Tuesday, November 15th 2022
AMD Confirms Radeon RX 7900 Series Clocks, Direct Competition with RTX 4080
AMD in its technical presentation confirmed the reference clock speeds of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT RDNA3 graphics cards. The company also made its first reference to a GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" product, the RTX 4080 (16 GB), which is going to launch later today. The RX 7900 XTX maxes out the "Navi 31" silicon, featuring all 96 RDNA3 compute units or 6,144 stream processors; while the RX 7900 XT is configured with 84 compute units, or 5,376 stream processors. The two cards also differ with memory configuration. While the RX 7900 XTX gets 24 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 across a 384-bit memory interface (960 GB/s); the RX 7900 XT gets 20 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 across 320-bit (800 GB/s).
The RX 7900 XTX comes with a Game Clocks frequency of 2300 MHz, and 2500 MHz boost clocks, whereas the RX 7900 XT comes with 2000 MHz Game Clocks, and 2400 MHz boost clocks. The Game Clocks frequency is more relevant between the two. AMD achieves 20 GB memory on the RX 7900 XT by using ten 16 Gbit GDDR6 memory chips across a 320-bit wide memory bus created by disabling one of the six 64-bit MCDs, which also subtracts 16 MB from the GPU's 96 MB Infinity Cache memory, leaving the RX 7900 XT with 80 MB of it. The slide describing the specs of the two cards compares them to the GeForce RTX 4080, which is what the two could compete more against, especially given their pricing. The RX 7900 XTX is 16% cheaper than the RTX 4080, and the RX 7900 XT is 25% cheaper.
The RX 7900 XTX comes with a Game Clocks frequency of 2300 MHz, and 2500 MHz boost clocks, whereas the RX 7900 XT comes with 2000 MHz Game Clocks, and 2400 MHz boost clocks. The Game Clocks frequency is more relevant between the two. AMD achieves 20 GB memory on the RX 7900 XT by using ten 16 Gbit GDDR6 memory chips across a 320-bit wide memory bus created by disabling one of the six 64-bit MCDs, which also subtracts 16 MB from the GPU's 96 MB Infinity Cache memory, leaving the RX 7900 XT with 80 MB of it. The slide describing the specs of the two cards compares them to the GeForce RTX 4080, which is what the two could compete more against, especially given their pricing. The RX 7900 XTX is 16% cheaper than the RTX 4080, and the RX 7900 XT is 25% cheaper.
166 Comments on AMD Confirms Radeon RX 7900 Series Clocks, Direct Competition with RTX 4080
Stop looking for differences where there are none - we have two GPU makers, both operating in the same market, under the same principles. Don't like their products or prices? Don't buy. Read a book, go outside, play a mobile game... the possibilities are endless.
AMD actually released 3 revisions of 6900XT, each maybe 6 months apart, and it was fine to you.
Looks like your opinions are rather very biased
I know, I'm guilty as charged, as I had no need to swap my 2070 for a 6750 XT, but I was curious. I also bought a 6500 XT out of curiosity and I was quite happy with it. I honestly don't know why people hate this card. A lot of our needs aren't actually needs - we just believe what we're being told. We believe that we need 144 Hz, that we need raytracing, that DLSS makes things better (even though we know it doesn't). I still remember the days when we played Doom 95 on a 14" CRT monitor at 30 FPS, and we had fun... fun that we're not necessarily having nowadays because we're too focused on FPS numbers and benchmarks instead of enjoying the game. I haven't been as excited as I was when I managed to run Half-Life on my Pentium 2 with software rendering (I didn't have a 3D card at that time). Nowadays, we're shoveling money into rich pockets and expect stuff to just work with no excitement. How did we get here? When did we first sit on the hype train to want the best of the best instead of just having fun with what we have?
Oops, sorry for the off. :D
OP No contest, because there's no contest, AMD hasn't yet released their kraken, I await reviews.
The 3090 Ti isn't a revised version of the 3090 - it's a totally different product. Yet, that didn't stop Nvidia from marketing the 3090 as the best of the best, even though they were deliberately planning on releasing something better later. That's not a revision. That's planning. You may not feel it in the final product, but you feel it in the communication towards you, the customer.
As an analogy, when you walk into a grocery store, you don't only pay for potatoes - you also pay for the service. The cashier smiling at you may not increase the value of your bag of potatoes, but it does affect your shopping experience.
Oh well, I don't think your opinion hold any value to others, much less to these multi billions dollars company, have fun giving your opinions though. Actual enthusiasts will buy the best performing products, not the one with the best specs.
Just one question: what is an "actual enthusiast"? (whatever it is, it sounds kind of snobby) :roll:
And pretty radical about it, it would seem. It's one category or the other. There seems to be no place in your mind for listening to arguments from both sides and decide on merit. Instead, you've just ruled against Nvidia and that is authoritative, because you play games, whereas I don't.
Please don't confuse the fact that I know what my opinion is and that I'm willing and able to argue for it with it being a simplistic pre-judgement or that I haven't listened to arguments from however many sides there may be. If you look back at what's been written here, you might spot that I'm responding directly to most of your arguments. Consistently. I've considered them, and found them weak and wanting, and thus they don't affect my opinion further.
I've also literally never said that my opinion is authoritative. I'm arguing for it. I'm not dismissing the opinions of others, I'm arguing against them. The difference between a dismissal (like "go do something else then", "don't buy, then") and an actual counterargument is pretty crucial here.
I think real mindshare comes from track record and consistency. Nvidia is still consistent, even if its consistently not my cup of tea since a few generations. But they release gen-to-gen samey stacks with samey principles and price structure. You know what's coming. AMD has none of that consistency since Fury X, and RDNA3 is going to have to prove if its going to be consistent to RDNA1. We haven't got a full stack just yet.
The mindshare required to purchase from a new brand is 'trust'. People talking in favor of a company is just people trying to build trust for themselves, looking for the group consensus. Most people are cowards. They follow. Its the reason everyone is still on Whatsapp while Signal is much better. FTFY. Note the full stop there. You should really stop trying to define your thought processes as common sense. Its all good, you do you, but that's where it ends. You keep speaking for a group as if there is one 'like yourself', its hilarious to see the quest for confirmation honestly.
6950Xt released may 10th 2022.
Your talking balls Pal.
I keep my good old faithful 970GTX and play whatever free game EPIC, STEAM or so send me. Many good "old" but new to me titles are still keeping me busy very happily.
You can say that NV\AMD business practice left me no choice or shoved me in that direction and maybe it is true, but in the end they don't see my money and that what's count.
I don't see any productive way to make a change except make the call not to upgrade or to propone it as much as you can. And that practice is DOA because most people don't have the patience to wait- gaming is filling a very important need to them.
I know that and I know that trying to change that very human nature is to battle windmills. It is their escapism and aiming at a long range goal, while sacrificing today, is not a possibility.
Unless united under a very strong symbol, and no such symbol is around, the change will not come from forums like this or from YouTube channels.
Only fierce competition will help.
A fun fact: Just yesterday I ordered my next system that I've been working on for the past 2 years, mainly by waiting for the right parts for me to become. A nice video editing machine based on 13900k and 64GB DDR5 that will replace my current "dirt sheep" i5-2400 with 16GB DDR3 (I managed to skipped ddr4 and pcie4 altogether, yey). The 970GTX will stay for the time being, until a suitable canidae will show itself, hopefully in 2023 but I'm in no hurry.
Ever since Covid, I've been buying a lot more hardware than I need, but I'm going to challenge myself now, and try to stay with the 7700X + 32 GB + 6750 XT as long as I can. "More hardware is better than new hardware" has been my motto, but my PC room is full of unused stuff, so it'll have to stop now.