AMD’s next-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT launch December 13 for $999 and $899
Enlarge / AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX, floating in a red-tinged room somewhere. (credit: AMD)
AMD is gearing up to launch its next-generation Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs next month, and today the company shared more details about the cards' pricing, performance levels, and the new RDNA 3 GPU architecture that will power all of its graphics cards for the next couple of years.
The launch begins at the high end, with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT. AMD will launch both of these GPUs on December 13, with the 7900 XTX starting at $999 and the XT starting at $899 (cards made by AMD's partners will surely push these prices upward a bit). Both of these price tags undercut Nvidia's RTX 4000 series, which starts at $1,599 for the top-tier GeForce RTX 4090 and $1,199 for the RTX 4080.
| CPU | Launch MSRP | CUs | Game clock | RAM/bus width | TBP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX | $999 | 96 (RDNA 3) | 2300 MHz | 24GB GDDR6 (384-bit) | 355 W |
| Radeon RX 6950 XT | $1,099 | 80 (RDNA 2) | 2100 MHz | 16GB GDDR6 (256-bit) | 335 W |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT | $899 | 84 (RDNA 3) | 2000 MHz | 20GB GDDR6 (320-bit) | 300 W |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT | $649 | 72 (RDNA 2) | 2015 MHz | 16GB GDDR6 (256-bit) | 300 W |
Nvidia had planned to field a 12GB version of the RTX 4080 in this price range, but a consumer backlash to its potentially confusing branding and lower performance level prompted Nvidia to "unlaunch" the card, with no word on when it will be re-introduced, what it will be called, or what it will cost. The 16GB version of the 4080 launches November 16, beating AMD's new GPUs to market by around a month.