AMD RX 7900 reviews a day early
The RDNA3 review embargo date has been confirmed.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs. RTX 4080, Source: HardareLuxx
According to HardwareLuxx , the results of Radeon 7900 GPUs performance evaluation will be shared on December 12th. This is a day before official launch, which is indeed great news. This allows everyone to familiarize themselves with AMD’s new architecture before preorders or sales go live, as opposed to everything going live at the same time.
It is said that this review embargo covers both SKUs: 7900 XTX and 7900 XT, but reviews and availability of board partner design remain a mystery. As we mentioned yesterday , only one media outlet has thus far confirmed to have a custom Radeon 7900 GPU.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 Review Embargo, Source: HardwareLuxx (translated)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 series are based on Navi 31 GPU with up to 6144 Stream Processors and 24GB of GDDR6 memory. According to official information, the high-end RDNA3 series are to compete with NVIDIA’s latest RTX 4080 GPU.
AMD cards have much smaller physical footprint, require less power and use standard 8-pin power connectors, but more importantly they are said to cost less. The only questions left are: how do they perform and how easy will it be to buy one.
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 Specifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 7900 XT | Radeon RX 6950XT | GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce RTX 4080 |
| Picture |  | |  |  | |
| Architecture | RDNA3 (TSMC N5) | RDNA3 (TSMC N5) | RDNA2 (TSMC N7) | Ada (TSMC 4N) | Ada (TSMC 4N) |
| GPU | Navi 31 XTX | Navi 31 XT | Navi 21 KXTX | AD102-300 | AD103-300 |
| GPU Clusters | 96 CUs | 84 CUs | 80 CUs | 128 SMs | 76 SMs |
| FP32 Cores | 12288/6144SP | 10752/5376SP | 5120SP | 16384 | 9728 |
| Base Clock | 1.9 GHz | 1.5 GHz | 1.9 GHz | 2.2 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 | 2.5 GHz |
| Memory | 24GB G6 | 20GB G6 | 16GB G6 | 24GB G6X | 16GB G6X |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Speed | 20 Gbps | 20 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 21 Gbps | 22.4 Gbps |
| Large Cache | 96 MB | 80 MB | 128 MB | 72 MB | 64 MB |
| Bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 800 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 1008 GB/s | 717 GB/s |
| Board Power | 355W | 300W | 335W | 450W | 320W |
| Power Connectors | 2 × 8-pin | 2 × 8-pin | 2 × 8-pin | 1 × 16-pin | 1 × 16-pin |
| PCIe Interface | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 |
| MSRP | $999 | $899 | $1,099 | $1,599 | $1,199 |
| Launch Date | December 13th, 2022 | December 13th, 2022 | May 10th, 2022 | October 12th, 2022 | November 16th, 2022 |
Source: HardwareLuxx