AMD announced to investors this week its financial results for the year 2021 and, in addition to showing the dizzying growth it has achieved, especially due to the rise in prices, the giant brought details about the debut of the new Ryzen 7000 CPUs and GPUs based on RDNA 3. , which should arrive later this year “ready to meet the high demand”.
AMD teases RDNA 3 GPU debut in 2022
Despite availability issues for mainstream users, AMD saw 68% growth in revenue compared to 2020, an advance that could be the result of a combination of significantly higher prices and high demand, especially from scalpers. Even so, the CEO of the red team, Dr. Lisa Su, says she feels “a lack of representation of AMD in the GPU market”.
It was at this moment that the executive explained what the manufacturer has done in recent months to deal with the situation, and brought details about the brand’s roadmap for the coming years, suggesting that the new video cards based on the RDNA 3 microarchitecture will be launched in 2022, along with Ryzen 7000 processors, already confirmed to debut at the end of the year.
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“Demand for our products is very high,” said the CEO, “and we look forward to another year of significant growth and market gains as we scale back production on our current products and launch our next wave of Zen 4 CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs.” . We’ve also made substantial investments to secure the capacity needed to support our growth in 2022 and beyond.”
Even though it has not explicitly mentioned the release date of the new cards, the mention next to the processors based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture, combined with the numerous rumors and leaks in recent months, reinforce that the alleged Radeon RX 7000 should really be announced at the end of this year. , possibly in October, if the schedule of past generations is maintained.
Another important point present in Lisa Su’s speech is AMD’s investments in the supply chain – it is known that the shortage of components and the production of GPUs in TSMC’s foundries, now slightly normalized, are not the only problems haunting sales. . There are other aspects, also excluding scalpers and cryptomining, that make it difficult for products to reach consumers, something the red team has invested heavily in.
“We’ve been working on the supply chain for the last four or five quarters, knowing the growth we’ve had from a product perspective and the visibility we have from consumers. So in terms of the 2022 supply landscape, we’ve made significant investments in wafer capacity [de silício]as well as the capacity of the substrates and the backend”, concluded the executive.
Having said all that, don’t expect a reduction in graphics card prices anytime soon, something that’s only in the “long-term plans” of the brand. The focus now, in addition to taking advantage of the high values to maintain strong growth, is to ensure supply to meet the high demand. It remains to be seen whether the investments were sufficient for this.
Radeon RX 7000 cards should triple performance
According to rumors, the video cards known so far as the Radeon RX 7000 will mark a huge leap in performance over the RX 6000, which in turn had already shown great evolution compared to the RX 5000 cards. Navi 31 chip, with 15,360 cores organized into 120 Computing Units (CUs), now called Workgroup Processors (WGP), and bring up to 32 GB of GDDR6 RAM at 18 Gbps.
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The line should merge components manufactured in 5 nm and 6 nm by TSMC, maintain the high clocks of the current generation with speeds of up to 2.5 GHz, and debut the Infinity Cache 3D, stacking memory on top of the GPU to reach up to 512 MB of cache and boost bandwidth. Thanks to all these improvements, the top-of-the-line model, the supposed RX 7900 XT, would deliver 75 TFLOPs of computing power, a whopping 300% jump over the 6900 XT.
Also according to rumors, the Radeon RX 7000 family of cards is expected to debut in the last quarter of 2022, possibly in October, a point now reinforced by Lisa Su’s statements.