The day is lastly right here: AMD is about to announce the primary of its next-gen desktop graphics playing cards based mostly on the long-awaited RDNA 3 design. This will probably be AMD’s reply to Nvidia’s RTX 40-series and Intel’s brand new ARC cards and, most probably, the final main announcement for desktop {hardware} within the 2022 calendar yr. AMD is live-streaming the announcement this afternoon at 4:00 PM Eastern US time, 1:00 PM Pacific.

How are you able to watch? It couldn’t be simpler: the livestream will probably be broadcast on YouTube, embedded above. It ought to be accessible worldwide on any commonplace desktop browser or cellular YouTube app. Naturally, PCWorld will probably be reporting dwell on the brand new merchandise.

We’re anticipating a flagship Radeon 7000-series graphics card on the very least, one thing to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 4090. Whether or not it would go toe-to-toe with that three-to-four-slot beast stays to be seen. AMD has taken pains to set expectations for more efficiency as an alternative of uncooked polygon-pushing energy. Exactly when new Radeon playing cards will probably be accessible and the way a lot they’ll price when they’re is anybody’s guess. Based on the standard launch patterns, cheaper and fewer highly effective Radeon 7000-based playing cards ought to be introduced someday subsequent yr.

We’re additionally anticipating Radeon 7000-series laptop computer playing cards in some unspecified time in the future, presumably early in 2023, although they could not make an look at this occasion.