AMD Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards have their strengths like a favorable price, but also a few weaknesses. They are not exactly the most economical, and due to the decent rasterization performance, the one in ray-tracing lags quite far behind. But that could change with the new generation AMD Radeon RX 8000 with architecture RDNA 4. Leaker Kepler (@Kepler_L2) made it known on the social network X (Twitter) that RDNA 4 should have a brand new engine for ray-tracing calculations. This first appeared with RDNA 2, however, with the next generation RDNA 3, it received only partial improvements, which are responsible for the still not very convincing performance in this area.
The exact details are not known, but it is assumed that the redesigned ray-tracing units could take on more work, which could translate into much higher performance (these units should be more powerful and capable, lightening the rest of the card). It is not yet clear when the new GPU from AMD will be introduced. The Zen 5 processor architecture is expected to appear at Computex in a few weeks, but it’s more unclear about RDNA 4. Here, AMD is rather expected to reveal some additional information, but the final presentation will take place later in the second half of this year.
