AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE targets price-reduced RTX 4070 non-SUPER
The Golden Rabbit Edition officially launches on February 27th.
AMD RX 7900 GRE will no longer be limited to the Chinese DIY market. The company has decided to bring its cheaper Navi 31-based on model to compete with RTX 4070 on a global market. The new launch date is confirmed through slides that we obtained recently.
The RX 7900 GRE is advertised as a capable desktop GPU for high FPS at 2560×1440 gaming. It offers Navi 31 XL GPU with 80 Compute Units (5120 Stream Processors) and 16GB GDDR6 memory. AMD is promoting its new card with recently launched HYPR-RX technology, which enables frame generation as well as upscaling technology on a driver level.
Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Source: AMD
Officially, the RX 7900 GRE will target GeForce RTX 4070 non-SUPER, which received a $50 price cut to $549 last month when NVIDIA brought their SUPER variant to the market. The AMD card has more memory and should perform 1% to 32% faster across all listed games, claims the company. On average, it should deliver 14% more FPS per dollar, as both cards are priced at the same level.
GeForce RTX 4070 vs. Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Source: AMD
AMD announced that the GRE SKU will launch at a $100 lower price than what was announced in August. At the time, the model was exclusively available only in China, which is why the card this called GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition celebrating the Chinese Year of the Rabbit). However, the SKU was never limited to China, and it was easily available through system integrators, OEMs, and retailers who were selling those cards individually as well.
Now AMD is making a formal launch globally and there are more custom variants coming. We have recently shared the pictures of some of these cards:
Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Source: VideoCardz
The RX 7900 GRE will slide between RX 7900 XT and 7800 XT in the AMD desktop RDNA3 lineup, both models currently retail at $699 and $489 (lowest prices on the US market) respectively. The RX 7900 GRE’s biggest weakness is limited 260W board power, a known bottleneck that puts it closer to the RX 7800XT despite featuring over 33% more cores.
| AMD Radeon RX 7000 Specifications | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | RX 7900 XT | RX 7900 GRE | RX 7800 XT |
| Picture |  | |  |
| Architecture | RDNA3 (TSMC N6) | RDNA3 (TSMC N6) | RDNA3 (TSMC N6) |
| GPU | Navi 31 XT | Navi 31 XL | Navi 32 XT |
| GPU Clusters | 84 CUs | 80 CUs | 60 CUs |
| Stream Processors | 5376 | 5120 | 3840 |
| Boost Clock | 2.4 GHz | 2.2 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Memory | 20GB G6 | 16GB G6 | 16GB G6 |
| Memory Bus | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Speed | 20 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 800 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 624 GB/s |
| Board Power | 315W | 260W | 263W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| PCIe Interface | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 |
| MSRP | $749 | $549 | $499 |
| Launch Date | December 13, 2022 | July 28, 2023 (China) February 27, 2024 (Global) | September 6, 2023 |