AMD’s newest high-end graphics playing cards have turned a variety of heads, with each the Radeon RX 7900 XT and its massive brother the RX 7900 XTX punching above their weight. Right this moment the corporate introduced a brand new member of the road, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE. This new mannequin sits someplace between the top-of-the-line XT mannequin and the last-gen RX 6800 XT, going for an affordable $650 USD. Sadly the overwhelming majority of our readers received’t be capable to purchase it: GRE stands for “Golden Rabbit Version,” and this card isn’t getting a retail launch outdoors of the Chinese language market.
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE hits just under the RX 7900 XT in nearly each {hardware} side. Although it’s utilizing a modified Navi 31 processor design, it comes with 80 GPU clusters, a 2.2GHz most clock velocity, 16GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, and a 256-bit reminiscence bus (examine to 84, 2.4GHz, 20GB, and 320-bit on the XT, respectively).
That also places the $650 card properly above the subsequent step down within the collection thus far, the Radeon RX 7600, which has simply 32 compute items and 8GB of reminiscence. The $270 “price range” card was launched early this summer time, and thus far it’s the one different GPU within the lineup, leaving a big hole in AMD’s mid-range for the 7000 line. What’s the holdup for the mid-range playing cards? No concrete particulars can be found, although the rumor mill says AMD is figuring out a number of the kinks of the brand new Navi chip design earlier than it brings them to market.
Within the meantime, you may simply discover the Radeon RX 7900 GRE in some {hardware} certain for shores past China later this 12 months…if you happen to’re prepared to purchase a pre-built desktop. In keeping with VideoCardz.com, whereas reference playing cards will probably be offered alongside OEM fashions from Sapphire, XTX, and PowerColor, system integrators will be capable to promote machines with the GRE pre-loaded to supply a barely extra inexpensive various to the XT and XTX.
