New rumors about the specifications and capabilities of AMD's upcoming Navi graphics card hint at some surprising performance and pricing. If true, it could mean AMD's next-generation graphics cards are some of the most powerful and bang-for-buck cards ever released.
The new rumors come from long-time rumor-mill leaker and speculator, AdoredTV. He claims that the initial line up of Navi graphics cards coming later this year will come in seven guises, ranging from RX 580 performance, all the way up to Radeon VII + 10 percent performance, with prices said to be between $140 and $500.
He justifies these guesstimates based on the typical improvements in performance and power-consumption from different TSMC node progressions though generations, and looks at the difference between GlobalFoundries 14nm to TSMC's 7nm, which is what we'll see in the move from Polaris/Vega 10 to Navi.
The biggest performance gains won't come until 2020, with the release of Navi 20 GPUs, we're told, but the first-generation Navi cards will still be very capable. The 3090 will be Navi 20, we're told, while everything else will be Navi 10 or 12.
- RX 3090 XT: 64 compute units, Radeon VII + 10 percent performance, at 225w TDP with a price of $500
- RX 3090: 60 compute units, Radeon VII performance, at 180w TDP with a price of $430
- RX 3080 XT: 56 compute units, RTX 2070 performance, at 190w TDP with a price of $330
- RX 3080: 52 compute units, AMD Radeon Vega 64 + 10 percent, at 175w TDP with a price of $280
- RX 3070 XT: 48 compute units, AMD Radeon Vega 64, at 175w TDP with a price of $250
- RX 3070: 40 compute units, AMD Radeon Vega 56, at 130w TDP with a price of $200
- RX 3060: 32 compute units, AMD Radeon RX 580, at 75w TDP with a price of $140
Do any of these cards strike your fancy?
