Everything indicates that AMD Navi will arrive in 2019, thinking of offering a graphics card with good performance and a good price and it would not be until 2020 and a new graphics family, when AMD returns to fight in the high range.
Things for AMD in the graphics card sector are not going well at all. Yesterday they launched the RX 500X Series, graphics cards intended for laptops and OEM equipment, which are nothing more than the RX 500 Series, under another name, without any improvement. A few days ago we echoed that the Vega 7nm GPUs did not arrive for the gaming market, they would remain for the professional segment. Now it is announced that the Navi GPUs, in 7nm, would arrive in 2019 and would not be high-end graphics, but solutions with a good performance / price ratio.
If we compare Navi with NVIDIA solutions, the first data indicates that these new GPUs would be close to the GTX 1080. The problem is that Navi will not arrive until the end of 2019 and will only have Vega-based solutions on the market until that date, Which puts AMD on the ropes, as NVIDIA will launch a new graphics architecture that promises to be very powerful.
These more than two years, since the launch of Vega, will be a true journey through the desert for the company. Radeon Technology Group is committed to finding a core market solution that offers a competitive and cost effective solution. We must not forget that everything points to Intel entering the graphics card market in 2020, according to the latest information, so the problems are growing.
The only hope for many is that AMD passes Polaris to 12nm and a performance improvement is achieved, since the RX 500 Series are a rehash of the RX 400 Series, which have contributed rather little. It is also clear that the GCN architecture used by AMD does not give more of itself and a major update is necessary, which would arrive, according to rumors, in 2020, with the successor of Navi, which should again stand up in the high range .
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The truth is that although everything sounds plausible in a "monolithic" GPU, perhaps if we listen to certain speculations we could expect something better (among the worst possibilities):
TL; DR Speculating that Navi will be a re-design of stream processors with more robust cores than current GCN and what that may bring space to the GPU.
Assuming it's true that Navi would be close to the GTX 1080 (ex hype assumes at least RX Vega 56/1070ti levels) in the mid-range market, then that could only be done on a non-GCN architecture with more robust "stream processors", even if it assumes 2.0GHz+ clock speeds.
The mid-range DIE size is around 200mm and Vega on 14nm is 480mm, so even a shrunken DIE (240mm) which many stream processors are not going to hit that size. However, looking at the 1080 and its Cuda core numbers and the RX580 SP count, they are within about 250mm or 10% of the 1080 DIE size being just over 310mm.
So what it looks like from this info is that Navi is a new design, with more robust stream processors at least around the 2500-2800 mark (40-44CU) that should easily fit into a 200mm or less DIE at 7nm and quadrant processing, the GCN limitation is gone forever ...
We already know that despite the huge power consumption of Vega in the RX version, it is inefficient in performance at high clocks, we also know that with low clocks it can cut power consumption in half with only 10-15% loss of power. performance…
Navi holds the promise of Zen in the GPU space, one can only hope that AMD actually thinks this way and isn't just building on their existing tech and overstating performance like they did with Vega and that multi-GPU isn't just "crossfire" with a different name.
I just hope that the new intel cards go with freesync, otherwise we will eat our monitors with potatoes ,,,
You are waiting too long for someone who is just going to enter the gpu that barely has a patent and is reinventing himself, besides, it does not suit anyone that amd go there if you are going to have a monopoly because neither intel nor samsumg is a competition for nvidia that tube behind this to radeon amd