Watch out, Nvidia - AMD might have a turbocharged GPU to rival the RTX 4090

Date:
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:33:38 +0000

Description:
The rumored graphics card bears the new XTX moniker and could be revealed alongside other Radeon RX 7000 GPUs in November.

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AMD will soon be revealing its newest Radeon graphics cards, the RX 7000 series, with an unveiling live stream taking place on November 3 . We dont know exactly what GPUs to expect from the event, but rumors have added a new contender to the lineup: an uber-powered flagship called the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

This new speculation - which originated from Taiwanese tech site Benchlife - overrides previous suggestions that the headlining card would be the RX 7900 XT or 7950 XT. Instead, it looks like AMD might be holding the upgraded 50 variants in reserve for now, potentially so they can arrive in 2023 with AMDs second-generation 3D V-cache technology.

The new GPUs are based on Team Reds new RDNA 3 architecture , and it looks as if were still getting the expected RX 7900 XT, with the XTX model packing
more cores and an extra 4GB of VRAM. XTX is an old naming convention of AMDs, which hasnt been used since the Radeon X1000 series way back in 2006.

If the leak is to be believed, the RX 7900 XTX will be AMDs competitor to Nvidias stupidly powerful and stupidly expensive RTX 4090 , a model that sits high up our list of the best graphics cards . Theres no news on pricing or performance of the new Radeon GPUs yet, so we can only guess as to how it might stack up against Team Greens offering. Opinion: Its cool, but who
really cares?

Look, Im all for AMD producing a rival to the mighty RTX 4090, but lets be honest here; neither the RX 7900 XTX nor Nvidias new flagship card are going to be mainstream consumer products. After all, people are still searching for where to buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and even the base pricing is far out of the average PC users reach.

I think were moving towards a singularity in consumer graphics card requirements. The professional side of the market will always crave more powerful GPUs to render animations and crunch numbers faster, but for the everyday PC gamer in the current cost-of-living crisis theres no impetus to shell out hundreds if not thousands of dollars for a new card when perfect good affordable options are still out there.

Yes, the RTX 4090 sold out almost immediately, but Nvidia didnt exactly pull out all the stops when it came to stock production. The most recent Steam Hardware Survey shows that the most popular GPUs among gamers are the GTX 1060, GTX 1650, and RTX 2060 - some of the best cheap graphics cards of the last decade.

This means the majority of gamers - on PC, anyway - are still playing at
1080p or 720p, and in my opinion thats totally fine. 4K monitors are expensive, and the higher resolution matters less when youre sitting with
your face two feet from the screen. Cheaper cards such as Intels Arc GPUs or the long-awaited RTX 4060 are the real deal here; we hope AMD doesnt ape Nvidia and only show us the pricey high-end cards.

Its important to remember that all of this is currently just a rumor, and Benchlife did not divulge the source of its leaked information. You can tune into the live stream on November 3 via AMDs YouTube channel and find out one way or the other.



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