AMD has been speaking up its incoming RDNA Three graphics playing cards whereas throwing some shade at Nvidia’s imminent RTX 4080 GPU.

That is all a part of a bunch of presentation supplies on AMD Benefit PCs and their varied perks, that are techniques that use the newest Ryzen processors and RDNA Three GPUs to nice impact, as noticed by Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) (by way of Wccftech (opens in new tab)).

The actually fascinating bits relate to the GPUs, that are AMD’s inbound RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX, and these are in comparison with the RTX 4080 when it comes to their base specs. The presentation slides present that the 7900 XTX masses up with 24GB VRAM and the 7900 XT with 20GB – in comparison with 16GB for the RTX 4080 – and that the respective reminiscence buses are quicker at 384-bit and 320-bit, in comparison with 256-bit for the Nvidia card.

AMD additionally underlines the uncooked compute energy of the 7900 XTX at 61TFlops with the 7900XT at 52TFlops, in comparison with 49TFlops for the RTX 4080. (Not that this metric means a lot for avid gamers). And Crew Pink reminds us about DisplayPort 2.1 assist for its next-gen playing cards (with DP 1.four for Nvidia’s new fashions).

One other slide particulars a dimension comparability of the 7900 XTX versus 4080, exhibiting the AMD mannequin as a 2.5-slot affair in comparison with 3-slots, and Crew Pink’s card is barely shorter too (287mm versus 304mm).

And unsurprisingly, AMD factors out that the 7900 XTX simply requires 2 x 8-pin energy connectors, versus the adapter setup which the 4080 runs with (one thing which has precipitated controversy with the RTX 4090 as we’ve seen, with some incidents of melting adapter cables being reported).

Whereas AMD doesn’t draw any direct efficiency comparisons to the RTX 4080 as such – although likely that is one thing that’s more likely to occur down the road – Crew Pink does supply up some benchmarks exhibiting that the brand new 7900 XTX beats out the outdated flagship 6950 XT by as much as 67% when it comes to rasterization body charges (non-ray tracing, in different phrases).

That features the 7900 XTX reaching 139 frames per second (fps) at 4K decision (max element settings) in Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2, in comparison with 92 fps for the 6950 XT. And in Cyberpunk 2077, the hole was 72 fps versus 43 fps.

Efficiency elevated much more with ray-traced video games, and in reality AMD famous an as much as 82% increase on this case for the brand new RDNA Three card.

Evaluation: Gunning for the RTX 4080 in no unsure phrases

Naturally, all this must be regarded with some skepticism, as cherry-picked benchmarks are all the time going for use for promotional supplies equivalent to this – that’s to be anticipated whether or not it’s AMD, Nvidia, or anybody else.

Nonetheless, it’s clear sufficient that AMD is actually gunning for the RTX 4080 on the subject of its RDNA Three high canines, though the incoming graphics playing cards are nonetheless a way off but. Whereas the RTX 4080 arrives tomorrow, the 7900 XTX and 7900 XT received’t debut till December 13, nonetheless virtually a month away now.

That stated, we’re undecided how a lot inventory of the RTX 4080 we’ll see, as early pricing on the cusp of launch is trying skinny on the bottom – and what we’ve got glimpsed of these pre-release worth tags is that they’re stacked up worryingly excessive in some instances (outdoors of the US, anyway). That would give AMD an enormous benefit when it comes to with the ability to maintain that decrease pricing relative to the 4080, assuming that the RDNA Three graphics playing cards themselves seem in sturdy sufficient quantity, and so aren’t topic to inflation by way of scalpers.

All of which is to say it’s actually guesswork how this battle of the next-gen GPUs goes to pan out on the finish of 2022, however proper now, AMD is trying able to take some chunks out of Nvidia.

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