The Navi 4x lineup has no high-end models
At AMD’s Financial Analyst Day event last June, the company updated its architectural roadmap for the RDNA/CDNA series of GPUs, revealing that the Navi 4x series GPUs correspond to the RDNA 4 architecture. It also disclosed that the new chips will employ more advanced manufacturing processes and are planned to launch in 2024, aligning with the timeline of the Zen 5 architecture for CPUs.
Currently, AMD is still engrossed in releasing various GPUs based on the RDNA 3 architecture, refreshing the Radeon RX 7000 series product line. The performance and overall lineup of the new-generation architecture is not particularly promising. Recently, Twitter user @Kepler_L2 revealed some details about the RDNA 4 architecture, suggesting that it may be difficult to alter the present competitive situation in the field of graphic chips.
It is alleged that the Navi 4x series GPUs, crafted on the RDNA 4 architecture, will not include high-end models, akin to past RDNA or Polaris architectures. This implies that there will be no appearance of Radeon RX 8000 series graphics cards, equivalent to those outfitted with Navi 21/31. Recent reports indicate that AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 8000 series with Zen 5 architecture cores will be equipped with new integrated graphics, utilizing the RDNA 3.5/3+ architecture. New revelations assert that the RDNA 3.5/3+ architecture will only be used for integrated graphics and will not appear on standalone graphics cards.
Earlier this year, David Wang, Senior Vice President of Engineering for AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group, and Rick Bergman, Executive Vice President of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Business Group, were interviewed by the media. They expressed a desire for more advanced shaders and technologies to be featured in the RDNA 4 architecture, as part of the new GPU programming model’s standard specifications. Additionally, they pledged that the performance of GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture will surpass that of the RDNA 3 architecture.
