A few hours ago Lisa Lu presented the financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2024 (third quarter of 2025) which confirm that AMD still has a long way to go if it wants to become a real alternative to NVIDIA in the field of video games.
AMD confirms the launch of its new graphics with RDNA 4 for 2025
He has also taken the opportunity to confirm the rumor that has been circulating for a couple of days in which it is stated that the new graphics with RDNA 4 architecture will be released in early 2025. However, he has not confirmed that he will use the CES 2025 which is held in Las Vegas during the first week of January to do so.
In gaming graphics, revenue declined year-over-year as we prepare for a transition to our next-generation Radeon GPUs based on our RDNA 4 architecture.
In addition to a sharp increase in gaming performance, RDNA 4 offers significantly increased ray tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities.
We are on track to launch the first RDNA 4 GPUs in early 2025.
This is the first time AMD has confirmed its future release plans, so it may be preparing something really big.
At the moment, AMD is rumored to be working on two chips within the RDNA family: Navi 48 for the most powerful model and Navi 44 for the input range of which will be the RX 8000 Series. Both will have GDDR6 memory (it does not make the jump to GDDR7 as NVIDIA will do with the RTX 50) with speeds of up to 20 Gbps and will use a 4 nm process node, compared to the 5/6 node of the RX Series 7000.
AMD’s revenue forecast from the video game sector indicates that these will continue to decline during the third fiscal quarter of 2024, due to the fact that the consoles that use its GPUs, PS5 and Xbox are in the middle of their life cycle and the lack of renewal of their GPUs.
The official confirmation from AMD about the launch of the new GPUs with RDNA 4 architecture They confirm the information leaked by user Chiphell a few hours before the event.
In the same leak, this user affirms that this will not be the only novelty that we will see during CES 2025, since the company has prepared a long battery of novelties and among which is the second generation of processors for portable consoles. Zyzen Z2 which will be available in 3 different versions, new gaming laptops with processors Strix Halo and Fire Range inter alia.
If you are waiting to renew your old graphics card, right now is not a good time to do it. Both NVIDIA and AMD plan to present their new generation at the beginning of 2025, so the price of the current generation will drop in price and will be much more affordable than at the moment.
