One in every of AMD’s forthcoming new GPUs has seemingly simply appeared within the Geekbench outcome browser, with the itemizing revealing among the key specs of this new graphics card. It seems to be as if the primary AMD Radeon 8000 GPUs are actually being examined previous to launch, giving us our first glimpse of what could possibly be in retailer with the brand new sequence based mostly on the RDNA 4 structure. If this itemizing is correct, although, then the specs look fairly underwhelming.
Present rumors already level to AMD specializing in mid-range efficiency with its new Radeon RX 8000 lineup, and leaving the flagship finest graphics card title to Nvidia. This wouldn’t be the primary time AMD took this technique both, with its Vega and first-gen RDNA GPUs additionally sitting beneath Nvidia’s top-end choices on the time.
On this case, the GPU in query not solely seems to be like a mid-range possibility, but additionally one which’s on the backside of that phase. Within the Geekbench itemizing, the machine ID is listed as “gfx1201,” which has beforehand been proven to line up with the forthcoming Navi48 chip, which is anticipated to be based mostly on the brand new RDNA 4 structure.
The itemizing exhibits this GPU as having 28 compute models (CUs) which, if RDNA 4 is something like RDNA 3, will successfully imply it has 56 CUs, as a result of AMD’s dual-issue CU design. Nonetheless, even AMD’s sub-$500 Radeon RX 7800 XT has 60 CUs, placing this new GPU near the spec of the present Radeon RX 7700 XT (54 CUs) by way of uncooked numbers. In the meantime, the utmost frequency is proven as solely hitting 2,101MHz, which is in an identical league to the two,171MHz sport clock of the Radeon RX 7700 XT.
Nonetheless, as that is clearly an early pattern, we wouldn’t learn an excessive amount of into the clock velocity proper now, as this might nicely be increased when the ultimate silicon is launched. Likewise, the benchmark outcomes themselves are considerably slower than what we’d count on from even a funds GPU proper now, so the drivers are clearly at very early phases.
Not like the Radeon RX 7700 XT, nonetheless, this GPU is proven as having 16GB of VRAM, which suggests it’s very prone to have a 256-bit reminiscence interface. A latest publish by common tech leaker Kepler_L2 on X (previously Twitter) additionally seems to verify the velocity of the VRAM. The publish lists three units of numbers, which seem like they symbolize the width of the reminiscence interface, adopted by the frequency.
A pair of “256” choices are listed, which look as if they run at 20GHz and 18GHz (efficient). With this data, we estimate that this new GPU with 56 compute models has 16GB of 18GHz (efficient) GDDR6 VRAM hooked up to a 256-bit reminiscence bus. We’d additionally hazard a guess that it’s prone to be referred to as the Radeon RX 8700 XT. This is able to additionally imply that there’s one other, higher-spec card with 16GB of 20GHz (efficient) VRAM within the works, probably with 60 compute models enabled.
Earlier rumors have instructed that AMD has at the least two new RDNA 4 GPUs within the works, referred to as Navi48 and Navi44, and it now seems to be as if Navi48 is the lesser of the 2. This follows some earlier AMD GPU naming conventions, the place the next quantity means a much less highly effective GPU – the top-end Radeon RX 7900 XTX makes use of a Navi31 GPU, for instance, whereas the Radeon RX 7600 makes use of a Navi33 GPU.
May this imply that Navi44 goes to be extra highly effective than the Navi48 chip seemingly listed within the Geekbench outcomes browser? We hope so, as players want wholesome competitors to maintain costs in test.
In fact, there’s additionally extra to efficiency than the sheer variety of compute models, and modifications in GPU structure can imply you’re prone to get rather more efficiency per CU once you transfer to a brand new era. The last-gen Radeon RX 6800 XT has 72 CUs in comparison with simply 60 within the quicker Radeon RX 7800 XT, for instance. As at all times with early tech rumors, keep in mind that not one of the above has been confirmed by AMD, so take it with a pinch of salt for the second.
Whereas AMD’s top-end GPUs wrestle to compete with the perfect choices from Nvidia proper now, we’ve been impressed by its mid-range graphics playing cards based mostly on the RDNA 3 structure. Check out our Radeon RX 7900 GRE evaluate to see why.
