AMD reveals RX 8000 gaming graphics cards and Zen 5 CPUs for 2024

Date:
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:16:33 +0000

Description:
CEO Lisa Su annoucned the new graphics card and processor lines as part of AMDs updated hardware and software roadmap.

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The latest roadmap for AMDs products has been shown, revealing a whole host
of planned hardware releases ranging from Zen 4 CPUs launching later this
year to new APUs for datacenter use. Perhaps most exciting, though, is the news of new hardware slated for launch further down the line: RDNA 4 graphics cards and Zen 5 processors, both due for release in 2024.

RDNA 4 will (shockingly enough) follow the new RDNA 3 GPU architecture scheduled to launch later this year. That means weve just been given our very first glimpse of Radeon RX 8000-series gaming GPUs, codenamed Navi 4x.

We dont have any concrete numbers on the RX 8000 graphics cards yet, but the flagship will likely be the RX 8900 XT and is presumed to employ a dual-node architecture using 3nm and 5nm processes. It appears that the Navi 4x family will exclusively use RDNA 4 architecture, while rumors suggest that Navi 3x (the RX 7000 series coming this year) may use RDNA 3 for the higher-end GPUs and a refreshed RDNA 2 for the cheaper ones.

Details on the Zen 5 CPUs are even thinner on the ground, beyond the 2024 release date and whatever we can extrapolate from what we know about the Zen
4 microarchitecture. AMD is promising a serious 35% performance increase from Zen 3 to Zen 4, so we can reasonably expect a significant boost in Zen 5.

Interestingly, AMD also mentions that Zen 5 includes optimizations for AI and machine learning, but doesnt elaborate on what that means. With AMDs FSR upscaling tech notably not using dedicated AI cores (unlike Nvidias DLSS and Intels XeSS ), could we expect to see AMD diving into AI-powered hardware
with these new CPUs? In any case, were excited to see more. Analysis: Will RDNA 4 be worth waiting for? (Image credit: AMD)

We still dont even have a concrete release date for AMDs Radeon RX 7000 GPUs yes, which will be going up against both Nvidias Lovelace graphics cards and Intels Arc desktop GPUs later this year (assuming Intel manages to stick to their ever-slipping release plans ). So it might feel silly to get pumped up about RX 8000 this soon.

But todays news has given more details on the 7000-series cards, and the reveal that some of these lower-end Navi 3x GPUs will be running on the current RDNA 2 architecture (with a single GPU node) might prove to be a blow to anyone looking for a more affordable graphics card.

Well have to wait for actual performance figures, but this decision could
lead to a significant rift in gaming performance between the higher-end RDNA
3 GPUs and the cheaper refreshed RDNA 2 models. If thats the case, anyone looking to upgrade for gaming at 1080p or potentially even 1440p may want to wait until RX 8000 drops and leap straight from RDNA 2 to RDNA 4.

From WCCFTech



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