The Radeon RX 8000 release date was a real mystery. I already told you then that the latest information They disagreed Some have said that this new generation of graphics cards will arrive at the end of this year, and others have predicted that it will arrive in the first quarter of 2025.

Nothing has been confirmed, but today I can finally share more details on this topic with you. Moore’s Law is Dead assures that he received a call from an AMD employee and that he confirmed that the company messed with the release date Radeon RX 8000 to confound its rivals.

I remember something similar already happened with the Radeon RX 6000, a generation that was rumored to have very low performance and not be able to compete with the GeForce RTX 30. in the end it didn’t come true and it was a generation very competitive in rasterization, though not so much in ray tracing.

When will the Radeon RX 8000 arrive?

Between October and November this year, a date that was curiously the one that the first rumors indicated and which corresponded to the possible launch date of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50. The source says that this information comes from a leak from an AMD employee, but since it is not confirmed, I cannot give them absolute credence .

On the other hand, it is important to always remember that we are always on these types of important launches there may be a delay more or less marked, so we’ll have to wait and watch for AMD’s future announcements.

Possible specifications of Radeon RX 8800 XT

This graphics card could arrive first, and the latest rumors continue to guarantee that it will The pinnacle of AMD within this new graphics generation, although it is not confirmed. However, the sources do not agree on its specifications and this raises doubts about the possible real performance that this graphics card would have.

The latest information I was able to consult depicted the Radeon RX 8800 XT with a configuration similar to that of the Radeon RX 7900, which is equivalent to 4,096 shaders.

This graphics card would have a 256-bit bus and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory at 20 Gb/s, giving us the bandwidth 512 GB/s. To generate peak bandwidth and improve performance, the Radeon RX 8800 XT will have 96 MB of infinite cache. Its TBP will range between 210 and 280 watts and will operate at a speed between 2.9 and 3.2 GHz.

Radeon RX 8800 XT architecture and performance

The Radeon RX 8800 XT will use the Navi 48 GPU based on the RDNA 4 architecture and manufactured on TSMC’s 4nm node. This graphics core will have a monolithic design and external L3 cache memory chips. Each computing unit will have a More cores to speed up ray tracingwhich will significantly improve performance and have dedicated AI hardware for FP8 and matrix computing.

If these specifications are met, the Radeon RX 8800 XT would have a performance of up to 52.42 TFLOPs. This FP32 performance peak is so high because this graphics card will have dual-emission shaders, pushing it above 51.48 TFLOPs which reaches the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which would be its closest equivalent.

The leak says that the performance of the Radeon RX 8800 XT will be at the level of the Radeon RX 4080 in rasterization, and in ray tracing it could be between GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and GeForce RTX 4080. This would be a big improvement, as the Radeon RX 7900 XT usually lags behind the GeForce RTX 3090 in ray tracing.

The most interesting would be the selling price

And the reference model could stand 499 dollarsnumber that could happen in Spain 540 euros after currency conversion and tax application. This means that we would have a graphics card capable of offering almost the same performance as the GeForce RTX 4080. for half the price of this.

The Radeon RX 8800 XT will be a mid-range graphics card in the next graphics generation. It will not be a high-end model, as it will not primarily have a GeForce RTX 4080 as a direct rival, but rather GeForce RTX 5070 from NVIDIA, a model that could offer performance similar to that of the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, and which will be priced between 549 and 599 dollars.