It’s a week of big rumors, sometimes with spectacular turnarounds, and sometimes with information that emerges after several weeks of dead calm. Such is the case with future AMD graphics cards based on RDNA 4. Several previous rumors have hinted at AMD’s desire to stop following Nvidia in a race to the top, and instead offer affordable mid-range/high-end products, with a top-of-the-range RX 8800XT costing no more than $700. The RDNA 4 release date has also been a topic, to the point where there were doubts about the cards’ arrival in 2024. MLID sets the record straight with an update on the latest information it claims to have.
An RX 8800XT on a par with the RTX 4080, but at half the price?
As mentioned above, the RX 8800 XT should be the pinnacle of the future RDNA 4 range. It will be based on the Navi 48 chip, featuring 64 computing units (CU) or 4096 shader cores clocked between 2.9 GHz and 3.2 GHz (in game). The card will feature “only” 16GB of GDDR6 at 20 Gbit/s (as for the “new” RTX 4070) on a 256-bit bus.
In terms of performance, this would be on a par with an RTX 4080…at least as far as rasterization is concerned. Ray tracing performance will be comparable to that of the RTX 4070 Ti/4070 Ti Super. The card is expected to sell for around $499-599 (€599-6999), whereas the RTX 4080 sells for well over $1,000 / €1,200.
Mass availability in the last quarter?
Here again, information is contradictory. However, we’re beginning to get used to Nvidia and AMD’s game of deception regarding their respective timetables. For example, Nvidia is said to have complacently leaked that the RTX 50s won’t arrive before 2025… Our little finger doesn’t quite agree with this. But as for the RX 8800 XT, this would be “available in large quantities in the last quarter of 2024”. This would mean a reference board, but also multiple versions from AMD’s partner brands. In the latter case, this would mean that the GPUs were delivered at least by the end of September… Wait and See.
