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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

40 TFLOPs is about 9070 boost speed, or 9070XT base performance. That should be absolutely serviceable, but RT will quickly get thrown out of the window as it won't be powerful enough to do so shortly after release.

56 TFLOPS I'm project Helix however are a different beast. A theoretical 9080 with that performance would have smoked the 5080. If the console will not get choked by the memory or other components, it should have much more headroom to run ray tracing or maybe even path tracing early on, and run games in higher base resolutions and/or frame rates in general.

We don't know what improvements RDNA5 will bring compared to RDNA4 when it comes to RT and the like so, it's a bit early to talk about how it will perform in those tasks.

Besides, there's that project amethyst thing that has RT as one of the tasks to help with.

Absolutely, just wanted to give a rough estimate based on the TFLOPS, which I know is very flawed, but I wanted to show what AMD currently has in that performance class to compare. And here the verdict still stands;

If AMD had released an RDNA 4 GPU with the raw TFLOPs of project Helix, then that GPU would have smoked the 5080, and since both Helix and PS6 are based on the same architecture, Helix will probably be significantly more powerful and will keep up with PC for longer unless they're bottlenecking the console somewhere else that would prevent it.

Something else to keep in mind that either I didn't remember or didn't know:

AMD’s 2027 Radeon GPU packs 9% more CUs than RX 9070 XT, says leaker
https://www.club386.com/amd-2027-radeon-gpu-at2-cus/
Renowned hardware leaker Kepler_L2 has confirmed the core configuration of AMD’s upcoming AT2 gaming GPU which is expected to arrive at the end of 2027.(...)

Note that while the focus of this leak is the AT2 chip, this is neither the only nor the biggest design AMD is rumoured to be planning with RDNA 5. Kepler_L2 has previously released diagrams of a much larger GPU, believed to be the AT0. Better yet, RDNA 5 CUs are also rumoured to house twice as many SMs (stream processors) as RDNA 4, meaning this AT0 chip would carry three times as many SMs as the RX 9070 XT.