Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB GPU shown, same core count as 7900 XT

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card with 16 GB of memory and a reduced Navi 31 GPU has finally been photographed.

Sapphire’s custom Radeon RX 7900 GRE Nitro shown, 16GB GPU with downsized Navi 31 chip

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card has been in the talk for a while. GPU first appeared in an online database alongside an early sample of the Zen 5 processors and now we can see the actual product.

Photos leaked by @wxnod show the Sapphire Nitro variant of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB graphics card which comes with a massive three-fan, three-slot cooler. It’s the same Nitro design we’ve seen on other Radeon RX 7900 series cards (XT and XTX) with a custom backplate and the same dual HDMI and dual DP outputs. The board is powered by two 8-pin connectors and includes a BIOS switch, ARGB header, and Fan-In connector.

The fact that the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a 16 GB graphics card is confirmed by the packaging which reads the specified memory capacity. Additionally, the card packaging appears to have Chinese labels that indicate a China-only product, but whether we’ll see it in some form in the global retail channel remains to be seen.

An interesting detail spotted by @Olrak29_ is that the Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE features a smaller retention bracket and the capacitor area on the reverse side of the PCB and under the Navi 31 GPU appears to be rather smaller compared to the same model using the 7900 XT design. This could be due to a smaller chip package used for this particular Navi 31 SKU or it could be a compact chip that was leaked some time ago by Moore’s law is dead.

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Nitro graphics card (Image credits: Wxnod):

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Nitro graphics card (Image credits: @TechpowerUp):

As for specs, the leaker points out that the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics cards are going to feature 84 RDNA 3 compute units, meaning they feature the same base configuration as AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT, but with a slimmed down memory configuration of 256-bit with the aforementioned 16GB memory. Since Infinity Cache is tied to the bus interface in each of the six MCDs, we can expect 64MB of IFC here, which is 26MB less than the RX 7900 XT. On top of that, we can expect some clock and power tweaks.

So far, it’s unclear when the card will be launched, but we can expect the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPUs to launch at a slightly lower price than the RX 7900 XT which sells for US$849 as its official MSRP these days. We can expect a price tag of US$749-$799 to tackle the NVIDIA RTX 4070 series, but we also can’t say if it will be a mass-produced variant or a timed-exclusive design. The company is also rumored to unveil its Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT GPUs around September.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 RDNA 3 “Rumored” GPU Lineup:

Graphic card	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	AMD Radeon RX 7900XT	AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE	AMD Radeon RX 7800XT	AMD Radeon RX 7700XT	AMD Radeon RX 7600XT	AMD Radeon RX7600
GPUs	Navi 31 XTX	Navi 31 XT	Navi 31LE?	Navi 31?	Navi 32?	Navi 32?	Navi 33 XL
Process node	5nm + 6nm	5nm + 6nm	5nm + 6nm	5nm + 6nm	5nm + 6nm	5nm + 6nm	6nm
Die size	300mm2 (only GCD) 522 mm2 (with MCD)	300mm2 (only GCD) 522 mm2 (with MCD)	300mm2 (only GCD) 522 mm2 (with MCD)	300mm2 (only GCD) 522 mm2 (with MCD)	To be determined	To be determined	204mm2
Transistors	58 billion	58 billion	58 billion	58 billion	To be determined	To be determined	13.3 billion
WGP-GPU	48	42	42	30 ?	24?	20?	16
Stream processors	6144	5376	5376	3840?	3072?	2560?	2048
TMU/ROP	384 / 192	384 / 192	384 / 192	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	128 / 32
game clock	2.3GHz	2.0GHz	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	2.2GHz
Boost clock	2.5GHz	2.4GHz	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	2.6GHz
TFLOP FP32	61 TFLOPs	52 TFLOPs	50 TFLOPs	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	22 TFLOPs
Memory size	24 GB GDDR6	20 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB of GDDR6?	12 GB of GDDR6?	8 GB of GDDR6?	8 GB GDDR6
Infinite Cache	96 MB	80 MB	64 MB	60 MB?	48 MB?	40 MB?	32 MB
Memory bus	384 bit	320 bit	256 bit	256 bit	192 bit	128 bit	128 bit
Memory clock	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	18 Gbps
Bandwidth	960 GB/s	800 GB/s	640 GB/s	640 GB/s	480 GB/s	320 GB/s	288 GB/s
Effective Bandwidth	3.5 TB/s	3.5 TB/s	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	476.9 GB/s
PAD	355W	315W	275-300W	~255W	~225W	175W	165W
PCIe interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Price	US$999	US$899	US$799	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	US$269
Launch	December 2022	December 2022	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	May 2023