AMD RX 8800 XT to rival Nvidia’s RTX 4080 with less power – leaker reveals
AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs will deliver more performance with less power – huge ray tracing boost revealed!
Rumour has it that mass production for AMD’s upcoming RDNA 4 series GPUs will start this month. According to the leaker Zhangzhonghao (via WCCFtech), AMD’s Radeon RX 8800 XT will consume less power than AMD’s RX 7900 XTX and deliver similar levels of rasterisation performance.
Based on today’s leak, ray tracing will be critical to RDNA 4’s success. In Resident Evil 4 with Ray Tracing enabled, AMD’s new RX 8800 XT is reportedly 45% faster than their RX 7900 XTX. If this is true, AMD has greatly boosted its ray tracing performance, addressing a major architectural weakness of its prior GPU products.
It has even been claimed that AMD’s RX 8800 XT will deliver RTX 4080/RTX 4080 SUPER levels of GPU performance. This is in both rasterised and ray tracing workloads.
If this leak is accurate, AMD will transform its position within the GPU market. If they price these new GPUs aggressively, AMD is certain to gain market share from Nvidia. However, Nvidia will remain the undisputed leader of the GPU market, as AMD’s RDNA 4 flagship will not compete with Nvidia’s high-end RTX 50 series GPU models.
AMD has confirmed that market share is a priority for Radeon moving forward. AMD has also confirmed that FSR 4 is in the works and that it is an AI-based upscaler. With RDNA 4 and FSR 4, AMD will address two of Radeon’s largest shortcomings. Their upscaling quality should improve with FSR 4, and ray tracing performance should improve with RDNA 4. If AMD can capitalise on these gains, 2025 will be a good year for Radeon.
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