From PC World: AMD will launch its next-gen PC GPUs with RDNA 5 technology in early 2025, AMD chief executive Dr. Lisa Su said Tuesday. They will be part of what she called the strongest PC portfolio in the company’s history.
Su delivered the roadmap update during prepared remarks to analysts, describing the company’s results during the third quarter of 2024.
Roughly half of AMD’s revenue comes from its data-center products, so Wall Street analysts focused most of their attention on that part of the business. AMD’s GPUs fall within its Gaming business, where revenue fell 69 percent to $462 million. That’s because the segment also includes AMD’s GPUs for gaming consoles, and Microsoft and Sony alike decreased the amount of inventory they had on hand.
PC graphics also declined, as card makers and PC vendors began holding off, as well, anticipating AMD’s next-gen products. “In addition to a strong increase in gaming performance, RDNA 4 delivers significantly higher ray-tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities,” Su said. “We are on-track to launch the first RDNA 4 GPUs in early 2025.”
An AMD representative confirmed that this was the first time AMD had stated the early-2025 timetable for the new GPUs.
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