Thursday, February 1st 2024
PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC Lined up for Possible EU Wide Release
It seems that AMD and its board partners are continuing to rollout new custom graphics cards based on the formerly China market exclusive Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB GPU—PowerColor unleashed its fiendish flagship Red Devil model as one of last September's launch options. Their Chinese website has been updated with another Navi 31 XL entry—Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC. This design sits below the Red Devil in the company's graphics card product and pricing hierarchy; providing excellent cooling performance with fewer frills. The latest custom RX 7900 GRE card borrows PowerColor's existing demonic dog design from the mid-tier Hellhound RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT models. The Hellhound enclosure deployed on Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT GPUs is a much chunkier affair.
The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC has also popped up on a couple of UK and mainland Europe price comparison engines (published 2024-01-30), so it possible that a very limited release could occur across a small smattering of countries and retail channels—Proshop Denmark seems to be the first place with cards in stock, pricing is €629.90 (~$682) at the time of writing. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) GPU sits in an awkward spot between the fancier Navi 31 options, and Navi 32 siblings—AMD and its AIB partners have reduced MSRPs in Europe, possibly in reaction to the recent launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series. We are not sure if this initiative has boosted the RX 7900 GRE's popularity in this region, since very few outlets actually offer the (XFX-produced) reference model or Sapphire's Pulse custom design.Proshop.de details: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Overclocked (Core clock 1500 MHz / Boost clock 2355 MHz), 5120 stream cores, 16 GB GDDR6 (Memory clock 18 GHz) - 256-bit, PCI-Express 4.0 x16, 3x DisplayPort 2.1 / 1x HDMI 2.1 connections, supports AMD FreeSync, supports Adaptive Sync, 2 x 8-pin power connector, recommended power supply: 750 watts, short length: 322 mm, PCI port width: 2.5 slots, PowerColor Triple Fan low noise cooler - with zero fan mode RPM (at low temperature), with Amethyst LED.Model number: RX7900GRE 16G-L/OC.
The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC has also popped up on a couple of UK and mainland Europe price comparison engines (published 2024-01-30), so it possible that a very limited release could occur across a small smattering of countries and retail channels—Proshop Denmark seems to be the first place with cards in stock, pricing is €629.90 (~$682) at the time of writing. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) GPU sits in an awkward spot between the fancier Navi 31 options, and Navi 32 siblings—AMD and its AIB partners have reduced MSRPs in Europe, possibly in reaction to the recent launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series. We are not sure if this initiative has boosted the RX 7900 GRE's popularity in this region, since very few outlets actually offer the (XFX-produced) reference model or Sapphire's Pulse custom design.Proshop.de details: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Overclocked (Core clock 1500 MHz / Boost clock 2355 MHz), 5120 stream cores, 16 GB GDDR6 (Memory clock 18 GHz) - 256-bit, PCI-Express 4.0 x16, 3x DisplayPort 2.1 / 1x HDMI 2.1 connections, supports AMD FreeSync, supports Adaptive Sync, 2 x 8-pin power connector, recommended power supply: 750 watts, short length: 322 mm, PCI port width: 2.5 slots, PowerColor Triple Fan low noise cooler - with zero fan mode RPM (at low temperature), with Amethyst LED.Model number: RX7900GRE 16G-L/OC.