After NVIDIA launched the newest video card wave with the immensely powerful RTX 4090, all eyes are on AMD to see how it responds. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT GPUs, powered by the company’s new RDNA 3 architectures, were revealed today. AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su said on stage during the company’s Las Vegas launch event that the new hardware provides a 54 per cent boost in performance per watt over prior GPUs. She also underlined that AMD is committed to offering complicated performance while consuming little power, a direct challenge to NVIDIA’s power-hungry (and PSU cable-melting) RTX 4090.
In addition, as is customary for AMD, it is attempting to undercut its primary competition in price. The RX 7900 XTX will cost $999, while the RX 7900 XT will cost $899. Both cards will be available on December 13th. This is much less expensive than the $1,599 RTX 4090 and $1,199 RTX 4080.
