AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7900 GRE desktop graphics. Although announced first in China, it seems the card will also be available globally. The RX 7900 GRE (which stands for Golden Rabbit Edition) is a cut-down version of the RX 7900 XT with some minor reductions to the GPU and significant reductions to the memory.
Compared to the 7900 XT's 84 compute
units, the 7900 GRE has 80. The game clock drops from 2000MHz to 1880MHz. The
20GB 20Gbps 320-bit memory drops down to 16GB 18Gbps 256-bit, which causes the
memory bandwidth to drop from 800GB/s to 576GB/s. The Infinity Cache has also
been reduced from 80MB to 64MB. The board power has been reduced from 315W to
260W.
AMD positions the 7900 GRE more as a 1440p
card instead of 4K. The company's marketing material also pits it as a
successor to the 6800 XT with the two being directly compared. This means it
should have similar performance to the RTX 4070.
AMD is pricing the 7900 GRE at 5299 RMB in
China but with also a US$ 649 price. It will be available from PowerColor,
Sapphire, and XFX along with a reference AMD model.
