Is AMD retreating from the high-end?

Red has cancelled some GPUs, but don’t panic!

Jeremy Laird

"It wasn’t until July that a sole 7900 board, the XTX, appeared in Steam’s Hardware Survey" Spend enough time in this game and you get a feel for rumours that are very likely true. And I’m getting the sense that the latest ones suggesting AMD has ditched the high-end variants of its next-gen RDNA 4 graphics family are on the money. At first glance, this seems pretty disastrous, especially given how expensive gaming GPUs have become and how desperately we need somebody to put Nvidia under pressure. But is it? Is it actually? The bones of the story go like this. AMD has cancelled not only the top Navi 41 GPU but also Navi 42. It’s the mooted cancellation of Navi 42 that’s most worrying. Navi 41, just like Navi…

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