Clearly, brands and manufacturers are currently focusing on artificial intelligence. At this year’s Computex, we could really feel it, with servers displayed on the stands of major companies… Even at InWin, which specializes in (sometimes luxurious) consumer cases, we had a massive server cluster in the center of the stand. In short, all this means that the big new products are being postponed, and we’ll have to wait between a year and a year and a half for the arrival of new graphics cards… That’s what emerged from discussions between a colleague and the brands at Computex.
RDNA 5: you’ll have to be patient!
Not before mid-2027, or even early 2028:
For the time being, AMD is offering a rather limited range of graphics cards with its RX 9000. The RX 9060 (XT) and RX 9070 (XT) are four cards in all. More recently, the RX 9070 GRE was launched worldwide, but the series is rather limited. As a reminder, with this generation, the Reds’ aim was to regain market share by focusing heavily on the sector where the bulk of sales were made. But with RDNA5, we can expect the company to return to attacking NVIDIA at the top end of the market. We’re in a similar situation to that of the RX 5000/RX 6000.
But according to rumours and discussions at Computex, we’ll have to be patient, as this generation of cards won’t arrive until at least 2027. While some are talking about a mid-year launch, others, more pessimistically, are talking about an early 2028 launch. Either way, we’re not there yet.
A consumer market on pause:
As you can see, all this has put the consumer PC market on standby . Between high memory prices and a lack of new products, the market is no longer attractive, and component sales are plummeting. At the same time, brands are concentrating on their core business: servers, in order to continue to exist. It’s like a snake biting its own tail. For the time being, we can only see one way out: either the “AI bubble” bursts, or the deployment of AI infrastructure reaches maturity, thus relieving the pressure to lower prices and revive the consumer sector.
