AMD will launch its next-generation PC GPUs with RDNA 5 technology in early 2025, AMD Chief Executive Officer Dr. Lisa Su said on Tuesday. They will be part of what it calls the strongest PC portfolio in the company’s history.

Su presented the roadmap update during prepared remarks to analysts, outlining the company’s results during the third quarter of 2024.

About half of AMD’s revenue comes from its data center products. Wall Street analysts have therefore focused most of their attention on this part of the business. AMD’s GPUs fall under its Gaming business, whose revenue fell 69% to $462 million. Indeed, the segment also includes AMD’s GPUs for gaming consoles, and Microsoft and Sony have both reduced the amount of inventory they have.

PC graphics also declined, as board makers and PC vendors also began to hold off, anticipating AMD’s next-generation products. “In addition to a big increase in gaming performance, RDNA 4 delivers significantly better ray tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities,” Su said. “We are on track to launch the first RDNA 4 GPUs in early 2025.”

An AMD representative confirmed that this is the first time AMD has announced the early 2025 timeline for new GPUs.

Although AMD has not confirmed it, reports indicate that the chip will be known as the RX 8000 GPU, otherwise known as Navi 48 or Navi 44. Instead of attacking the “top of the stack » in terms of performance, they will likely aim for mid-range pricing and performance. Since AMD publicly confirms that they will arrive in early 2025, we expect to see them at the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile, AMD has already announced a launch date for its next gaming/content creation GPU, the Ryzen 9000X3Don November 7. Revenue has already grown 29% year-over-year on strong demand for AMD’s latest Ryzen 9000 desktop and Ryzen AI 300 laptop processors, Su said.

AMD’s consumer business is typically strongest in the second half, Su said. But with the combination of AMD’s existing Ryzen components and the upcoming X3D chip, Su said she expects AMD to perform even better. “So I think the combination of those two gave us, let’s say, a stronger second half than normal,” Su said.

“I think the main point is that this is the strongest PC portfolio that we’ve had…in our history, I think, across desktops and laptops,” Su said.

This momentum is expected to continue through 2025, she added, with expectations that the PC market will see mid-single-digit growth. This will be made easier, in part, as consumers migrate from Windows 10, which ends support in October 2025.

What does all this mean? A crazy, crazy CES 2025. Nvidia is already expected to announce its next-generation “Blackwell” cards, or RTX 5000, at the show. Add in AMD’s rival GPUs, plus whatever else is in store on the CPU front, and 2025 is off to a great start.