Navi 48 GPU up to 3.2 GHz, 16 GB GDDR6, RTX 4080 performance, priced at $499 to $599

The leaks about AMD's next-generation Navi 48 GPU based on RDNA 4 suggest that we can expect gaming performance on par with the RTX 4080, with RDNA 4 also offering far better ray tracing performance.

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In his latest video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead states that rasterization performance “will probably at least be able to keep up with the RTX 4080” while ray tracing performance is expected to “trades blows with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and in some AMD-optimized games there are hints that it could come close to the RTX 4080!“

The leaker continues and explains that Navi 48 “high volume” in the fourth quarter of 2024, and that the company “hopes it will be a hit with system integrators“. The new Radeon RX 8800 XT (or whatever it will be called) will “have a reference cooler, but not sold on AMD.com“.

In March 2024, MLID leaked some information about Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro console, which will feature an optimized, semi-custom SoC from AMD manufactured by TSMC. The new PS5 Pro is said to be up to 45% faster at rasterization and between 2 and 3 times faster at ray tracing than the standard PS5.

If true, AMD seems to have done some optimization magic with RDNA 4, as parts of RDNA 4 are already present in the PS5 Pro and will make up the new Radeon RX 8000 series.RDNA4” graphics cards when they launch later this year and through 2025.

As we have always said, AMD's new RDNA 4 GPU architecture will NOT compete with NVIDIA's next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture and soon-to-be-released GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards.

AMD's next-generation Navi 48 GPU based on RDNA 4 leaked:

• 64 CUs @ 2.9 GHz to 3.2 GHz (real maximum GPU boost clock frequencies)
• less than 96 MB of next-generation Infinity Cache
• 256-bit memory bus
• 16 GB GDDR6 memory at 20 Gbit/s
• 210 W to 280 W power consumption (TDP)
• Increasing the number of ray tracing accelerators per CU
• Monolithic chip manufactured on TSMC 4 nm
• FP8 + Matrix hardware added (presumably detected in MLID PS5 Pro leak)
• Start period October-November
• $499 to $599 MSRP

Rather, AMD will try to conquer the sub-$600 market with the performance of the Ada Lovelace-based GeForce RTX 4080. There are far more customers there than with the RTX 4090 at lofty heights, not to mention the new RTX 5080 and the certainly expensive but performance-destroying RTX 5090 graphics card.

RDNA 4 will feature optimizations and improvements and I'm sure the performance per watt will be great. And it seems that these new leaks set the stage for what AMD will unveil later this year with the new Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs.