Benchmark and Review of the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 GRE

Another GPU, another Review! This time with the AMD 7900 GRE Sapphire Nitro +

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Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk

Edited by Autumn

[wyatt]

its always a great morning when Wendell ends up on my feed!

[prem]

This thing is slight faster than a 6950 XT in raster, much faster in RT, and has AI cores for half the price! I would say this is really good.

[dangingerich]

That RGB header is actually to allow control of the GPU RGB FROM the motherboard or other RGB controller, not vice versa. I learned this the hard way. I have two Sapphire Nitro cards, and the first one I bought was because I thought it was the reverse, and my motherboard at the time did not have RGB. Imagine my annoyance.

[philondez]

I really like that extra four pin to control a case fan, sounds like a super handy feature

[_Green]

That's the card I wanted to get but was out of stock. Ended up getting Powercolor fighter version instead.
On the plus-side, the fighter only just managed to fit in my NXZT H440 and I doubt many, if any other 7900gre would fit. Beast of a card for the price.

[zeekree]

thanks for the review Wendell, been thinking upgrading from rx 5600xt to this card

[RFC]

9:18 - It's probably not the total amount of VRAM, it's the bandwidth. You'll generally see a drop in performance due to total amount of VRAM when enabling high(est)-res textures, regardless of screen resolution. When you see a big drop in performance due to increased _screen_ resolution, it's generally due to memory bandwidth.

Rendering a game at 4k doesn't actually need a lot more VRAM (the total amount of VRAM depends mainly on the size and amount of models and textures loaded, which, if you max out the settings, is going to be nearly identical at 1080 or 4k). But running at 4k _does_ require moving 4x more data to composite each frame, so bandwidth becomes a big issue.

[ericthedesigner]

Listening to Wendell chat to us is the best! I love everything this guy talks about. I could listen to Wendell reading instruction manuals!

[TrueThanny]

The only thing that TriXX Boost does is create custom resolutions and make them visible to games. You just set that custom resolution in the game, and either your monitor or GPU scales the output up to the native resolution. It's literally just running at a lower resolution, with more options for what that lower resolution is.

Any game which hard-codes a specific list of resolutions and filters them by capability, rather than querying the system for supported resolutions, will not work, unless you can manually force the resolution in question.

The real benefit comes with using RSR in combination with TriXX Boost. If you enable RSR, that will scale the game's output resolution instead of standard GPU scaling (which is just Lanczos on AMD) or the monitor. TriXX Boost just gives you more granularity in choosing the render resolution.

Using built-in FSR will provide better quality in pretty much all cases.

[fuzzylumpkins]

I recently phased out our youngest child's 5700xt for a 7700xt (£370) and I was looking at the 7800xt to replace my 6750XT but landed on the RX 7900 GRE at £520.
The 5700xt sold for £170 and the 6750xt sold for £300 so respectively we were out £200 for the 7700xt and £220 for the GRE. No complaints. I did have to upgrade cooling for both so savings are relative when cooling upgrades came to £200 for both rigs total including a psu upgrade for padding. Not enough money was recouped on the old cooling systems and psu to qualify them in savings.

We game on these rigs. Just game. No dlss/rt (that mostly is not even supported in most of our games) for us. Also we weren't interested in over paying for horrific price for performance.


Cheers for this. I need to figure out how much of the Pure I will need to gut to get that lame plastic red logo off so the build is just white. Not white with a pimple of a choice on a white card.

[Nobe_Oddy]

Could you PLEASE do a small video on OVERCLOCKING THIS CARD??? This is the card I have been eye'ing up and I REALLY want to know how well it does in the OC side of things.. I've seen only 1 other video OC'ing the GRE and it was the Hellhound card that was sent to all the reviewers.. which is the one I DO NOT want lol
and with the AWESOME THINGS I'm guessing NO ONE KNEW ABOUT (except people that already bought it) like the FAN and RGB headers, the TriXX software, and even DUAL HDMI you REALLY SOLD ME ON THIS BEAUTY!!!! I just don't know if I should wait for the 8000 series to come out... I don't THINK this would be considered their 'high-end' card (maybe they call it their TOP 'mid-range' card 🤷‍♂) and I don't know if they will make this into a Monolithic die 8700 GRE .... OR will they keep it just like it is along with the 7900 XT & XTX (there will NOT be new versions of these cards from what I understand) - I just want to know if it REALLY IS this amazing 'all around' card for only 6 bills like I think it is...
So do you think you might be able to do a short video on overclocking this card??? MAYBE you could compare the overclocking to the other GRE's you have 🤷‍♂ (and yes, I TOTALLY understand the silicon lottery and your results may not be anything like mine would be... I just want to get an idea of what to expect.... because the Hellhoud I saw overclocked REALLY IMPROVED RAY TRACING by a DECENT BIT, competing with 4070 Ti in Cyberpunk...
okay I'll for now :)
THANKS WENDELL!!! :D

[Wurstbrot]

Good review. I'm personally interested in 7900 GRE model from Powercolor. Still a little hesitant because I also use Blender for rendering as a hobby and there the Nvidia cards are way ahead thanks to Optix. But Nvidia cards have become so expensive and have only sad 12GB of VRAM for a similar price... And since I use Pop!_OS now, I probably should go with AMD for the open source drivers.

[KRAVER_]

"The entire Internet runs open source, get with the program" well said Wendell

[LRK-GT]

I had read that AMD re-enabled access to the OverDrive API on Navi 3x, in Linux. Any chance we might get an OCing-in-Linux guide?
These GREs seem like a good 'budget option' for indie AI 'stuff', afterall.

[Amp_Edition]

I have this card but the 7900xtx version, one of the best looking cards and the absolute best built card iv ever had. I guess they cheaped out on either pads or design of the cooler on the gre because my hot spot never goes over 65-70c @ 50% fan speed.

[dirkjewitt]

I really wanted the Red Devil but ended up with the Asus 7900XTX OC edition. The Saphire Nitro+ also caught my eye.

[bryantallen]

Add 10%-15% on top off that with the VRAM OC.

[BrunodeSouzaLino]

While this doesn't apply to the NITRO+ version of this card, the PULSE version of the GRE is longer than the XTX. The XTX is 310mm long while the GRE is 320mm long, which is the same length as the NITRO+ version and makes it also longer than the PULSE 7900 XT, which is 313mm.

[dmug]

Yeah Apple left all Mac Pro 2019 owners in the lurch as they haven’t released any 7000 series GPU drivers. As far as uefi bios, macOS isn’t very picky when it comes to not-thunderbolt.

Only bios that screw with macOS are modified for mining, oc bios are fine.

[lvutodeath]

Please, can you add benchmark for "open sourced" LLMs. How many token/seconds.
One can only dream😅