Graphics Cards - Page 94

AMD officially unveiled the new Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) last week, a brand new GPU in the Radeon RX 7900 line-up that is essentially a cutdown Radeon RX 7900 XT. With the announcement that custom models from AMD partners XFX, Power Color, and Sapphire are in production, it turns out that what was previously thought to be an exclusive release for the Chinese market is making its way globally.

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB GDDR6, which follows AMD's reference design for the new GPU, has been spotted at Australian retailer PLE Computers as part of a 'PLE Lunar Custom Built Gaming PC' - pointing to the GPU being provided to system integrators for all-in-one gaming PCs.

The full build, which also features an AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU, ASUS TUF Gaming B650 motherboard, 2TB of Crucial PCIe Gen4 storage, and 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, has a price of AUD 3,489.00 (around USD 2,300). Interestingly with different GPUs available, swapping out the XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB for an ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Dual OC 12GB drops the price of the full build by only USD 30.

It's no secret that NVIDIA was planning to release a GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics card with a massive quad-slot Founders Edition cooler, with many believing it was for the seemingly canceled GeForce RTX 4090 Ti - according to current reports on the supped up RTX 4090.

However, the company was testing several different SKUs and configurations before we got the still-massive GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition, with new images showing us the prototype quad-slot cooling design in full.

In addition to featuring a unique PCB mounted at a 90-degree angle, the quad-slot GeForce RTX 40 Series cooler also included a third (and hidden fan) inside. The detailed images popped up on Twitter/X over the weekend via @harukze5719, with these new images taking off the metallic shroud to showcase a hidden third fan - making it a triple fan Founders Edition.

We now have an idea of where AMD's inbound mid-range RDNA 3 graphics cards - the GPUs to fill the gaps between the RX 7600 and 7900 series, and that's quite a gulf - might be priced.

A new video from YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) taps a source who gives us potential pricing for the RX 7700 and 7800, as well as the vanilla RX 7900 (non-XT).

All of this, though, comes with pretty weighty caveats upfront. Firstly, this is just chatter from the grapevine anyway, and secondly, things are rather up in the air still in terms of AMD's decision-making about these next RDNA 3 GPUs and exactly where they'll be positioned.

All we've been hearing of late is about GPU price drops - that and current-gen graphics cards flailing badly for sales (with NVIDIA especially) - but we could be at the bottom of the market now, one YouTube leaker reckons.

Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) has a new video discussing GPU prices, with sources telling the leaker that sales are now picking up.

One retailer informs MLID that things are turning around and GPU sales started to climb in July, and have continued to gain momentum throughout the month.

Earlier this week, we reported on the existence of a brand new RDNA 3 GPU from AMD that isn't a Radeon RX 7800 or Radeon RX 7700. The new Radeon RX 7900 GRE or Golden Rabbit Edition is a cutdown version of the Radeon RX 7900 XT created exclusively for the Chinese market, with AMD unveiling the new GPU at ChinaJoy 2023.

AIBs, including PowerColor, Sapphire, and XFX, were on hand to show off their custom designs of the new AMD GPU alongside a new reference design from AMD featuring a similar triple-fan cooling solution to what was found on the Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX reference models.

Specs-wise, we also now have confirmation of what "cutdown" means, with the Radeon RX 7900 GRE featuring the same Navi 31 GPU as the Radeon RX 7900 XT but with 80 Compute Units compared to 84 Compute Units. And with 16GB of VRAM compared to 20GB on a slower 256-bit bus. Clock speeds have also been reigned in, with a boost clock of 2245 MHz sitting lower than the Radeon RX 7900 XT's 2400 MHz.

Colorful has unveiled a pair of new GeForce RTX graphics cards, each offering something new and interesting to the company's iGame line-up of GPUs. The new Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 4070 Ultra Z OC features a stylish white look with graffiti pink "Ultra" flourishes. It also marks the debut of Colorful's hidden cable management design.

With a custom PCB design, this new GeForce RTX 4070 opts for the more traditional 8-pin PCIe power connector instead of the new 16-pin 12VHPWR connector seen in many GeForce RTX 40 Series models. For the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 4070 Ultra Z OC, the power connector is hidden behind the removable backplate to deliver a cleaner look.

And in a very cool move, the GPU comes bundled with a white extension 8-pin power cable to ensure everything looks seamless. Unlike other hidden cabler designs from other companies, this won't require specialized hardware and is compatible with most motherboards. However, Colorful notes that "it is best paired with a case specifically designed to support this concept," allowing room to thread cables freely.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti launched with 12GB of VRAM back in 2021, and as is the case with all GPU models, the company went through various revisions before landing on the version that hit retail markets. One of these was a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB of VRAM that was scrapped at the last minute - to the point where partners were already producing 20GB RTX 3080 Ti cards.

Instead of scrapping these GPUs and not being sold at retail, these rare GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB variants were sold to crypto miners through third-party channels. One of these partner cards was the flagship MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti SUPRIM X 20G - which has popped up for sale (via Facebook Marketplace) in Sydney, Australia.

The current listing price is AUD 1,100 (around USD 735), with the seller noting that it's an "extremely rare collector's item as NVIDIA canceled these a month before release." As for why the card was ultimately canceled, it probably came down to the additional production cost - so the model pivoted to the 12GB configuration we see today.

NVIDIA no longer plans to make an RTX 4090 Ti graphics card, we're told by a well-known leaker with their ear to the ground in the GPU industry.

There won't be a supercharged flagship Lovelace GPU - indeed, if there ever were firm plans for a 4090 Ti - or so Kopite7kimi informs us.

What we might get, though, is new versions of the RTX 4070 and 4060 made with "low-grade AD103 and AD106 chips."

When Intel announced that it was discontinuing the production of Intel Arc A770 16GB Limited Edition GPUs, it left very few options for those after a version of the Arc flagship with full memory capacity. The good news is that AIBs are filling that gap, with the latest coming from ASRock in the form of a new Intel Arc A770 Phantom Gaming 16GB OC graphics card.

The new GPU already has a retail listing over on Newegg, with a price of USD 329.99 - making it one of the most affordable 16GB GPUs currently available. Once it becomes available, the retail listing showed up before any official confirmation from ASRock and simply notes that the item is on "backorder" with a ship date of July 28.

The good news is that the GPU finally got an official product page on ASRock's site - which means the card is real and out later this week. The key difference between this and the 8GB Intel Arc A770 model comes down to memory capacity and a slight increase in overall bandwidth - 16GB at 17.5 Gbps versus 8GB at 16 Gbps.

During a tour of ASUS HQ at Computex 2023, we got a look at several exciting new products, with one of the standouts being its new "hidden concept" GeForce RTX 4070 GPU that was all about removing visible power cables to deliver a clean and slick look. Seeing it in person, it was surprising what a difference no visible power cables make to the look of a GPU installed in a gaming rig.

According to a new report, this concept cable-less GPU is set to become a reality, with mass production of the new GeForce RTX 4070 in white on track for later this year. Removing the standard 8-pin or 16-pin power connectors means the GPU needs to get power from an alternate source, and for ASUS's new GeForce RTX 4070, a special motherboard is required.

This new GeForce RTX 4070 features an additional PCIe connector alongside the standard PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 interface, which delivers power via a 16-pin power connector on the underside of the motherboard - with ASUS noting that it behaves in the same way as including a power connector on the GPU, delivering up to 600W of power. To demonstrate the new GPU design, ASUS paired it with a custom Z790 TUF Gaming motherboard.

NVIDIA's RTX 4060 Ti graphics card with 8GB of VRAM could be facing stock shortages, but not due to the usual reason.

Typically, this would be because there's too much demand from gamers, but in this case, it's the other end of the supply-demand equation which is suffering - NVIDIA simply isn't making enough chips.

This is happening in China, according to Board Channels forums (as spotted by Wccftech), so as ever, keep a skeptical hat on for this source which is a little sketchier than we'd ideally like.

NVIDIA and OpenAI are reportedly aiming to create a technological marvel by combining the power of more than a million NVIDIA AI GPUs and software developed by OpenAI that will link them all together.

For those that don't know, AI systems such as open AI's ChatGPT are powered by thousands of NVIDIA AI GPUs. According to reports, NVIDIA has supplied approximately 20,000 of its AI GPUs to open AI, but this won't be enough if the company wishes to keep up with its ever-expanding language models that require more and more power.

According to Wang Shah Kwong, a businessman and founder of the Chinese search engine Sogou, OpenAI is already developing a more advanced AI computing model that will have a total capacity of 10 million AI GPUs. While 10 million NVIDIA AI GPUS sounds astronomical (and it is), it's another thing entirely to actually reach that number in physical hardware.

We've seen some pretty impressive overclocking action with the GeForce RTX 4090, with American overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch being the first person to achieve a recorded 4 GHz boost clock speed with a ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 from ASUS not that long ago. And now the OC master is back, smashing the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme world record with the same GPU.

The ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 was paired with an Intel Xeon w9 3495X 'Sapphire Rapids-WS' CPU, W790 motherboard, and G.Skill DDR5 memory. Alongside the GPU overclocked to 3885 MHz, the VRAM was overclocked to 1563 MHz to deliver 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

Of course, cooling all of that required liquid nitrogen. The result was a new world record 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme overall score of 56,489 and graphics score of 58,589. Per the HWBOT submission, it beats the record set by German overclocker CENS of 55,809 by 1.2%.

AMD has released a new graphics driver which ushers in some pretty jaw-dropping boosts for some PC games (although why this is the case - well, we'll come back to that later).

YouTuber Ancient Gameplays has been test driving the latest version, quite literally in the case of Forza Horizon 5, finding that AMD's version 23.7.1 Adrenalin release boosts the average frame rate by 67% in one case (compared to the previous driver release).

That's with the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 1080p resolution, and the 7900 XTX also witnesses a very healthy boost with the new driver to the tune of 32%. (All of this must be regarded with a little caution, as it's based off one round of testing on one particular PC configuration, of course).

The first 16GB RDNA 3 GPU from AMD for its Radeon RX 7000 Series won't be the upcoming Radeon RX 7800 rumored to launch in September. Instead, it will be the new Radeon RX 7900 GRE (Golden Rabbit Edition) for the Chinese market. According to a post from leaker @momomo_us, it's set to launch on July 28 and will be a cutdown version of the Radeon RX 7900 XT.

The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a brand-new SKU for the line-up, with 84 Compute Units and 16GB VRAM across a 256-bit memory bus - information obtained from images showcasing the new Sapphire RX 7900 GRE NITRO+ model. As a cutdown model, the GPU will feature a slimmer build and could be some sort of Navi 31/32 hybrid.

AMD has yet to officially announce the Radeon RX 7900 GRE as a new option for Radeon GPUs, and so far, there's no indication that the GPU will be released globally, so that it could be something purely for the Chinese market. With no reference model, AMD could be testing the waters to gauge interest in a third Radeon RX 7900 variant.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPU, which doubles the VRAM capacity over the existing 8GB model, has launched with very little fanfare. The main issue, relative to performance, is that the increase in memory capacity has seen an MSRP increase to USD 499 and EUR 549, compared to USD 399 and EUR 439 for the 8GB version.

And, like we've seen with other GPU launches in recent memory, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is currently being sold at a price lower than the MSRP set by NVIDIA. So far, there's a single example in Germany, with retailer Mindfactory offering the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Ventus 3X OC for €519, which is €30 lower than the MSRP - and even discounted from the launch price of €538.

The low price hasn't set the sales charts on fire, with Videocardz.com reporting that after 24 hours, the number of units sold was listed at 10. So then, what about the card's performance compared to the 8GB model when playing titles that could benefit from additional VRAM capacity?

Samsung has announced that it has completed development on the world's first GDDR7 ( Graphics Double Data Rate 7) DRAM for GPUs, with the new memory set to be installed in next-generation hardware from "key customers" for verification this year. This lines up with recent news that the first GDDR7-capable GPUs could hit the retail market next year.

The new GDDR7 memory spec can achieve speeds of up to 32Gbps. That's a 33 percent increase over the 24Gbps in Samsung's fastest GDDR6 memory kits. The flagship GeForce RTX 4090's GDDR6X memory tops at 21.2Gbps, 1TB/s of peak memory bandwidth. Samsung's GDDR7 memory is capable of delivering 1.5TB/s of bandwidth.

Samsung mentions PCs and game consoles in its press release; however, it also mentions high-performance computing and AI - an area that will drive the continued development of GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.

Earlier this week, we looked at leaked 3DMark benchmarks for AMD's upcoming new RDNA 3 GPU offerings - the Radeon RX 7700 and Radeon RX 7800 - that are on track to launch in September. Of course, all of this is rumor and unofficial, and AMD has not officially announced its plans for expanding the Radeon RX 7000 series with new models.

Currently, we have the mainstream Radeon RX 7600 in the sub-USD 300 category, with the flagship Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX sitting in the high-end USD 899 and USD 999 price range. Everything in between is still being serviced by existing RDNA 2 products like the Radeon RX 6700 and Radeon RX 6800 - which are currently selling well thanks to sizable discounts.

Today we've got preliminary leaked pricing for the new Radeon RX 7700 and Radeon RX 7800 from Twitter user @All_The_Watts, who shared the 3DMark synthetic benchmark Time Spy results for these GPUs. And with the Radeon RX 7700 potentially launching with an MSRP of USD 449 and the Radeon RX 7800 launching with a price point of USD 549 - how does this pricing stack up when taking the benchmarks and other GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA into account?

Anything NVIDIA can do, ASRock can do just as sneakily it would seem - and better, to boot. At least when it comes to launching graphics cards that double up the VRAM loadout, with ASRock further showing that it doesn't have to cost the same premium that Team Green stuck on top.

You can't have missed the recent NVIDIA launch of the RTX 4060 Ti which has 16GB - compared to the original 8GB VRAM configuration - or actually, maybe you might have missed it. Seeing as Team Green made no announcement whatsoever, and didn't send out review cards, in what was the lowest of low-key releases.

And now, while ASRock hasn't actually announced a new version of its Intel Arc A770 graphics card which packs 16GB in a similar VRAM-doubling feat compared to the original A770 Phantom Gaming, we've seen the board.

It's been a long time coming, but we're getting more and more info from different sources pointing to a September launch for AMD's new mid-range RDNA 3 offerings - the Radeon RX 7700 and the Radeon RX 7800. Cards that will fill the gap between the mainstream Radeon RX 7600 and the flagship combo, which is the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX.

The latest comes from John Peddle Research, citing "various leaks from Asia," the cards will not only launch in September but will get an official unveiling from AMD at the upcoming Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany, in late August. Using Gamescom as a place to announce new products is not uncommon, and we've seen NVIDIA use the venue in the past to present closer looks at its upcoming GPU releases.

Where it gets interesting is that John Peddle Research is claiming that AMD will launch "at least two" but maybe five new GPUs to fill out the RDNA 3 line-up now that the remaining stock for previous-gen RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards is being sold through globally.