AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX/XT reviews go live on December 12th, a day before launch

AMD RX 7900 reviews a day early

The RDNA3 review embargo date has been confirmed.

Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs. RTX 4080, Source: HardareLuxx

According to HardwareLuxx, the results of Radeon 7900 GPUs performance evaluation will be shared on December 12th. This is a day before official launch, which is indeed great news. This allows everyone to familiarize themselves with AMD’s new architecture before preorders or sales go live, as opposed to everything going live at the same time.

It is said that this review embargo covers both SKUs: 7900 XTX and 7900 XT, but reviews and availability of board partner design remain a mystery. As we mentioned yesterday, only one media outlet has thus far confirmed to have a custom Radeon 7900 GPU.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Review Embargo, Source: HardwareLuxx (translated)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 series are based on Navi 31 GPU with up to 6144 Stream Processors and 24GB of GDDR6 memory. According to official information, the high-end RDNA3 series are to compete with NVIDIA’s latest RTX 4080 GPU.

AMD cards have much smaller physical footprint, require less power and use standard 8-pin power connectors, but more importantly they are said to cost less. The only questions left are: how do they perform and how easy will it be to buy one.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Specifications
VideoCardz.com	Radeon RX 7900 XTX	Radeon RX 7900 XT	Radeon RX 6950XT	GeForce RTX 4090	GeForce RTX 4080
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Architecture	RDNA3 (TSMC N5)	RDNA3 (TSMC N5)	RDNA2 (TSMC N7)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)
GPU	Navi 31 XTX	Navi 31 XT	Navi 21 KXTX	AD102-300	AD103-300
GPU Clusters	96 CUs	84 CUs	80 CUs	128 SMs	76 SMs
FP32 Cores	12288/6144SP	10752/5376SP	5120SP	16384	9728
Base Clock	1.9 GHz	1.5 GHz	1.9 GHz	2.2 GHz	2.2 GHz
Game Clock	2.3 GHz	2.0 GHz	2.0 GHz	–	–
Boost Clock	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz	2.3 GHz	2.5 GHz	2.5 GHz
Memory	24GB G6	20GB G6	16GB G6	24GB G6X	16GB G6X
Memory Bus	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	384-bit	256-bit
Memory Speed	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	18 Gbps	21 Gbps	22.4 Gbps
Large Cache	96 MB	80 MB	128 MB	72 MB	64 MB
Bandwidth	960 GB/s	800 GB/s	576 GB/s	1008 GB/s	717 GB/s
Board Power	355W	300W	335W	450W	320W
Power Connectors	2 × 8-pin	2 × 8-pin	2 × 8-pin	1 × 16-pin	1 × 16-pin
PCIe Interface	Gen4 x16	Gen4 x16	Gen4 x16	Gen4 x16	Gen4 x16
MSRP	$999	$899	$1,099	$1,599	$1,199
Launch Date	December 13th, 2022	December 13th, 2022	May 10th, 2022	October 12th, 2022	November 16th, 2022

Source: HardwareLuxx