Radeon RX 7900 XTX – Engineering Sample Images

There are more and more signs of the return of the XTX models. Images of a prototype have now surfaced on the internet, said to be a Radeon RX 7900 XTX. It’s not clear if the engineering sample cooling design is the final design, but it’s assumed to be fairly close to the final product. Here, too, what AMD had already announced is confirmed: the 12VHPWR connector is dispensed with and two classic 6+2 connectors are used, each transmitting 150 watts.

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The cooler layout looks slightly larger than that of a Radeon RX 6900 XT shown for comparison. The prototype may not have a back plate for practical reasons – there are plugs on the back, which will probably disappear in the final product. The slightly larger cooling layout would fit with the fact that power consumption is generally increasing. According to rumor mill, AMD should not have values ​​as high as Nvidia. The connector configuration alone makes it clear: 375 watts would be possible. To what extent this will affect performance remains to be seen. There are also rumors here that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX should be able to compete with a Geforce RTX 4090.

Radeon RX 7900 XTX – Engineering Sample Images (2) [Quelle: HXL (Twitter)]

Radeon RX 7900 XTX – Engineering Sample Images (3) [Quelle: HXL (Twitter)]

Radeon RX 7900 XTX is said to be the full expansion of Navi 31; that would be 12,288 shader units with 96 MiB of infinite cache. There should also be 24 GiB of 384-bit memory; Currently, almost 1 TB/s of bandwidth would be considered appropriate for demanding gamers. However, AMD will probably stick with the slightly cheaper GDDR6 with 20 Gb/s instead of the slightly more expensive GDDRX, which also ships with up to 23 Gb/s.

Sources: Twitter (chi11eddog, HXL)