AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX & Radeon RX 7900 XT announced as next-gen graphics cards for intense gaming

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The AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors have already been released in Malaysia for quite some time now. But today, AMD just unveiled new graphics cards built on the next-generation high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA 3 architecture – the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics cards.

Designed to deliver high-framerate 4K and higher resolution gaming, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card delivers up to 1.7X higher native 4K performance than the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card in select titles. Moreover, the Radeon RX 7900 XT provides up to 1.5X higher performance than the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card in select titles. 

All in all, here's a summary of the key features below: 

  • AMD RDNA 3 Architecture – Combines 5nm and 6nm process nodes, delivering up to 54% more performance per watt than the previous-generation AMD RDNA 2 architecture
  • Chiplet Design – The world’s first gaming GPU with a chiplet design delivers up to 15% higher frequencies at up to 54% better power efficiency
  • Ultra-Fast Chiplet Interconnect  Deliver up to 5.3TB/s of bandwidth
  • Expanded Memory and Wider Memory Bus – Feature up to 24GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory running at 20Gbps over a 384-bit memory bus.
  • Dedicated AI Acceleration and Second-Generation Raytracing – Deliver up to 2.7X more performance than the previous AMD RDNA 2 architecture, while second-generation raytracing technology delivers up to 1.8X more performance than the previous generation
  • DisplayPort 2.1 Support – Offering up to 54Gbps of display link bandwidth and enabling high-refresh 4K (up to 480Hz) or 8K (up to 165Hz) gaming on next-gen displays
  • New AMD Radiance Display Engine – Provides 12 bit-per-channel colour for up to 68 billion colours and higher refresh rate displays compared to AMD RDNA 2 architecture and includes support for DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1a
  • High-Refresh Gaming – Support up to 900Hz, 480Hz and 165Hz refresh rates for 1440p, 4K and 8K displays, respectively
  • Dual Media Engine  Supports simultaneous encode or decode streams up to 8K60 for HEVC and supports AV1 encode, delivering up to 1.8X higher engine frequency than AMD RDNA 2 architecture

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series graphics cards are expected to be available from AMD.com beginning 13 December 2022, and from leading board partners including ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston beginning mid-December. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a SEP of $999 (~RM4742), while the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has a SEP of $899 (~RM4267). 

There are still many more announcements made by AMD, such as the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.2, AMD Advantage for Desktop PCs, and others. You can freely visit the official newsroom right over here to check it out. Stay tuned for more trending tech news at TechNave.com.