Gamers are in a good place when it comes to the selection of CPUs from AMD and Intel, both of which recently rolled out new architectures—Zen 4 and Raptor Lake, respectively. That said, the best is yet to come. Both chip makers are purportedly readying even faster silicon based on these existing architectures to power high-end gaming PCs.
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AMD’s RDNA 3 GPU architecture promises improved performance, more than a 50% boost in efficiency, better ray tracing hardware, and numerous other architectural upgrades. It’s also the first consumer GPU chiplet architecture, potentially paving the way for major advances in future graphics cards.
AMD’s upcoming RX 7900 series graphics cards will be the first RDNA 3 GPUs to ship, and they’re taking aim at Nvidia’s soon-to-launch RTX 4080. Here are the full specifications and details of the future 7900 XTX and XT cards.
Providing fast graphics cards is only part of the equation for AMD’s Radeon Graphics team. Engaging with ISVs to get them to make better use of the hardware is another part of the story.
AMD Advantage laptops have been around for a couple of years now, and the program is now coming to desktops. AMD also discussed some of the new software features to help gamers skip all the tweaking and tuning and get straight to playing games.