The head of AMD could not avoid mentioning future 7nm products at the quarterly reporting conference, and therefore decided to make the bulk of the statements about them in the prepared part of his speech. As Lisa Su explained, preparations for the announcement of 7nm products are in full accordance with the previously scheduled schedule. In the discrete graphics segment, the debut of Navi architecture carriers is scheduled for the second half of the year, to be more precise, for the third quarter of this year. The first products of the family will be intended for fans of computer games.
The situation with the warehouse stocks of video cards, which turned out to be excessive after the decline in interest in cryptocurrency mining last year, improved in the first quarter. AMD expects the retail video card segment to show growth in sales and revenue in the second quarter, and the release of Navi in the third quarter will only strengthen this trend.
For AMD, the Navi architecture is new and optimized for gaming. Many innovations are promised at the architectural level. True, Lisa Su refused to talk about the possibility of supporting ray tracing in real time, promising to return to the topic of discussing plans for the entire Navi family after closer to the announcement of its first representatives.
But the head of AMD explained that the 7nm Navi graphics solutions, which will debut in the third quarter, will be located below the Radeon VII, which is currently offered for $699, in the price hierarchy. Recently leaked to the web printed circuit board of one of the video cards with a Navi GPU, which suggested that this product has a 256-bit bus for working with GDDR6 memory. This set of characteristics fits perfectly into the idea of mid-range video cards.
At the quarterly reporting conference, AMD management also announced several times that Sony has chosen Navi graphics, along with the Zen 2 processor architecture, as the basis for the next generation PlayStation game console.
Source: 3dnews.ru