The next generation of graphics from NVIDIA and AMD Radeon It promises a significant improvement in performance (if the forecasts are true), but in exchange for a significant increase in power consumption. This obviously clashes with increasingly prohibitive energy prices, so we’ll see if it pays off for companies to follow this strategy.
Last month we reported on the NVIDIA AD102 chip, which belongs to the Ada Lovelace generation, with a consumption between 600 and 800 watts. The fact that the chip and not the graphics card was mentioned left the door open for it not to be the RTX 4090 Ti, but the next generation of the TITAN line. It seems that AMD would choose to follow a similar path with its future RX 7000, which will be based on the RDNA 3 graphics architecture.
According to YouTube channel RedGamingTech, the team responsible for Radeon would have increased the total graphics power (TGP) of the high-end Navi 31 chip from 375 to 405 watts, which represents an increase of 8%. But given the context we live in, AMD’s graphics division would have another more efficient SKU ready with a TGP of 375 watts.
On the other hand, RedGamingTech has published what would be the specifications of the expected flagship SKU of next-gen Radeon, which would have 84 compute units (CU) or 42 workgroup processors (WGP) and its name points to the 7950 XT instead of the 7900XT. This information conflicts with others that stated 60 WPG or 120 CU, but still a significant development is expected due to the fact that at least on some models the number of SIMD32 for each computing unit will rise from two to four.
The memory subsystem is another promising point of the RX 7000. According to the alleged in-depth review, V-cache would add to the cocktail of technologies for increase the amount of Infinity Cache from 128 to 384 megabytesan improvement that would be quantitatively threefold if met.
The improvements that the Radeon RX 7000 series would introduce, if true, would see this generation’s top graphics card double the performance offered by the RX 6950 XT. But you know, with these songs, if there is no release and many benchmarks for comparison, it is better to take all these data with tweezers.
If AMD sticks to its roadmap, the RX 7000 graphics should start seeing the light of day from the fourth quarter of 2022. NVIDIA is also close, but the green giant looks like it will only launch the RTX 4090, its Ti variant, or both for this year, with later in during 2023 he released the rest of Ada Lovelace’s catalog.
