Yeston's anime-inspired Radeon RX 7900 XT Sakura graphics card hit retail at Newegg for a price of $1200 US which is a $300 US premium over MSRP.
Yeston unveils new Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU on Newegg, and presales start at $1,199 and hint at price change in less than a week
The Yeston Radeon RX 7900 XT Sakura graphics card features the Navi 31 XT GPU core with a 20 GB GDDR6 memory configuration, and a bright colorway for flashy PC builds with tons of flare. It has a unique aesthetic which includes a mix of pink, purple, & teal with the moniker of "Sakura," emitting bright colors and a summer feel to the new graphics card.
The new Yeston Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card offers a GDDR6 memory size of 20 GB with a memory interface of 320 bits. It has a core clock of 2.025 GHz with a boost clock of 2.395 GHz. There are 5,376 unified shaders (Stream Processors) onboard, and the process die is built on a 5nm process. The new 7900 XT GPU from Yeston offers dual BIOS co-frequency and an Infinity Cache of 80 MB.
The Yeston Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB GDDR6 GPU is compatible with DirectX 12 and Windows 10 and 11 and offers ray tracing. It has three fans and a rear panel light. The TDP on the new graphics card from the company is set at 315W. The graphics card measures 341mm in length.
Extra AMD features found on the new Yeston Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB GDDR6 graphics card are:
- Anti-Lag to assist with reducing input lag.
- FreeSync is the company's adaptive synchronization technology that supports variable refresh rate (VRR) for compatible LCD and OLED displays.
- FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) boosts framerates with its innovative rendering technique.
- Radeon Super Resolution (RSR), the company's in-driver upscaling feature found in AMD FSR.
- Privacy View enhances privacy by blurring parts of the screen and allowing the user to focus on a single area.
- Radeon Chill power saving feature that regulates frame rates and reduces power.
- AMD Link allows users to stream PC games to compatible mobile devices.
- Smart Access Memory (SAM) offers a better performance connection between the graphics and PC processors.
- Radeon Boost reduces the resolution of the entire frame during fast on-screen motion.
- Mantle API, a low-overhead instruction set targeted at video games.
- Vulkan 1.3 open-source specification from the Khronos Group.
- OpenGL 4.6 for open-source graphics rendering.
- OpenCL 2.2 for complicated open-source computing.
For input and output connectors, the new Yeston Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB GDDR6 graphics card offers three DisplayPort 2.1 ports, one HDMI 2.1 port, and an external dual eight-pin power supply connector to support above 1000W.
The new Yeston Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB GDDR6 graphics card is available for pre-order on Newegg for $1,199, with a release date of February 22, 2023. This is definitely a steep price but there's definitely a market for anime cards out there and Yeston being the only one offering an anime Radeon graphics card seems to be taking advantage of that. At this price, the card is more expensive than the RTX 4080.
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