AMD Announces Wider Launch of Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Adjusts Pricing of RX 7700 XT

[btarunr]

AMD today announced wider availability of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) graphics card. The card is now available in certain western markets including in Europe and North America; although AMD wouldn't call this a global launch. The card was originally designed as a limited edition product meant for the Chinese market, and has been available there since July 2023. The decision to launch the card in other markets may have been driven by NVIDIA's January launch of the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, which have caused cascading price cuts among the older RTX 4070, RTX 4070 Ti; and AMD's RX 7800 XT, creating a rather big gap between this card and the RX 7900 XT, which is probably why AMD decided to launch the RX 7900 GRE at $550.

AMD carved the RX 7900 GRE from the "Navi 31" silicon powering the RX 7900 series, by disabling two MCDs (instead of disabling just one on the RX 7900 XT); which results in a 256-bit memory bus, which drives 16 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, for 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GCD sees 80 out of 96 compute units (CU) being enabled, for 5,120 stream processors, 320 TMUs, 160 AI accelerators, and 80 Ray accelerators. The card is configured with 160 out of 192 ROPs present on the silicon. The total board power (TBP) is set to 260 W, which is about the same as the RX 7800 XT; but there are 33% more shaders to go around. Several AMD board partners are expected to announce their custom RX 7900 GRE cards today, with market availability slated for tomorrow, February 27, 2024. Although AMD is known to have a reference design card, it is expected to be confined to the OEM/SI channel. In addition, AMD also cut the official MSRP of the RX 7700 XT to $419.

Our "launch" day reviews of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE include: Sapphire RX 7900 GRE NITRO+ | ASRock RX 7900 GRE Steel Legend | Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pure | Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pulse



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[Cheeseball]

They should've dropped prices more appropriately:

7900 GRE - $550
7800 XT - $450 (or maybe $470)
7700 XT - $400

As it is, the 7900 GRE will eat into the sales of the 7800 XT, likewise with the 7700 XT.

EDIT: Grammar

 

[Minus Infinity]

They should've dropped prices more appropriately:

7900 GRE - $550
7800 XT - $450 (or maybe $470)
7700 XT - $400

As it is, the 7900 GRE will eat into the sales of the 7800 XT, likewise with the 7700 XT.

EDIT: Grammar

I find it hilarious the seriously crippled 7900GRE which is only a few % faster than the 7800XT and you think it should be ~22% dearer. It's worth $20 more max.

 

[Totally]

As it is, the 7900 GRE will eat into the sales of the 7800 XT, likewise with the 7700 XT.

I don't see it, $/perf doesn't make enough sense.

 

[sLowEnd]

I find it hilarious the seriously crippled 7900GRE which is only a few % faster than the 7800XT and you think it should be ~22% dearer. It's worth $20 more max.

As the suffix implies, it's a couple letters short of "GREAT"

 

[Cheeseball]

I find it hilarious the seriously crippled 7900GRE which is only a few % faster than the 7800XT and you think it should be ~22% dearer. It's worth $20 more max.

I kept it at the base price that AMD is suggesting. If they are positioning it so close to the 7800 XT, they might as well drop it’s price otherwise whats the point of getting one when the GRE is just $50 more.

 

[Broken Processor]

Taking note on how to release products that make no friggen sense this pile of crap is only a few percent faster on average than 7800xt so what's it's point. But but it's a 7900 series product ..../s

 

[Ruru]

Still too close to 7800 XT's pricing. 7700 XT is a good card, but its pricing isn't reasonable.

They should've dropped prices more appropriately:

7900 GRE - $550
7800 XT - $450 (or maybe $470)
7700 XT - $400

As it is, the 7900 GRE will eat into the sales of the 7800 XT, likewise with the 7700 XT.

EDIT: Grammar

IMO that would still be too narrow price gap between 7700 XT and 7800 XT. Something like 100EUR/USD would be way more reasonable.

 

[Cheeseball]

Still too close to 7800 XT's pricing. 7700 XT is a good card, but its pricing isn't reasonable.


IMO that would still be too narrow price gap between 7700 XT and 7800 XT. Something like 100EUR/USD would be way more reasonable.

I am thinking that as well but $350 eats into the 7600 XT territory (which is another GPU that does not make sense price-wise at $330) too.

 

[GreiverBlade]

glad i paid my RX 7900 XTX 540chf/$ (okay okay ... i had to sell my RX 6700 XT for 450chf )

best bargain ever

 

[Firedrops]

7700XT should be ~$350 and 7600XT ~$250. Until then, AMD can enjoy their 8% market share.

 

[JustBuyLianLi]

7700xt should be $350. If I wanted 7700xt of performance, I could have got it in the 6800 for $370 recently plus it has 4gb more vram. The 7800xt should be $450 in 2024 and the 7900 gre at most $500. 7900xt should be $650 and 7900xtx $800

 

[GreiverBlade]

7700XT should be ~$350 and 7600XT ~$250. Until then, AMD can enjoy their 8% market share.

well, not anyone follow your mindset on pricing?

Nvidia have a bigger market share, obviously, but their card are overpriced, it's a bit backward, isn't it? and nope it's not because of performance gap, RT performance gap or driver are better for Nvidia, for me, i had less issues with ATI/AMD drivers than Nvidia since 24yrs now

so for instance the direct concurrent of the RX 7700 XT the 4070 the price are corrects more or less the same with a +95$ in favor of the 4070
the RX 7600 XT which compete with the RTX 4060 cost 30 more but beat it and cost 60 less than the RTX 4060 Ti which is faster
that's at MSRP ofc ....

because for me, the example is : RTX 4080 at 1230chf versus RX 7900 XTX at 900ish (Asus TUF : 899, Sapphire Pulse : 919) sooooo why would I get anything else than a RX 7900 XT ... Glad to be a part of the 8%

it's only because of Nvidia that AMD cards are priced, adequately imho, that way but they are priced cheaper most of the time... if Nvidia would drop their price like, for instance, they did recently due to the Super launch, AMD will drop their price like, oh? well they just did ...

7700xt should be $350. If I wanted 7700xt of performance, I could have got it in the 6800 for $370

situational ofc, the RX 6800 XT is priced at 500ish for me, just like the RX 7800 XT and RTX 4070

 

[Ruru]

well, not anyone follow your mindset on pricing?

Nvidia have a bigger market share, obviously, but their card are overpriced, it's a bit backward, isn't it? and nope it's not because of performance gap, RT performance gap, driver are better for Nvidia (for me, i had less issues with ATI/AMD drivers than Nvidia since 24yrs now )

so for instance the direct concurrent of the RX 7700 XT the 4070 the price are corrects more or less the same with a +95$ in favor of the 4070
the RX 7600 XT which compete with the RTX 4060 cost 30 more but beat it and cost 60 less than the RTX 4060 Ti which is faster
that's at MSRP ofc ....

because for me, the example is : RTX 4080 at 1230chf versus RX 7900 XTX at 900ish (Asus TUF : 899, Sapphire Pulse : 919)

it's only because of Nvidia that AMD cards are priced, adequately imho, that way but they are priced cheaper most of the time... if Nvidia would drop their price like, for instance, they did recently due to the Super launch, AMD will drop their price like, oh? well they just did ...


situational ofc, the RX 6800 XT is priced at 500ish for me, just like the RX 7800 XT and RTX 4070

Remember also that there are people who simply prefer Nvidia and are willingly to pay more. I vote with my wallet and refuse to support that anti-consumer manufacturer myself.

I was going to get a 7800 XT in few months but I'm getting a 7900 GRE instead, thanks of its global release. Just stupid that its overclocking is artificially limited, just as with 6700 XT (with its limited VRAM OC'ing).

 

[GreiverBlade]

Remember also that there are people who simply prefer Nvidia and are willingly to pay more. I vote with my wallet and refuse to support that anti-consumer manufacturer myself.

I was going to get a 7800 XT in few months but I'm getting a 7900 GRE instead, thanks of its global release. Just stupid that its overclocking is artificially limited, just as with 6700 XT (with its limited VRAM OC'ing).

yeah, I meant: "not everyone" rather than anyone
Tee-eeh* *dumbface*

 

[Firedrops]

well, not anyone follow your mindset on pricing?

Nvidia have a bigger market share, obviously, but their card are overpriced, it's a bit backward, isn't it? and nope it's not because of performance gap, RT performance gap or driver are better for Nvidia, for me, i had less issues with ATI/AMD drivers than Nvidia since 24yrs now

so for instance the direct concurrent of the RX 7700 XT the 4070 the price are corrects more or less the same with a +95$ in favor of the 4070
the RX 7600 XT which compete with the RTX 4060 cost 30 more but beat it and cost 60 less than the RTX 4060 Ti which is faster
that's at MSRP ofc ....

because for me, the example is : RTX 4080 at 1230chf versus RX 7900 XTX at 900ish (Asus TUF : 899, Sapphire Pulse : 919) sooooo why would I get anything else than a RX 7900 XT ... Glad to be a part of the 8%

it's only because of Nvidia that AMD cards are priced, adequately imho, that way but they are priced cheaper most of the time... if Nvidia would drop their price like, for instance, they did recently due to the Super launch, AMD will drop their price like, oh? well they just did ...


situational ofc, the RX 6800 XT is priced at 500ish for me, just like the RX 7800 XT and RTX 4070

Thanks for the incoherent rant. AMD 7600 XT and 7700 XT aren't even competitive against their own 6000 series offerings.

 

[Vader]

Remember also that there are people who simply prefer Nvidia and are willingly to pay more. I vote with my wallet and refuse to support that anti-consumer manufacturer myself.

I was going to get a 7800 XT in few months but I'm getting a 7900 GRE instead, thanks of its global release. Just stupid that its overclocking is artificially limited, just as with 6700 XT (with its limited VRAM OC'ing).

I remember Steve from Hardware Unboxed saying AMD doesn't want to limit VRAM OC in the 7900GRE, they say it's a bug in the driver

 

[Super XP]

Graphics Cards all across the board are still ALL overpriced by 20-30%. The higher end GPUs are even worse priced with the worst price performance ratio.

 

[Super XP]

The 7800 XT and 7700 XT were aways overpriced from the getgo. I mean so are Nvidia GPUs and their equivalents.