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AMD CEO, Lisa Su, has confirmed that we will be getting the next-gen Radeon RX 8000 gaming GPU range at some point early next year. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

AMD has already confirmed that it has abandoned competing for the highest end of the graphics card market, so we’re not expecting it to unveil a product to compete with the likes of the Nvidia RTX 5090. Instead, it’s expected that a Radeon RX 8700 XT, Radeon RX 8800 XT, or Radeon RX 8900 XT will instead compete with a possible Nvidia RTX 5070 for overall performance. AMD is expected to offer significantly improved ray tracing performance with these new GPUs, though, potentially making them far more competitive overall.

From the article, but mostly already known...

I just upgraded to a 7900 XTX because for me, I don't expect RTX to be a big deal anytime soon and it sounds like they're just trying to make 7900 XTX performance cards with better ray tracing at a cheaper price point (which if it boosts their market share that would be amazing).

Which is totally great, but I'm not particularly hyped about the 8000 series for me personally.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Using the naming scheme of their high end cards for their mid range ones seems stupid and confusing though. They should just drop the higher model numbers for the time.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is exactly what I am looking for better ray tracing and close to 7900 xtx performance at under $600.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well then you're probably the perfect customer for these 🙂

[–] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That bummed me out when they announced that. Guess I'm not upgrading my graphics card ever again 😑

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure they'll be back at the high end eventually...

Plus even if they aren't year over year improvements will eventually result in them having a card that's much better than what you have now. The ultra low end blows the mid 2000s GPUs out of the water.