AMD: Radeon 7900XTX ($999) & 7900XT($899) Announced | Available December 13th

[John Elden Ring]

7900 XTX - $999
7900 XT - $899

Both Available December 13th

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX & XT​

Today, AMD announced its first Radeon RX 7000 desktop cards, starting with the high-end 7900 series.

• Full Ray Tracing Support
• 1.4x times better than 6950 XT
• FSR 3.0 technology
• Multiple Games with FSR 3.0 support at launch
• Same size as RDNA 2 cards

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 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 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 company is sharing first performance claims in some popular titles:




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.

 

[Deleted member 13]

What the hell does "full ray-tracing support" even mean? Built-in separate RT cores like Nvidia? If they are just using the same streaming SMUs then it will end up being slower than the Nvidia boards yet again. They are also pushing the FSR so no AI cores.

 

[Sircaw]

that price is surely very good vs Nvidia's offerings.

And that 2.1 display port, how big of a deal is that?

@VFX_Veteran time to pay your bills with some answers pretty please.

 

[Papacheeks]

that price is surely very good vs Nvidia's offerings.

And that 2.1 display port, how big of a deal is that?

@VFX_Veteran time to pay your bills with some answers pretty please.

Yes it shits on it.

 

[Bryank75]

Want to see this tech in a PS5 Pro soon.....

Would be great for PSVR2 also.

 

[ethomaz]

So RDNA 2.0 never had full RT support

BTW FSR 3.0 is a paper launch… it will be released only in 2023.

And no performance comparison with RTX 4090.

 

[Darth Vader]

So RDNA 2.0 never had full RT support

BTW FSR 3.0 is a paper launch… it will be released only in 2023.

And no performance comparison with RTX 4090.

I still don't understand what "full RT support means". Even a Nintendo 64 can have ray tracing given enough time to render. There's no special hardware that magically creates ray tracing. There's of course dedicated hardware for ray tracing processing. VFX hit the nail in the head here.

What the hell does "full ray-tracing support" even mean? Built-in separate RT cores like Nvidia? If they are just using the same streaming SMUs then it will end up being slower than the Nvidia boards yet again. They are also pushing the FSR so no AI cores.

 

[ethomaz]

I still don't understand what "full RT support means". Even a Nintendo 64 can have ray tracing given enough time to render. There's no special hardware that magically creates ray tracing. There's of course dedicated hardware for ray tracing processing. VFX hit the nail in the head here.

Actually they have both parts of the silicon specific to AI and RT.

2 AI Accelerators units per CU.
1 Ray-tracing Accelerator unit per CU.

 

[Deleted member 13]

Actually they have both parts of the silicon specific to AI and RT.

2 AI Accelerators units per CU.
1 Ray-tracing Accelerator unit per CU.

Proof?

UPDATE: After surfing the web and looking at articles, it seems that AMD always had RT cores similar to Nvidia's RT cores. It's that AMD's RT was subpar performance-wise compared to Nvidia.

We see now that AMD has 96 RT accelerators compared to Nvidia's 128 RT.

It will be interesting to see whether AMD can stack up to Nvidia when it gets released 12/12.

 

[ethomaz]

Proof?

UPDATE: After surfing the web and looking at articles, it seems that AMD always had RT cores similar to Nvidia's RT cores. It's that AMD's RT was subpar performance-wise compared to Nvidia.

We see now that AMD has 96 RT accelerators compared to Nvidia's 128 RT.

It will be interesting to see whether AMD can stack up to Nvidia when it gets released 12/12.

AMD presentation yesterday they showed like what I said… including diagrams of the CU… I tried to find images but it is so low quality that it is better to watch the presentation.

Yes AMD always have 1x RT Accelerator per CU… that didn’t changed it just upgraded to Gen 2… the news now is that AMD added 2x AI Accelerators units per CU.

 

[thelastword]

So many rumors about high clocks for RDNA 3. It's nice AMD want to go conservative on power consumption, because let's be honest if AMD had a 450 watt TDP all Youtube tech click baiters would have a bevy of fire thumbnails in their videos...(AMD runs HOT HOT HOT)......They just can't deny the obvious going on now with Nvidia's fire hazard cards, yet even then, they are being coy about the whole thing, I see more praise about 4090's power. DLSS 3 has worse IQ than 2, no talk about that, the damn card is $1600 MSRP. Yet I'm sure they will say AMD can't match the 4090 at $999...

Anyways, I expect these cards to perform extremely well at their price points. 7900 XTX will beat 4090 in many games on pure raster. People forget the RX 6950 is beating the 3090ti in many games on pure raster. RT still belongs to NV because of more advanced hardware and production there. However, AMD should see a good boost this gen. It's only their second iteration for RT as opposed to Nvidia's third. 50% more RT instructions per CU sounds like a good step up tbh...FSR 3.0 should help their RT numbers as well, just like DLSS 3 for Nvidia.

 

[Darth Vader]

So many rumors about high clocks for RDNA 3. It's nice AMD want to go conservative on power consumption, because let's be honest if AMD had a 450 watt TDP all Youtube tech click baiters would have a bevy of fire thumbnails in their videos...(AMD runs HOT HOT HOT)......They just can't deny the obvious going on now with Nvidia's fire hazard cards, yet even then, they are being coy about the whole thing, I see more praise about 4090's power. DLSS 3 has worse IQ than 2, no talk about that, the damn card is $1600 MSRP. Yet I'm sure they will say AMD can't match the 4090 at $999...

It's like the same people that compare a $100 Android phone with a $1200 iPhone and then say iPhone's are much better than Android's

 

[Gediminas]

So many rumors about high clocks for RDNA 3. It's nice AMD want to go conservative on power consumption, because let's be honest if AMD had a 450 watt TDP all Youtube tech click baiters would have a bevy of fire thumbnails in their videos...(AMD runs HOT HOT HOT)......They just can't deny the obvious going on now with Nvidia's fire hazard cards, yet even then, they are being coy about the whole thing, I see more praise about 4090's power. DLSS 3 has worse IQ than 2, no talk about that, the damn card is $1600 MSRP. Yet I'm sure they will say AMD can't match the 4090 at $999...

Anyways, I expect these cards to perform extremely well at their price points. 7900 XTX will beat 4090 in many games on pure raster. People forget the RX 6950 is beating the 3090ti in many games on pure raster. RT still belongs to NV because of more advanced hardware and production there. However, AMD should see a good boost this gen. It's only their second iteration for RT as opposed to Nvidia's third. 50% more RT instructions per CU sounds like a good step up tbh...FSR 3.0 should help their RT numbers as well, just like DLSS 3 for Nvidia.

i don't get this either, people running to compare it to 4090..why? it is not like both cost the same.. one is nearly twice cheaper..

 

[thelastword]

It's like the same people that compare a $100 Android phone with a $1200 iPhone and then say iPhone's are much better than Android's

Yeah, funny enough, it happens all the time. NV's value per dollar is way out of pocket. The 6950 XT beats the 3090 ti in so many games on pure raster at currently less than 1/3rd of the price. Look at AMD's performance in the latest COD game, annihilates the 3090 ti, but people seldom bring up these victories and performance advantages of the red team.

i don't get this either, people running to compare it to 4090..why? it is not like both cost the same.. one is nearly twice cheaper..

Yet at that price it will be very close to the 4090 and will actually beat it in some games. Yet, I think the RT 7900 XTX is good enough to beat the 4090, especially if AMD allows higher clocks and a boost in TDP. RDNA 3 is said to be designed to reach over 3GHz, with such clock speeds and higher TDP similar to that of the 4090, a 3 GHZ 7900 XTX will even beat a 4090 ti. There's is little room for growth with the Ti from Nvidia imo. A TI will need lots more power and with the 4090 already having so many issues, people needing new PSU's, melting cables, even the issue of size, their GPU's not fitting in cases. You are looking at 600 TDP for a 4090 ti, that means the cooling necessary, the size of the card would be gargantuan, even over the 4090, the price however, well we all know. AMD is in a good position to stop the bleeding that gamers are going through, I think they were sandbagging a little bit at the conference, but more importantly they need lots of stock at launch, whilst gamers are fed up with Nvidia and it's price plus power issues. Hit them where it hurts.

 

[Deleted member 13]

Anyways, I expect these cards to perform extremely well at their price points. 7900 XTX will beat 4090 in many games on pure raster.

Don't call victory yet.

It's only their second iteration for RT as opposed to Nvidia's third.

Nvidia had 2 iterations just like AMD. 3x000 series and 4x000 series. I don't declare 2x000 series boards as an iteration as they don't have RT cores.

50% more RT instructions per CU sounds like a good step up tbh...FSR 3.0 should help their RT numbers as well, just like DLSS 3 for Nvidia.

FSR 3.0 probably still won't be as good as DLSS 3

 

[Papacheeks]

So many rumors about high clocks for RDNA 3. It's nice AMD want to go conservative on power consumption, because let's be honest if AMD had a 450 watt TDP all Youtube tech click baiters would have a bevy of fire thumbnails in their videos...(AMD runs HOT HOT HOT)......They just can't deny the obvious going on now with Nvidia's fire hazard cards, yet even then, they are being coy about the whole thing, I see more praise about 4090's power. DLSS 3 has worse IQ than 2, no talk about that, the damn card is $1600 MSRP. Yet I'm sure they will say AMD can't match the 4090 at $999...

Anyways, I expect these cards to perform extremely well at their price points. 7900 XTX will beat 4090 in many games on pure raster. People forget the RX 6950 is beating the 3090ti in many games on pure raster. RT still belongs to NV because of more advanced hardware and production there. However, AMD should see a good boost this gen. It's only their second iteration for RT as opposed to Nvidia's third. 50% more RT instructions per CU sounds like a good step up tbh...FSR 3.0 should help their RT numbers as well, just like DLSS 3 for Nvidia.

AMD cleared up confusion on PC World's interview, 7900xtx is a 4080 competitor not a 4090. He said they are not interested in competing with 4090. Because of power consumption.

They may make a 7950xt/xtx down the line on a refresh.

 

[thelastword]

Don't call victory yet.


Nvidia had 2 iterations just like AMD. 3x000 series and 4x000 series. I don't declare 2x000 series boards as an iteration as they don't have RT cores.


FSR 3.0 probably still won't be as good as DLSS 3

Not victory, but the different architecture will win in quite a few games. If you look at AMD's purported percentage increase over the 6950XT, you will see the 7900XT will beat the 4090 in a few games, the 4090 also beats it in a few as well Watch Dogs etc...So even as an 4080 competitor, it seems it's close to the 4090 than the 4080 in performance, and that's with conservative clocks too.

The 2000 series, the 3000 series and now the 4000 series is now 3 generation of NVidia cards with RT. AMD only has RDNA 2 and now RDNA 3 with RT.

FSR 2.2 is already improved over 2.0....All the artifacts and ghosting DF and Hardware Unboxed has spoken of has been addressed. What I want to hear more about from the tech youtubers is the worse IQ of DLSS 3 over DLSS 2.3, the frame injection seems to bring with it lots of artifacting not seen with 2.3...The only upside is the improved framerates at the expense of IQ.

AMD cleared up confusion on PC World's interview, 7900xtx is a 4080 competitor not a 4090. He said they are not interested in competing with 4090. Because of power consumption.

They may make a 7950xt/xtx down the line on a refresh.

Yes, a 7950 XTX is definitely coming with probably the 3Ghz target in that AMD slide. I guess for that one no holds barred on TDP.

 

[Deleted member 13]

The 2000 series, the 3000 series and now the 4000 series is now 3 generation of NVidia cards with RT. AMD only has RDNA 2 and now RDNA 3 with RT.

I stand corrected. I don't know why I thought the 2x000 series boards didn't have RT.

 

[anonpuffs]

Benchmarks are out, the cards are trash

 

[Papacheeks]

Benchmarks are out, the cards are trash

I would not say trash seems inconsistent. I wonder if Igor's lab rumor was right. I bet the refresh tapping will be much better so ill wait a little longer.