AMD's next-gen graphics cards could handily outperform Nvidia in terms of efficiency and could also fall short in terms of performance, according to new speculation from a well-known hardware leaker on YouTube, but Team Green could beat Team Rouge to the final. hit in terms of release date.
The latest Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) video covers the next battle for these next-generation GPUs, highlighting the seemingly clever design of AMD's RDNA 3 products and how they could boost Nvidia in terms of power efficiency.
What is sure to be AMD's RX XNUMX series should be very frugal and could "beat Lovelace" in efficiency, and could match, or even slightly outperform, Nvidia in performance as well, according to MLID.
That said, performance claims do sound considerably more in the realm of speculation, and as always with this genre of early gossip, we need to be very careful about anything we discuss here.
Where Nvidia has a clear advantage, according to MLID, is at launch, as current informed guesses from sources are that Lovelace graphics cards (presumably RTX 3K) will be available in QXNUMX XNUMX . already before the RDNA XNUMX products that will surely emerge in the fourth quarter (although the leaker thinks that possibly the seven thousand mid-range RX models, that is, the thirty-three Navi GPUs, can sneak in already before the fourth quarter).
Generally though, MLID expects Nvidia to outperform AMD at launch.
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RDNA 3 graphics cards running at higher efficiency levels isn't surprising, but the theory that they're going to completely outpace Nvidia Lovelace GPUs isn't one we've heard of before. That would be a huge win for Team Colorado, and sure enough, we've seen a number of disturbing gossip about the power consumption of Nvidia's next-gen graphics products.
This is uniquely essential at the top end, because if Nvidia's cards do indeed make punitive demands on the power front, it could represent that gamers are considering a PSU upgrade, and instead a PSU upgrade. source of nutrition. are actually more energy efficient, potential buyers might change their minds and upgrade to Team Red.
It's also interesting to hear MLID express some cynicism around some of the gossip that has been spread before about Nvidia Lovelace GPUs promising more than double the performance of current Ampere cards, such as the claim that RTX XNUMX it could offer nearly triple the performance of Nvidia's existing flagship.
The leaker raises the idea that these kinds of estimates are inflated, and that if these other doubling performance predictions are possible, they would force Nvidia to massively increase power consumption (as they claim, to be fair, as we've already quoted ) . MLID does think that Lovelace will represent a bigger generational boost in performance than Ampere over Turing, and that's going to be awesome, but it might seem more like a XNUMX% to XNUMX% gain rather than a total duplication.
This theory that certain gossip may have exaggerated Lovelace's performance increase is in part the reason for MLID's line of thinking that AMD's RDNA 3 cards are going to be competitive in terms of raw frame rates (whereas offer much better efficiency).
So it seems that Nvidia is worried about how the next-gen GPU battle is going, and it's also worth mentioning that the RX XNUMX graphics cards coming later could be partially involved by AMD wanting to make sure that the offer is stronger this time. . The reasoning is that this could be an occasion for Team Red to truly return to gaming and increase its share of the desktop GPU market from around twenty percent to something more substantial.
However, Nvidia, having released earlier, theoretically, and with Team Green also ramping up availability, as each and every GPU stock level is generally expected to improve a lot going forward in XNUMX, will continue to be a huge advantage, and we shouldn't get carried away with speculation about how things might turn out for AMD.
This is all speculation, after all, and the equation of how the GPU war plays out also has another element to consider: Intel's entry into the market with Arc Alchemist cards and how it affects the balance of power. . Long story short, there's still a long way to go for XNUMX, but these latest whispers of the vine are certainly not going to be comforting for Nvidia's dominant desktop powerhouse.
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