AMD’s next high-end graphics card, currently known as Big Navi, could be up to 50 percent faster than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and could challenge the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080.
YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead has uncovered information that claims a Big Navi GPU will offer 40 to 50 percent more performance over a GeForce RTX 2080 ti, Nvidia’s current high-end graphics card. And Moore’s Law is Dead said the source of such a claim comes from “someone who’s been right several times before,” but it should still be taken with a grain of salt.
The Big Navi graphics card, according to the leaked information, will also come with two sets of computing units that measure 36 UC each. A total of 76CU translates to 4,608 stream processors, which when paired with a 384-bit bus, GDDR6 video memory, and a maximum clock speed of 2,510MHz, could see Big Navi defeat the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
For reference, the RTX 2080 Ti comes with 4,352 CUDA cores, a 352-bit bus, uses GDDR6, and runs up to 1,545MHz. It’s a powerful graphics card, but it looks like Big Navi might have it in play.
AMD Big Navi vs Nvidia RTX 3080
Believed to be Nvidia’s next high-end graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3080 is poised to deliver up to 30 percent more performance than the RTX 2080 Ti Founder’s Edition. So if Big Navi could be up to 50 percent faster than the RTX 2080, there is a chance it will fit the heels of the RTX 3080.
Big Navi will use AMD’s next-generation RDNA 2 graphics architecture, which promises a boost over the already capable core RDNA architecture found in the Radeon RX 5700 XT. The GeForce RTX 3080 will utilize Nvidia’s new Ampere graphics architecture, which promises higher performance and better ray tracing capabilities.
Therefore, the upcoming GPUs, which will be released around September, will have new graphical bases to take advantage of. And that’s probably what determines what stands out, since specs are one thing, but how they apply in games and rendering tasks is another.
AMD has made some progress to improve the efficiency and performance of its graphics cards, after moving from its Graphics Core Next architecture to RDNA. He is clearly impressed with the likes of Sony and Microsoft, who opted for an RDNA 2-based GPU on their respective PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles.
Radeon GCN-based graphics cards tend to get hit by equivalent Nvidia GPUs. But the newer RDNA Radeon models can fend off all the more powerful graphics cards except Nvidia, albeit without offering ray-tracing hardware.
But Big Navi could change all that. If released before the next generation of Ampere GeForce cards, it could steal a lot of thunder from Nvidia. Even if it doesn’t, AMD will have a high-end graphics card to carry to the GPU arena.
And that means more competition, which means better graphics cards at more competitive prices for PC gaming enthusiasts. While next-gen consoles will dominate gaming discourse in the second half of the year, PC gamers still have a lot to look forward to as the fall approaches.
