It seems that the specifications of several models of AMD’s next-generation graphics card based on the RDNA 4 architecture have been spotted on Geekbench.
RDNA graphics are expected to arrive in the Radeon RX 8000 series in the next 4 years. However, the release of Geekbench benchmark results shows that product prototypes are ready and the Red Team is preparing for the unveiling.
Geekbench
RDNA 4 graphics cards are available in two versions with Navi 44 and Navi 48 chips, known as GFX1200 and GFX1201, respectively. The graphics card under review has appeared on Geekbench as GFX1201, which is the fastest model among the two Navi 4X chips.
The Navi 48 architecture will likely have 28 compute units (CUs), which should be equivalent to the 56 compute units found in the RDNA 3 series. In the previous architecture, each GPU had a single shader engine attached to dual Compute Units, and if this is repeated for RDNA 4, we can expect 56 Compute Units and 3,584 Stream Processors (SPs) between RX models. The 7700 XT comes with 54 units and the RX 7800 XT comes with 54 units.
Geekbench
The GFX1201 scored 33,241 in OpenCL performance, which is even lower than the GTX1650’s score, showing that it falters in the benchmark work. Therefore, this score is not worth relying on for now.
The GFX1201 graphics was configured with a frequency of 2.1 GHz in the mentioned test. The current RDNA 3 series graphics can easily reach 2.5 and 2.6 GHz, which is a bit low given that the RDNA 4 chips will probably use more advanced lithography and a newer architecture. We expect to see higher frequencies in the next samples.
We see the Radeon graphics in question from the RX 8000 series with 16GB of RAM, matching the RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 GRE cards. This confirms the 256-bit bus width for RDNA 4 cards. We can expect mid-range configurations to have a 192-bit bus width with 12GB of RAM.
Currently, there is no information on the type of RAM used, but previous reports have indicated that AMD will use GDDR6 RAM with a transfer rate of 18 Gbps for its RDNA 4 series.
So far, other than the Geekbench results, there is no more information about the Red Team’s Radeon 8000 graphics, but expect to see many updates in the series. Among the expected features of the RDNA 4 GPUs are their upgraded ray tracing engines, which offer significant improvements over the previous generation. At CES 2025 (January), we will hear more information about the specifications and price of AMD’s new graphics card.
