AMD has confirmed its new Radeon RX 8000 graphics cards They will be introduced in early 2025. It is highly likely that the company will use the CES celebrations to announce these graphics cards as it would serve as a festive stage to show the world the new generation.

With the Radeon RX 8000, AMD will repeat the strategy they adopted with the Radeon RX 5000. This means that this new generation It won’t have any high-end modeland which will focus on offering the best possible value within the premium mid-range and economy mid-range, the two categories most popular with users.

Sunnyvale Company did not confirm the Radeon RX 8000 name, so there may be changes in nomenclature. I don’t see it as very likely, but it’s something we can’t rule out at the moment either. It also hasn’t given details on how many models it plans to launch, but we do know that it will use two graphics cores, Navi 44 and Navi 48, so it will most likely launch between four and six new graphics cards.

Radeon RX 8000 will have two big improvements

And these improvements were confirmed by Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, during the company’s last event dedicated to the review of financial results for the third quarter of 2024. During it, the executive said that GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture, i.e. , Radeon RX 8000, will offer a increased ray tracing performance and new AI capabilities.

These improvements are exactly the two pending bills that AMD had to know better compete with NVIDIA in the ordinary consumer market. GeForce RTX 40 uses hardware-accelerated AI to improve the performance and quality of graphics in games, and also offers much greater performance in ray tracing.

With the changes AMD introduced to the RDNA 4 architecture, the company clearly focused on specialization. We can expect the Radeon RX 8000 to have new cores to speed up ray tracingand that they also feature specialized AI cores. It remains to be seen if they will finally apply AI to the AMD FSR platform and what impact it will ultimately have on performance and image quality.

I think this also explains why AMD decided to limit this new generation of graphics cards to the mid-range. The company had to implement very important changes at the architectural level to improve ray tracing performance and AI functionality, and it had to cost a lot of time and effort. Maybe that’s why it didn’t have time to develop new high-end graphics cores and had no choice but to postpone it for the next generation of its architecture.

If you want more information, I invite you to check out this special we published in September where we review all we know so far about the Radeon RX 8000, including its possible specifications and performance values ​​and introductory prices.

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