The first cards of the next generation of graphics cards will be powered by the RDNA 3 architecture. The chiplet design is similar to the company's Ryzen processor.

The reference cards and board partner models will ship on December 13th. Both the 7900 XTX and the XT will cost more than $1,000. The top-spec 6950XT retailed for $849, while the base 6900XT cost $689. The price of the 4090 is eye-watering.

People are waiting to see how the next generation of cards from Advanced Micro Devices would respond to the latest Turing series of graphics cards from Nvidia.

AMD’s performance claims for the RX 7900 XTX.
AMD’s performance claims for the RX 7900 XTX.
Image: AMD

The company claims that its flagship card, the RX 7900 XTX, is up to 1.7 times faster than the company's existing card at that resolution. There are 96 compute units with 2.3 GHz and 24 gigabytes of memory. Performance per watt seems to be the main focus of the company. With a board power of 350 watt, compared to 450 watt on the RTX 4090, it might be more efficient forAMD.

The RX 7900XT has 84 compute units running at 2 GHz, 20 gigabytes of GDDR6 memory, and a board power of 300W.

The company says it is using less power by using GDDR6 memory. Both cards will require two regular 8-pin connections, so you won't have to use a special power connection or something. The company is still investigating the issue of those melting after opting for a new 12VHPWR connection.

Up to a 54 percent jump in performance-per- watt is what the company is promising with RDNA 3. The numbers aren't always comparable when you're talking about different architectures. We probably won't be able to compare consoles like the PS5 with the company's new PC graphics cards.

According to the company, its new compute units have next- generation ray-tracing tech, which provides an up-to-50 percent increase in frame rate. It looks like the 7900 XTX is in a better position to compete with the RTX 4080 than the RTX 4090 is.

AMD performance promises for Cyberpunk 2077 and more.
AMD performance promises for Cyberpunk 2077 and more.
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The story looks a bit better when it comes to traditional performance, but we will have to wait and see how it performs when we get our hands on it. At medium-to-low settings, the 7900 XTX can reach frame rates of 300, 600, and 833 frames per second.

The company says that the card can hit 295, 355, and 694 frames per second at 4k.

It says that games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 can play around 306 frames per second if you use its FSR technology and upscale them. FSR does more heavy lifting for 96 frames per second in the movie.

Chart showing the RX 7900 XTX’s “High refresh 4K gaming performance.” Hitman 2 gets 275 fps with FSR, CoD: Modern Warfare 2 gets 306 fps with FSR, F1 22 gets 353 fps with FSR.
In games that support it, FSR does do a lot of heavy lifting.
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A new generation of the tech coming next year will have up to two times the performance of the previous generation. The technology is called fluid motion frames technology, and it is similar to the one used by Nvidia. We will have to wait and see how it compares, but the current iteration of FSR don't because they're meant to run on any graphics card. The company wouldn't say if the same was true for FSR 3, but it would be nice if it could give its next-gen scaling tech a bit of an advantage.

Both the RX 7900 XTX and the RX 7900 are supported by the DisplayPort 2.1 standard. That means higher refresh rate support at 4K and 8K compared to the old DisplayPort 1.4 port that is being used by the latest Turing cards. The creators of the streams will be interested in the simultaneous decode and encode offered byAMD.

AMD seems very proud of RDNA 3, but it is slightly difficult to compare it to RDNA 2 just based on specs alone.
AMD seems very proud of RDNA 3, but it is slightly difficult to compare it to RDNA 2 just based on specs alone.
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It is the first time a chiplet architecture has been used in a gaming graphics card, and it was decided to use the design so it could use it. It means it can use cutting-edge 5nm tech for its graphics processing while relying on more "mature" 6nm chips for memory caching instead of having to use the fancy stuff for everything The idea of a chiplet-based processor has been around for a while, and companies like Intel and TSMC have begun to look into it.

The chips can talk to each other in less than 5 minutes. Apple's M1 Ultra inter-processor connection was widely considered to be a blazing-fast 2.5 terabytes per second.

It was fair to say that there were some growing pains as developers and hardware manufacturers figured out how to use the design. During a Q&A session,AMD said it expects the cards to be good right out of the gate, though it admits that they will likely see some performance improvements over the next year or so.

Screenshot of AMD’s slide for its Hypr-RX feature.
AMD Hypr-RX one-click optimization.
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Software improvements for its latest cards were stressed by the company. The new one-click feature will be introduced by Advanced Micro Devices. It is intended to help you get the best settings for various technology like FSR or anti-lag without having to play around with them yourself.

The SmartAccess video is being launched with the help of the Radeon 7000 series of graphics cards. It will greatly improve how long it will take to complete a video if you do batches of video. This will be supported in some applications in December.