For its next generation of graphics cardsAMD aims to produce more economical models, from every point of view.
Little by little, tongues are loosening around new generations of graphics cards. After two years spent under the sign of the GeForce RTX 40 and Radeon RX 7000, it will soon be a question of handing over.
If things are becoming clearer regularly on the NVIDIA side, it is still quite vague for what AMD will offer us… apart from the fact that the high end seems a little neglected on this next generation.
AMD aims for the mid-range
For several months now, the question of a less muscular generation at AMD compared to NVIDIA has been confirmed. Of course, that doesn’t mean there won’t be competition between our two greatest enemies.
On the other hand, if things are confirmed, it could well be that this hypothetical GeForce RTX 5090 finds itself completely alone in its market segment and even the GeForce RTX 5080 could have no competitor when it is released, “normally” before the end of 2024.
Everything actually suggests that AMD is content with a Radeon RX 8800 powered by a Navi 44 GPU while an RX 8700 (still in Navi 44) would also be considered and that two models based on Navi 48 would then see the light of day. (RX 8600 and RX 8500).
No need for VRAM in 27 Gbps
Today, it is an additional indicator of this “mid-range” orientation from AMD which reaches us through information about the memory subsystem of the next Radeons.
Quoted by our colleagues from VideoCardz, Kepler_L2 is no stranger to small indiscretions on the graphics card market. This time, we are talking about the on-board memory on the entire RDNA4 range: from GDDR6 to “only” 18 Gbps. This clarification comes a few weeks after a rumor mentioning GDDR7 in 28 Gbps for the GeForce RTX 5090.
A notable distinction between what AMD is planning for its Radeon RX 8800 and what NVIDIA is preparing for its GeForce RTX 5090. That said, this is not a surprise as it has already been mentioned that the RX 8800 would come wedge between the current RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 GRE while being much more efficient than its big sisters.
Much more than the best performance, AMD is seeking with its Radeon RX 8800 to obtain more economical graphics cards: they must be less expensive to produce and more energy efficient than the previous generation. Not necessarily a bad calculation.
Source : VideoCardz
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