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A new report citing graphics card makers at the Computex show claims AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs won't appear until at least late next year and perhaps not until early 2028. AMD's current RDNA 4 graphics cards, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT, were released in March 2025.
Dutch website Tweakers says it spoke with several graphics card manufacturers at Computex. One reportedly said that the expectation was that RDNA 5 would arrive in the second half of 2027. But another thought that too optimistic, predicting a late 2027 or early 2028 launch window.
Historically, both AMD and its main rival in the PC graphics market, Nvidia, have released new GPU families on a two-year cadence. But that has been slipping slightly of late.
AMD's first RDNA 3 GPUs, topped by the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, were released in December 2022. RDNA 4 didn't follow until March 2025. If RDNA 5 doesn't land until late 2027, that'll mean a full year has been added to the launch cycles since RDNA 3 in 2022.
For what it's worth, we're not necessarily expecting Nvidia to stick to the traditional two-year cadence with its next-gen Rubin graphics cards, either. Nvidia also slightly slipped with the RTX 5090, which arrived in January 2025, following the RTX 4090's release in October 2022.
For what it's worth, at Computex Nvidia said it planned to release the Vera Rubin iteration of its RTX Spark chip in 2028. That's an APU with a CPU and graphics, not a pure GPU. But it's the closest we currently have to an indication regarding Nvidia's plans for next-gen PC gaming graphics.
Of course, you could actually argue that the later AMD's RDNA 5 and indeed Nvidia's Rubin arrives, in some ways the better. The PC hardware industry is currently being suffocated by elevated chip prices driven by the AI boom. If pushing RDNA 5 out makes it more affordable, that could be preferable to an earlier release at sky-high prices.
All that said, if the AI boom keeps booming, we could end up with RDNA 5 being both late and very expensive. PC gamers haven't had much luck recently, what with the prices of so much hardware spiralling out of reach. So, here's hoping that by the the RDNA 5 finally surfaces, we're back to something resembling a normal and functional hardware market.
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