Sapphire rolls out powered-up AMD GPU that's a lot faster than the RTX 4060 — RX 6750 GRE Black Diamond is up to 49% faster than RX 4060 in vendor-provided benchmark

Sapphire RX 6750 GRE Black Diamond Edition
(Image credit: IT Home)

IT Home reports that AMD add-in-board partner Sapphire has unveiled a new, custom Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card dubbed the Black Diamond Edition. As the name suggests, the new model sports a stealthy matte black finish and a beefy triple-fan heatsink. Sapphire also published gaming benchmarks of the RX 6750 GRE against the RTX 4060, which is currently one of the best graphics cards.

To refresh your memory, the RX 6750 GRE is a new mid-range RDNA 2 graphics card targeted primarily at system integrators. The GPU launched in two sub-models a few months ago, including 10GB and 12GB variants. Bizarrely, both models share identical specifications to the RX 6700 10GB and RX 6700 XT 12GB, except for a minute bump in clock speed and power draw for the 10GB model. We suspect the RX 6750 GRE was made to sell off excess RDNA 2 GPU supply, a problem AMD has been dealing with since the arrival of the RX 7900 series.

Sapphire's new Black Diamond Edition, in particular, utilizes the 12GB variant of the RX 6750 GRE, sporting 2,560 stream processors (40 CUs), a 2,581 MHz boost clock, 192-bit memory interface, 16 Gbps memory ICs, 96MB of Infinity cache, and a 230W TBP.

As mentioned, the card sports a completely matte black theme and gold triangle accents dotted along the shroud and backplate. The backplate is made of metal and sports several ventilation cut-outs, enabling air to pass through the backplate to boost cooling performance. Cooling is provided by an aluminum heatsink sporting thickened dissipation fins connected to four 6nm nickel-plated heat pipes. As far as we can tell, there are no RGB lights or any LED illumination on the card.

Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 GRE Black Diamond Benchmarks

Sapphire RX 6750 GRE vs RTX 4060 Benchmarks -- Translated With Google Translate (Image credit: IT Home)

Sapphire shared the RX 6750 GRE benchmarks compared to Nvidia's latest mid-range GPU, the RTX 4060. Game selections included Eternal Calamity, PUBG, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Legacy of Hogwarts, and Cyberpunk 2077. The resolution tested was 1440P (2560x1440) at default settings.

The benchmark graph showed the RX 6750 GRE beating the RTX 4060 by up to 48% in Legacy of Hogwarts. In the other titles, AMD's graphics card was around 25% to 30% faster — except for PUBG, which showed a much closer 8.6% gap between the two GPUs. For instance, in Cyberpunk 2077, RX 6750 GRE achieved an average frame rate of 56, while the RTX 4060 hit just 40 FPS. We would take these numbers with a big grain of salt since these are vendor-provided benchmarks. 

The 6700 XT shares virtually identical specifications with the RX 6750 GRE, so the two SKUs should have nearly similar performances. If you are in China or can access the Chinese market, Sapphire's new RX 6750 GRE Black Diamond Edition is available now for ¥2,499 ($353).

Aaron Klotz
Contributing Writer

Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.

  • PEnns
    "....against the RTX 4060, which is currently one of the best graphics cards."

    One of the "best"?? Will you please stop repeating this fallacy?? This is ludicrous.

    Even if you keep on repeating this absurd assumption too many times and in enough articles, it will not become true!
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  • basement-thug
    Admin said:
    Sapphire has unveiled a new RX 6750 GRE, the Black Diamond Edition, explicitly aimed at system integrators and the Chinese market.

    Sapphire rolls out powered-up AMD GPU that's a lot faster than the RTX 4060 — RX 6750 GRE Black Diamond is up to 49% faster than RX 4060 in vendor-... : Read more
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  • basement-thug
    "the RTX 4060, which is currently one of the best graphics cards."...... Just stahp! The 4060 is quite literally the worst card one can spend money on in 2023. Whatever this guy is smoking I want some!
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  • Alvar "Miles" Udell
    Sapphire also published gaming benchmarks of the RX 6750 GRE against the RTX 4060, which is currently one of the best graphics cards.

    Well, there are 12 cards on that "best graphics cards" list, listing all the newest models from nVidia and AMD except the 4070 Ti and 7700XT, and includes the Intel A380 which -barely- manages 30fps at 1920x1090, so is it REALLY "one of the best graphics cards", or is it just a list of GPUs that means nothing? It's the latter.

    Sapphire rolls out powered-up AMD GPU that's a lot faster than the RTX 4060

    That's not hard considering AMD had 6 models already faster, many -a lot faster- than the 4060, and with GPU sales still being lower than 2013 (Per the lastest TH article), and likely much lower on the consumer side vs enterprise side, and nVidia having a near 1-to-4 share over AMD, AMD's AIBs likely have a metric ton of unsold GPUs.

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  • Jagar123
    PEnns said:
    "....against the RTX 4060, which is currently one of the best graphics cards."

    One of the "best"?? Will you please stop repeating this fallacy?? This is ludicrous.

    Even if you keep on repeating this absurd assumption too many times and in enough articles, it will not become true!
    They do it for the SEO. Sadly, this behavior just upsets people and loses them loyal readers in the long run. But they get the hits from SEO!
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  • Albert.Thomas
    While the RTX 4060 isn't the greatest of cards out there, I call FAKE NEWS on these vendor supplied benchmarks. Most reviews put the RTX 4060 as having similar performance to the RX 6700XT, and I highly doubt the RX 6750 GRE is going to outperform the RX 6700XT.
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  • Amdlova
    The 4060 is a low power performance in mind.
    Rx 6750 xt will eat two times the power of one 4060.
    I have a 6700xt with under volt and under TBP.
    Gives about 165w way higher than a stock 4060
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  • ohio_buckeye
    Don’t know about a 4060 competing with the 6700xt. I think if I recall that the 6750xt was pretty well similar performance to the 4060ti. The 6700xt shouldn’t be much behind that. That should put the 4060 in line with a 6600xt/6650xt.
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  • Kashmir74
    Please, it's Hogwarts Legacy.
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  • Colif
    The 3060 beat the 4060 in some tests, so its not really saying a lot. Nvidia didn't really try hard with that card. Its well known. Not news.
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