Packaging

The Card

The ASUS RX 7900 GRE TUF OC is instantly recognizable, thanks to its bulky look that's a feature of the TUF series. On the other side you'll find a metal backplate that has a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 32.0 x 15.0 cm, and it weighs 1326 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 60 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and one HDMI 2.1a (same as RDNA 2).

AMD has upgraded their encode/decode setup. It now comes with two independent hardware units that can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel, or one stream at double the FPS rate. There's support for VP9, H.264, H.265 and AV1 decode, and encoding is supported for H.264, H.265 and AV1.


The card uses a classic dual 8-pin plus PCIe slot power input config, rated for 375 W maximum power. NVIDIA on the other hand uses the new 12+4 pin ATX 12V-2x6 connector, which is rated for up to 600 W of power draw.


The card comes with adjustable lighting on the corner near the power connectors.


The dual BIOS switch lets you switch to a secondary "quiet" BIOS, which runs at a more relaxed fan curve.

Teardown

ASUS lets you remove the main cooler shroud, so the fans can be cleaned and replaced easily, without disturbing the thermal paste on the main cooler.


The thermal solution on the ASUS TUF OC has five heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.