In a cosy backstage chat, post-AMD CES keynote, David McAfee told us that everything you've heard about RDNA 4 performance is "completely inaccurate". McAfee and fellow AMD exec, Frank Azor were explaining the absence of either new RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT graphics cards from the keynote, fielding our questions about the new GPUs, new naming scheme, and AMD's priorities for this "gamer-first" new Navi 4 architecture.
Though McAfee's assertion about the inaccuracy of the rumoured RDNA 4 GPU performance could be a bit of a double-edged stabby thing. The last rumours we heard were suggesting a 45% uplift in ray tracing performance and rasterised frame rates on par with an RTX 4080 Super, which would be great. If it's more than that I'm going to be stunned and saddened if it's less.
