Yesterday, AMD announced its flagship graphics card, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which uses the RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU architecture.
The company allowed media at the venue to get a close-up look at the card and GPU die, and both turned out very well.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card has a beautiful reference design while the RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU looks powerful.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is an elegant graphics card with triple features.
- Not as big as NVIDIA 4090 Founders Edition
- It does not use a 16 pin connector like NVIDIA 4090 Founders Edition
- Unlike the NVIDIA 4090 Founders Edition, it uses an industry standard triple fan cooler
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card has a great design from top to bottom.
The card uses a 2.5-slot form factor and a triple fan design that fits in a length of 287mm.
This is much smaller than the over 300mm design adopted by the NVIDIA RTX 4090.
The card also uses dual industry-standard 8-pin connectors rather than relying on newer standards like the 16-pin connector that NVIDIA uses on its RTX 40 series graphics cards.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Graphics Card Image Gallery (Source: QuasarZone):
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The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a very futuristic shroud design and looks absolutely stunning.
There are two RGB accent bars on the front around the central fan, and two metallic frames in the middle as well.
There is a “Radeon” logo on the side, which should also be lit by RGB LEDs.
Looking at the side of the card, you can see that it is much longer than the previous flagship model “RDNA 2”.
The Radeon RX 7000 series has an increased heat sink area and a distinctive design with three red stripes.
The sides also have more room for air to pass through.
This graphics card used an improved vapor chamber cooling design.
On the back of the card is a stunning full-length PCB with display outputs including DP 2.1 x 2, HDMI 2.1 x 1 and a USB Type-C Connect port.
There are early engineering variants with miniDP ports that were also seen during the event, but not in time for the final release.
The overall look of the black coated heatsink stack and fully enclosed shroud is absolutely stunning.
The Radeon RX 7900 XT uses a slightly modified two-slot design of this cooler.
Tomshardware’s Jarred Walton revealed in a chat with PCWorld’s Gordon that AMD itself has said that the RDNA 3 architecture is designed to scale up to 3GHz.
Each fan also contains a thermistor, located in the fan mount, reports GamersNexus, which can be seen on the small green PCB.
The thermistor senses the ambient temperature, and since the card will always be inside the PC chassis, you can read the correct case temperature from there, probably also very convenient and allows for better performance cooling down be
AMD RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU Photo Gallery (Source: QuasarZone):
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What can I say about the GPU itself? This is the first gaming GPU with Chiplet architecture using TSMC’s 5nm and 6nm nodes.
The 5nm node is used for GCD (Graphics Core Die) and the 6nm node for MCD (Memory Controller Die).
The entire chip is offered in BGA form, making it a powerful product that delivers significant improvements in performance and power efficiency.
Announcing AMD Radeon RX 7900 “RDNA 3” Graphics Cards.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB and Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB graphics cards will be available on December 13th for US$999 and US$899 respectively.
The card will be launched in reference and custom versions, some of which have already been revealed here.
Some chip images… pic.twitter.com/4gAJuCMeaL
— Anshel Sag (@anshelsag) November 3, 2022
Directly look at AMD’s new Rx 7900 xtx, the price is $999 and $899 for Rx 7900 xt did not expect that! Also power draw is 355w and 300w respectively! What do you guys think of the new Gpus?? pic.twitter.com/LslcEOk5Ak
— Nay.Tesseract (@brittnaynay3) November 3, 2022
What do you think of the design? pic.twitter.com/JYW6xxZVn3
— Brian Stroh (@BPSCustoms) November 4, 2022
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX/XT “Official” Specifications:
Description: wccftech – AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Graphics Card & RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU Gets Beautiful Close Up Shots
Commentary:
Stately appearance of 7900XTX
A picture of the RX7900XTX, a reassuring ally for those in trouble, has leaked a picture of the RX7900XTX.
Performance is as reported.
Delivers up to 1.7x the 4K gaming performance of the RX6950XT.
Compared to the RTX4090 in 3DMark (virtual score), it is slightly lower, but on the other hand, the price is 2/3 and the power consumption is -95W, making it an ultimate product easy to use.
I think the point of RDNA3 is “ease of manipulation”.
When the 12VHPWR problem is solved, AMD can also increase the power consumption and attack.
It has become clear that the problem with the RTX4090 is a defect in the conversion cable, so it can be adopted from the RX7950XTX with 3D V-Cache at the earliest.
In that case, there is a possibility of explosive performance increase with clock up + V-Cache 3D installed.
The performance might improve so much that you wouldn’t expect it to be a SUPER refresh (minor change after 1 year after release).
In any case, AMD still has some cards that may expire.
I don’t know if I will actually cut that card.
However, I think that having breakable cards in your hand is a good condition that has never been seen before.
After that, if you put effort into machine learning, rendering and encoding, there is nothing more to say.
AMD’s series of Radeon GPUs
Radeon RX 6X50 series
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Radeon RX 6000 series
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