Tuesday, May 7th 2019
AMD Radeon RX 3080 XT "Navi" to Challenge RTX 2070 at $330
Rumors of AMD's next-generation performance-segment graphics card are gaining traction following a leak of what is possibly its PCB. Tweaktown put out a boatload of information of the so-called Radeon RX 3080 XT graphics card bound for an 2019 E3 launch, shortly after a Computex unveiling. Based on the 7 nm "Navi 10" GPU, the RX 3080 XT will feature 56 compute units based on the faster "Navi" architecture (3,584 stream processors), and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus.
The source puts out two very sensational claims: one, that the RX 3080 XT performs competitively with NVIDIA's $499 GeForce RTX 2070; and two, that AMD could start a price-war against NVIDIA by aggressively pricing the card around the $330 mark, or about two-thirds the price of the RTX 2070. Even if either if not both hold true, AMD will fire up the performance-segment once again, forcing NVIDIA to revisit the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060.
Source:
Tweaktown
The source puts out two very sensational claims: one, that the RX 3080 XT performs competitively with NVIDIA's $499 GeForce RTX 2070; and two, that AMD could start a price-war against NVIDIA by aggressively pricing the card around the $330 mark, or about two-thirds the price of the RTX 2070. Even if either if not both hold true, AMD will fire up the performance-segment once again, forcing NVIDIA to revisit the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060.
213 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 3080 XT "Navi" to Challenge RTX 2070 at $330
You're only active on tpu to attack ppl whom you disagree with and bait.
Let's not pretend
And just look at how the world was taken by surprise by Turing or Zen. That proves when companies want to keep something from the public, that's what they'll do.
GCN have changed very little over the years, while Kepler -> Maxwell -> Pascal -> Turing have continued to advance and achieve more performance per core and GFlop, to the point where they have about twice the performance per watt and 30-50% more performance per GFlop. More is usually better, except when it comes at a great cost.
16 GB of 1 TB/s HBM2 is just pointless for gaming purposes. AMD could have used 8 or even 12 GB, and priced it lower. AMD does certainly leak information when they see a reason to. But no, these specs are not leaked by AMD, as they don't leak them until they are finalized. This thread is just another "victim" of someones speculation in a Youtube channel…
And true the "computational power" of GCN is not its' problem, however never truly got employed in gaming engines (DX11). Today I'm not sure its' extent even for DX12, is aiding gaming enough to warrant a huge dependence in the architecture. I understood that they tasked engineering (2015-16) to trim that back in a way to save power, and this "Navi" is the first chip to have that. So they are suppose to come out to confirm/deny (argue, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, corroborate, substantiate, support, validate, verify, vindicate) every Tom, Dick and Harry story! That's not how any smart-individual or company does it. Once you start... your giving away "something" every time you open your mouth, and where does it stop. And yes any generation of discussion from nothing but rumor is still talk/discussions keeping you or company relevant.
Kardashian's built an Empire on just that kind of crap ?
Can AMD give us one more crack at GCN before trashing it? We'll soon find out.
If anything if AMD doesn't have a clear rival out by the end of summer for $350 the embarrassment will be all theirs.
The RTX2070 is current production, not new production. Shouldn't AMD at this stage release something better than a RTX2070 for the same $$$?
Nvidia will use their TU104 to fight against AMD Navi 10/20 GPUs.
Nvidia is releasing RTX 2070Ti (TU104 300A) same performance as (1080Ti/Radeon 7) at a lower cost. To deal with AMD Navi 10
Nvidia also has a RTX 2080U model coming. (Fully unlocked TU104 model with full 3072 Cuda Cores @2GHz) to deal with AMD Navi 20
Both RTX 2070Ti and RTX 2080U both come with optional 16GB Plus models.
Like always AMD has nothing to go against Nvidia TU102 (RTX Titan/RTX 2080Ti)
Though all the while they do it with a pittance of the R&D/financials, while staff restructuring, and basically new relation with a foundry. All while using an architecture that taped out in 2010 and ultimately only saw slight revisions until this (might be) the first major overhaul. I'm not seeing it... unless you mean embarrassing for Nvidia?
7nm means nothing unless it's cheaper and faster. Equal won't be good enough. AMD's market share for GPU's is abysmal atm and they need a lot bigger splash than R7 was.
Meanwhile I doubt nV is just doing nothing. AMD is never going to compete by releasing a matching product 6 months later for 30% less. Actually it feels like AMD doesn't even really care that much atm. And that's a shame.
The APIs we use (Direct3D, OpenGL and Vulkan) are GPU architecture agnostic.
When it comes to "optimizing" game engines there are very little developers can do, and they certainly can't control the internal GPU scheduling even if they wanted to, and optimization is largely limited to tweaking buffer sizes, resource sizes and generic operations to see what performs better, not any true low-level GPU-specific optimization like most people think. How would anyone be embarrassed by Navi coming close to Nvidia?
AMD is the one who should be embarrassed if they can't make a "better" node and a "newer" design with probably more cores and GFlop beat last year's contender from Nvidia, which I don't expect them to do…