Sunday, August 27th 2023
AMD SVP States that RDNA 3 Portfolio Complete Following Launch of Radeon RX 7800 XT & 7700 XT
Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit made a slightly unexpected announcement during an IGN live streamed discussion at Gamescom 2023. Following the official unveiling of Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT GPUs on Friday, Herkelman sat down for a brief interview regarding the future of Team Red's RDNA 3 generation—he was asked whether there were any additional Radeon RX 7000-series models on the horizon. In response he stated: "Well, the RDNA3 portfolio is now complete. Of all products that we have planned to launch, that is, this is the last few products that we will launch. We may have some different versions, but they are not a new ASIC…It's been a journey, it's been about a year since we launched the very first RDNA 3 and now we are a year later finishing up the series. We should be done, we are done and we are excited. And now I think we have a broad spectrum covered for people who want RDNA 3 up and down the price tag."
His announcement seemingly confirms that Team Red is satisfied enough to conclude RDNA 3 post the September 6 launch of their Navi 32-based Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT cards, with a grand total of a mere six desktop-oriented SKUs—Herkelman perhaps forgot to mention possible mobile variants. This is slightly odd given that non-XT Radeon RX 7800 and 7700 GPUs have cropped up via leaks in the recent past, and speculation has also pointed to a true entry-level RX 7500 model being in the works. Herkelman hinted that refreshed variants could be released down the road, perhaps akin to the mid-gen update of existing RDNA 2 ASICs (e.g RX 6700 XT -> RX 6750 XT). AMD may rely on its previous generation Radeon technology to fill in the gaps not occupied by RDNA 3—it is believed that an RX 6750 GRE graphics card (RX 6700 non-XT variant) is in the pipeline.
Sources:
VideoCardz, VideoCardz Tweet, Wccftech, Tom's Hardware, IGN YouTube Channel (1 hour 19 minutes)
His announcement seemingly confirms that Team Red is satisfied enough to conclude RDNA 3 post the September 6 launch of their Navi 32-based Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT cards, with a grand total of a mere six desktop-oriented SKUs—Herkelman perhaps forgot to mention possible mobile variants. This is slightly odd given that non-XT Radeon RX 7800 and 7700 GPUs have cropped up via leaks in the recent past, and speculation has also pointed to a true entry-level RX 7500 model being in the works. Herkelman hinted that refreshed variants could be released down the road, perhaps akin to the mid-gen update of existing RDNA 2 ASICs (e.g RX 6700 XT -> RX 6750 XT). AMD may rely on its previous generation Radeon technology to fill in the gaps not occupied by RDNA 3—it is believed that an RX 6750 GRE graphics card (RX 6700 non-XT variant) is in the pipeline.
24 Comments on AMD SVP States that RDNA 3 Portfolio Complete Following Launch of Radeon RX 7800 XT & 7700 XT
64 compute units is the logical expectation from a 256-bit bus, 16GB VRAM, 64MB cache product too. For whatever reason, it seems to be short 4 compute units and down on clocks slightly...
It's not dissimilar to Polaris getting 36 CU instead of the expected 32 back in 2016...
Nah, just call consumers brainwashed., THAT'LL work!AMD has an issue with this segment. It's where polaris stopped as well, and vega never touched it. For some reason AMD just isnt interested in meat and potato cards anymore.
The salt with the X500 tiers were so delicious though...
Seems like GPU pricing and ASIC/SKU tiering is all sorts of whacky (ie, re-adjusting) lately.
7900XTX $899 as 100% performance
7900 XT $769 85%
7800XT drops at 499 as 60% linear performance per $
7700XT 10% slower at 449
to conclude 50% performance for 50% price is just very linear, not wacky
N43 might be out early Q3 and apparently 8600 will be a pretty big upgrade especially in RTing but I wonder if they'll still gimp it with 128 bus and 8GB or do a 12GB/192bit 8600XT at least. Being on N3 it will be able to pack a lot of cores in same sized silicon as N33 and could be prety sweet.
The fact is we only will get it when RTX 3060 level would be considered the way GTX 960 is considered today.