Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Enthusiasts and PC gamers have been eagerly waiting for AMD to make a comeback in the graphics card market. Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 20-series and previous GTX 10-series graphics cards continue to dominate the gaming market. AMD’s next generation of GPUs could be the kick the market needs to drive performance forward and prices down. At the very least, they should be an improvement over the company’s retread Polaris-based parts, like the Radeon RX 590.

We are still a few months away from getting our first official look at AMD’s new Navi GPU based graphics cards but it looks like we have some new details coming in. There have been many speculations about AMD’s Navi GPU based Radeon RX graphics cards that could be launching in the second half of 2019 and while they are aimed at the more budget-tier audience, details of a second Navi GPU which is aimed at the enthusiast tier have been revealed by RedGamingTech.

AMD’s forthcoming Radeon gaming graphics cards will be based on the new Navi GPU architecture. Multiple leaks suggest that Navi will be produced with TSMC’s 7nm process node. In November, AMD announced the world’s first 7nm-based graphics cards in the form of the Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50 accelerators for the data center. And in February, it released the world’s first 7nm gaming GPU, the Radeon VII. So it’s not unrealistic to assume that Navi will come out of TSMC’s 7nm oven as well.

But we have to take into consideration that AMD’s Navi 20 GPUs will be launching a year after the Navi 10 mainstream parts. So that puts the launch to around 2020 which is still pretty far away. At the same time, NVIDIA states that they don’t have any plans to rush to 7nm right now as they can achieve much competitive performance to watt figures on 12nm FinFET process so it’s possible that NVIDIA could be aiming for the enhanced 7nm+ or 5nm node, completely excluding the 7nm process off their tables.

Other than that, we are hearing reports that AMD Navi GPUs may introduce features such as Variable Rate Shading which would be available across the Navi architecture.

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