AMD’s next-gen RDNA 3 GPUs could be a serious worry for Nvidia

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AMD’s next-gen graphics cards could beat Nvidia by a long way when it comes to efficiency, and may also be right up there in performance terms, according to fresh speculation from a well-known hardware leaker on YouTube – but Team Green might beat Team Red to the punch in terms of release date.

The latest video from Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) covers the upcoming battle of these next-gen GPUs, and emphasizes the purportedly smart design of AMD’s RDNA 3 products, and how they might run rings around Nvidia in terms of power-efficiency.

What will presumably be AMD’s RX 7000 series are predicted to be very frugal and may “blow Lovelace out of the water” when it comes to efficiency, and could match – or maybe even marginally outdo – Nvidia for performance as well, MLID reckons.

That said, the assertions on the performance front certainly sound much more in the realms of speculation, and as ever with these kinds of early rumors, we’ve got to be pretty cautious around everything talked about here.

Where Nvidia has a clear advantage, MLID believes, is in launch timing, as the current educated guesswork from sources indicates that Lovelace (presumably RTX 4000) graphics cards will be out in Q3 2022. That should be a distance ahead of RDNA 3 products which will likely emerge in Q4 (though the leaker reckons that there’s a possibility that mid-range RX 7000 models, namely Navi 33 GPUs, could maybe sneak out before the fourth quarter).

Broadly, though, MLID is looking at Nvidia beating AMD to the punch for launch timeframe.

RDNA 3 graphics cards running with greater levels of efficiency is hardly a surprise, but the theory that they’ll absolutely leave Nvidia Lovelace GPUs in the dust is not something we’ve heard before. That would be