Friday, October 23rd 2020

AMD Radeon "Big Navi" GPU Benchmarked in Firestrike Ultra

AMD's "Big Navi" GPU is nearing the launch on October 28th, just a few days from now. This means that benchmarks of the card are already appearing across the internet, and we get to see how the card performs. Being divided into two different versions, Big Navi comes in Navi 21 XT and Navi 21 XTX silicon. While the former is available to AMD's AIBs, the latter is rumored to be exclusive to AMD and its reference design, meaning that at least in the beginning, you can only get Navi 21 XTX GPU if you purchase one from AMD directly.

Today, thanks to the Twitter account of CapFrameX, a frame time capturing tool, we have benchmark results of the Big Navi GPU in Firestrike Ultra. According to the people behind this account, the card scores about 11500 points in the benchmark. Compared to NVIDIA's offerings like GeForce RTX 3080, which scores about 10600, the AMD card is 8.5% faster. It is not known whatever this is Navi 21 XT or Navi 21 XTX silicon, however, we can assume that it is the former, and AMD is keeping the XTX revision to themselves for now. This result could be a leak from some of the AIBs, so it could not be the final Big Navi performance. All of this information should be taken with a grain of salt.
Source: CapFrameX (Twitter)
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77 Comments on AMD Radeon "Big Navi" GPU Benchmarked in Firestrike Ultra

#26
MDWiley
Benchmark scores are all fine and good, but I'm waiting until we see actual gaming benchmarks.
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#27
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
Well... my 3080 wont ship til november so i may end up with an AMD GPU this year...
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#28
laszlo
MusselsWell... my 3080 wont ship til november so i may end up with an AMD GPU this year...
seems your wish to have leaks come true! :D
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#30
BoboOOZ
LuminescentIt's not about favoring AMD cards, it's an old benchmark that everyone heavily optimized for it.
Actual games need people from AMD getting involved and this means money.
Amd might have a better card but if it's not used properly even a midrange card from Nvidia can beat everything AMD has and this actually happened with with some games with vega64.
Something tells me that new games will be optimized for RDNA2 hardware :kookoo:
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#31
neatfeatguy
laszlolol again?
Spilling the salt is very bad luck. We're driving across the country, the last thing we need is bad luck. Toss some salt over your right shoulder.
Okay, who's the dead man that hit me with a salt shaker?


I'm eagerly waiting reviews on AMD's end to see where things all land. Hopefully they can best or at least equal the performance of a 3070 with a better price point.
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#34
B-Real
Xuper5700XT beats RTX 2080 in firestrike ultra :
www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_radeon_rx_5700_xt_gaming_x_review,22.html

yet still slower than 2080 in actual games.Firestrike ultra favors too much to AMD cards.
Or maybe most games are not optimized enough so that AMD cards could gain enough from those. As far as I remember, regarding concurrent cards, AMD is usually better in raw power. It's not AMD's fault that developers don't spend enough time to optimize their games. BTW, what shows a cards power more realistically: a benchmark program developed for specific measurements or an unoptimized game? :D
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#35
R0H1T
laszlolol again?
Joke's on you, that's too little salt :ohwell:
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#36
r.h.p
MusselsWell... my 3080 wont ship til november so i may end up with an AMD GPU this year...
how does that work mussells ? have you paid and can swap ?
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#38
TheLostSwede
News Editor
r.h.phow does that work mussells ? have you paid and can swap ?
Or maybe he's greedy and wants one of each?
Pistachio and strawberry...
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#39
ador250
Latest 6800XT leak from igorslab.


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#40
r.h.p
TheLostSwedeOr maybe he's greedy and wants one of each?
Pistachio and strawberry...
:laugh:
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#41
HD64G
6800XT has the cut-down 72CU. So, the 6900XT could end up at least 10-15% faster than this. Let's see if RDNA2 is the best gaming gpu arch ever. Just a few days remain.
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#42
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
ador250Latest 6800XT leak from igorslab.


That is about what I thought it would be. Ray Tracing performance goes to Nvidia, pure rastorization performance could lean AMD.
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#43
PerfectWave
steenWhy do you think that?
If you read all articles about AMD written by TPU you can answer by yourself. AMD didnt gave them their high end CPU to test and this will happen to gpu
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#44
Divide Overflow
I hope TPU gets their hands on a XT and a XTX for full reviews.
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#45
GhostRyder
Well, while this makes things interesting I will hold out my excitement until we see independent results and more game benchmarks.

If it is as it shows here, I will definitely pick one up over a 3080/3090 (Mostly because of availability at this point but also because 3090 is not that much different from 3080 at the end of the day).
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#48
EarthDog
theoneandonlymrkI wonder if @EarthDog 's getting twitchy, I know I am.
Only one avatar will survive :p :) :D
lol, nope. I just checked the post I bookmarked for reference. All good here! :)
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#49
Zach_01
-The_Mask-
Source: www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-rtx-3080-founder-review,26.html

I would say it favors AMD a bit more, around 10% extra performance compared to nVidia. So lets hope that this is a real like and this is Navi 21 XL, because that would mean the performance would be similar to the RTX 3080.
In this chart, 5700XT matches the 2070Super score. But in realtive game performance the 5700XT loses from 2070Super by ~8%.
So if this big navi is ahead of 3080 by ~8.5% then on gaming it will be ~equal.
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#50
ador250
Zach_01In this chart, 5700XT matches the 2070Super score. But in realtive game performance the 5700XT loses from 2070Super by ~8%.
So if this big navi is ahead of 3080 by ~8.5% then on gaming it will be ~equal.
Same perf with latest drivers, will be 5 % ahead of 2070S 6 months later.

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