AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE China-Edition GPU Reaches End-of-Life

[AleksandarK]

According to Tweakers, AMD's Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card has reached end-of-life status, as confirmed by multiple AMD board partners they have contacted. The announcement comes just months after the card's expansion into European markets following its initial 2023 exclusive launch in China. Tweakers report that the supply of the RX 7900 GRE is rapidly declining across retail channels. While ASUS models remain somewhat available, the manufacturer has informed Tweakers that deliveries are currently "limited." AMD has not responded to their multiple requests for comment regarding the discontinuation. The RX 7900 GRE offers compelling specifications that position it as a slightly scaled-down variant of the more premium RX 7900 XT.

Built on AMD's RDNA 3 architecture, the card features 80 CUs and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and operates at a 260 W TDP. The timing of this discontinuation is particularly interesting as AMD prepares to unveil its next-generation RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 8000 series. Perhaps AMD is trying to flush out its remaining inventory to make room for its Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs, which should mainly target the middle-range of the next-generation GPU families, including competition like NVIDIA with "Blackwell" and Intel with "Battlemage." With the new card scheduled to appear during AMD's CES keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas, we have to wait and see what products AMD puts out before analyzing why AMD decided to EOL its Radeon RX 7900 GRE.



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[BlaezaLite]

Shame really. More people should have got one, great gpu.

 

[Quicks]

Would think the entire 7 series should be end of life if AMD is planning new GPU's for Jan 2025. Maybe it's going to be delayed again to Feb or March.

 

[AcE]

The card was never popular as it was just a small bit faster than 7800 XT and not good marketed, however it was a great card if you hand-optimised it with especially vram overclock, because of 5120 shaders with just 256 bit and just 18 gbit memory, it needed everything it could get. For me it was always a bit questionable why they released it at all here, or beyond OEM only, it didn't really fill a niche, maybe they had too many broken Navi31 dies that were more broken than those used in 7900 XT (6144 -> 5300~ -> 5120, not a big difference). Also, they very much castrated its bandwidth AND didn't give it 20 Gbps memory like the other cards, so this was also very questionable for me. All in all, a weird card.

 

[Ware]

The card was never popular as it was just a small bit faster than 7800 XT and not good marketed...Also, they very much castrated its bandwidth AND didn't give it 20 Gbps memory like the other cards, so this was also very questionable for me. All in all, a weird card.

No doubt, it's an interesting configuration. As odd as it may have been, it was perfectly positioned to fill the gap between 7800XT and 7900XT in terms of both price and performance.

As for having less memory bandwidth than the 7800XT, it didn't matter. IMO it's more accurate to say the 7800XT has more bandwidth than it can practically utilize.
I could not find ANY GAME at ANY RESOLUTION where the 7800XT ever beat a 7900GRE.
I'm not sure about AI or mining, which may be more sensitive to memory bandwidth, but for games the 7900GRE always performs between the 7800XT and 7900XT - right where it should be.

I like the GRE, and had it been available at the time I would have got one over the 7800XT.

 

[AcE]

No doubt, it's an interesting configuration. As odd as it may have been, it was perfectly positioned to fill the gap between 7800XT and 7900XT in terms of both price and performance.

Right, that's why nearly nobody bought it. ^^

As for having less memory bandwidth than the 7800XT, it didn't matter.

Ooof that's the most wrong opinion you could have. It has way more shaders than 7800 XT while having LESS bandwidth, the card is basically sabotaged, performance wise by that.

IMO it's more accurate to say the 7800XT has more bandwidth than it can practically utilize.

No, the 7800 XT reminds me actually a lot of Nvidia cards, the right bandwidth, whereas 7900 GRE and 7900 XT are both bandwidth starved as they lose more performance than they should in 4K.

I'm not sure about AI or mining, which may be more sensitive to memory bandwidth, but for games the 7900GRE always performs between the 7800XT and 7900XT - right where it should be.

5-10% faster than 7800 XT still makes the card irrelevant - and it was terribly marketed, as such it wasn't a well known or liked card.

The only saving grace of the 7900 GRE was its power consumption, it was one of the efficient cards of the whole generation, very comparable to the RX 6800.

 

[Acuity]

The card was never popular as it was just a small bit faster than 7800 XT and not good marketed, however it was a great card if you hand-optimised it with especially vram overclock, because of 5120 shaders with just 256 bit and just 18 gbit memory, it needed everything it could get. For me it was always a bit questionable why they released it at all here, or beyond OEM only, it didn't really fill a niche, maybe they had too many broken Navi31 dies that were more broken than those used in 7900 XT (6144 -> 5300~ -> 5120, not a big difference). Also, they very much castrated its bandwidth AND didn't give it 20 Gbps memory like the other cards, so this was also very questionable for me. All in all, a weird card.

I think you have to take into account the infinity cache, it’s not like you say about the bandwidth. I consider it a really excellent card.

 

[AcE]

I think you have to take into account the infinity cache, it’s not like you say about the bandwidth. I consider it a really excellent card.

It's a good card, don't get me wrong, and I know about the IC, don't worry. But in general the card didn't sell well and this has reasons. "Good card" is always relative btw. - in a pool of great cards it's competing at, it was kinda lost, namely 7800 XT, 4070, 4070 Super. Good card, but not great.

 

[eidairaman1]

The card was never popular as it was just a small bit faster than 7800 XT and not good marketed, however it was a great card if you hand-optimised it with especially vram overclock, because of 5120 shaders with just 256 bit and just 18 gbit memory, it needed everything it could get. For me it was always a bit questionable why they released it at all here, or beyond OEM only, it didn't really fill a niche, maybe they had too many broken Navi31 dies that were more broken than those used in 7900 XT (6144 -> 5300~ -> 5120, not a big difference). Also, they very much castrated its bandwidth AND didn't give it 20 Gbps memory like the other cards, so this was also very questionable for me. All in all, a weird card.

Golden Rabit Edition: pretty odd name choice

 

[Legacy-ZA]

It's a good GPU for the price asked (then), but they released it way too late.

 

[Luminescent]

The whole AMD GPU division should be end of life, they suddenly found out machine learning upscaling is very time consuming, they just found out ray tracing is the future, all of this while Nvidia is a few years ahead of them.
Next generation amd GPUs better be good or they will remain bottom of the barrel cheap GPUs for system integrators or consoles.

 

[DaemonForce]

Golden Rabit Edition: pretty odd name choice

Have you never encountered Chinese Zodiac or anything in Asian culture? The past few years have been rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon and snake is coming up maybe the end of next month.
2023 was water rabbit, this year is wood dragon. I believe wood snake is next. The element of metal is often defined as GOLD in a few cultures and a massive symbol of prosperity.
If you look up golden rabbit anywhere you'll find a huge branding scheme for literally anything, mainly enamelware. This was probably okay to bring to the west.
I don't want any GPU with snake branding though. Something tells me nVidia would do a great job of hamming that up, they can afford to be dangerous. AMD, maybe not.

 

[Quicks]

It's a good GPU for the price asked (then), but they released it way too late.

This is what the 7800XT should have been, there was no need for a 7900GRE.

 

[AcE]

Golden Rabit Edition: pretty odd name choice

It was for China festivities and then they thought it's great to bring it to everywhere else, but not many people bought it in the west at least. All in all it was just the leftovers that couldn't make 7900 XTX or 7900 XT GPUs, not a great point to start with.