Monday, July 29th 2019
AMD Readies Larger 7nm "Navi 12" Silicon to Power Radeon RX 5800 Series?
AMD is developing a larger GPU based on its new "Navi" architecture to power a new high-end graphics card family, likely the Radeon RX 5800 series. The codename "Navi 12" is doing rounds on social media through familiar accounts that have high credibility with pre-launch news and rumors. The "Navi 10" silicon was designed to compete with NVIDIA's "TU106," as its "XT" and "Pro" variants outperform NVIDIA's original RTX 2060 and RTX 2070, forcing it to develop the RTX 20 Super series, by moving up specifications a notch.
Refreshing its $500 price-point was particularly costly for NVIDIA, as it was forced to tap into the 13.6 billion-transistor "TU104" silicon to carve out the RTX 2070 Super; while for the RTX 2060 Super, it had to spend 33 percent more on the memory chips. With the "Navi 12" silicon, AMD is probably looking to take a swing at NVIDIA's "TU104" silicon, which has been maxed out by the RTX 2080 Super, disrupting the company's $500-700 lineup once again, with its XT and Pro variants. There's also a remote possibility of "Navi 12" being an even bigger chip, targeting the "TU102."
Source:
KOMACHI_ENSAKA (Twitter)
Refreshing its $500 price-point was particularly costly for NVIDIA, as it was forced to tap into the 13.6 billion-transistor "TU104" silicon to carve out the RTX 2070 Super; while for the RTX 2060 Super, it had to spend 33 percent more on the memory chips. With the "Navi 12" silicon, AMD is probably looking to take a swing at NVIDIA's "TU104" silicon, which has been maxed out by the RTX 2080 Super, disrupting the company's $500-700 lineup once again, with its XT and Pro variants. There's also a remote possibility of "Navi 12" being an even bigger chip, targeting the "TU102."
132 Comments on AMD Readies Larger 7nm "Navi 12" Silicon to Power Radeon RX 5800 Series?
AMD can use the current high pricing of the 2080Ti, we need to "thank" Nvidia for that :-(.
:laugh:
Nvidia managed to shoot itself in the foot with PhysX(they would still be selling a boatload of low-mid range cards if they haven't locked it) and it could happen the same this time with ray tracing, because of the way they tried to implement it, trying to take advantage of the AI capabilities of their chips, something that resulted in much bigger much more expensive to manufacture GPUs.
Japanese will personify (animefy?) just about anything :laugh:
as much as rx 5800 series may sound exciting, somehow I can smell bbq already.
especially if they reaching for that 2080ti level...
not like there is any reason whatsoever to move on from 1080ti now.
XD