Wednesday, September 9th 2020
Alleged AMD Radeon "Big Navi" Prototype Pictured
Following Wednesday's announcement of the Radeon RX 6000 series with product launches on October 28, the rumor mill started rolling full steam ahead. The RX 6000 series GPUs by AMD will be based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture, the same exact architecture powering the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, and will feature DirectX 12 Ultimate support, including hardware raytracing. A PC enthusiast on Chinese microblogging site Bilibili posted a picture of an alleged "Big Navi" prototype. Since its July 2019 debut, there have been rumors of AMD working on a new high-end GPU to take on the upper-segment of NVIDIA, given that the RX 5700 series offered competitive performance to NVIDIA's breadwinning products, such as the RTX 2070 series and RTX 2060 series.
The picture reveals the reverse side of the alleged "Big Navi" prototype's PCB, showing a larger cluster of GPU ancillaries than those behind a "Navi 10," and eight memory pads with the paper labels "Typical XT ASIC" references for a "16 Gb Samsung GDDR6 memory." Over a 256-bit wide memory interface, the chip should hence have 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. Since this is a prototype, several headers are sticking out of the PCB for the design and prototyping of the product. A tower-type CPU cooler has been MacGyvered onto the GPU (which isn't uncommon for VGA prototypes). We'll hear a lot more about this product in the run up to its October 28 launch.
Sources:
搞机猛男 (bilibili), ChipHell Forums
The picture reveals the reverse side of the alleged "Big Navi" prototype's PCB, showing a larger cluster of GPU ancillaries than those behind a "Navi 10," and eight memory pads with the paper labels "Typical XT ASIC" references for a "16 Gb Samsung GDDR6 memory." Over a 256-bit wide memory interface, the chip should hence have 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. Since this is a prototype, several headers are sticking out of the PCB for the design and prototyping of the product. A tower-type CPU cooler has been MacGyvered onto the GPU (which isn't uncommon for VGA prototypes). We'll hear a lot more about this product in the run up to its October 28 launch.
98 Comments on Alleged AMD Radeon "Big Navi" Prototype Pictured
While Microsoft releasing their new X box based on Navi 2 with real time directx features including ray tracing on hardware level. And Sony is upto the same level of hardware from Amd.
On the other hand most of the titles from microsoft has been made available to pc. Obviously Sony did not hesitate to do so (finally) and there was a news lately that sony has announced to release their titles to pc.
There we go same level of hardware on both platforms (same directx features)
This provides the same venture on game titles with better performance as in theory we talk about best of both worlds.
Contrary to the situation Amd did not respond to Nvidia’s beta series ray tracing cards with hefty price tags and is still reluctant to do so after Nvidia is coming out with jawbreaking price drop on all new 3000 series cards ?
The answer was simple that Amd was working from a while on this to happen and they did not want to spoil the show.
I think everyone should wait for what Amd has to offer this time.
They kept cooking and they want to serve better and best in both worlds.
I think you should only wait for them if you are looking at buying a mid-range card and are a huge fan (to say the least), for everyone else - get an Nvidia card as soon as you find one at a reasonable price, because there are a good number of indicators those are going to rise for at least a while rather soon after release.
Oh, regarding cooking - yeah, they keep doing that, cooking themselves that is... This is a nice exposé on the matter:
The rumour mill though vibrant is full of shit, so what big Navi is can't be known and given how wrong they got Ampere I am bypassing rumours and waiting on facts before committing anything else as Known.
AMD do indeed need to up their marketing game though, I argued similar with Earthdog a while ago.
nl.hardware.info/nieuws/73264/gerucht-amds-big-navi-bestaat-uit-twee-aparte-chips
- 'Marketing'?
Who cares about marketing for the love of gpus...
It is a PNG, and I do have compression disabled on imgur, but not sure if this PNG size goes over the "no-compression" threshold rules on imgur.
it's late, calling it a day, try figuring out those numbers on the left some more :)
That "AB" could also be "AO" or "A0", the T in "XT" really isn't provable, but we do know that the stupid bright blue led mucks up the lower and upper portion of the text so the top of the T is hidden, but I guess it's an educated guess on the T from the context and experience of the industry followers, I'm not that of a big one so can't say whether it should be a T for sure.
realAMD/comments/iriquv
Looks like that neither AMD it can avoid making another Hot-Pan as NVIDIA did at RTX series.
Personally I would assist GTX 1660 Super = Units quantity due my next purchase when pricing this further normalize.