The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE, a special China-specific product that isn’t just its own Sapphire custom-design but also a completely distinct SKU, is shown in some of the early images below. This would be one of the RX 7900 GRE’s first custom design implementations, which we originally learnt about earlier this month. The Radeon RX 7900 series has a limited-edition SKU called the Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE). It is positioned a notch below the RX 7900 XT but is neither the RX 7900 XTX nor the RX 7900 XT. The RX 7900 GRE shares the same “Navi 31” silicon as the RX 7900 XT and has 84 CU (5,376 stream processors), or the same GCD core-configuration. On a smaller 256-bit wide memory bus, it only receives 16 GB of memory.

By turning off two of the six MCDs, the “Navi 31” is divided into the Radeon RX 7900 GRE, which has a 64 MB Infinity Cache and a 256-bit GDDR6 memory bus. You get 5,376 stream processors, 168 AI accelerators, 84 Ray accelerators, 336 TMUs, and 192 ROPs along with the 5 nm GCD that was brought over from the RX 7900 XT. The Sapphire RX 7900 GRE might make use of a version of the company’s NITRO+ cooling system that is comparable to the NITRO+ Lite SKUs sold in areas outside of China. The main distinction is that the cooler employs a solid copper base plate rather than a vapor-chamber plate to draw heat away from the GPU and memory. AMD must close the enormous gap in its product line between the $250 RX 7600 and the $700+ RX 7900 XT, and SKUs like the RX 7900 GRE might help AMD compete more successfully in markets like China against the likes of the RTX 4070 Ti.