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AMD has canceled some GPUs, but don’t panic!
SPEND ENOUGH TIME in this game and you get a feel for rumors that are very likely true. And I’m getting the sense that the latest ones suggesting AMD has ditched the high-end variants of its next-gen RDNA 4 graphics family are on the money. At first glance, this seems pretty disastrous, especially given how expensive gaming GPUs have become and how desperately we need somebody to put Nvidia under pressure. But is it? Is it actually?
Jeremy Laird
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The bones of the story go like this. AMD has canceled not only the top Navi 41 GPU but also Navi 42. It’s the mooted cancellation of Navi 42 that’s most worrying. Navi 41, just like Navi 31 and Navi 21 before it, was slated to be the big boy of the RDNA 4 series. It’s the most exciting GPU of the family, but also the least relevant.