AMD will soon be launched globally. Overseas have taken the lead in unlocking the appearance of public graphics cards, and in China, it will take the time to release the appearance and performance tests at the same time. However, many media and individuals in China who have obtained RX 7900XT and RX 7900XTX seem to be a little unable to hold back, so they keep publishing so-called internal news in some channels. Now we have also summarized some rumors with high reliability, which should be helpful and guiding for users to purchase graphics card .
is the performance part first. Judging from some of the leaked tests and data, there is a certain gap in the performance and expectations of RX 7900XT, and it is not small compared to RTX 4080. However, the performance of RX 7900XTX is still good. You can compete with RTX 4080. It may be 5% to 10% higher than that of RTX 4080 in grating performance. But in general, don't expect too much about the performance of the RX 7900 series. Moreover, judging from some leaked data overseas, the RX 7900XTX scored in some extreme test projects of 3DMark is even worse than that of RTX 4080.
However, if ray tracing and DLSS 3.0 are added, then the gap between RX 7900XTX and RTX 4080 will emerge. Some AMDs have barely caught up with the previous generation of NVIDIA graphics cards. If you consider that there are more and more ray tracing games now, and some games supported by DLSS 3.0, these games are still very advantageous. Although AMD has been doing well in the grating part, the efficiency of ray tracing needs to be strengthened. I wonder if the FSR 3 technology next year can significantly improve the gaming performance of AMD graphics cards.
is the driver part. This time we are exposed to the media and editors, and they complain about AMD drivers. AMD gave RX 7000 beta drivers around December 5 in China, but there are many problems, and some testers even yelled on some hardware forums. Therefore, it is not ruled out that the two RX 7900 graphics cards are currently in the performance part because the drivers are not perfect enough and cannot be performed. Other games run badly due to driver issues. However, it is said that AMD has given a new driver on December 9, and there is probably some improvement. The results you will see in a few days should be run with the new driver.
There is another rumor that AMD's chip has defects this time. The earliest streaming failed but it had to catch up with December, so it was strong, so it could not reach a very high frequency. Logically speaking, the frequency of the new generation of AMD graphics cards will be relatively high, but in fact, the frequency of RX 7900XT and RX 7900XTX are actually not high under the premise of using 5nm. The acceleration frequency is 2.4GHz and 2.5GHz, so it is purely due to the incomplete chip, which also makes this generation of graphics cards fade away from the factory. So if you find that there is no overclocking space after getting the graphics card, it is normal.
It is reported that AMD will release RDNA 3+ architecture chips after the third quarter next year, which are probably graphics cards like RX 7950XT. It is said that they will use defect-free chips, and the frequency can also be greatly increased, which is likely to be close to the acceleration frequency of 3GHz. Therefore, the new graphics card launched by AMD in the second half of next year is the full version of RDNA 3 core, and this complete core will also be used on Zen 5+ APU.
finally talks about the price issue. There is no public version in China. There is a saying that it is because of the label issue. We don’t know what the label is. However, some of the AIB manufacturers we mentioned before are priced at 10,000 yuan, and more are bids from third-party sellers. It is reported that AIB manufacturers are actually a little confused about pricing now, but the price of non-public graphics cards should not be too high, otherwise everyone will not buy them. The current relatively reliable statement is that the non-public version of RX 7900XT is about 7599 yuan to 8000 yuan, and the non-public version of RX 7900XTX will not exceed 9000 yuan at most.
However, this time the graphics card should be difficult to buy, so it doesn’t matter what price AIB manufacturers agree on. Scalpers and third-party sellers will inevitably hype up the price. Although there is almost no possibility of AMD's delay in tickets, it will never be as Su Ma said that there will be a large amount of spot supply. In addition, I have seen the RX 7900XT of XFX in China, but whether you can buy it depends on luck.Finally, we can only say that we had previously estimated that the price of RTX 4080 would be reduced, but the price reduction may not be too large. After all, AMD's graphics card seems to be relatively poor this time. We suggest that you don’t rush to buy it, and there is no need to buy it at a price. If it really doesn’t work, there are quite a few second-hand graphics cards that are not mined, and the price is not high. It doesn’t seem to be a problem to buy it for a year.
