". A decade plus ago or whatever Nvidia defaulted HDMI to a limited color range for compatibility reasons (deep color isn't supported on earlier HDMI TVs: even the PS3 has an option to toggle this) and this caused the image to look compressed, this hasn't been the case for years upon years now. Nothing was "proven", you don't feel comfortable when a GeForce is plugged to your screen due to personal bias, not because "the image looks worse".

 

[Minus Infinity]

Wait, they aren't selling the 7800XT in China?

No I'm saying I don't understand why they don't just sell the 7800XT in China? There is no need for the GRE as it offers nothing in real world. I expected it's performance to be only maybe 10% slower than 7900XT.

 

[Dr. Dro]

No I'm saying I don't understand why they don't just sell the 7800XT in China? There is no need for the GRE as it offers nothing in real world. I expected it's performance to be only maybe 10% slower than 7900XT.

I explained why. It's a die harvest. they'd just have to discard these low grade Navi 31 processors that have enough manufacturing defects and/or cannot reliably hit the v/f curve targets well enough so they could be sold as 7900 XT. Thus, disable the bad parts, lower the operating frequency and release it as a 7900 GRE. Semiconductor manufacturing isn't precise and this is why fully enabled processors are more expensive, especially if they're highest-grade bins with exceptional characteristics that usually come from around the center of the original wafer (such as the Intel KS processors).

The Chinese market is huge due to their population, and they're willing to purchase products such as these. The 7800 XT is a fully enabled, first-grade Navi 32 processor, and there are significantly fewer of those available than bad Navi 31's used in the 7900 GRE, which uses third-grade Navi 31s.