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Although AMD name some of thebest graphics cards , there ’s one thing it has always contend with when compared to Nvidia : ray tracing . Even though RDNA 3 brought some improvements in that respect , Nvidia remains the Billie Jean King of beam of light tracing . However , a newfangled leak about the upcomingRDNA 4generation distinguish us that things might be about to change — and the PlayStation 5 Pro might already do good .
The soap comes fromKepler_L2on X ( formerly Twitter ) , who shared a list of beam of light follow features that are being added with RDNA 4 . The leaker also claims that most of these should be available in the PS5 Pro , which wo n’t run on RDNA 4 entirely , but is said to utilize parts of it to supplement the RDNA 3.5 poker chip that it ’ll house .
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What ’s new , then ? Kepler_L2 ’s intel exact that RDNA 4 will make for major change to RDNA ’s ray trace , including a double ray tracing intersect engine , ray draw instance node transform , a 64 - byte ray tracing node , tri - pair optimization , BVH footmark improvement , and ray tracing support for OBB and instance leaf node crossing .
Some of the new RT feature article come with gfx12 / RDNA4 . Most if not all of these should be in the PS5 Pro too 🙂 pic.twitter.com/AO5HaxJlMK
& mdash ; Kepler ( @Kepler_L2)July 21 , 2024
All of these features colligate to various boosts to the efficiency , speed , and accuracy of ray draw operations in RDNA 4 . It sounds like electron beam trace in RDNA 4 will be more accurate and efficient , leave in better frames per second ( Federal Protective Service ) and meliorate visuals . These improvements are much - needed , too . Although theRTX 4080offers about the same execution as theRX 7900 XTX , the Nvidia poster still wins in ray trace . Considering that AMD may not even aim to have a high - ending GPU to offer in RDNA 4 , ray trace improvements would give it more of an edge against Nvidia in this generation .
Kepler_L2 joins the long tilt of leaker who confirm that AMD wo n’t even beat its own RDNA 3 flagship with its next - gen wag . The Twitter userrevealedthat the best RDNA 4 GPU will be “ at most in between the RX 7900 XT and the XTX . ” And although the advance to ray tracing are clean , Kepler_L2 did n’t make any definite statement as to whether AMD will now be as respectable as Nvidia at ray tracing .
Ray trace aside , it ’s look increasingly like Nvidia ’s RTX 50 - serial will have the GPU to beat this coevals . account will repeat itself , as the RTX 4090 is unmatched . In a battle between Blackwell and RDNA 4 , AMD might only be able to rival the RTX 5070 — but with better ray tracing and reasonable pricing , it could really rock that mainstream GPU market .
Kepler_L2 also reiterated a rumor we ’ve already heard before — that AMD may hold off the RDNA 4 announcement until CES 2025 . Such alated launch could turn out to be fateful , but perhaps with solid performance , RDNA 4 may still sprain out to be a winner . Remember that all of the above is based stringently on rumors . AMD is yet to break anything solid about RDNA 4 .
