Could this open the door for Nvidia to win the next-gen performance battle?
AMD’s next-gen flagship graphics card may not be as powerful as previously rumored, and the same is true for the GPUs a tier down from that (meaning Navi 32), at least if the latest word from the grapevine is accurate. This fresh rumor comes from well-known leaker Greymon55, who posted revised (purported) core counts for AMD’s incoming RDNA 3 graphics cards. The theory, then, is that AMD has dropped down the core counts it’s gunning for on both the Navi 31 (flagship) and Navi 32 GPUs, with Navi 33 remaining the same (Greymon55 has floated the number provided here for Navi 33 in the past). Obviously, take all this with a healthily skeptical view, as with all hardware-related speculation. So how much have those core numbers dipped by? For Navi 31, which should be the RX 7900 XT, the previous rumored count of 15,360 cores has been revised downwards to 12,288, whereas Navi 32 (RX 7800 or maybe 7700) has dropped from 10,240 to 8,192. The Navi 33 mid-range chip remains as previously thought, still pegged at 4,096 cores.
