TECH NEWS – AMD will also launch new graphics cards soon, so you can expect new products from them alongside Intel and Nvidia.

Amid all the speculation, “the reds” have confirmed that two of their cards will definitely launch at CES 2025. The company hasn’t officially said anything yet, but the text of AMD’s Radeon Software Adrenalin 24.12.1 driver has confirmed two GPUs: the RX 8800 and RX 8600. The names may change, but what the cards are based on will not. The former will be based on Navi 48 and the latter on Navi 44. On December 3, AMD retweeted that they will have a press event at CES 2025 to talk about the next generation of video game innovation, and this is a strong indication that the RDNA 4 architecture will get a public foothold here.

AMD is trying to keep up with Nvidia in ray tracing (RT), and on paper, what the new cards can do is promising. According to a well-known leaker on the Chiphell forum, zhangzhonghao (who previously leaked the exact release date of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D), the RX 8800 XT will be more powerful than the RX 7900 XTX, while also consuming 25% less power and being 45% stronger in ray tracing. With the latter statistic, the card can essentially eat on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4080/4080 Super siznt, and GPUs are already in production, so a rumored release in early 2025 sounds realistic. According to Videocardz, the power consumption will be around 220-270W and they say it will have 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM at 20Gb/s, while the RX 8600 XT will get 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM at 19Gb/s.

AMD is trying to catch up in ray tracing, as evidenced by the PlayStation 5 Pro (which is based on AMD’s RDNA 4 RT). The company is also getting into artificial intelligence, which will also be a big help with frame generation and upscaling (AMD FSR). What we don’t know yet is whether the company plans to build a card with similar performance to the RTX 4090/5090.

Given that we’re only seeing a modest improvement over a generational leap, it’s understandable that the company is focusing on entry-level and mid-range cards.

Source: GameRant, Videocardz