AMD isn’t jumping on the bandwagon of rising GPU prices. The company announced the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT at its RDNA 3 launch event, and contrary to speculation on the heels of the RTX 4090, AMD isn’t raising prices. The RX 7900 XTX launches at $1,000 and the RX 7900 XT at $900, and they’ll be available on December 13.
Previous Next 1 of 2 Both the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT support DisplayPort 2.1, allowing for 1440p at up to 900Hz, 4K at up to 480Hz, and 8K at up to 165Hz. The RTX 4090 still uses DisplayPort 1.4, despite surpassing the capabilities of the standard in some instances. Although it’ll be many years before we see the full benefit of DisplayPort 2.1, AMD’s latest cards are set up to take advantage of the standard once it’s more common.
Ray tracing performance is seeing a large uplift over the previous generation as well. In Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K Ultra ray tracing settings, the RX 7900 XTX delivers 62 fps with FSR, which compares to 42 fps on the RX 6950 XT. Similarly, Hitman 3 jumps from 57 fps to 89 fps with FSR. We’ll have to wait until the cards are in hand to verify these numbers though, and to see how the cards perform with FSR turned off.