Thursday, August 1st 2019
AMD Could Launch New Navi GPUs Soon
AMD's president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su was talking during AMD's Q2 earnings Q&A conference and got asked a very interesting question. When prompted about high end Navi GPUs, Dr. Su answered with "I would say they are coming. You should expect that our execution on those are on track and we have a rich 7 nm portfolio beyond the products that we have already announced in the upcoming quarters."
This answer gives us hope to see more powerful Navi GPUs possibly by the end of the year, meaning that AMD's answer to Turing is almost ready. As we saw earlier in the rumors, we might get additional higher end GPU models in form of alleged RX 5800 and RX 5900, with XT variants available for both of those models. The RX 5800 is supposed to utilize a new GPU core called Navi 12, while the core for RX 5900 is still unknown.
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This answer gives us hope to see more powerful Navi GPUs possibly by the end of the year, meaning that AMD's answer to Turing is almost ready. As we saw earlier in the rumors, we might get additional higher end GPU models in form of alleged RX 5800 and RX 5900, with XT variants available for both of those models. The RX 5800 is supposed to utilize a new GPU core called Navi 12, while the core for RX 5900 is still unknown.
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If the RT from AMD hits the market, I wonder, if this is going to be AMD's development or something similar to what NV released in terms of the RT cores of some sort.
You better focus on NV's ampere :)
And I'm not mocking the "launch for big Navi" because officially, there is nothing to mock so far.
It is always good to keep track of what's in the market and what will be in the near future :)
Because Lisa Su only said they have something in the pipeline beyond what is already announced for the next quarters. Two quarters from now is already 2020, which is why I said if they launch then, they will probably be going against Ampere.
Nothing is known about Ampere either, but for the past few launches Nvidia led with the big silicon around April-June.
1. Pushing 5700 to 5700XT decreases perf/W by 12%, which means 5700XT is already past the architecture's sweet spot. Thus, it's not going to be easy to scale this up.
2. AMD is already working on RTRT which is probably not going to be retrofitted to Navi.
That is why I guess (as opposed to you, who seem to just know), AMD's next moves will be to put Navi into $200 or less cards and come up with something else (Arcturus?) next year to compete at the top.
They work on RT for consoles not PC Navi. There's absolutely no point for RT now in the PC gaming. The performance is not there. Isn't this obvious?
But keep in mind these are 15W parts, they tell little about how this scales when TDP get more legroom. Then again, there's no danger of a desktop Ice Lake CPU sneaking up on us anytime soon...
Makes sense, right.
But you are correct, that is AMD's answer to Turing. If only they would follow up with some nice $200-ish parts...
Let's take another one to make it even worse; Ice Lake(Sunny Cove) was intended to launch a few months after Zen 1, and was designed long before Intel knew any details of Zen at all. Now, the first Ice Lakes actually launched after Zen 2, and the rest will arrive around Zen 3, so can we then call Ice Lake/Sunny Cove a response to Zen(1/2/3)? If any Navi based GPUs will have some kind of accelerated RTRT, it will be something AMD threw in there "last minute", and will be nowhere close to the power of Nvidia's solution.
But remember that while RTRT will eventually become widespread, the process will be slow, and it will primarily be a nice to have feature until then. In the second half of 2020, we expect Nvidia to launch their next generation, and if AMD can't match this in efficiency, it wouldn't matter if they have some primitive RTRT or not. Then AMD will continue to be stuck only really competing in the low-end, having <10% of the mid-range market share and no presence in the high-end.
AMD clearly plans to do it differently than nVidia.
Both of its major semi-custom clients want RT and will be getting AMD's version of it.
Consoles sell at around 20-40 million units a year, so, combined, 40+ million + AMD's GPUs, APUs.
If AMD's solution is not compatible, too bad for NV.
If AMD's solution is much faster than NVs, too bad for NV.
And, wait a sec, if it is somehow much slower, again, too bad for NV< as it would be consoles setting the target for game devs.
Turing already scales better than Navi, despite Navi having the advantage of a more advanced node, an advantage which will evaporate when Nvidia launches their next generation. And if AMD can't compete with Nvidia in non-RT, it wouldn't matter if they have some primitive RTRT or not.
Anyway this is good news for everyone, even if nVidia would tweak a super duper version of their GPUs.... consumers win.