AMD RX 7900 GRE: What Real Users Actually Think

RIP sweet prince. While the 7800xt was better value, at $519 the GRE was an incredible proposition for 1440p high refresh

My guess is that Navi 31 went OOP end of q3/start of Q4 and they just ran out of GRE bins.

AMD was using 530 mm² of silicon (7900 GRE) to fight against nvidia chip that's 295 mm² (4070 Super). No wonder they stopped production of their loss-leader first. Also, 8800XT makes the GRE card absolutely unnecessary (both have 16GB, but Navi 48 is faster and smaller)

Nope. Cyberpunk ultra settings 1440p ultra wide with fsr3 90avg fps im good

Upgrading? Nope. This fcker will be stuck me for another 8 years. Undervolted it. The most demanding game I played probably was Hogwarts Legacy on 1440p/165Hz. I mostly play older games tho, since new games generally suck rn. I cant even catch up all the older games I want to play. So the GPU is more then enough for me.

Farewell price-performance legend

Must mean that Navi 31 has ceased production a while back. Surprising then how many 7900 XT and XTX cards not yet sold. Imagine the pressure a 499-599$ 8800XT perf ~4080 puts on existing stack.

I think the reason why they state its exciting is because Digital Foundry values ray tracing more than most other channels/sites. As the 7900 GRE performs surprisingly well in raytracing vs its rasterization performance compared to the 7800 XT due to the higher amount of CU's.

Yep that was a good card.

I'm glad I got one. The price to performance on the sale I got it on was great. It's decent enough on RT and absolutely kills on pure Raster. Indiana Jones runs at 95fps average on High/Ultra 1440p.

Nope. The GRE will stay for another 1-2 more years before it gets transplant into my wife's rig.

Low memory OC limit is kinda weird. Like i get why the stock memory is slow as it's a whatever we can throw at this bad die kinda deal to make it a card in the 1st place, but why limit the memory OC artificially on top of that.

Good Gpu. If only it had global release early 2023 and the memory clock wasnt nerfed.

Got enough bad yields of Navi 31 in their inventory to be sold internationally. Still hate how memory bandwidth starved those cores are. $550 is a good deal if someone makes a modded BIOS and overclock those weak and cheap GDDR6 memories (if possible at all). Probably halfway to 7900XT performance at most.

My friend just bought a 7900 GRE for $45 more than the 7800XT he bought 3 weeks ago. $45 for the performance increase is INSANE. This card is by far the newest price to performance champ. Not sure why you'd ever consider a 7800XT for such a small price gap between the two.

The best price/performance card. Proud owner

Well it is faster than the 7800 XT and almost matches the $600 4070 Super in raster while having more VRAM, so it is pretty good in terms of price to performance.

Both AMD cards are actually faster than their Nvidia counterparts in all things apart from RT, which the AMD cards still do reasonably well. I havent had any trouble running RT games in 4k or 1440p on max settings. The 7900xt actually gets within a few fps of a 4080 in some games.

Not for another gen or two. It can handle 1440p native and 4K with frame gen currently. No reason to upgrade

Love my gre, gonna keep this bad boy for another few years since it's my first gpu that wasn't a hand me down (had a 980 given to me)

Unfortunately, it's priced at a minimum of 678 euros here, which makes it less competitive compared to a 4070 Super priced at 654 euros. Additionally, it consumes more watts.

I would go for either xfx, sapphire , or powercolor those are top amd brands. You can go wrong with any of them. Which ever will fit in your case and looks the best to you

Doesn't matter, they are all going to perform within margin of error. I would personally go with XFX over Asus, anecdotally they have better customer support.

And still slower if you enable RT. And if you do enable RT, you have to lower the rendering resolution to compensate the performance which means you now have to use an upscaler, which means Nvidia wins there too.

Yes the 7900GRE is a good GPU and has a better cost to performance ratio compare to the 4070S. Whether you want DLSS and better ray tracing performance in games or not should be your main concern.

I just picked up a PC in a black Friday sale with the 7900GRE. $999 for: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 3.8GHz, AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB WD NVME. Specs seem to be better than the 4070 Super.

For 1440P Raster, this GPU demolishes anything I throw at it. Undervolted mine as well. Chose the card for my needs and it performs admirably. Won't be upgrading any time soon. Shame they are already talking about discontinuing the card when it's such a great value.

Ray Tracing is often not worth the performance hit. The 7900 GRE is a fantastic card and will chew up games at 1440p.

I bought one in october, it's been going great. Can run anything I throw it at. And at a great price.

I just finished building a new pc yesterday with a 7900gre. Coming from a 3060 laptop it's amazing. Running helldivers 2 at 1440p native ultra with 100 fps. The price to performance with this thing is wild. not planning to upgrade for a while! Not even overclocked it yet.

7900 gre has amazing overlocking functionality which is why it's become so popular.

Am I upgrading? Yes, since it's not enough for 480hz qhd gameplay. Am I getting a good overclock? Yes, memory is at 2600mhz with power draw maxed and everything else at stock.

Nope, as long as this card let me play 60fps it is awesome. I play most games on Ultra at the moment and i get 180 or more

GRE is weird that's for sure, it can run any games at 2600/2800 vram and gpu with a decent fps on max settings + 980 UV, but will shutdown on a light load. But I prefer this weird card rather than upgrade to the latest as of this moment.

The GRE is based on the chip as the 7900 XT, it has a little less CUs though (84 to 80) and less VRAM (20GB to 16GB). Powerlimit and as a result clocks are also lower. The GRE can still be very fast, especially if you overclock the VRAM manually.

That's a bummer - as someone who bought one just last month, I can tell it is (was?) an extremely good bang for buck card and I've been more than pleased with it at 1440p 165hz gaming.

The card was too good and they want you to buy the new ones. I got mine brand new at 420€ in a good deal and I don't think anything new will beat that fps/€ ratio in the next gen for 1440p.

Glad I got mine for $450. This card will last me until the 9k series.

I managed to buy one last week. I was considering wait until after Christmas but I'm glad I didn't because where I live they increased their price by €60 after the discontinuation was announced.

I don't understand why AMD didn't put faster memory on this card? It seems to really be holding it back. A bit faster memory might help it slot in better between the 7800 XT and 7900 XT.

I've been defending this card like its my baby bought it 1 month ago its been incredible at 3440x1440p and at 65 degree max. I have the exact same xfx model (coming from a 1080ti)

One thing I learned from buying this AMD is that you should never trust Benchs or Rich techies on Youtube who can buy many GPUs, they are biased. The 7900GRE is not that great believe me, you can for less watts gain a lot of FPS with the 4070 super and games using nvidia technology like for Alan Wake 2. It's crazy to see 300 watts to play Alan wake with RT low at 30FPS and 290w without at 60-70fps.