What to expect from AMD in 2025
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RDNA 4 GPUs, new Ryzen 9000 CPUs, Strix Halo and other APUs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AMD has a whole lot of goodies in store for us next year. Its new hardware launches expected in 2025 include RDNA 4 graphics cards, more Ryzen 9000 processors – including new 3D V-Cache offerings – and a deluge of APUs that could seriously pep up thin-and-light gaming laptops and PC gaming handhelds in a big way.
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There’s some exciting stuff on the boil, and the best bit is a lot of this hardware is rumored to be shown off by AMD right at the start of the coming year, at CES 2025. Probably the most anticipated launch from AMD next year – certainly for PC gamers who can’t stomach the prices of best graphics cards – is new RDNA 4 desktop GPUs.
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As has been long-rumored, the RDNA 4 series from AMD is expected to top out at the mid-range. Team Red won’t be challenging Nvidia at the higher end of the market, by all accounts. The most recent speculation (at the time of writing) has theorized that AMD will launch an RX 9070 XT and vanilla 9070, which, if it happens, looks to be an odd kind of one-upmanship game with Nvidia (as in RX 9070 > RTX 5070 at the mid-range). Previously, the rumor mill believed the RX 8800 XT would be the next-gen flagship, and that could still happen, but we're in strictly wait-and-see territory here.
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If the rumors are on the money, the top-end RDNA 4 (Navi 48) graphics card, whatever it's called, could equal Nvidia’s RTX 4080 GPU for non-ray tracing performance, and the RTX 4080 Super when it comes to ray tracing – an exciting prospect. Yes, the theory is that AMD has taken some big strides forward with ray tracing performance in particular.
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