Gamers are happy: AMD may come with a GPU with RTX 4080 performance for half the price
According to a new report, AMD may be working on a graphics card that will offer the same performance as the Nvidia RTX 4080, but at half the price. This isn’t the first time these rumors have surfaced either report in 2023 about the manufacturer that focuses on the middle class market.
The latest report claims that the mid-range options of the AMD Radeon 8000 series will reportedly cost between $400-600 (about £315-£472 / AU$606-AU$910), according PCGamesN. This is a huge price reduction on its own, but becomes a downright bargain when you compare it to the RTX 4080’s MSRP. And in a generation of graphics cards that already suffers from a serious lack of affordable options, the possibility that AMD will introduce a card releasing something so powerful and budget-friendly is an excellent way to satisfy an important market while standing out from the competition.
There are also rumors that this level of performance for the AMD Radeon 8000 will be maxed out here, leaving the high-end graphics cards to Nvidia in the next generation. While it sounds like a bad decision, it’s a strategy that makes sense for the manufacturer as it would allow AMD to focus development on its mid- and lower-end options.
It’s also important to note that AMD is having a tough time with Nvidia in terms of ray tracing options in the graphics cards. Team Green also has the advantage of this DLSS 3 against those of Team Red FSR 3, which is an upscaling technology that takes a lower resolution frame and upscales the resolution to a higher resolution (so 1080p to 4K) so they can be rendered faster, increasing frame rates. However, it should be noted that this advantage is diminishing.
According to YouTube leaker Moore’s law is deadAMD had a high-end Radeon RX 8000 graphics card, codenamed Navi 4C. A diagram in the video claims that the card contains three “Shader Engine Dies” placed on top of each “Active Interposer die”, and a “Multimedia and I/O Die” – which would have resulted in a card with nine separate Shader dies. dice. Engine dies.
But it seems that this high-end card was not meant to be, as the card could have shown top performance but at an extremely expensive price. We’re talking possibly $2,500. And considering AMD is still struggling with ray tracing, that asking price would be a tall order for a market already hesitant about expensive components.