Finding a place to buy an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or other new Navi-based graphics card is still ridiculously difficult, but that hasn't stopped leaks about future AMD GPUs from popping up.

Specifically, as reported by VideoCardz, a mix of tipsters and leakers are claiming that the flagship Navi 31 GPU could have 15,360 cores. This is three times the number of cores of the high-end AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, aka Big Navi.

Our colleagues at PC Gamer offer a detailed breakdown of this massive core count and some technical speculation. In layman's terms, however, it shows the power of the next generation of AMD Radeon cards.

As it stands, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is the most powerful consumer graphics card on the market, and in fact, it is a combination of being a consumer card and an enthusiast-grade for 8K gaming and demanding creative workloads. It treads the line between being a rectangle of graphics technology.

The Radeon RX 6900 XT delivers enormous 4K gaming-specific performance at a low price, but lags behind.

However, by tripling the Radeon RX 6900 XT's cores, AMD's new graphics card (let's call it the Radeon RX 7900 XT) may be able to fight back against Nvidia.

Nvidia's latest GeForce graphics card not only offers a lot of raw power, but also includes machine learning and AI technology that enables smart supersampling in the form of DLSS 2.0, which can deliver significant performance gains in gaming There is a caveat here in that it can do this. The latest GeForce cards are also very capable of supporting ray tracing, and AMD cards can do the same, but not at the same level as their Team Green competitors.

Given that AMD is still said to be releasing the Radeon RX 6600 XT in the near future, it is unlikely that we will see next-generation Navi or RDNA 3 graphics cards in the near future. In other words, whatever AMD is planning will likely have to go head-to-head with next-generation graphics cards based on the rumored Nvidia Lovelace GPU architecture. In any case, it doesn't look like the graphics card world will get boring anytime soon.