Graphics cards currently have two sides competing for the largest market share, AMD and NVIDIA develop new technologies from time to time that seek to snatch a large portion of users from their rival. This time we know that AMD has already confirmed two new cards chart that it is going to be launched on the market, although it should be noted that a lot of things we know are based on rumors.
With the new generation of GPUs that it wishes to launch, AMD wants to take a very different path from that which we have seen in recent years, since it knows perfectly well which sector of the market it can dominate in relation to to NVIDIA, high performance but lower range hardware. In this case, when launching the new generation, the company would consider trying to compete with NVIDIA for the average user, rather than directly, who can afford a graphics card worth more than $1000.
Two new graphics types are leaked and AMD confirms it
The graphics card market is a place where we can see the innovation that the main companies are developing to obtain the greatest possible power, but this time, according to the leaks that we have seen in recent months, AMD would have left aside the development of a graphics card. card capable of competing with the RTX 5090. In this case, the company would seek to focus more on a lower range, offering solutions such as the two new graphics that have been leaked and which technically AMD has already confirmed it, the Navi 44 and the Navi 48.
It is believed that these two models are not intended to have great power, but rather their real purpose could be to act as two discrete GPUs, with a much more general use than the high-performance models that can be found could have at NVIDIA. In this case, these models could refer to the new series, the Navi 48 being the 8800/8700 models and the 8600/8500 representing the one called Navi 44.
All this data appears in ROCm, the software stack used by AMD to plan your cards chartand the company itself has already indicated that indeed the codes displayed as gfx1200 and gfx1201 represent the Navi 44 and Navi 48 respectively.
Offering all ranges on the market, AMD’s objective for the new generation
As we indicated previously, the decision that the company that created Radeon graphics for this generation would prepare would be to stay in a much more normal market, far from high performance, offering graphics that should be perfect for use as support medium-high. range. Many rumors indicate that unlike NVIDIA, this company would not include the memory improvements of the new RTX 50 to reduce costs, that is, it would continue to use GDDR6 instead of GDDR7.
Ultimately, it’s worth noting that this move wouldn’t be strange knowing that one of the company’s biggest advantages is that its processors and graphics processing units are used in virtually every console on the market. If we look at things from this angle, it is possible that AMD is considering trying to offer on PC part of what we can find on console, a device which is not too expensive and which allows us to play any title with good performance.
