Prior to their debit next week, Khronos Group has announced Vulkan 1.3 support for AMD's RDNA 3 GPU-based Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards.

Khronos Group Adds Vulkan 1.3 Support For AMD's Next-Gen RDNA 3 "Radeon RX 7000" GPUs

As discovered by Videocardz, the Khronos Group conformant page now lists AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs which are ready to support the latest Vulkan 1.3 API. The latest version of the Vulkan API, v1.3.3.1, will be supported by the upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards and the respective Navi 3X GPUs powering them.

The Khronos Group has listed AMD's RDNA 3 "Radeon RX 7000" series GPUs with Vulkan 1.3 API support. (Image Credits: Videocardz)

Recently, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090, the flagship of the Ada Lovelace lineup, also got Vulkan 1.3 support so that means both GPU companies have their next-gen lineups ready for the latest APIs. The AMD RDNA 3 "Radeon RX 7000" GPUs have received Vulkan 1.3 API support in both Ubuntu 64-bit and Windows 10 64-bit operating systems.

AMD confirmed that its RDNA 3 GPUs will be coming later this year with a huge performance uplift. The company's Senior Vice President of Engineering, Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, said that the next-gen GPUs for Radeon RX 7000 series will offer over 50% performance per watt uplift vs the existing RDNA 2 GPUs. As we've seen each generation, AMD's upcoming GPUs will be ready to support the latest and greatest of APIs on various operating systems. Some of the key features of the RDNA 3 GPUs highlighted by AMD will include:

5nm Process NodeAdvanced Chiplet PackagingRearchitected Compute UnitOptimized Graphics PipelineNext-Gen AMD Infinity CacheEnhanced Ray Tracing CapabilitiesRefined Adaptive Power Management>50% Perf/Watt vs RDNA 2

AMD will be unveiling its RDNA 3 GPU architecture and the Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards on the 3rd of November.They have a full Livestream planned which you can read more details about here.

AMD RDNA 3 Navi 3X GPU Configurations (Preliminary)

GPU Name	Navi 21	Navi 33	Navi 32	Navi 31	Navi 3X
Codename	Sienna Cichlid	Hotpink Bonefish	Wheat Nas	Plum Bonito	TBD
GPU Process	7nm	6nm	5nm/6nm	5nm/6nm	5nm/6nm
GPU Package	Monolithic	Monolithic	MCM (1 GCD + 4 MCD)	MCM (1 GCD + 6 MCD)	MCM (TBD)
GPU Die Size	520mm2	203mm2 (Only GCD)	200mm2 (Only GCD) 425mm2 (with MCDs)	300mm2 (Only GCD) 522mm2 (with MCDs)	TBD
Shader Engines	4	2	3	6	8
GPU WGPs	40	16	30	48	64
SPs Per WGP	128	128	128	128	128
Compute Units (Per Die)	80	32	60	96	128 (per GPU) 256 (Total)
SPs (Per Die)	5120	2048	3840	6144	4096
ALUs (Per Die)	5120	4096	7680	12288	16384
Memory Bus	256-bit	128-bit	256-bit	384-bit	384-bit x2?
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory Capacity	Up To 16 GB	Up To 8 GB	Up To 16 GB	Up To 24 GB	Up To 32 GB
Memory Speed	16-18 Gbps	TBD	TBD	20 Gbps	TBD
Memory Bandwidth	512-576 GB/s	TBD	TBD	960 GB/s	TBD
Infinity Cache	128 MB	32 MB	64 MB	96/192 MB	TBD
Flagship SKU	Radeon RX 6900 XTX	Radeon RX 7600 XT? Radeon RX 7700M?	Radeon RX 7800 XT? Radeon RX 7900M?	Radeon RX 7900 XTX	Radeon Pro
TBP (Max)	330W	~150W	~250W	335W	TBD
Launch	Q4 2020	Q4 2022?	Q4 2022?	Q4 2022?	2023?

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