Is it just me, or is the new AMD Radeon RX 7900 actually an RX 7800 XT in disguise?
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 is now officially a thing, and while it’s currently only available in China, it comes in at roughly $649. That’s arguably a decent price point for a graphics card armed with 16GB RAM and a cut-down Navi 31 GPU, as its older RX 7900 XT sibling can set you back $250 more. However, while I’m hoping the new card on the block eventually makes its way across the globe, I can’t help but shake the feeling that it’s actually an RX 7800 XT in disguise.
The best graphics card battlefield is now occupied by various AMD and Nvidia GPUs, but the red team has yet to deploy any midrange gladiators. You could say that’s a tactical move, as letting Nvidia release the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 first lets the company pick and choose specs based on the gaming PC scene’s reactions to available SKUs. Perhaps I’m putting more thought into this than the GPU itself has, but the release of the new AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) in China feels like a similar test.
Unveiled at China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference (ChinaJoy), the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE offers specs that currency sit between the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 XT. As mentioned above, it packs 16GB GDDR6 RAM, a Navi 31 GPU with 5,120 Stream processors, and boost clock speeds up to 2,245Mhz, so there’s a bit of a gap between it and the flagship XTX.
In a “gen-to-gen” comparison, AMD pits the RX 7900 specs against the RX 6800 XT, which somewhat backs up my theory that it’s practically an RX 7800 XT. That idea is echoed across benchmarks, with figures produced by Chinese publication Expreview suggesting it surpasses RTX 4070 performance. When you consider the fact it can beat the GeForce GPU without FSR 3.0 (AMD’s yet-to-be-released answer to
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