AMD has officially unveiled the Radeon RX 7000 series of performance desktop graphics cards worldwide. This announcement follows NVIDIA's launch of its new RTX 4000 series desktop GPUs. The new RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX GPUs aim to deliver extreme performance combined with energy efficiency and feature improvements, including the AMD RDNA 3 architecture. Check out all the details below.
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The new RX7000 series is built on the new and improved AMD RDNA 3 architecture to deliver up to 54% more performance per watt compared to the previous iteration. RDNA 3 also comes with an advanced chiplet design that is ready to provide more performance with better energy efficiency.
The chiplet design combines 5nm and 6nm process nodes that have been tuned for different jobs. This includes a combination of a new 5nm with up to 96 compute units that act as the core of the GPU combined with half a dozen new 6nm Memory Cache Dies. The design allows the GPUs to provide 15% higher frequencies with up to 54% better energy efficiency. The new chiplets also use second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology to deliver up to 5.3 TB/s of bandwidth.
The new Radeon RX Series GPUs come with significant performance steps over the last generation, delivering up to 1.7x native 4K performance in select titles (Radeon RX 7900 XTX). This is also aided by the increased memory and wider memory bus which sees the new GPUs come with up to 24GB of GDDR6 memory combined with a 384-bit memory bus.
