Monday, January 17th 2022
AMD to Refresh the Radeon RX 6000 Desktop Series with Faster Memory
AMD is preparing a round of updates to its desktop Radeon RX 6000 series in the wake of RTX 30-series models by NVIDIA, according to Greymon55, a reliable source with GPU rumors. The company could be leveraging faster 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory chips for the task. This wouldn't be the first RX 6000 series products with 18 Gbps memory, as the liquid-cooled MBA (made-by-AMD) RX 6900 XT that's exclusive to OEMs, already comes with 18 Gbps memory clocks.
Mass-production of JEDEC-standard GDDR6 memory chips with data-rates as high as 20 Gbps and 24 Gbps by Samsung is expected to get underway later this year. The company is already sampling these chips, and it's likely that they may feature in the next round of product-stack updates by AMD and NVIDIA. In the run up to its next-gen RDNA3 graphics architecture, AMD is rumored to be working on a refresh of RDNA2 on the new TSMC N6 (6 nm) foundry node that it already leverages for the entry-level "Navi 24" ASIC. This is expected to open up headroom to dial up engine clocks, and possibly support faster memory. As for this latest refresh with 18 Gbps memory, if AMD's naming convention for its mobile RX 6850M is anything to go by, the new SKUs could feature a similar "xx50" model numbering.
Sources:
Greymon55 (Twitter), VideoCardz
Mass-production of JEDEC-standard GDDR6 memory chips with data-rates as high as 20 Gbps and 24 Gbps by Samsung is expected to get underway later this year. The company is already sampling these chips, and it's likely that they may feature in the next round of product-stack updates by AMD and NVIDIA. In the run up to its next-gen RDNA3 graphics architecture, AMD is rumored to be working on a refresh of RDNA2 on the new TSMC N6 (6 nm) foundry node that it already leverages for the entry-level "Navi 24" ASIC. This is expected to open up headroom to dial up engine clocks, and possibly support faster memory. As for this latest refresh with 18 Gbps memory, if AMD's naming convention for its mobile RX 6850M is anything to go by, the new SKUs could feature a similar "xx50" model numbering.
29 Comments on AMD to Refresh the Radeon RX 6000 Desktop Series with Faster Memory
They're taking the piss is my take, I would expect refreshes, history has them repeatably occurring for both AMD and Nvidia, yet Nvidia are able to not bother refreshing anything anyone wants and desires or shipping enough 3080s to meet day one demand and orders and just went with mining card's instead.
No retort, likely because Nvidia didn't show up yet this year did they, Even the meager stuff they announced at CES not, was largely just vapourware.
edit: Are we certain RDNA3 is on 5nm and not on 6nm?
None of this is set in stone officially! However, the refreshes one sees, are most likely there to have something “new” for the coming release of Intel's ARC GPUs as well as OEM integrations in 2022.
Well, and to also get a bigger cut of the crypto cake by effectively sunsetting the previous models. Any bets, if ETH gets it's merge to POS in Q2 2022? :rolleyes:
All the big chipmakers try to anchor new price brackets as hard as they can, to define a new normal for after the shortages/corona.
The reason I like the 6600 is because it is 1/2 the price of the 6700XT.
I guess fps too but doubt many of these cards get utilized for gaming?
I have HDMI 2.1 gear (4k 120 Hz), it works