With its RDNA 3 graphics cards, AMD once again lost the high-end performance war to Nvidia and did not release a card that would match the RTX 4090. New information shows that AMD may leave the top spot to Nvidia in next generation graphics cards. However, this decision may be linked to AI hardware and its demands, which are increasingly competing with gaming GPUs.Radeon RX 8800 or RX 8900 may never be released
Recently, it was claimed that AMD canceled the upcoming Navi 41 and Navi 42 GPUs. If these rumors are true, there will be no high-end model in AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture graphics cards. Instead, the company will focus on the more mainstream segment.
Previous leaks claimed that Navi 4 (or RDNA 4) based cards would be similar to the RDNA 1 and Polaris family. If you remember, the most powerful consumer RDNA 1 GPU was the Radeon RX 5700 XT, while the following two generations included products at higher tiers such as the 6800, 6900, 6950, 7800 and 7900. It is stated that AMD will follow a similar path in the next generation and will offer the highest level RX 8700 card. However, it should be underlined that these are just rumors for now.
As for the reason for this, AMD is allegedly focusing its limited TSMC capacity allocation on creating more FPGA and GPGPU chips, thus sacrificing the company’s gaming products for AI. The artificial intelligence boom brought Nvidia over $10 billion in revenue last quarter. As a result, the company pivoted from the RTX 4090, which was taking shape on TSMC’s production lines, to the highly profitable H100 AI GPUs. There was a contraction in the production of the consumer class flagship.
The Radeon RX 8000 series will compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series. Both are expected to launch in 2024, but the launch of Nvidia’s cards may be delayed until 2025. Information on performance is limited, but using TSMC’s 3nm process node, the GeForce RTX 5000 could offer significant improvements over existing Ada Lovelace GPUs.
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