This month, AMD’s Radeon RX 8800 XT RDNA 4 goes into mass production: A rumor

If sources on ChipHell are to be believed, mass-production of AMD’s next-generation gaming graphics card, the so-called Radeon RX 8800 XT, is set to start later this month, bringing it closer to availability than anyone in the media had anticipated. The RX 8800 XT, which will replace the existing RX 7800 XT, will be the fastest device from AMD’s next generation and fall under the performance class. This generation won’t include an enthusiast-segment product since AMD wants to focus on the major market categories that generate the highest sales. AMD’s next-generation RDNA 4 graphics architecture will power the RX 8800 XT.

The RX 8800 XT is the subject of some spicily worded assertions. According to reports, the card will perform similarly in ray tracing as the current GeForce RTX 4080 or RTX 4080 SUPER, which would result in a staggering 45% boost in RT performance over even the top RX 7900 XTX. By switching to a more modern foundry process, the GPU’s power and thermal footprint should decrease. The RX 8800 XT is anticipated to have a 25% lower board power than the RX 7900 XTX. The “Navi 48” powering the RX 8800 XT is anticipated to be a monolithic chip constructed entirely on a new manufacturing node, in contrast to the “Navi 31” and “Navi 32” powering the RX 7900 series and RX 7800 XT, respectively. This might very well be TSMC N4P, a node that AMD uses for everything from its “Strix Point” mobile processors to its “Zen 5” chiplets, if we had to guess.