The Radeon RX 7950 XT will become one of the most powerful graphics cards in the new generation, and thanks to the new leak, we have a fairly accurate estimate of what its specifications could be. Before we get to the point, it’s important to realize that this graphics card will use the RDNA 3 architecture makes a leap to the MCM designwhich means that your GPU will consist of two interconnected chips.

This design is based on the same foundation we’ve seen with AMD’s Instinct Mi200 graphics accelerators, so this information is very credible because it’s not based on something that doesn’t exist yet, quite the opposite. However, I doubt the real impact that it can have these types of configurations when applied to games and about the actual performance that a system based on two interconnected GPUs will be able to offer. Fortunately, it doesn’t take long to clear up the doubts, as the Radeon RX 7000 will arrive this year.

Now yes, let’s see possible specifications from Radeon RX 7950 XT and then we comment:

• Navi 31 GPU made on a 5nm node.
• 15,360 shaders (two connected chips, each with a total of 7,680 shaders).
• frequency 2.5 GHz.
• 240 computing units.
• 240 cores to speed up ray tracing.
• 256-bit bus.
• 32 GB GDDR6 memory at 21 GHz.
• 512 MB 3D stacked infinite cache.
• 500W TBP.

The Radeon RX 7950 XT will have three times more shaders than the Radeon RX 6900 XT

The possible specifications of the Radeon RX 7950 XT seem too good to be true, but they are perfectly believable. On the one hand, this very high number of shaders can be easily achieved by combining two GPUs in the MCM design, as we have already said, and on the other hand, 512 MB of infinite cache also they would fit into the package thanks to 3D stacking. The latter should improve performance in 4K resolution, because the 128 MB of infinite cache that the RX 6000 brings “shortens” as we move in that resolution.

The increase in the number of beam-tracking cores should be felt appreciable improvement in terms of raw performance working with this technology, but it will also be necessary to assess the changes that AMD is implementing at the architecture level. In this sense, it is important to keep in mind that the RDNA 2 architecture has important shortcomings when working with ray tracing, because dedicated kernels share resources with texture units, cannot work asynchronously, and part of the ray tracing is still running. in charge of shaders.

Compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, the differences are huge, because the Radeon RX 7950 XT would triple the number of shaders and would also have twice the graphics memory. It will represent a significant increase in performance, however we must not be wrong and think that it will be linearThis means that the Radeon RX 7950 XT will not deliver three times the performance of the Radeon RX 6900 XT, but it can easily double that.

The introduction of the Radeon RX 7000 series is scheduled for the end of this year, as we told you, although we still do not have a specific date and do not know which models will arrive first. Overall, I think it’s probably AMD start with the most powerful one you did then with the Radeon RX 6000.