Rumor: AMD may not release high-end video cards in RX 8000 series

AMD is rumored not to be releasing high-end GPUs in its upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series. The company would focus its RDNA 4 architecture more on the midrange market. However, these reports have not yet been confirmed.

AMD’s fourth-generation Navi architecture will not receive ‘any high-end GPU’ reports @Kepler_L2, who often shares information about GPUs at an early stage and says he has received the information from three different sources. This would mean AMD would once again shift its focus to the mid-range segment for that generation. The chip designer did the same with its Polaris and RDNA 1 architectures, when the company only released low-end GPUs and midrange cards in its Radeon RX 400, 500 and 5000 series.

AMD has not yet responded to these rumors, also reports Videocardz. It is not yet known whether these reports are correct and which GPUs AMD specifically wants to release in its next RDNA generation.

Few concrete details are known about RDNA 4. AMD previously confirmed the arrival of that architecture in an official roadmap. The GPUs are produced on an ‘advanced node’, which probably refers to the TSMC-3nm process, which is now used in mass production. It will be the successor to the RDNA 3 architecture, currently used in the Radeon RX 7600, 7900 XT and 7900 XTX. AMD would also soon release a Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT. The latter already appeared on the Powercolor website.

Navi4 lineup will not have any high-end GPUs

Think of it like RDNA1 or Polaris generation.

— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) August 4, 2023