WE ALL KNOW the story of the tortoise and the hare: the rabbit races along for short periods of time and then rests, while the turtle plods along at a steady pace and ultimately wins the race. AMD’s RX 7900 GRE, the ‘Golden Rabbit Edition’ that was only available in China for the past year, flips the story around and claims a late victory by edging past its Nvidia competition in the form of the RTX 4070.
The 7900 GRE doesn’t get a clear win in every area, however, and the RTX 4070 has been steadily racking up sales over the past year. It’s the ninth most popular GPU right now, according to Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware Survey. AMD could have launched the 7900 GRE in all markets last year, but at the time there were still a lot of previous-generation Navi 21-based GPUs in the channel, so it held off on introducing this third Navi 31 card until inventories had cleared.