Help us, AMD RDNA 4! You’re our only hope

Author: Jarred Walton
NVIDIA’S BLACKWELL ARCHITECTURE has landed with a bit of a wet splat. It’s not that the GPUs are bad; it’s that you simply can’t find any of them in stock at reasonable prices. There’s also the matter of the new cards offering relatively limited gen-on-gen performance improvements—unless you’re specifically using Multi Frame Generation (MFG) as a smoothing substitute for higher frame rates. AMD’s answer is RDNA 4, which walks back from the GPU chiplet architecture of the prior generation. Specif...