ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Review: AMD Almost Hits The Sweet Spot

We tested all of the graphics cards represented in this article on an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and 32GB of G.SKILL DDR5 RAM clocked at 6,000MHz. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" defaults, then we disabled any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use and enabled Resizable BAR support. We dialed in memory clock to its optimal performance settings using its EXPO profile, then formatted the solid state drive and installed Windows 11 Professional before performing all updates. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers, applications and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.

Our Test System Configuration:

Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz - 5GHz, 8-Core) ASUS X670E Hero  32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Radeon RX 7900 GRE Radeon RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT GeForce RTX 4070 Super GeForce RTX 4070 Ti ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon v23.12.1 NVIDIA Drivers v551.15

Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 Blender v4 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v3.6.1 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Forspoken Returnal Cyberpunk 2077 Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition F1 23 Guardians Of The Galaxy

LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks

IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks

The GeForces show a significant advantage in this benchmark, and finish at the top of the charts. And at first glance, the Radeon rankings may look funky, but there's an explanation. The ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE lands just behind the Radeon RX 7800 XT here, due to its lower-clocked memory, and hence lower raw memory bandwidth.

Blender v4 GPU Rendering Benchmarks

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...

Blender's support for NVIDIA's OptiX application framework, which can leverage the RT cores in NVIDIA's GPUs to accelerate ray tracing workloads, affords the GeForces a massive performance uplift here, and they land at the top of the charts. The Radeons, however, finish in the exact ranking you'd expect, with the ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE slotting in between the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7800 XT.

Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results

The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.


The GeForces finish at the top of the stack in Blackmagic's speed test and the ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE performs effectively on-part with the Radeon RX 7900 XT.