Hardware Breakdown Presents: AMD RX 7900 XTX graphics card
The RX 7900 XTX is the most highly anticipated graphics card from AMD. The new RDNA 3 GPU is touted as being 50-70% faster than Nvidia's top flagship GPU, the RTX 4090, which has had a month and some days head start in the consumer market.
Like any new hardware or device that's newsworthy, here at Tekspekz.com, we like to outline critical components and features. So in this new monthly episode of Hardware Breakdown, we go under the hood and examine the RX 7900 XTX graphics card.
The most interesting aspect of the RDNA 3 architecture is that instead of using a massive die, it now uses chiplet technology. The RDNA3 architecture combines smaller size dies, a similar technique used in AMD's latest Ryzen CPUs.
Let’s talk spec numbers
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is, by far, the most powerful graphics card AMD has ever produced, and there are impressive spec numbers to back that claim. The clock frequency operates at 2.3GHz, with a 2.5GHz boost clock frequency. This GPU has approximately 57.7 billion transistors and computes units totaling 96 and 6144 streaming processors.
Let’s talk about memory
Like Nvidia's current flagship (RTX 4090), the RX 7900 XTX has an astounding 24GB GDDR6 memory. A memory bus that measures 384-bit, a 96M. Infinity cache.
Let’s talk about the power delivery
When it comes to power, the RX 7900 XTX is surprisingly like Nvidia's RTX 4090, which uses an immense amount of wattage. You need only 355W to power up the graphics card. Interestingly, it’s 20W higher than the RX 6950 XT and 35W higher than the RTX 4080.
Two 8-pin power adapters( 16 in total) are needed to connect to the power source.
