Tuesday, December 3rd 2024
AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT Reportedly Features 220 W TDP, RDNA 4 Efficiency
AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs based on RDNA 4 architecture are just around the corner, with rumors pointing to a CES unveiling event. Today, we are learning that the Radeon RX 8800 XT GPU will feature a 220 W TDP, compared to its Radeon RX 7800 XT predecessor with 263 W TDP, thanks to the Seasonic wattage calculator. While we expect to see better nodes used for making RNDA 4, the efficiency gains stem primarily from the improved microarchitectural design of the new RDNA generation. The RX 8800 XT will bring better performance while lowering power consumption by 16%. While no concrete official figures are known about RNDA 4 performance targets compared to RDNA, if AMD plans to maintain the competitive mid-range landscape with NVIDIA "Blackwell" and, as of today, Intel with Arc "Battlemage," team red must put out a good fight to remain competitive.
We reported on AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT entering mass production this month, with notable silicon design a departure from previous designs. The RX 8800 XT will reportedly utilize a monolithic chip dubbed "Navi 48," moving away from the chiplet-based approach seen in the current "Navi 31" and "Navi 32" GPUs. Perhaps most intriguing are claims about the card's ray tracing capabilities. Sources suggest the RX 8800 XT will match the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4080 SUPER in raster performance while having a remarkable 45% improvement over the current flagship RX 7900 XTX in ray tracing. However, these claims must be backed by independent testing first, as performance improvements depend on the specific case, like games optimized for either AMD or NVIDIA yield better results for the favorable graphics card.
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Seasonic Wattage Calculator, via Tom's Hardware
We reported on AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT entering mass production this month, with notable silicon design a departure from previous designs. The RX 8800 XT will reportedly utilize a monolithic chip dubbed "Navi 48," moving away from the chiplet-based approach seen in the current "Navi 31" and "Navi 32" GPUs. Perhaps most intriguing are claims about the card's ray tracing capabilities. Sources suggest the RX 8800 XT will match the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4080 SUPER in raster performance while having a remarkable 45% improvement over the current flagship RX 7900 XTX in ray tracing. However, these claims must be backed by independent testing first, as performance improvements depend on the specific case, like games optimized for either AMD or NVIDIA yield better results for the favorable graphics card.
66 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT Reportedly Features 220 W TDP, RDNA 4 Efficiency
Is it possible to encode videos in 2 passes using the GPU? If so, which app does it?
Driver for Nvidia even lets me pick SFR or AFR. Not that it matters though; no game support = you are looking at something arcane that doesnt work or literally renders half the screen.
It's called undervolting, it is pretty simple and straight-forward, can be easily done at the factory. The trade-off - you lose 2% of performance, but your cards get lowered TDP from 300W to some sane 180W..
Pretty much every decent-ish PSU will come with at least two 6+2 pin PCI-e cables. Not really an issue.
I mean, if you want easy, simple, one solution to use on any card, well, 12V-2x6 is there to solve that, but I thought nobody liked it because it burns down your dog and kicks your house or something. Even though the revised connector is totally fine.
RT is harder to pin down as here AMD could reap the low hanging fruit and massively increase RT performance without increasing the number of RT cores (same number as CU's). Here i can actually believe 4080S level performance.Raster is not similar. Raster is ~4070 Ti Super level tho the reported specs dont support that.Glad someone gets it. Already i see people start making unrealistic claims. Lets temper our expectations.They didn't and 290X was temporary?
You need to check you timeline and prices.
Yes 290X launched in October 2013 and while Nvidia did release both the 780 Ti and the first Titan a month later those cards were more expensive while not being a whole lot faster. Titan was only miniscule 3% faster while costing obscene (for a gaming card at the time) 999 while 780 Ti was more reasonable 699 but still only 4% faster.
290X at 549 remained the bang for buck choice until Nvidia released GTX 980 in September 2014 for also 549 that beat the RX 290 by a more convincing 13%.
It wasn't until the middle of 2015 when Nvidia released 980 Ti for 649 that convincingly beat the 290X by 28% (and 390X by 21%) at much lower power consumption. So essentially 290X had at least 12 months of being the best value high end card.
As for the 290X, it was leading the 780 Ti in TPU's suite before the sun had set on 28 nm being the latest node for GPUs.