The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT are here, and it could give Nvidia real reason to worry.
Announced at AMD’s Together We Advance_Gaming event on Thursday in Las Vegas, the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT are Team Red’s opening salvo in the renewed graphics battle with Nvidia following Nvidia’s release of the RTX 4090 and the imminent release of the RTX 4080.
AMD’s new graphics cards, meanwhile, will go on sale on December 13, 2022, starting at $999 (about £900 / AU$1,560) for the RX 7900 XTX and $899 (about £800 / AU$1,425) for the RX 7900 XT . This is significantly less than the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, although third-party RX cards will likely be more expensive.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Specifications Revealed
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The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will feature 24 GB GDDR6, while the RX 7900 XT will feature 20 GB GDDR6. In addition, both cards will support the latest DisplayPort 2.1 standard, which is a major advantage over Nvidia’s latest cards, which only support DisplayPort 1.4.
The RX 7900 XTX has a game clock speed of 2.3 GHz and a 384-bit GDDR6 memory. It will have 96 compute units (CUs), with second-generation jet accelerators, as well as AI accelerators. The RX 7900 XT, meanwhile, has a 2GHz game clock, 320-bit GDDR6 memory, and 84 CUs.
When it comes to power consumption, the RX 7900 XTX has a total board power of only 355 W, while the RX 7900 XT only requires 300 W. Both cards use two 8-pin power connectors and support the PCIe 4.0 interface standard.
Not yet an RX 7800 XT
Missing from the announcement was either the RX 7800 XT or the RX 7700 XT, but it’s likely to arrive sometime early next year. Given the price of the RX 7900 XT, we’re definitely looking forward to where the RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT end up on the price scale.
Nvidia has led upward pricing for generations, so we love that AMD is keeping things more budget-friendly and we think it could be a key differentiator in the coming years.
When we’ll see these cards is anyone’s guess, but with CES 2023 just around the corner, we don’t think it will be too much longer.