AMD will begin selling the Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) graphics card in the United States, offering users a detuned version of its flagship 7900 XT for $549. For a saving of around $350 over the latter, its performance is comparable to that of NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super for certain games with certain settings, according to AMD.
It offers impressive specs for this money, including a Navi 31 XL GPU with 80 compute units (5,120 stream processors), 160 AI accelerators, and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. That's just a bit less than the 7900 XT's 20GB of GDDR6, 96 compute units, and 168 AI accelerators. With this, it offers 26 to 46 FP32 TFLOPS, a bit lower than the 32 to 51.6 FP32 TFLOPS of the 700 XT. However, this means it also uses less power: 260W TGP compared to the XT's 315W.
All of this should make it a powerhouse at its ideal 1440p resolution. AMD claims to deliver 14% more FPS per dollar at 1440p settings compared to the $549 RTX 4070 12GB. This includes games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and others in 4K. In some settings (comparable DLSS/FSR modes), it outperforms the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super, claims AMD.
At the same time, the 7900 GRE comes with new AI accelerators as part of the AMD RDNA 3 unified computing unit. With 160 AI accelerators and 16 GB of DDR6 memory, it can generate images at stable streaming in less than a second, AMD said, or allow you to load your own extended language model (LLM).
The 7900 GRE isn't exactly an unknown entity, as it has been sold with PC (and even standalone) versions in Europe for some time as well as in China. In general, you can expect better performance and lower power consumption than the 7800 $ less).
The 7900 GRE goes on sale starting tomorrow (February 27, 2024) for $549. This is probably a sweet spot for many US buyers, so if you're looking to get one, act quickly. And if you want to spend a little less, AMD is also lowering the US price of the RX 7700 XT to $419, $40 less than the original price, starting today.