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AMD's Radeon RX 7900 series was released a few weeks ago, but the firm has only just recently revealed how it stacks up against NVIDIA's RTX 4080, the company's latest card based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. As expected, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX outperforms the Radeon RX 6950 XT and provides better value for money than the RTX 4080.
Both of Asus's RX 7900 graphics cards, along with their respective specifications and individualised boost clock rates, are publicly available on the company's website way before release. The page claims a maximum frequency of 2,535 MHz for the TUF Gaming AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and a maximum frequency of 2,565 MHz for the XTX .The XTX die features 96 ray accelerators, 192 ROPs, 6,144 (x2) shader processors, and 384 texture units. It is made up of 58 billion transistors. These will reach a peak half precision performance of 123 TFLOPs and a single precision of up to 61 TFLOPs. A 96 MB infinite cache backs it up. The maximum bandwidth achieved from the 24 GB of GDDR6 operating at 20 Gbps is 960 GB/s. Additionally, the card will need three 8-pin power connectors.
It is based on a triple-fan cooler and a 3.6-slot design with triple 8-pin PCIe power connectors, the card is bound to please and tease many. In addition to 3x DisplayPort 2.1 outputs, 1x HDMI 2.1 outputs (but no USB Type-C connector that supports DP2.1). As for frame rates, they may go as high as 480Hz in 4K and 165Hz in 8K with the help of AMD's new Radiance Display engine, which supports DisplayPort 2.1. It is another question whether you will be able to take advantage of it, but it is nice to see AMD add the display connector since Nvidia conspicuously left it off the RTX 4090.
Apart from certain minor details, the RX 7000 series appears to be similar to the previous generation TUF cards. The black and silver design with three fans is back. The OC revision comes pre-overclocked per usual ASUS practise, but an additional overclock may be enabled at the click of a button by using the OC mode profile in the GPU Tweak software. In the first mode, the RX 7900 XTX operates at a Game Clock of 2395 MHz and a Boost Clock of 2565 MHz.
A third 8-pin connector may be integrated into any solution thanks to the cards' larger form factor compared to the reference designs, which we predicted in our earlier piece on the new TUFs. The fans are also new and upgraded from ASUS, being bigger and able to boost airflow and static pressure without sacrificing silence.
