AMD officially announced their next-generation Radeon RX GPUs today. After months of rumors and teasing from AMD, the Radeon RX 7000 is officially here.
As part of the “together we Advance_gaming” event, AMD announced the first two GPUs of the Radeon RX 7000 family, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT. As previously announced by AMD, the RX 7000 series uses the company’s new RDNA 3 graphics architecture.
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX features 24GB of GDDR6 memory, 350 Watts of board power, 96 unified RDNA 3 compute units and a 2.3Ghz gaming clock, making it the largest ever over AMD’s previous flagship, the Radeon RX 6950. It promises to be 1.7x faster. XT for gaming at 4K resolution. In comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has 84 unified RDNA 3 compute units, a 2Ghz game clock, and 20GB of GDDR6 memory.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT GPUs from AMD.
AMD also confirmed that both GPUs have two 8-pin connectors. This means that the 12VHPWR power connector found on the RTX 4090 graphics card is not used. Recently, the power connector used in Nvidia’s new GPUs has sparked controversy. A few owner of Nvidia’s new flagship graphics cards report burning or melting power connectors.
In an interesting move, AMD announced that both the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT will include DisplayPort 2.1. These GPUs are meant to support higher refresh rates at 4K and 8K resolutions. For context, Nvidia’s new RTX 40 series GPUs use DisplayPort 1.4.
AMD’s new graphical architecture, RDNA 3, the successor to RDNA 2, promises 61 teraflops (38 teraflops more than RDNA 2), 24GB of GDDR6 memory, and the tech giant has dubbed it the “world’s most advanced gaming Graphics” is advertised.
Both the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT will be available on December 13th.
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