AMD is lastly committing to rounding out its RDNA 3 GPU stack, with Dr. Lisa Su promising it will be launching new “enthusiast-class” graphics playing cards earlier than the tip of October. We have already had sources suggesting an August reveal for brand new playing cards, and a September launch is trying fairly good proper now.
It is promising that Dr. Su is stating publicly that AMD goes to be releasing a number of playing cards, which means that we are going to see each the RX 7800 and RX 7700 GPUs dropping within the subsequent few months. After it dropped a solo Radeon RX 7600 on the finish of Might, there was perhaps some concern that it might proceed to drip-feed us RDNA 3 playing cards.
The announcement got here within the latest AMD Q2 financials name, the place some extra inexperienced shoots of the PC trade revival have been famous. These shoots are nonetheless fairly fragile, although, as AMD’s gaming phase continues to be affected by decrease GPU gross sales, down each year-on-year and in comparison with the earlier three months. Fortunately, it is semi-custom—console and handheld—chip enterprise continues to be rising, principally because of Sony and Microsoft, in order that’s offsetting AMD’s tenuous grip on the graphics card market.
However it’s hoping to vary that within the subsequent few months, nonetheless, with Dr. Su stating: “We’re on monitor to additional increase our RDNA 3 GPU choices with the launch of recent, enthusiast-class Radeon 7000 sequence playing cards within the third quarter.”
And “enthusiast-class” sounds about proper for an RX 7800 card that is trying like it can outperform Nvidia’s glorious RTX 4070 and can most likely are available in considerably cheaper, too.
If you wish to see a boatload of recent GPUs then making them higher and cheaper than the competitors is an efficient strategy to go about it, proper?
That efficiency expectation has come from leaked RX 7800 3DMark numbers, however Nvidia will all the time counter with the dual advantages of DLSS 3 and Body Era, although that’s nonetheless solely particularly out there in a choose few video games proper now.
With an RX 7700 popping out under it, that must arrange a tasty head-to-head between AMD’s new playing cards and Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070 GPUs. Who wins? We do. Perhaps. Y’know, if costs begin getting extra aggressive, in any case.
