Another Radeon RX 8000 GPU spotted in transit — Navi 44 XL GPU hints that RDNA 4 may mimic RDNA in product segmentation

It appears AMD is getting closer to revealing its next-generation RDNA 4 discrete GPUs, which will rival the best graphics cards. First, benchmarks for the supposedly higher-end Navi 48 surfaced, and now Olrak29 has spotted the Navi 44 XL silicon in a shipping manifest. Both chipsets were previously noted in AMD’s ROCm open-source software stack.

AMD has been quiet about its upcoming Radeon RX 8000-series graphics cards. What little information we have on the RDNA 4 graphics cards leads to the speculation that AMD will only release two versions of the RX 8000 series, at least initially. Most recently, benchmarks of the Navi 48 began trickling onto Geekbench, likely as AMD’s engineers or partners tested the new GPU to establish its baseline.

Of course, the Navi 44 XL’s appearance on a shipping manifest doesn’t necessarily mean AMD will release the new cards anytime soon. The leak doesn’t provide many details on the shipping manifest. It shows the date, its HS customs classification code, and the description of the goods.

That’s it. We don’t know the origin of the shipment, its destination, or to whom it’s being delivered. This is 100 percent speculation, but this shipment could be from the fab plant to AMD’s engineers. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the Navi 44 XL benchmarks appear soon.