Last week NVIDIA took a major hit in the graphics card market with the RTX 3000. So far nothing is known about AMD and its Big Navi graphics, beyond rumors that are like a roller coaster. But Frank Azor has surprised everyone with a rather enigmatic tweet that hints at some kind of announcement in the next few hours.
Big Navi would be AMD's big bet to face NVIDIA. These new Radeon graphics will offer Ray Tracing support, although we don't know how that will work. NVIDIA is committed to RT Cores, specific cores for this, while AMD wants to do it by set of instructions, without dedicated graphics cores.
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Frank Azor, Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD posted an enigmatic tweet on his account. In this he collects a part of the lyrics of the song 'Tomorrow' by Charles Strouse. It basically says that: "tomorrow the sun will rise so you have to hold out until tomorrow no matter what happens"
The message was published this past morning, Spanish time, on his Twitter account. We have to take into account the jet lag, so Azor's message was published yesterday, September 8. So the announcement could be perfectly today, although we have no confirmation or invitation from AMD. Well, neither us nor swim, since there is nothing planned.
Everything indicates that AMD has had to greatly advance the presentation of Big Navi, scheduled for late October or early November. NVIDIA has put them between a rock and a hard place with Ampere graphics. And is that NVIDIA has made the Radeon 5000 obsolete, even their own RTX 2000 have become little more than junk.
The strange thing is that no invitation or indicated anything officially by the company has been distributed. NVIDIA already a month before began to heat the presentation of the RTX 3000. Supposedly AMD Big Navi is going to be a big leap and the normal thing would be to do something special. We must also remember the hype that AMD gave to the Vega architecture to end up being a disaster architecture (except for APUs)
[irp]Source: wccftech
