Wednesday, May 12th 2021
AMD "Navi 24" is the Smallest RDNA2 GPU Yet, Could Power RX 6400 Series
The 7 nm "Navi 24" silicon will very likely be the smallest discrete GPU based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture. The chip surfaced in technical documentation under the codename "Beige Goby." AMD uses such internal codenames to track sources of leaks. No specs of the "Navi 24" are known yet, but it could be significantly smaller than the "Navi 23" that powers the Radeon RX 6600 series and possibly the RX 6500 series, reportedly packing up to 2,048 stream processors. The "Navi 24" chip could also help AMD compete against NVIDIA and an emerging Intel in entry-level discrete GPUs for notebooks.
Sources:
Phoronix, Tom's Hardware
26 Comments on AMD "Navi 24" is the Smallest RDNA2 GPU Yet, Could Power RX 6400 Series
Still, this could get really interesting. This die should be small enough for each wafer to yield hundreds of dice, making production fast and high volume even in relatively limited runs. VRAM supply might be more of a bottleneck, really. But this could provide some much-needed improvements in the low range.
But Ineed a 75w low profile upgrade. The 560 just doesnt cut it anymore.
I mean, is it of any use to people who are into crypto bubbles?
Sure, they could put raytracing in it, but who wants single-digit framerates at 720p?
Low resolution ray tracing effects like reflections but then upscaled and reconstructed using DLSS or FSR so performance is good and image quality is good enough
If you look at the raytracing performance of the 6800XT with 72CUs, and then assume that clocks will be closer to half the speed on the APU's RDNA2 CUs, you could be looking at 1/12th the performance and that's probably not enough to make an image, the lack of samples will be so noisy that no amount of magic DLSS equivalent or noise reduction is going to make a good image out of it.
Hey, I hope I'm wrong. Cheaper, better-looking graphics are great for everyone but raytracing tech is still very much a brute-force method of rendering and heavily cut down parts don't tick the box for brute-force tools.