Tuesday, January 5th 2021
AMD's Radeon RX 6700 Series Reportedly Launches in March
AMD may be finding itself riding a new wave of success caused by its accomplishments with the Zen architecture, which in turn bolstered its available R&D for its graphics division and thus turned the entire AMD business on its head. However, success comes at a cost, particularly when you don't own your own fabs and have to vie for capacity with TSMC against its cadre of other clients. I imagine that currently, AMD's HQ has a direct system of levers and pulleys that manage its chip allocation with TSMC: pull this lever and increase number of 7 nm SOC for the next-generation consoles; another controls Ryzen 5000 series; and so on and so on. As we know, production capacity on TSMC's 7 nm is through the roof, and AMD is finding it hard to ship enough of its Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA2 graphics cards. The reported delay for the AMD RX 6700 series may well be a result of AMD overextending its product portfolio on the 7 nm process with foundry partner TSMC.
A report coming from Cowcotland now points towards a 1Q2021 release for AMD's high-performance RX 6700 series, which was initially poised to see the light of day in the current month of January. The RX 6700 series will ship with AMD's Navi 22 chip, which is estimated to be half of the full Navi 21 chip (which puts it at a top configuration of 2560 Stream Processors over 40 CUs). These cards are expected to ship with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory over a 192-bit memory bus. However, it seems that AMD may have delayed the launch for these graphics cards. One can imagine that this move from AMD happens so as to not further dilute the TSMC wafers coming out of the factory, limited as they are, between yet another chip. One which will undoubtedly have lower margins than the company's Zen 3 CPUs, EPYC CPUs, RX 6800 and RX 6900, and that doesn't have the same level of impact on its business relations as console-bound SoCs. Besides, it likely serves AMD best to put out enough of its currently-launched products' to sate demand (RX 6000 series, Ryzen 5000, cof cof) than to launch yet another product with likely too limited availability in relation to the existing demand.
Sources:
Cowcotland, via Videocardz
A report coming from Cowcotland now points towards a 1Q2021 release for AMD's high-performance RX 6700 series, which was initially poised to see the light of day in the current month of January. The RX 6700 series will ship with AMD's Navi 22 chip, which is estimated to be half of the full Navi 21 chip (which puts it at a top configuration of 2560 Stream Processors over 40 CUs). These cards are expected to ship with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory over a 192-bit memory bus. However, it seems that AMD may have delayed the launch for these graphics cards. One can imagine that this move from AMD happens so as to not further dilute the TSMC wafers coming out of the factory, limited as they are, between yet another chip. One which will undoubtedly have lower margins than the company's Zen 3 CPUs, EPYC CPUs, RX 6800 and RX 6900, and that doesn't have the same level of impact on its business relations as console-bound SoCs. Besides, it likely serves AMD best to put out enough of its currently-launched products' to sate demand (RX 6000 series, Ryzen 5000, cof cof) than to launch yet another product with likely too limited availability in relation to the existing demand.
43 Comments on AMD's Radeon RX 6700 Series Reportedly Launches in March
Then again, is just under 5 years old. Still can make it for some low-end applications, I guess.
And to be fair, my RX 580 still can handle itself relatively well for my 1080p 60 Hz gaming, considering how old it is.
It's why Nvidia went with Samsung and I'm hoping Intel's 14nm+++ doesn't die any time soon.
Is polaris still made at GloFo? That's probably why AMD haven't dropped it yet in favour of the TSMC-made 5500XT
Due to some production issues, the first few samples will be built on LEGO.
AMD has gone all-in on TSMC for GPUs now. Unless GloFo can cough up the money to actually build or upgrade a fab to their own 7nm and compete again, AMD is kind of stuck with TSMC's limits. TSMC itself is overdue for a new large-scale fab, since they've been having production limits for over a year now, with demand still rising.
www.wootware.co.za/xfx-radeon-rx-580-gts-xxx-edition-rx-580p8dfd6-8gb-gddr5-256-bit-pci-e-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html
It's either sit on a backorder for a 3080 at $939 CAD or sitting on backorder for a 6800 (non XT) at $888 CAD. The lower end GPU's, which are all backordered, are not much cheaper and non available.
Besides, if you want 6700 performance and only 8GB of RAM for a low price, the 5700xt will likely plummet in price once the 6700 and 3060 are available in decent numbers, and the vega 64 is still available for ~$250.Yes lets just ignore a large market for more important projects, like........more PS5s?
The lower you go down the GPU totem pole, the larger your market. AMD already tried the "ignore the $300-400 market" thing with polaris, and it resulted in nvidia printing a mint with the 1070 alone.