AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX appears in Geekbench Compute Database

The upcoming AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has first surfaced on the Geekbench database. The video card performs similarly to the RTX 4080 in the Vulkan benchmark, although the card performs less well in OpenCL. The video card will be officially released on December 13.

The unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX showed up on Geekbench’s database Monday night, noted Twitter user Benchleaks on. It is the first time that an AMD RDNA 3 video card has appeared in such a benchmark database. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has been tested in Geekbench Compute with a Ryzen 7 7700X, 32GB memory and a Crosshair X670E Extreme.

The video card reached 179,579 points in the Geekbench 5 Vulkan benchmark and 228,647 points in OpenCL. In comparison, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 scores an average of 178,105 points in the Vulkan test, also reports Tom’s Hardware. The score of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is about the same, which is in line with claims from AMD that the RX 7900 XTX will compete with the RTX 4080. In the Geekbench 5 OpenCL benchmark, however, the video card performs less well than the RTX 4080, which averages 264,482 points. However, the Geekbench software doesn’t mention performance-related variables, such as the clock speeds or drivers the video cards were running.

AMD officially announced the Radeon RX 7900 XTX in November. The video card will be released next week, along with the Radeon RX 7900 XT. The GPU is based on the RDNA 3 architecture and will have a chiplet architecture, in which a large GPU is combined with several small memory chiplets that are used as Infinity Cache. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX features 96 compute units, 24GB of GDDR6 memory and a 384bit memory bus. The card has a suggested retail price of $999.