On July 27, 2023, AMD officially launched the Radeon RX 7900 GRE, a graphics card specifically designed for the “Chinese market custom special edition” (although it is also sold in other countries and regions). Currently, this graphics card is experiencing price reductions on some third-party platforms.
Below, the editor will share some good news about this graphics card. Some friends may be curious at this point: has this graphics card recently seen a significant price drop? The answer is no. The “good news” that the editor is about to share is unrelated to the price but concerns performance. The performance of this graphics card can be significantly improved for free.
Some friends might be puzzled by this: the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has been on the market for a long time, and its hardware and software have essentially been finalized, so how can it achieve a significant performance improvement?
The answer lies in installing the latest graphics card driver released by AMD. Intel has been adopting a similar strategy, frequently releasing new drivers for its Arc series of graphics cards, each time claiming that the performance can achieve a double-digit percentage increase, which is quite exaggerated, as referenced in the above figure.
Recently, AMD has adopted a similar strategy. Some friends might still be skeptical at this point:
Intel’s marketing might contain a lot of hype, and the actual performance improvement of the graphics card is far less than what the official promotion claims, with about a 5% improvement being quite good. So, is AMD’s approach similar? Is it just an exaggerated promotional gimmick?
The answer is no. If the performance improvement were minimal, then it wouldn’t be worth the editor’s effort to write an article specifically about it. In reality, after installing the new graphics card driver for the Radeon RX 7900 GRE, the performance can increase by “at least” about 15%.
Now, let’s introduce the specifications of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE:
The Radeon RX 7900 GRE was launched on July 27, 2023, based on the RDNA3 architecture, using the Navi31 GPU, fabricated with TSMC’s 5nm process, and has 5120 stream processors, 160 raster units, 320 texture units, 80 compute units, 6MB of L2 cache, 64MB of L3 cache, and 80 ray tracing units.
The standard operating frequency is 1287 MHz, with a maximum operating frequency of 2245 MHz. It is equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, a 256-bit memory bus width, a memory speed of 18 Gbps, a memory bandwidth of 576.0GB/s, an FP32 floating-point performance of 45.98 TFLOPS, a power consumption of 260W, and a suggested retail price of $649.
So, what is the underlying principle for the significant performance improvement after installing the new driver?
The principle is that the recently released Radeon Adrenalin 24.3.1 graphics card driver removes the memory overclocking limit (2,316 MHz) for the Radeon RX 7900 GRE. Gamers can now increase the operating frequency of the 16GB GDDR6 memory on this graphics card to 3,000 MHz, thereby achieving a significant performance boost.
According to test results, after installing the Radeon Adrenalin 24.3.1 driver and overclocking the memory frequency to 2,604 MHz, the performance of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE in 3DMark Time Spy GT1 increased from 72.6 FPS to 77.1FPS, an improvement of about 15%.
If you are currently using the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card, it is recommended to download and install the Radeon Adrenalin 24.3.1 graphics card driver immediately to experience performance improvement.
Some friends might worry about whether this is safe. There’s no need for concern regarding this issue, as this overclocking adjustment feature is built into AMD’s graphics card management tool and is officially supported by AMD. However, when adjusting the slider to increase the operating frequency, try not to raise it to the maximum limit of 3,000 MHz; it’s recommended to be a bit more conservative.
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