Tuesday, May 21st 2019
Sapphire Reps Leak Juicy Details on AMD Radeon Navi
A Sapphire product manager and PR director, speaking to the Chinese press spilled the beans on AMD's upcoming Radeon Navi graphics card lineup. It looks like with Navi, AMD is targeting the meat of the serious gamer market, at two specific price points, USD $399 with a "Pro" (cut-down) product, and $499 with an "XT" (fully-fledged) product. AMD has two NVIDIA products in its crosshairs, the GeForce RTX 2070, and the RTX 2060. In the interview, the Sapphire rep mentioned "stronger than 2070", when talking about performance numbers, which we assume is for the Navi XT variant - definitely promising. The $399 Navi "Pro" is probably being designed with a performance target somewhere between the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070, so you typically pay $50 more than you would for an RTX 2060, for noticeably higher performance.
Sapphire also confirmed that AMD's Navi does not have specialized ray-tracing hardware on the silicon, but such technology will debut with "next year's new architecture". They also suggested that AMD is unlikely to scale up Navi for the enthusiast segment, and that the Vega-based Radeon VII will continue to be the company's flagship product. On the topic of Radeon VII custom designs, Sapphire commented that "there is no plans for that". On the other hand, Sapphire is actively working on custom designs for the Navi architecture, and mentioned that "work on a "Toxic" version of Navi is complete, and it is watercooled". Many people have speculated that AMD will unveil Navi at its Computex keynote address on May 27. Sapphire confirmed that date, and also added that the launch will be on 7th of July, 2019.
Source:
Zhihu (Blog)
Sapphire also confirmed that AMD's Navi does not have specialized ray-tracing hardware on the silicon, but such technology will debut with "next year's new architecture". They also suggested that AMD is unlikely to scale up Navi for the enthusiast segment, and that the Vega-based Radeon VII will continue to be the company's flagship product. On the topic of Radeon VII custom designs, Sapphire commented that "there is no plans for that". On the other hand, Sapphire is actively working on custom designs for the Navi architecture, and mentioned that "work on a "Toxic" version of Navi is complete, and it is watercooled". Many people have speculated that AMD will unveil Navi at its Computex keynote address on May 27. Sapphire confirmed that date, and also added that the launch will be on 7th of July, 2019.
119 Comments on Sapphire Reps Leak Juicy Details on AMD Radeon Navi
I want AMD radeon to be competitive again /InMyDream
Wait and see.
No, I'm asking. Has AMD actually said anything about that, or do you get your facts from Youtube?
Only two things it really needs though are good airflow over the gpu fans and a custom fan curve, so make sure you have a fan in the front or wherever that actually directs air over it. That's also why fanless testbenches always make a non-blower style gpu seem louder as normal gpu's will have to work extra hard without case fans to counteract sucking back in the warm/hot air it just blew away. Doesn't always matter too much, but IMO every tester should have at least one fan pointing at the front of a gpu to simulate a case. Then I'll believe a gpu is loud and/or hot, as currently my Radeon VII isn't really either and it's supposed to be the loudest and hottest of them all! :P
Went to GTX970 which was a 100% sidegrade but ITX and silence was the reason.
970 became the 1060 which still is the 1080P gpu performance today and I find it amazing that a GPU I bought in 2013 is still something you can use today for 1080P gaming and it was made for 1080P gaming back in the days...
1080TI will be the next 290X that everyone will use as a measuring stick of performance!
RTX2070 is $450 and RTX2060 is $350 and these are widely considered pretty poor upgrades over GTX1080 and GTX1070Ti.