AMD will start selling the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) graphics card in the US, offering users a detuned version of the 7900 XT flagship for $549. For a savings of about $350 over the latter, it has the same performance NVIDIA’s RTX 4070 Super For some games at some settings according to AMD.
It offers impressive specs for the amount, including a Navi 31 XL GPU with 80 compute units (5120 stream processors), 160 AI accelerators, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory. That’s slightly less than the 7900 XT’s 20GB of GDDR6, 96 compute units, and 168 AI accelerators. With that, it offers 26 to 46 FP32 TFLOPS, which is slightly lower than the 700 XT’s 32 to 51.6 FP32 TFLOPS. However, this means it also consumes less power – 260W TGP compared to the XT’s 315W.
All of this should make it a powerhouse in the sweet spot of 1440p resolution. AMD claims it offers 14 percent more FPS per dollar at 1440p settings than the $549 RTX 4070 12GB. includes games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and others in 4K. In some settings (comparable DLSS/FSR modes), AMD claims that it outperforms the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super.
At the same time, the 7900 GRE unit comes with new artificial intelligence accelerators as part of the AMD RDNA 3 computing unit. With 160 AI accelerators and 16GB of DDR6 memory, it can generate Stable Diffusion images in less than a second, or let you load your own extended language model (LLM), according to AMD.
The 7900 GRE isn’t exactly an unknown entity, as it’s been sold with PC builds (and even standalone) in Europe as well as China for some time. Overall, you can expect better performance and lower power consumption from the 7800 XT (just $50 more) and about 20 percent cheaper than the 7900 XT ($350 less).
The 7900 GRE goes on sale starting tomorrow (February 27, 2024) for $549. This is likely to be the sweet spot for many US buyers, so act fast if you want to buy. If you’re looking to spend a little less, AMD is dropping the US price of the RX 7700 XT to $419 starting today, $40 off its original price.
