AMD confirms its next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs will launch in early 2025

AMD’s Q3 2024 net telephone contiguous wasn’t bullish connected gaming gross overall, but it did corroborate a blistery caller rumor connected GPUs — specifically, the motorboat of AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 parts aboriginal adjacent year. “We are connected way to motorboat the archetypal RDNA4 GPUs successful aboriginal 2025,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su, and the institution confirmed to PCWorld that it’s the archetypal clip it’s shared those plans publicly.

“In summation to a beardown summation successful gaming performance, RDNA 4 delivers importantly higher ray tracing show and adds caller AI capabilities,” Su said connected the call.

AMD confirming those chips mightiness assistance lend credibility to different leaks, too. Earlier today, a Chiphell leaker rumored that AMD would denote its RDNA 4 graphics astatine CES 2025 successful January, alongside its leaked Strix Halo and Fire Range gaming notebook parts, its confirmed Ryzen Z2 handheld gaming chips, and more.

AMD expects its gaming gross to proceed to diminution this quarter, owed successful nary tiny portion to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles aging out, and it’s not precisely the company’s superior absorption these days anyhow. On today’s call, Su pointed retired however gaming lone accounts for 2 percent of the company’s revenue, portion information halfway is present good implicit fractional of the company’s business. She says that aft spending 10 years turning AMD around, her adjacent task is to “make AMD the end-to-end AI leader.”