AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPU performance leaks: 5-10% faster IPC than RDNA 4 at same clocks

AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 GPU architecture IPC improvements leaked: something about higher-end GPU performance versus RDNA 4 GPUs on the market (test).

AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPU performance leaks: 5-10% faster IPC than RDNA 4 at same clocks
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TL;DR: AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 GPU architecture promises a 5-10% IPC performance boost over RDNA 4, featuring up to 154 Compute Units, 36GB GDDR7 memory, and TSMC's 3nm process. The flagship Radeon RX 10900 XT aims to rival NVIDIA's RTX 6090, delivering significant gains in gaming and workstation performance.

AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 GPU architecture will reportedly have around 10% in IPC performance uplifts over RDNA 4, according to the latest leaks.

We've been hearing about AMD's next-gen RDNA 5-based flagship GPU which should end up being called the Radeon RX 10900 XT, which will reportedly have its RDNA 5 GPU fabbed on TSMC's 3nm process node, feature up to 32GB of GDDR7 and could even be a next-gen RTX 6090 killer.

In his latest video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead says we can expect around 5-10% more IPC uplift from RDNA 5 over RDNA 4 in rasterization, while ray tracing performance should be a little higher.

This is in a direct Compute Unit (CU) comparison between RDNA 5 CUs and RDNA 4 CUs without any clock speed increases, with improvements coming from AMD using the same power consumption on RDNA 5 CUs as the current RDNA 4 CUs.

AMD is also able to scale performance beyond 64 CUs that we see on RDNA 4, to over 100+ CUs on RDNA 5, which could lead to monster new gaming GPUs and workstation GPUs based on RDNA 5 in the years to come.

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AMD's next-gen RDNA 5-based flagship Radeon RX 10900 XT (or whatever it's called) has been rumored with the "AT0" die with 154 CUs of RDNA 5 inside, with 36GB of GDDR7 with up to 1.72TB/sec of memory bandwidth and a 380W, with an equivalent GPU performance as NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 6090. This was leaked by MLID not too long ago, with the huge 154 CUs being a massive upgrade over the 64 CUs inside of the flagship RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 XT.

Under that, will be the Radeon RX 10700 XT with a purported 64 CUs of RDNA 5, putting its performance somewhere between the RTX 5080 and RTX 4090, but with a rumored target price of under $550, which would be fantastic for Radeon RX gamers in the future.