Team Red is expected to launch its Radeon RX 8000 series of graphics cards next year, built on the new RDNA 4 architecture.
While several leaks have already offered an early look at the next-generation GPUs, a new listing on a benchmark site has now revealed some key specs of what could be the flagship RDNA 4 graphics card.
The GPU showed up on Geekbench with the device ID GFX1201, suggesting it could be an RDNA 4 SKU. For reference, RDNA 3 desktop graphics cards carry GFX11XX identifiers, while RDNA 3.5 SKUs are designated GFX115X. Likewise, RDNA 2 cards use GFX103X, and RDNA 1 GPUs are GFX101X.
The device ID indicates that the listed graphics card uses the Navi 48 GPU, which is expected to power the flagship RX 8000 card next year. Geekbench lists it with 28 compute units, which could point to 56 CUs and 3,584 stream processors if AMD keeps the RDNA 3 configuration, with a shader engine featuring two compute units per workgroup.
The listing also shows the RDNA 4 GPU's clock speed at 2,101MHz, far lower than the 2.5GHz-2.6GHz boost clocks of current RDNA 3 GPUs. In reality, RDNA 4 cards are expected to deliver higher frequencies than their RDNA 3 counterparts, since they will use a more advanced process technology and a brand-new architecture.
Finally, the Radeon RX 8000 graphics card is listed with 16GB of memory, the same amount of VRAM found on the RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 GRE. The listing does not mention the memory speed or type, but rumors suggest it could use GDDR6.
Notably, Geekbench has logged multiple entries for the Radeon RX 8000, and none of the scores are particularly impressive. The highest OpenCL score is 33,241, which falls below the GTX 1650's numbers and well short of the RX 7900XTX's score. These underwhelming benchmarks suggest this could be a very early engineering sample, meaning it is still in development. Either way, AMD still has plenty of work to do before its next-generation cards are ready to launch.
Source: Techspot
