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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs 7900 GRE

Radeon RX 7900 XTX
VS
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Navi 31
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Navi 31

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB with 6144 shaders against the 7900 GRE 16 GB that utilizes 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
24 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
82.8
(Good)
Value Index
59.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7900 GRE over RX 7900 XTX
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 XTX
  • Performs significantly better (up to 40%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 24% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 159 vs 128 FPS
  • 33% higher maximum theoretical performance (61.4 vs 46 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 67% higher memory bandwidth: 960 vs 576 GB/s
  • Achieves 30% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (224K vs 172K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 7900 XTX
vs
RX 7900 GRE

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
253
175
156
122
212
144
126
91
The Witcher 3
280
251
177
96
220
201
145
76
Counter-Strike 2
333
227
166
85
304
212
152
81
Far Cry 6
212
181
170
109
180
155
138
88
Hogwarts Legacy
167
143
113
64
137
108
87
50
CoD: Modern Warfare III
264
251
192
128
199
187
138
92
Ghost of Tsushima
168
140
122
77
139
119
98
59
Cyberpunk 2077
203
181
126
59
154
133
95
44
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
302
274
208
112
233
225
171
88
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 242 198
1080p Ultra 203 165
1440p Ultra 159 128
4K Ultra 95 74
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 7900 XTX +40%
29905
RX 7900 GRE
21369
Time Spy 30804 22544
Solar Bay 123985 90933
Port Royal 16759 12467
Fire Strike 73279 56225
Wild Life Extreme 58739 41755
Night Raid 183191 169714
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7900 XTX +30%
224686
RX 7900 GRE
172224
Background Blur 423.9 img/sec 352.4 img/sec
Face Detection 270.8 img/sec 229 img/sec
Horizon Detection 9.23 Gpixels/sec 6.42 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 13.7 Gpixels/sec 8.86 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.1 Gpixels/sec 7.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.74 Gpixels/sec 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 871 Gpixels/sec 662.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 29891.2 FPS 24012 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 7900 XTX +25%
15603
RX 7900 GRE
12461

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7900 XTX +15%
31462
RX 7900 GRE
27453
G2D Mark 1290 1212
DirectX 11 355 FPS 300 FPS
DirectX 12 134 FPS 111 FPS
GPU Compute 17777 Ops/s 15210 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11647 & 2161 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7900 XTX +44%
4077.59
RX 7900 GRE
2825.7
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2454 & 261 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 7900 XTX +22%
42092
RX 7900 GRE
34533
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7900 XTX +20%
50673
RX 7900 GRE
42224
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7900 XTX +24%
32874
RX 7900 GRE
26568
Image Classification (SP) 18608 15095
Image Segmentation (HP) 25385 21206
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45641 33962
Face Detection (HP) 71321 57614
Pose Estimation (Q) 257258 214748
Text Classification (SP) 5240 4325
Machine Translation (HP) 7425 6598
Object Detection (SP) 21335 16608
Depth Estimation (Q) 66140 57731
Style Transfer (SP) 483867 394987
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 GRE

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released November 3, 2022 -
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $649
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 31 Navi 31
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4080 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 13700K or above -
Desktop GPU rating (6th and 18th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1929 MHz 1287 MHz
Boost Clock 2498 MHz 2245 MHz
Shading Units 6144 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 384 320
Render Output Units (ROPs) 192 160
Ray-tracing Cores 96 80
L1 Cache 256KB per cluster 256KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 6MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 480 GPixel/s 359 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 959 GTexel/s 718 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7900 XTX +33%
61.4 TFLOPS
RX 7900 GRE
46 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 355 W 260 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 529 mm² 529 mm²
Transistor Count 57 billion 57 billion
Transistor Density 107.75 MTr/mm² 107.75 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2500 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7900 XTX +67%
960 GB/s
RX 7900 GRE
576 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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