The RDNA 4 architecture will not be used to create high-end graphics cards, this is something that AMD itself has officially confirmed, but it left us all with a very important doubtespecially because of the words used by Jack Huynh, AMD’s senior vice president and general manager of the computer and graphics group.

This question is very simple, it means that AMD will leave the high-end graphics card market, Or is it just temporary?a strategic move to later return to the high-end market?

We have no official response from Sunnyvale. Huynh’s words might lead us to think that this is a definitive movement or at least one to be preserved in the long run, but I don’t think that will be the case and I have a very clear precedent to rely on. Radeon RX 5000.

When AMD launched this generation of graphics cards, it also forgot about the most powerful models and limited itself to launching four models to cover the mid-range and entry into the high-end. It didn’t have a real top of the line range and kept prices very controlled. However, with the launch of the Radeon RX 6000, the strategy changed completely and has once again launched top-of-the-line models.

To win in the graphics card sector, it is important to offer products with good price-performance ratio, but it is also necessary to offer high performance and valuable features and technologies. In this sense, it is clear that NVIDIA has won the game for several years and AMD has not been able to respond in time.

High range in this sense is more important than it seems, because not only defines prestige and reputation company, but will also eventually become the reference of each graphic generation in its image. AMD knows this and didn’t make the decision to move away from the high end lightly, they did it because for one reason or another they couldn’t scale RDNA 4 well and had no choice but to focus on the mid range.

This is not goodbye, see you later. AMD has a lot going on with their Radeon graphics cards, and it’s normal that they have to make small sacrifices between generations. It can give up the high-end with the Radeon RX 8000 It will help you run a much more competitive Radeon RX 9000, as happened at the time with the Radeon RX 6000, which ended up offering very good value in rasterization.

Radeon RX 8000, which will be AMD’s next graphics cards based on RDNA 4 architecture, according to the latest information, will appear on the market sometime in the first quarter of 2025. The most powerful model is expected to be on the same level as GeForce RTX 4080 or RTX 4080 SUPER, which at best may be equivalent to GeForce RTX 5070.

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