AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su shed some more light on the next generation of Radeon RX 7000 gaming graphics cards featuring the latest RDNA3 graphics architecture during the Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) Desktop Processors AM5 launch event tonight. At the end of the presentation, Ms. Su showed off the first new-generation gaming graphics card, calling it “very beautiful.”
The three key features of the Radeon RX 7000 are RDNA 3 architecture, chiplet design, and 5nm process technology. Previously, AMD has already managed to test the approach with multi-chip GPUs in accelerators for data centers of the Instinct MI200 line.
As you can see from the official render above, the design is in a black color scheme similar to the Radeon RX 6950XT series. The teaser does not allow you to see the power connector. It is also not yet clear which model is shown on the slide, but it is clear that this is a top-end graphics card, given its thickness.
At the presentation, Dr. Lisa Su said that the Radeon 7000 is currently being tested in the AMD labs, and its performance looks absolutely remarkable. It also confirmed preliminary claims that the future RDNA3 architecture will deliver over 50% watts of performance gain over the current generation of RDNA2.
Part of the show was the first public demonstration of the new Radeon graphics card paired with the new flagship Ryzen (7950X) processor – Lies of P was launched on a test system with a pre-production RDNA3 GPU sample at 4K resolution and Ultra graphics settings.
According to preliminary data, the basis of the future flagship of the Radeon RX 7000 series will be the Navi 31 GPU with 12,288 stream processors and a GDDR6 buffer up to 24 GB. When exactly the first gaming models of the RDNA3 generation will be released is still unclear. AMD does not name a specific date, but Lisa Su assured that the new architecture will be ready later this year.
Future Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards will compete with the GeForce RTX 4000, which should also be released by the end of 2022. AMD expects the new graphics cards to revitalize consumer demand in a market that is rapidly declining along with the PC market . And how can one not recall AMD’s recent forecast for an increase in the power consumption of video cards to 600-700 W by 2025 . We still have to wait for the announcements of the Radeon RX 7000 and GeForce RTX 4000, but earlier the next generation (if we talk about top models) were predicted to be 400 watts.