Tuesday, June 13th 2023
AMD Navi 32 RDNA 3 GPU Spotted in Forbes Video
Forbes published its video interview with AMD CEO and President Lisa Su at the end of May, but it has taken two weeks for hardware news sites to realize that unreleased silicon was in plain view within the spotlight piece. Folks likely regarded it as a simple puff piece due to the title reading "This CEO Made AMD Billions - Now She Wants To Dominate The Market With AI." Hoang Anh Phu, a Vietnamese technology enthusiast, managed to pay close attention to a curious segment in the Forbes video and uploaded AI-upscaled screengrabs to Twitter along with the comment/question: "Navi 32 die shot(?!)."
RDNA3 Navi 31 and Navi 33 GPU products have already reached the retail market—AMD's high-end (chiplet design) Radeon RX 7900-series is based on the former and it launched last December. The latter arrived in the (monolithic N33 XL) form of Radeon RX 7600 cards at the end of May 2023. Even board partners are seemingly becoming impatient about a lack of new offerings in the mid-range—Sapphire is very likely to release another previous gen Radeon RX 6750 XT custom card this week in China. Team Red has not publicly acknowledged that Navi 32 is a work in-progress, so it is slightly odd that an example sat next to EPYC Genoa, Raphael, and Raphael X3D dies on a table—as spotted in the Forbes feature. Screenshots show an Infinity Cache setup with four memory stacks on a previously unseen die. Leaks have indicated that Navi 32 will be a chiplet design with a GCD (200 mm²) in the middle, surrounded by the four MCDs (37.5 mm²). The full package area size is eyeball estimated to occupy around 350 mm² of space, which corroborates info uncovered in the past.
The Forbes introduction states: "AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the greatest turn arounds in Silicon Valley history. Next, she's preparing for battle in the AI revolution-and she expects to keep winning."
It continues: "From a conference room atop AMD's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, a stretch of highway 101 running outside, Lisa Su presides over a company older than the term "Silicon Valley." Down the road is a link to the company's past, an old foundry in Sunnyvale where AMD used to press its chips. But from her window she can see a recent milestone in the company's fast-evolving present: the offices of arch-nemesis Intel, whose market capitalization ($120.3 billion) AMD's now eclipses ($153.5 billion)."
Sources:
Forbes YouTube Video, Forbes, Wfcctech
RDNA3 Navi 31 and Navi 33 GPU products have already reached the retail market—AMD's high-end (chiplet design) Radeon RX 7900-series is based on the former and it launched last December. The latter arrived in the (monolithic N33 XL) form of Radeon RX 7600 cards at the end of May 2023. Even board partners are seemingly becoming impatient about a lack of new offerings in the mid-range—Sapphire is very likely to release another previous gen Radeon RX 6750 XT custom card this week in China. Team Red has not publicly acknowledged that Navi 32 is a work in-progress, so it is slightly odd that an example sat next to EPYC Genoa, Raphael, and Raphael X3D dies on a table—as spotted in the Forbes feature. Screenshots show an Infinity Cache setup with four memory stacks on a previously unseen die. Leaks have indicated that Navi 32 will be a chiplet design with a GCD (200 mm²) in the middle, surrounded by the four MCDs (37.5 mm²). The full package area size is eyeball estimated to occupy around 350 mm² of space, which corroborates info uncovered in the past.
It continues: "From a conference room atop AMD's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, a stretch of highway 101 running outside, Lisa Su presides over a company older than the term "Silicon Valley." Down the road is a link to the company's past, an old foundry in Sunnyvale where AMD used to press its chips. But from her window she can see a recent milestone in the company's fast-evolving present: the offices of arch-nemesis Intel, whose market capitalization ($120.3 billion) AMD's now eclipses ($153.5 billion)."
11 Comments on AMD Navi 32 RDNA 3 GPU Spotted in Forbes Video
1. Still sitting on too much 6xxx inventory to release now.
2. Isn't enabling them to hit better price/performance targets than discounted existing tech, so not worth releasing at all.
I have a hunch that AD104 is more economical than Navi 32, and faster. The RTX 4070 Ti (maxed out AD104) is within 8-5% of the RX 7900 XT, and naturally AMD would've tried to space the top Navi 32 SKU at least 10-15% perf away from 7900 XT.
This makes the Navi 32 a non-starter compared to AD104 and RTX 4070 Ti. This is probably why AMD launched RX 7600 after 7900 series, its performance segment for this generation is a mess.
Also, rumors say that Navi 32 was sent for a respin to fix problems found in Navi 31/33. That's why we haven't seen it yet.