AMD confirms higher power consumption for RDNA 3 GPUs, boasts less than Nvidia

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The prospect of powerful next-gen graphics cards arriving from AMD and Nvidia in the coming months has a lot of gamers excited for new performance tiers. What doesn’t have as many gamers excited, is the concern over increased power draw for all models, particularly for Nvidia cards. AMD addressed this concern in a recent interview with Tom’s Hardware, confirming higher power consumption for RDNA 3 graphics cards, with an emphasis on the increased efficiency that will come with it.

The outlet spoke to AMD executive Sam Naffziger, who’s been around at AMD for over a decade now and has been heavily involved with innovative new designs regarding CPU and GPU chiplets. Naffziger touched on a number of aspects regarding the RDNA 3 architecture, including a basic design overview, scalable higher frequencies, increased efficiency per watt, and how the new GPUs will fare against the competition.

In typical executive fashion, Naffziger displayed a lot of confidence in the designs for RDNA 3, and perhaps rightfully so since these will be the first consumer graphics cards to use chiplets. Simply put, high-end Radeon 7000 Series graphics cards will use advanced packaging techniques to “glue” together multiple GPU processors with AMD’s patented high-bandwidth Infinity Cache technology. This will essentially be a new way to make graphics cards and allow for better performance scaling and power efficiency versus traditional single GPU designs.

Needless to say, AMD seems confident that its next generation of products will give Nvidia some serious competition. The upcoming RTX 40 Series will only use single GPUs. It’s an oversimplification to simply say two is better than one, but that’s the gist of it all.

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