AMD has officially unveiled the new Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card at the Together we advance_gaming event in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Radeon RX 7000 series of GPUs use RDNA 3 graphics cores and aim to compete against Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4000 series of GPUs. AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 family includes Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the Radeon RX 7900 XT.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX features 96 unified RDNA 3 computing units and 24GB of GDDR6 memory It has a 2.3Ghz blocked speed and claims to be up to 1.7 times faster than Radeon RX 6950 XT in 4K gaming. Radeon RX 7900 XT has a 2Ghz clocked speed, 20GB of GDDR6 memory, and 84 unified RDNA 3 computing units.
Both graphics cards support DisplayPort 2.1 for up to 8K output at 165Hz of 4K at 480Hz. These GPUs also support up to 8K 60fps AV1 encoding. AMD’s promotional images also confirm that the two GPUs support an 8-pin PCIe connector.
| RX 7900 XT | RX 6900 XT | |
| VRAM (GDDR6) | 20GB | 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Game frequency | 2.0GHz | 2.0GHz |
| Boost frequency | 2.4GHz | 2.25GHz |
| Compute units | 84 (RDNA 3) | 80 (RDNA 2) |
| TBP | 300W | 300W |
| Bus Width | 384-bit | 256-bit |
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is priced at US$ 999 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT costs US$ 899. These graphics cards will be available beginning December 13, 2022, from all graphics card companies including ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX, and Yeston.
