'New' $550 RDNA 3 GPU, AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Review

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Video Index
00:00 - Welcome to Hardware Unboxed
00:36 - An Overview of the Radeon RX 7900GRE
01:35 - RX 7900GRE Specs
03:36 - Test System Specs
03:55 - Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
04:28 - Starfield
04:49 - The Last of Us Part I
05:09 - Dying Light 2: Stay Human
05:32 - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
05:56 - Alan Wake 2
06:22 - Resident Evil 4
06:52 - 1080p Average
07:17 - 1440p Average
07:37 - 4K Average
07:56 - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora [RT]
08:10 - Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered [RT]
08:31 - Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty [RT]
08:50 - Ray-Tracing Average [1440p]
09:10 - Cost Per Frame [1440p]
09:33 - Cost Per Frame [4K]
09:50 - Cost Per Frame [RT]
10:12 - GPU Hotspot Temperatures
11:02 - Memory Hotspot Temperatures
11:35 - VRM Temperatures
11:57 - Power Usage
12:35 - Final Thoughts

"New" $550 RDNA 3 GPU, AMD Radeon RX 7900GRE Review

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Outro music by David Vonk/DaJaVo

[NGreedia]

AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity

[adarion]

There were a pretty huge gap between 7800XT and 7900XT, thanks to 7900Gre that gap is ... still there...

[beachslap]

Crazy how poorly compute unit number can scale without a corresponding increase in cache, it's 4070 ti super 2.0 situation.

[fracturedlife]

Has Steve ever sounded more depressed?

[Althandan]

Here in Poland you can buy AsRock 7900xt for less than a 7900GRE and most 7900xt models for about 30-50$ more, so yeah, thats all folks

[EnKiDou]

Using reference model here was a big mistake. Other reviews used new partner models and show 10% and more uplift over 7800XT.

[wow_horac]

The Gamer's Nexus review had the GRE consistently 10 to 13% faster than the 7800xt in raster performance in their tests. I wonder if that's because of the difference in test bench. Gamer's Nexus used a 12700KF for their review.

[williamcrms]

Anybody know why the DF and Daniel Owen reviews don’t align much with this one? Their benchmark results were much more favorable.

[marufulislam]

I wish this level of competition existed between $300-$400 range. Both 4060 ti 8 gb & rx-7600 16 gb are awful for their price.

[nellybod]

Bit of a difference between the two Steve's I normally trust, G/Nexus finding a bigger gap between the 7800 +7900GRE. Either way I am not regretting my 7800XT purchase. On release week! But still think their results should be closer. Though the game suite is slightly different and I think GN tested a partner model at stock clocks?

[SwolePapi]

This generation continues to be extremely underwhelming

[ocha-time]

Just picked up a 6800XT on ebay for $300 plus ship. Looking at these charts, paying $250 plus tax for ...ten frames per second, I think I'll be sticking with the 6800XT. I still get hardware encoding with the last generation of AMD cards, that's good enough for me!

[mhh]

A modded version with 22gbps memory would be interesting just to see how hard AMD is trolling us.

[TheRealDlo]

Nvidia "Lets disappoint the fans with each release"
AMD "Hold my beer"

[nipa]

Should have called it the 7800XT Super.

[imo]

Just watched the Digital Foundry review of the GRE before this one. It was far generally a fair bit faster than the 7800XT and their cost per frame showed its the best value of the 7800XT, GRE, 4070 and 4070Super. By some margin making the 7800XT the worse option and the 4070 a near pointless option because it was that much faster in Raster and trades blows in RT besides the nvidia titles which it gets a bit of a big loss

Quite a big difference in results

Edit: Just watched through some of GN video, GRE matches the Super closely in Raster and is about halfway between the 7900XT and 7800XT

[LastGreyWolf]

This is really weird - I've watched both Steve (GN) and Digital Foundry reviews, and they report very different numbers. The card lacks in RT of course, but in pure rasterisation performace, it's way faster than 7800XT and it beats the 4070 Super most of the time. Now I wouldn't dare to bash the results of your testing, but since I consider you 3 the most accurate channels, and both have quite different results, I do wonder what caused it.

[afitzp]

Steve wtf? One of the only differences is the fact that partner models were released (reference is steve from HUB in beginning of this video). This is especially important for this card because of its low clock speed, (as explained by Steve from GamersNexus). Therefore, lets go ahead and test the exact same old model I already tested! Shockingly it is the same results!

*edit- i apologize for being so fiesty and sarcastic, this obviously wasnt the best way to ask this question. I only edited my bad punctuation from my original comment, not the words. My response to steve's comment on this thread is a more betterer worded rant.

[kacperjestfajny]

7900xt owner here
GRE does not make sense in term of branding
is GRE worse? Why not naming it just "7900" without XT?

In my opinion AMD should have 3 tiers:
GRE - "lite" version
"no-xt" - normal version
"xt" - fancy version
and then maybe "xtx" for the top of the top of the generation

[Drock]

I'd love to see a comparison of the Hellhound 7900 GRE overclocked vs the Hellhound 7800xt overclocked. Just to see what performance can be had for the $50 difference