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shikamaru317 on 15 February 2024
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haxxiy said:
shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, 7900 XT tier but with better RT performance would be my guess. Supposedly it is RDNA 5, RDNA 3 RT performance is pretty poor, behind both Intel Arc and Nvidia GPU's in raytracing performance at the same pricing tier, but supposedly RDNA 4 and RDNA 5 will offer pretty big ray tracing improvements, so a mid level RDNA 5 GPU like the one that will go into the next gen Xbox most likely, one that roughly matches the high end RDNA 3 Radeon 7900 in rasterization, should outperform the 7900 XT in RT. So we should have path tracing as as a big leap forward in lighting, much more RAM allowing higher res textures, and AI frame generation on AMD's FSR, which testing shows offers about a 80-90% framerate improvement. 

RDNA5 is the architecture RTG is believed to be developing for the next-generation consoles so I expect it to be one of the 'good ones' like RDNA2. It could be as good as Ampere in ray tracing, so perhaps even a match for the 4070 Ti with RT on.

I wonder what Sony would do, in any case. I doubt they have 2026 in mind right now so this is probably more of a PS2 situation, where it was designed with more advanced tech in mind than the Dreamcast, rather than a PS3 one where it was late only due to manufacturing costs/part availability.

There were actually some recent leaks that suggest RDNA 4 will catch up Ampere in RT performance, so my hope is that RDNA 5 will catch up all the way to Ada Lovelace on RT performance. If that is the case, a 7900 XT tier mid range RDNA 5 part in the next gen Xbox could have at least 4070 ti tier RT performance, maybe even 4070 ti Super tier.

I think next gen should be pretty good if we get something like 1440p FSR quality moded up to a higher resolution, higher end ray tracing options (Series X/PS5 get medium RT settings at best, so RT high or path tracing would be a big leap there), and FSR Frame Generation to nearly double framerates, allowing them to pull off RT and decent graphics settings from the PC version at 60 fps, instead of 30 fps RT modes like this gen.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 15 February 2024