AMD has finally promised to complete the RDNA 3 GPU stack, and Dr. Lisa Su has promised to release a new "enthusiast-class" graphics card by the end of October. We already have sources suggesting that the new cards will be announced in August, and a September launch looks pretty good.
Dr. Su's public statements that AMD will release multiple cards are promising, which implies that both the RX 7800 and RX 7700 GPUs will drop in the coming months. after dropping the Radeon RX 7600 by itself at the end of May, RDNA 3 cards to us, there may have been some concern that they would continue to drop the RX 7600.
The announcement came amidst AMD's recent Q2 financial report. This is because AMD's gaming segment continues to suffer from declining GPU sales, both year-over-year and over the previous three months. Thankfully, AMD's semi-custom console and handheld chip business is still growing, thanks mainly to Sony and Microsoft.
However, the company hopes to change this in the coming months, with Dr. Suh stating: "We plan to further expand our RDNA 3 GPU offering with the launch of our new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000 series cards in the third quarter.
And "enthusiast class" sounds appropriate for an RX 7800 card that will outperform Nvidia's excellent RTX 4070 and will probably be considerably less expensive.
If you want to see tons of new GPUs, what better way to do it than to be better and cheaper than the competition? [But Nvidia will always compete with the two advantages of DLSS 3 and frame generation.
With the RX 7700 coming in below it, it will be a delicious head-to-head battle between AMD's new cards and Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070 GPUs. Which one will win? Maybe. Not if the prices become more competitive, anyway.
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