The focus has been on NVIDIA’s next-generation Ampere GPU architecture and upcoming GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards for a while now … so it’s time for AMD’s next-generation RDNA 2 architecture enjoy that light.
A new rumor for Big Navi is sparking a really huge performance, with YouTuber Moore’s Law Is Dead saying that AMD’s RDNA 2-based graphics card will be 40-50% faster than the current NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.
Big Navi is 40-50% faster than RTX 2080 Ti is big business.
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But it’s also not the first time we’ve heard that Big Navi would be twice as fast as the Radeon RX 5700 XT with Navi 10 engine. In those rumors, we heard about 80 compute units, 5,120 stream processors, and 17.5 TFLOP compute performance.
The leak says AMD will use 72 SMs with “two groups of 36 CU in each”, with an unknown amount of GDDR6 on a 384-bit memory bus. The GPU has a 2.05GHz game clock and a 2.15GHz boost clock in its current form.
Big Navi being that fast means AMD has caught up to NVIDIA in a huge way. It also means that previous leaks from NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 are almost as fast as the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti much truer.
If Big Navi is really that fast, it will be the biggest shakeup in the GPU industry in almost always.
Lisa Su and the refocused team at AMD and Radeon are ready to take this battle right to NVIDIA’s door, but I don’t think NVIDIA is going to take this to bed.
Whatever NVIDIA has cooked with Ampere will be great, but from what I’m seeing we’ll see a huge shakeup in the less than $ 600 range. If I can buy a next-gen PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X console with an AMD processor 16 threads, a RDNA 2 based GPU and a super fast GDDR6 for less than $ 600, a graphics card for only $ 600 will be better very good.
But this means that the current flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which launched from $ 999, will be dethroned by cards that sell for half.
If you have a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, then its value will drop pretty fast if these new rumors are true (and I really think we’re getting really close to what we’re going to see), then we’re on a wild ride on graphics cards below $ 600.
What about over $ 600 and up to the $ 1000- $ 1200 mark where the current RTX 2080 Ti falls now? Well maybe that’s all the fuss about GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3090 ULTRA or whatever ends up being called is what NVIDIA has waiting in the wings.
Maybe we’ll see a limited release of some of the best cards we’ve seen, while NVIDIA is preparing a higher-end GeForce RTX 3000 card with the return of the nickname ULTRA, something I’m trying to become one thing. So send me your positive vibes, tweets.
Moore’s Law Is Dead’s new video also suggests that naming AMD Navi 2X and Navi 3X was not a mistake, as Lisa is pushing for a 2X performance upgrade over the Navi 10-based Radeon RX 5700 XT. Navi 3X means that we will see 3 times the performance of Navi 10, which would be a great goal for AMD.
If you look at how they’ve gone from stride to stride with Zen and their phenomenally successful Ryzen 3000 series processors (they change the game and crush Intel) … then imagine that kind of success and spiking all of Radeon, with the RDNA 2 Architectures and last generation RDNA 3.
Seriously, I’m realizing how good the next few years will be for the graphics card market. Literally the most exciting moment in graphics card history is right in front of us.
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Last update: July 14, 2020 at 1:48 am CDT
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