AMD RDNA 3 leak teases new Nvidia-killing graphics power

AMD RDNA 3 graphics cards could have huge performance

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Information technology's currently easier to get blood out of a stone than find the current-gen graphics cards in stock, but that's not stopped a leak from teasing the performance of next-generation AMD graphics.

Nosotros know AMD is working on it's RDNA 3 GPU architecture to build upon RDNA ii, which you lot'll find in the AMD Big Navi, aka the Radeon RX 6900 XT and the Radeon RX 6800 XT. Just a new leak has suggested futurity mid-range Radeon graphics cards volition be equally powerful as the top-end GPUs AMD currently has.

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This leak comes courtesy of regular tipster Yuko Yoshida, who said a GPU dubbed Navi 33 will be equal to the Navi 21 GPU plant in the Radeon RX 6900 XT but will use a next-gen graphics core. WCCFtech reported that this all sounds somewhat farfetched, but then noted that AMD has promised significant performance gains from RDNA 2 to RDNA 3.

And if this leak proves to be legit and then a Navi 33 cards could come with 80 compute units, like the Navi 21 GPU in the RX 6900 XT. That would see such a card trounce other heavy-hitting GPUs in the Radeon RX 6000 series.

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Navi 33 would exist the equivalent of Navi 23, which we are expecting to be the foundation of the Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT when they arrive some signal in the near hereafter.

Given it'south gear up to employ a next-gen RDNA 3 compages, which is expected to movement from the 7-nanometer process annotation to 5nm, a Navi 33 GPU is likely to offering more than speed and efficiency than even its powerful predecessors, thanks to having more than transistors per silicon slice.

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is a serious 4K gaming graphics card, just comes with a hefty $999 cost tag. That undercuts the $1,499 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, but is far from cheap. Nevertheless, if AMD can bring that level of performance into mid-range graphics cards for nether $500, then information technology would be onto a winner and could seriously take on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.

Of grade, this is all speculation based on a leak that nosotros can't verify. Merely it does pigment a positive picture for hereafter AMD graphics cards, probable to exist revealed some time in 2022, providing semiconductor manufacturing can actually see plenty side by side-gen graphics cards produced for eager PC gamers.

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