- Another leak has appeared on AMD’s next Gen-GPUs
- It shows a powerful flagship that can potentially compete with RTX 5090
- Other models include a mid-ranger along with two lower offers
Another rumor has outlined AMD’s apparent plans for its next generation of graphics cards, which in turn indicates that Team Red intends to compete in high-end this time.
Of course, it is an area that RDNA 4 skipped where the top offer was the top mid-row RX 9070 XT; However, there have long been rumors that AMD will not get away from producing a beef GPU with RDNA 5. or Tender, as it can alternatively be called, which I will soon return to.
WCCFTECH reports that well-known GPU delicious Kepler wasted the beans on Anandtech forums in an ongoing, wandering discussion thread (which was actually started late in the year).
Kepler believes that the flagship RDNA 5 GPU will have 96 calculation units (CUS) and that the range falls down with the next level, which has 40 CUs, followed by 24 CUS and 12 CUs respectively for the lower end graphics cards.
As WCCFTECH further notes, this is currently backed up by Zhangzhonghao, a common leak placed on Chiphell forums in China, theorizing there will be an ‘extra-large’ gpu-with other words a flagship high-end model-followed by medium (middle rated), small and small graphic cards.
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Obviously, spice up this strongly, as even if this is true – based on the leaked chart Kepler shares (and the backup theory from Chiphell) – it could just be AMD’s current thinking that can change down the line.
So how powerful can an RDNA 5 graphics card with 96 calculus units be? As it is less than a former jerk who was 154 cus. However, this is a bit of a ‘how long is a piece of strict’ question as there is a whole lot of variables involved, including how much difference the new architecture makes for the overall performance of AMD’s next Gen GPUs and how much cache is used (with some large climbs potentially in the cards there, Kepler notes elsewhere).
However, all rumors suggest that AMD is making significant changes in the next generation of its Radeon graphics cards, which is why they may adopt the Tender Architecture rather than RDNA 5. ‘U’ of Tenefa refers to a ‘overall’ architecture, as this would allegedly represent the joining of RDNA (games) and CDNA (data center) architectures, all under an umbrella -a huge move.
So in some ways it makes sense that AMD is planning an impact movement in the form of a proper flagship graphics card, considering such a big shift in its GPU landscape. And then it’s easy to think that the intention will be to compete with the top-end of Nvidia’s GeForce series.
Generally speaking, trying to determine the specification for the possible RX 10090 XT (the logical progression for naming, although I think the flagship will be called something completely different) at this point is a waste of time. This spec is likely to be fluid and changing as we are somehow from the realization of AMD’s next Gen Radeon products (which is intended to arrive late in 2026, if not 2027).
All we need to know is that it is increasingly similar to AMD will offer a compelling rival to the RTX 5090 (as previously estimates in performance have largely suggested).
While it is conceivable that Nvidia may have an RTX 6090 or equivalent, on the table when the next Gen Radeon flagship appears, Team Red has to beat his rival to the punch based on the current talk from the vines. And in fact, this might spur NVIDIA to make an RTX 5090 super, but I am carried away with the wild speculation (and in addition, such a GPU would cut into the supply of chips that Team Green could use for much more profitable AI graphics card).
It is enough to say that AMD looks at producing a very powerful GPU with its next gene area, one that will enthusiast players with lots of money to spend – and Nvidia will have to sit up and notice if these rumors pan. Especially if AMD can undermine with pricing, which should not be too big, a question considering how much Nvidia requires for its top however GeForce Graphics cards.
