It looks like the launch of the long-awaited AMD Navi GPU is approaching, which could restore competition in the gaming graphics card market. As a rule, before the release of any important semiconductor product, its identifiers appear. The latest changelog for the HWiNFO info-diagnostic tool reports the addition of preliminary support for Navi, indicating that the final samples of graphics cards are ready.
According to unconfirmed information, Navi graphics cards should move away from the Graphics Core Next (GCN) macroarchitecture used by AMD since 2012, starting with the Radeon HD 7000 family. And the release of new cards is expected in the second half of the year or even a month after Ryzen 3000. About the characteristics of Navi for now not much is known. We can say with confidence that accelerators will be produced in compliance with 7nm standards, and the restriction of 4096 stream processors (SP) imposed by the GCN architecture will also be removed. Navi will lay the foundation for a number of future generations of AMD graphics cards and graphics accelerators, including for the new Xbox and PlayStation gaming consoles.
There are rumors, and it makes sense, that the company will be launching new products starting not with the high-end Navi 10, but with the most sought-after mainstream Navi 12 graphics cards. One of the earliest accelerators will reportedly feature 40 Compute Units (CUs). Assuming the same number of SPs per CU, this means 2560 SPs. In this case, the performance level should be higher than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2070, which today represent the most profitable and massive market segment.
You can count on the performance of the Vega 56 at a much lower price. So, owners of old Radeon RX 480/580 accelerators should probably not rush to update and better wait for the release of Navi, especially since this should happen pretty soon.
Source: 3dnews.ru