The next generations of video cards from AMD and Intel won’t appear until early 2025. Tweakers verified this through several sources during Computex 2024 in Taipei. According to previous rumors, rival Nvidia will soon release the new GeForce RTX 5000 series.
Officially, both manufacturers do not meet the goals they imposed on new video cards. AMD’s next generation of graphics cards, which use the RDNA4 architecture and will likely be marketed as the Radeon RX 8000 series, are expected to launch in 2024, according to the roadmap. Intel also said at the end of last year that a new generation of Arc video cards, codenamed Battlemage, would be released this year.
AMD and Intel will likely announce their new GPUs just before the end of the year to meet the aforementioned deadlines, but they are more likely to actually be released at CES in early January. However, availability won’t start until the new year.
Regarding the new AMD lineup, sources confirm to Tweakers that no true high-end models will appear in the RX 8000 series. Rumors already emerged last year that the Navi 4x GPU with the largest number of cores would be cancelled. Shortly thereafter, the CEO of AMD’s video card division left. The company no longer aspires to compete with Nvidia’s top models, but mainly wants to focus on the mainstream segment with cards like the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT.
Little is known about the next generation of Intel Arc video cards. Sources told Tweakers that the GPUs in question could at least match the performance level of the GeForce RTX 4070. The current top-of-the-line model, the Arc A770, is slightly slower in Tweakers’ benchmarks than the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600. This means an increase in performance from a generation generation by more than 60 percent, but there is still a long way to go. Enough to make it difficult for Nvidia even at the top. You can read more about the improvements that make such a jump in performance possible in Intel’s Lunar Lake preview, as its GPU is the first product to use the Xe2 architecture that will also form the basis of the Battlemage video cards.
