AMD RDNA 3 GPUs could be delayed – but don’t panic
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AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics card could go on sale in the first week of December, if the latest rumor mill news turns out to be correct.
This one comes from a regular contributor to GPU waste on Twitter, Greymon55, who believes the original sale date has been delayed by about a week, meaning the next-generation RX 7000 graphics cards will launch between December 1 and December 5.
As for the cause of the alleged delay, a Twitter resident asked if there could be problems with the power connector (and adapter), to which Greymon replied, assuring “no hardware issues,” thankfully.
The power adapter situation is an area where some people have become paranoid since Nvidia’s RTX 4090 has been involved in reported incidents of cable melting (possibly due to the adapter not seating properly in the graphics card port).
However, don’t worry that AMD has taken the same route as Nvidia for its flagship RDNA 3 adapter, as Team Red’s Scott Herkelman has already confirmed the company won’t. We don’t know yet what the fix will be, mind you, on the connector front; time will tell. (Presumably a 3 x 8 pin setup for the flagship, or so it seems most likely).
Analysis: Rumors Agree RDNA 3 Will Be On The Shelves In December
Take all this, of course, with the usual dose of spice to be applied to anything spinning off the ever-spinning hardware rumor mill.
However, what is interesting here is that we have already heard that the sale date will be December due to another source of leaks. That would be Enthusiastic Citizen, who previously claimed that RDNA 3 GPUs come out in the second half of December — so at least Greymon’s sources indicate things should be happening sooner (in fact, at least a week and a half earlier).
Anyway, it looks like we’ll have to wait until December before we can actually buy an RX 7000 graphics card (the RX 7900 XT and 7800 XT are expected to be the first products to come out of the gate). Keep in mind that this is the date on the shelf as opposed to the first launch, and the final reveal is coming very soon – November 3rd, in fact.
In any case, we’ll know more about what RDNA 3 is packing next week, and we can’t wait to find out how competitive the range gets compared to Nvidia’s RTX 4090 (and RTX 4080 for that matter, although the latter isn’t out yet). Some chatter lately has sparked the idea that RX 7000 GPUs will be faster than expected (compared to previous performance rumours).