> Like what happened to 8000 series? And also isn't it confusing to partially change the naming scheme? Any guesses what the next generation will be called?

I read somewhere that Radeon jumped to 9000-something for this generation to align with current Ryzen 9000 series CPUs (Ryzen 8000 wasn't a thing either, last I checked). Lets see if next gen Radeons match next gen Ryzens.

EDIT: confirmed, found slides from CES posted in articles like these:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2568373/amds-radeon-rx-9070-...

https://www.techspot.com/news/106208-amd-reveals-rdna4-archi...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-previews-RDNA-4-with-new-R...