With the official announcements just a month away, the small world of graphics cards is in turmoil: AMD, Intel and NVIDIA are preparing to shake things up.
Through Jack Huynh, its senior vice-president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Technologies Business Group - phew! - AMD has confirmed that it will be holding a press conference a few hours before the opening of CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The press conference will take place at the Mandalay Bay at exactly 11am local time on Monday January 6, while the consumer electronics show is due to open its doors on Tuesday January 7. Jack Huynh gave only a brief outline of the conference, specifying that it will " unveil our next generation of innovation in gaming, PC AI and commerce ".
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Of course, Ryzen AI and Ryzen PRO processors will be on the agenda, but there will also be plenty of talk about AMD's new generation of graphics cards, even though the company has made it very clear on several occasions that this generation of graphics cards is not intended to compete with NVIDIA at the top end of the market. However, AMD has no intention of making up the numbers, and the latest rumours surrounding the Radeon RX 8800 XT point in this direction. Quoted by Wccftech, a certain Zhangzhonghao, a well-known informant on the Chiphell forums, gave the latest information about this graphics card, the future spearhead of the RDNA 4 models.
There's every reason to believe that the Radeon RX 8800 XT will consume 25% less electricity than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Better still, it will do so while offering up to 45% higher performance than AMD's current most powerful card. The result would be a much higher-performance card consuming around 260 watts (compared with around 350 watts for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX). Compared to what NVIDIA offers, the Radeon RX 8800 XT wouldn't be bad either: in fact, a GeForce RTX 4080 consumes 305 watts, far more than the Radeon RX 8800 XT, even though, according to Zhangzhonghao, the two cards have similar performance levels, whether we're talking about rasterization or ray tracing. Quite promising...
