ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Challenger 16GB OC – Review

The ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Challenger OC Edition is built with the powerful graphics performance of the AMD RDNA3 architecture and is based on a new chiplet design. It offers dedicated 2nd gen RT Cores and 3rd gen Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and high-speed GDDR6 memory to tackle the latest games.  The name “Golden Rabbit Edition” for a gaming graphics card is quite intriguing, drawing from the Chinese zodiac’s Year of the Rabbit in 2023. It appears that the RX7900 GRE was specifically tailored for the Chinese market, capitalizing on cultural symbolism.

The two striped axial fans is spin to minimize turbulence and maximize air dispersion through the heat sink. All two fans come to a standstill when GPU temps are below 55 Celsius, letting you play less-demanding games or perform light tasks in relative silence. Fans start up again when temps are over 60 Celsius, referencing a speed curve that balances performance and acoustics for work or play.

The basis of the cooler is a large plate nickel-plated heatsink with heat pipes soldered to the sole of direct contact with the GPU and memory chips. The same heatsink also serves as a cooler for the VRM power converter components with the help of small soles. For a pair of VRM memory mosfets, a separate small heatsink is provided, screwed to the main heatsink. The back plate is made of aluminium with an electrically insulating coating and has a triple purpose: it serves as a PCB protection element, a stiffener, and carries ASRock and Challenger logo.

Power is supplied through two 8-pin connector.

The graphics card has 4 video outputs: In addition to 3x DisplayPort 2.1 outputs, 1x HDMI 2.1 outputs.

There’s a switch located on top of the card, enabling you to toggle the LED light on or off according to your preference.

The LED light display only in blue color.

Benchmark:

ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Challenger OC Edition is the high range graphics card in AMD RDN3-based segment. As such, our graphics workstation, based on an ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore motherboard and Intel Core i9 14900K processor.  The ram we will be using is  XPG 6000mhz- 32 memory kit. Lexar NM790 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD is used as well to run with benchmark. On the Comparison, we will be testing 6 GPUs to run side by side to see perform better.

GPUZ

3Dmark Advanced Edition

3DMark includes everything you need to benchmark your PC and mobile devices in one app. Whether you’re gaming on a smartphone, tablet, notebook, or a desktop gaming PC, 3DMark includes a benchmark designed specifically for your hardware.

GFXBench 5.0

GFXBench is a high-end graphics benchmark that measures mobile and desktop performance with next-gen graphics features across all platforms. As a true cross-API benchmark, GFXBench supports all the industry-standard and vendor-specific APIs including OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, Metal, DirectX/Direct3D and DX12.

FarCry 6

Far Cry 6 supports ray tracing at launch, with the ability to enable DXR reflections and DXR shadows. But because DXR shadows are kind of pointless and not worth the performance hit, we haven’t tested with them enabled, but I have taken a look at DXR reflections, so we’ll look at that shortly using supported hardware.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a military shooter set in a diverse, hostile, and mysterious open world that you can play entirely solo or in four-player co-op.

ASRock Radeon RX7900GRE Challenger OC

839

9.1

Quality

9.5/10

Value

9.5/10

Design

8.0/10

Performance

9.5/10

Pros

• Affordable for AAA Gaming
• FSR 3.0
• Don't need upgrade PSU

Cons

• Lack of RGB
• Design need to improve