Next week at Computex in Taipai, AMD is expected to reveal its lineup of next-generation Ryzen 3000 CPUs, and its collection of next-generation Navi graphics cards. While there hasn't been much in the way of official announcements for either, we know a lot thanks to a series of leaks and the latest for Navi gives us a firm idea of its specifications and potential capabilities.
The new chip, said to be either Navi 10 or Navi 12, will power the RX 3080, according to WCCFTech's sources and will offer performance somewhere in excess of an Nvidia RTX 2070 by most measures. We've heard before that this card will retail for around $500, but we're hoping it'll come in lower than that to be more competitive.
The original Tweet with the leak appears to have been taken down, but we still have the information from it. The new GPU will reportedly have 40 compute units, a noticeable number less than previous high-end parts like the Radeon VII or Vega 56/64, but it is a few more than the RX 580 and 590, which could suggest where in the product stack it will end up.
Each of those compute units will have 64 stream processors, and up to eight shader engines. That could suggest that we're looking at a Navi GPU with 128 render output unit. The total number of shader units would be in excess of 2,500.
What's doubly exciting, however, is these specifications leave room for a bigger and badder Navi GPU which could offer as many as 4,096 steam processors. That could be an order of magnitude more capable than an RX 3080 and a potential true competitor with the 2080 Ti.
