It looks like AMD’s next-generation PC graphic cards will arrive in November.
A company executive this morning announced on Twitter that AMD plans on launching its RDNA 3 graphics architecture on Nov. 3.
The tweet from AMD Radeon General Manager Scott Herkelman means the company’s Radeon RX 7000 desktop graphic cards—which the RDNA3 architecture will power—are on the horizon.
AMD also announced the event two hours before Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to announce its own next-generation graphics cards, the RTX 4000 series, at today’s GTC developer event, which will be streamed online. Taken together, the news means a wave of new GPU models will likely hit the market soon.
AMD didn’t offer any other details about the Nov. 3 event. But the company has already been teasing out some details about the Radeon 7000 GPUs. During last month’s Ryzen 7000 event, the company debuted a digital image of an RDNA 3-based graphics card, along with a demo of the GPU in action, running the upcoming game Lies of P.
AMD is promising the Radeon RX 7000 series will have 50% more performance per watt than the last generation, the 6000 series, which arrived in fall 2020. The GPUs will use a 5-nanometer manufacturing processor to pack more transistors on the chips, an upgrade from the 7nm process in the Radeon 6000 series.
In addition, the 7000 series will be AMD’s first graphics cards to be based on a “chiplet” design, which promises to make the products easier to produce at lower costs. Other improvements include upgraded power efficiency and enhanced ray-tracing capabilities for more realistic PC graphics.