Latest RDNA 3 rumors dial back on the excitement a little

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Next-gen GPU rumours are surfacing just about every day now. But most of them have been regarding Nvidia's next-gen cards, such as their speculated increases in power consumption and that they have entered the testing phase. Well, the high-end AD102 GPU anyway.

News regarding AMD's next-generation RDNA3 cards has been less forthcoming. We know that the high-end GPUs in the range will be chiplet-based designs but there's little concrete information other than that. Leaker extraordinaire Greymon55 is reporting that the internal specs of RDNA3 GPUs are different from earlier leaks. The new rumours indicate that the shader counts of the GPUs will be less than previously expected.

The flagship Navi 31 card, likely to be known as the RX 7900 XT, was previously rumoured to have 15,360 stream processors and approach 100 TFLOPS. This new leak suggests that 12,228 shaders is now likely. This means 100 TFLOPS is all but impossible unless the card comes with a very high clock or AMD really has pulled some internal wizardry to boost compute performance.

The Navi 32 GPU is expected to end up inside cards carrying the RX 7700 and 7700 XT names. It's expected to come with 8192 shaders while the Navi 33 or RX 7600 series should contain 4096. It's important to remember that the current AMD flagship, the RX 6900 XT comes with 5120 shaders, so these new cards are expected to be very powerful, though of course we don't know how all of this raw shader power will translate into game performance.

AMD Navi III (RDNA 3)Navi 31: 12288 SPs, 48 WGPs, 12 SAs, 6 SEsNavi 32: 8192 SPs, 32 WGPs, 8 SAs, 4 SEsNavi 33: 4096 SPs, 16 WGPs, 4 SAs, 2 SEs https://t.co/h46ytpdifoMay 2, 2022

The high-end RDNA3 cards are looking like game changers for the GPU