CES 2025 is officially underway, and the first of our big GPU hitters has broken ranks. Sort of. AMD's RDNA 4 graphics cards have long been anticipated, and now we've been given a preview of what to expect from the next-generation AMD GPUs.
In a pre-briefing at least, as AMD didn't actually show us anything regarding the new GPUs at the keynote itself. Built on a 4nm process, the RDNA 4 architecture features second-generation Gen AI accelerators, third-gen Raytracing accelerators, and a second-generation AMD Radiance Display engine, with optimised compute units, «supercharged» AI compute, and improved ray tracing per CU.
AMD is also promising better media encoding and decoding image quality and plans to introduce FSR 4 alongside the new architecture.
Unlike previous iterations, FSR 4 will be machine learning-powered, which hopefully will bring it closer to parity with Nvidia's AI-based DLSS.
AMD says the FSR 4 upgrade feature will only be available on AMD Radeon RX 9070-series cards for supported games with AMD FSR 3.1 already integrated.