Mystery AMD Radeon RX 8000 graphics card makes Geekbench debut with Navi 48 GPU

AMD's next-gen Navi 48 GPU has just shown up on Geekbench. An unspecified SKU, likely the Radeon RX 8800 XT, has been tested on the platform's OpenCL benchmark where it spits out a wide range of scores, not unexpected from pre-production hardware. Nevertheless, it confirms that new AMD graphics cards are inching closer to launch and will likely be revealed at CES 2025.

It bears the "gfx1201" monicker that was previously confirmed to be a Navi 48 SKU via an LLVM patch. The graphics card in question has 56 CUs or 28 WGPs as shown by Geekbench. In its best run, the supposed Radeon RX 8800 XT scores 33,241 points followed by 33,139, 32,070, 31,041 and 12,962. These figures are borderline meaningless as they're nowhere close to the last-gen Radeon RX 7900 XT's average OpenCL score of ~160,000.

Nevertheless, we get an idea about the RX 8800 XT's specs, which include 16 GB of RAM and a maximum boost clock of 2.1 GHz. That is about as much as last-gen RDNA 3 SKUs, but the figure will likely be much higher at launch. This is, after all, a pre-production sample that clearly needs more time in the oven. Plus, it confirms earlier rumours about the RDNA 4 GPU's specs. Performance-wise, it is expected to mimic a Radeon RX 7900 XT (and maybe even the Radeon RX 7900 XTX). Moore's Law is Dead states it could trade blows with a GeForce RTX 4080 in rasterization, but fall behind in raytracing.