AMD Radeon RX 8000 benchmark leak hints at mid-range RDNA 4 GPU specs

As for the GPUs, which are rumored to be launching within the next six months, there are few leaks about AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon chips. We don't know much except that there will apparently only be two chips – Navi 44 and Navi 48 – and that these will reportedly be aimed at the entry-level and mid-range gamer market, leaving the enthusiast class to AMD's competitors. We've also heard that they will radically improve ray tracing speeds for Radeons.

However, there are some worrying data in these benchmarks. First of all, the peak clock speed of 2101MHz that all five results share is low, and that probably explains the disappointing benchmark results – although it's nowhere near low enough to fully explain the results. The benchmark results themselves are another cause for concern, as they're barely higher than most integrated GPUs. We'd expect a GPU of this alleged caliber to score in the 150,000-200,000 range on this test.

Another oddity is that the GPU appears to be reported as a Radeon RX 7800 XT when you look at the full details of the benchmark result by logging into the Geekbench browser. We know it isn't because the number of WGPs listed is wrong – it should be 30 – and the clock speed is too low. However, the device memory listing as “15.9GB” also looks odd; normally OpenCL tests show a whole round number, like “16.0GB.”

Furthermore, assuming these benchmarks are real and not some weird fake, we can assume that we're probably looking at early hardware and even earlier software. For this reason, we advise against drawing conclusions about RDNA 4 from these early Geekbench results.

Quite notorious YouTube leaker Moore's Law is dead recently released a major leak detailing RDNA 4, which, if true, paints the next-gen top-end Radeon as essentially equivalent to the GeForce RTX 4080 in terms of both power consumption and performance, including ray tracing. That doesn't sound too exciting at first glance, but it's also rumored to launch with an MSRP of $599 – exactly half the price of the original RTX 4080.

More than that, MLID claims that the relative radio silence surrounding RDNA 4 is a deliberate smokescreen on AMD's part, and that these chips will be available “in volume” in the fourth quarter of this year to take on Intel's Battlemage. If all of this is true, we could see quite a battle in the mid-range GPU space this holiday season.