Confirming what anybody remotely accustomed to AMD’s latest graphics card naming conventions would have suspected, AMD’s upcoming new flagship RDNA 4 graphics card will sport the basic XTX suffix, if a not too long ago leaked delivery manifesto is something to go by.
The cardboard, which will probably be AMD‘s subsequent try to realize a prime spot on our greatest graphics card information, has lengthy been rumored however this new transport doc provides a contact extra element to the general image.
Particularly, the leak comes through X/Twitter person @Olrak29_ with them having noticed a delivery manifesto containing the next line: “GRAPHIC CARD: NAVI48 G28201 DT XTX REVB-PRE-CORRELATION AO PLATSI TT(SAMSUNG)-Q2 2024-3A – 102 – G2801.” Serial GPU spec leaker @harukaze5719 additionally adopted up with their very own model of an analogous leaked doc, itemizing 4 variations on the identical itemizing.
That every one interprets to there being a desktop graphics card (DT) with the suffix XTX that makes use of a Navi 48 GPU manufactured in Q2 2024 (so, very not too long ago). The G2801 half, in the meantime, refers back to the engineering PCB that’s being shipped with the GPU, such that the receiver can take a look at the GPU.
What does that each one mix to inform us? Effectively, we’ve already had it confirmed that the Navi 48 and Navi 44 GPUs exist, with the previous anticipated for use in higher-tier graphics playing cards and the latter anticipated to be for lower-end playing cards. The numbering of those GPUs additionally corresponds to this being the 4th iteration of the RDNA graphics structure.
We’ve additionally seen in earlier rumors that AMD is anticipated to not ship a high-end RDNA 4 graphics card that may compete with the likes of a future RTX 5090. As an alternative, Navi 48 is anticipated to reach with the kind of efficiency that may rival an RTX 5070.
This newest delivery manifesto, then, seemingly confirms that this card, regardless of having efficiency that received’t rival the relative efficiency of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX will nonetheless maintain on to the XTX suffix. This implies we will count on there to be an AMD Radeon RX 8900 XTX nevertheless it received’t be going toe to toe with the RTX 5090.
This new leak ties in to the commonly diminished hype surrounding AMD and Nvidia’s subsequent era of graphics playing cards now that Computex has been and gone. Even earlier than the world’s largest PC-oriented commerce present, rumors had been swirling that AMD and Nvidia wouldn’t be releasing new graphics playing cards this 12 months, however there was nonetheless some hope that we’d get some shock information at Computex. Nevertheless, it by no means arrived.
As such, we will now totally count on that AMD and Nvidia – and presumably Intel too – received’t be bringing model new graphics card to the market this 12 months. Nonetheless, it’s at all times doable that might change and we nonetheless have a lot extra to be taught concerning the new GPUs earlier than they arrive, corresponding to simply how a lot they’ll enhance on AI efficiency – lastly bringing AMD on par with Nvidia for AI-generated upscaling for example, how environment friendly they’ll be, simply how a lot efficiency we will count on, and naturally what the pricing will probably be.
Whereas we look forward to all these particulars to filter out over the approaching weeks and months, you’ll be able to take a look at what we do find out about AMD’s upcoming new CPUs or you’ll be able to bone up on AMD’s earlier RDNA 3 graphics structure so that you’ll know the way it compares when the brand new merchandise do arrive.
