Both AMD and Nvidia are preparing to launch their next-generation graphics cards expected to show up later this year. We have heard several rumors about the new GPUs, and the leaks are predicting huge upgrades over the last generation. While we don’t have much information on this from AMD or Nvidia, it seems like the date for the upcoming announcement has been leaked.
Reliable leaker, Greymon55 has tweeted out what could turn out to be the first announcement window for the upcoming products.
The next generation of new products are basically concentrated in September, very exciting.
— Greymon55 (@greymon55) April 19, 2022
As the tweet says, the products will be concentrated in the month of September. This would mean that both AMD and Nvidia will reveal their flagship GPUs sometime in September. Furthermore, Greymon has also revealed the release order of the products.
33→31→32
— Greymon55 (@greymon55) April 19, 2022
The above tweet shows that AMD will release graphics cards based on the Navi 33, followed by the Navi 32 and Navi 31. Interestingly, AMD seems to be releasing a mid-range GPU with the flagships in the initial release window. Last year, AMD’s initial lineup included the Rx 6900, 6800 XT, and the 6800 based on the Navi 21 die. The Navi 23 die was featured in the RX 6600XT and the RX 6600. Going by RDNA 2, AMD Radeon RX 7900XT, Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7800 would be based on Navi 31 manufactured on 5nm and 6nm process nodes, Radeon RX 7700 XT on Navi 32 and Radeon RX 7600 XT on Navi 33.
The following table shows alleged specs for AMD’s upcoming RDNA 3 line-up.
| GPU Name | Navi 21 | Navi 33 | Navi 32 | Navi 31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Process | 7nm | 6nm | 5nm/6nm | 5nm/6nm |
| GPU Package | Monolithic | Monolithic | MCM | MCM |
| Shader Engines | 4 | 2 | 4 (2 per GCD) | 6 (3 per GCD) |
| GPU WGPs | 40 | 20 | 40 (20 per GCD) | 60 (30 per GCD) |
| SPs Per WGP | 128 | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| Compute Units (Per Die) | 80 | 40 | 80 160 (Total) |
120 240 (Total) |
| Cores (Per Die) | 5120 | 5120 | 5120 | 7689 |
| Cores (Total) | 5120 | 5120 | 10240 | 15360 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Infinity Cache | 128 MB | 128-256 MB | 384 MB | 512 MB |
| Flagship SKU | Radeon RX 6900 XTX | Radeon RX 7700 XT? | Radeon RX 7800 XT? | Radeon RX 7900 XT? |
| TBP | 330W | ~200W | ~300W | ~400W |
| Launch | Q4 2020 | Q4 2022? | Q4 2022? | Q4 2022? |
Greymon has predicted a similar release order to Ampere’s line-up on Nvidia’s side;
I think the release order is similar to that of ampere.🤔
— Greymon55 (@greymon55) April 19, 2022
This means that the RTX 4090, 4080 and RTX 4070 should make up Nvidia’s launch line-up. We have already covered leaked RTX 4070 specifications and it seems like the rest of Nvidia’s catalog will be just as impressive. The table below shows rumored specifications for Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs.
Alleged Specifications of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 Series:
| Ada Lovelace GPU | SMs | CUDA Cores | Top SKU | Memory Bus | Ampere GPU | SMs | CUDA Cores | Top SKU | Memory Bus | SM Increase (% Over Ampere) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD102 | 144 | 18432 | RTX 4090? | 384-bit | GA102 | 84 | 10752 | RTX 3090 Ti | 384-bit | +71% |
| AD103 | 84 | 10752 | RTX 4070? | 256-bit | GA103S | 60 | 7680 | RTX 3080 Ti | 256-bit | +40% |
| AD104 | 60 | 7680 | RTX 4060? | 192-bit | GA104 | 48 | 6144 | RTX 3070 Ti | 256-bit | +25% |
| AD106 | 36 | 4608 | RTX 4050 Ti? | 128-bit | GA106 | 30 | 3840 | RTX 3060 | 192-bit | +20% |
| AD107 | 24 | 3072 | RTX 4050? | 128-bit | GA107 | 20 | 2560 | RTX 3050 | 128-bit | +20% |
Moreover, rumors point to both competitors being evenly matched in performance this time. We have already seen massive performance gains with the last generation of GPUs, and it seems like that was just the beginning. We are certainly looking forward to what comes next and will keep you updated as more news comes out.
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