AMD announces $999 Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Radeon RX 7900 XT for $899
Today, AMD announced its first Radeon RX 7000 desktop cards, starting with the high-end 7900 series.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 series
The third generation RDNA architecture is finally here. The company introduces Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics cards. The first features a full Navi 31 GPU with 12288 Stream Processors, while the latter is based on a cut-down GPU with 10752 cores.
AMD RDNA3 architecture based on 5nm node is the first chiplet design for consumer Radeon GPUs. The GPU features one compute tile made in 5nm process with six memory chiplets made with 6nm node.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD confirm Navi 31 GPU has 58 billion transistors, and it offers up to 61 TFLOPs of single-precision compute performance. This GPU has 5.3 TB/s chiplet interconnect. With 5nm node, Navi 31 GPU has 165% higher transistor density compared to Navi 2X.
AMD Navi 31 GPU
AMD is confirming that its new RX 7900 XTX will be up to 1.7x faster than RX 6950XT at 4K resolution. The RDNA3 architecture should offers 54% better performance per watt than RDNA2, according to AMD. The company is sharing first performance claims in some popular titles compared to the fastest RDNA2 GPU, but sadly no with no RTX 40:
AMD RX 7900 XTX vs. RX 6950XT Performance
The Radeon 7900 XTX is the first Radeon card to support DisplayPort 2.1 display interface, offering up to 8K 165Hz support or 4K at 480 Hz.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Pricing
AMD is confirming all clocks for its Radeon RX 7900 series. Starting with RX 7900XT, it will ship with base clock of 1.9 GHz, game clock of 2.3 GHz and boost up to 2.5 GHz. The RX 7900XT has 1.5 GHz base clock, 2.0 GHz game clock and boost up to 2.4 GHz. Memory clock will be the same for both models at 20 Gbps.
AMD confirms Radeon RX 7900 XTX will cost $999 while RX 7900XT will retail at $899. Both cards will be available on December 13th.
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 Specifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 7900 XT | Radeon RX 6950XT | GeForce RTX 4090 |
| Picture |  | |  |  |
| Architecture | 5nm RDNA3 | 5nm RDNA3 | 7nm RDNA2 | 4nm Ada Lovelace |
| GPU | Navi 31 XTX | Navi 31 XT | Navi 21 KXTX | AD102-300 |
| FP32 Cores | 12288 | 10752 | 5120 | 16384 |
| Base Clock | 1.9 GHz | 1.5 GHz | 1.9 GHz | 2.2 GHz |
| Game Clock | 2.3 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 2.0 GHz | – |
| Boost Clock | 2.5 GHz | 2.4 GHz | 2.3 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Memory | 24GB G6 | 20GB G6 | 16GB G6 | 24GB G6X |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Speed | 20 Gbps | 20 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 21 Gbps |
| Large Cache | 96 MB | 80 MB | 128 MB | 72 MB |
| Bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 800 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 1008 GB/s |
| Board Power | 355W | 300W | 335W | 450W |
| MSRP | $999 | $899 | $1,099 | $1,599 |
| Launch Date | December 13th, 2022 | December 13th, 2022 | May 10th, 2022 | October 12th, 2022 |