According to the leak, Radeon RX 8800 XT should have more performance and less consumption

AMD is at the forefront when it comes to high-end gaming processors, but there’s little concrete information about the world of graphics cards. According to the details on the website Chiphell Forum By user @zhangzhonghao AMD is working on Radeon RX 8800 XT to compete with RTX 4080.

With some information revealed, RX 8800 XT will bring the new microarchitecture in RDNA 4. In practice, this can result in wins of 45% or more on games like this. Resident Evil 4 Remake and other titles that currently serve as a test lab for measuring GPU performance.

Another important fact concerns the energy consumption of this chip. According to insider information, the 8800 XT will have a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 220W; This is well below the 350W and 260W consumed by the current generation’s top-end Radeon RX 7900 XTX. of the RX 7800 XT.

Launch in early 2025

The leaker’s comparison goes further and also hints that the future Radeon RX 8800 XT will rival the current RTX 4080 and 4080 SUPER in terms of rasterization. It’s hard to say whether the red team will increase their advantage with Ray Tracing, but the model looks like it will be a pretty interesting chip for running 4K games at good frame rates.

It is also interesting to note that the release date of the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 should coincide with the release date of the Radeon RX 8800 XT. It is not yet possible to say which card will perform better, but we are likely to have an interesting debate between the RTX 5070 and RX 8800 XT.

AMD is expected to announce the Radeon RX 8800 XT in the first week of January 2025, at CES 2025, and schedule the launch of the card a few weeks later. Production of the models is planned to start in mid-December