The more the days go by, the more accurate the analysis of AMD’s latest statements becomes. Thus, the words of AMD’s senior vice president of engineering at Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, have been deconstructed and we could understand that he confirmed that AMD will deliver a notable improvement in raytracing capabilities with its next-generation RDNA 3 GPUs that will power the RX 7000.
RX 7000: An architecture really thought for raytracing?
This is obviously what was the Achilles heel of the previous generation compared to Nvidia’s RTX 30. The Reds seem to have jumped on the bandwagon this time and if we simply interpret their words, we understand that the core of the RDNA 3 GPUs has been optimized for raytracing performance which was not necessarily the case with the RX6000 series. But it would be illusory to think that Nvidia on its side will lift its foot. NVIDIA’s 3rd generation RT cores are expected to make their debut on the GeForce RTX 40 series. The question will be whether AMD catches up in this area or whether the new cards can compete.
More than 3 Ghz in operation?
In the other statements of David Wang we also understand that part of the work around the RDNA 3 GPUs will allow even higher clock speeds than on the RDNA 2 GPUs. For the record, some RX 6000s already run at nearly 3 GHz. At AMD, with the use of 5 nm, we can expect this speed to be exceeded. But here again, Nvidia should not be content to be a spectator. While nothing is official on the green side, rumors about the RTX 40 hint at speeds up to 3 GHz. Nvidia would benefit from using TSMC’s more efficient 4N process (5nm optimized process node).
In this story, as we’ve been talking about for weeks, the main players are playing a lying poker about the details of their future babies. So we’ll have to wait for one of them to unveil itself to get a clear idea. In this game, it could be that Nvidia is the first to present things at the end of the summer. Source OC3D
