AMD’s Q3 2024 earnings name in the present day wasn’t bullish on gaming income total, however it did affirm a scorching new rumor on GPUs — particularly, the launch of AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 elements early subsequent yr. “We’re on monitor to launch the primary RDNA4 GPUs in early 2025,” mentioned AMD CEO Lisa Su, and the corporate confirmed to PCWorld that it’s the primary time it’s shared these plans publicly.
“Along with a powerful enhance in gaming efficiency, RDNA 4 delivers considerably increased ray tracing efficiency and provides new AI capabilities,” Su mentioned on the decision.
AMD expects its gaming income to proceed to say no this quarter, due in no small half to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence consoles growing older out, and it’s not precisely the corporate’s major focus nowadays anyhow. On in the present day’s name, Su identified how gaming solely accounts for 2 % of the corporate’s income, whereas knowledge middle is now nicely over half of the corporate’s enterprise. She says that after spending 10 years turning AMD round, her subsequent process is to “make AMD the end-to-end AI chief.”
