AMD is confident that its RDNA 3 graphics architecture will have enough power to deliver a minimum 40% performance boost, although it could be much higher, according to a leak about the RX 7900 XT.
AMD RX 7900 XT would be +40% higher than RX 6900 XT
According to “Moore’s Law is Dead”, the RDNA 3 architecture could deliver 60 to 80% more performance than the Radeon RX 6900 XT. According to this new source, AMD’s RX 7900 XT will be “at least 40% better than the RX 6900 XT.”
AMD has a hard time competing against Nvidia and its GeForce graphics cards, especially in the high-end segment. A 40-80% jump in performance sounds pretty good unless the RX 7000 series is late to market.
It is rumored that the RDNA 3 GPUs will have a chiplet-based design, similar to the one used in the Ryzen processor architecture. This would mean a performance boost combining an I/O die and a compute die, with the benefits this will bring to AMD’s future graphics architectures.
AMD had already confirmed that with RDNA 3 we can expect a big increase in performance per watt, with a 50% improvement in efficiency over RDNA 2. With this improvement in efficiency, clock speeds can be increased to achieve much higher performance, which is in addition to RDNA 3’s own architectural improvements.
When can we expect to see RDNA 3 graphics cards? AMD has not yet confirmed when they will come, but everything points to 2022.