Wednesday, January 29th 2020
AMD to Debut 2nd Gen RDNA Architecture in 2020
AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su, in her Q4-2019 and FY-2019 earnings call, confirmed that the company debut its second-generation RDNA graphics architecture in 2020. "In 2019 we launched our new architecture in GPUs, it's the RDNA architecture, and that was the Navi-based products. You should expect those will be refreshed in 2020, and we will have our new next-generation RDNA architecture that will be part our 2020 lineup."
Second-gen RDNA, or RDNA2, is expected to leverage the new 7 nm+ (EUV) silicon fabrication process at TSMC, to dial up transistor-counts, clock-speeds, and performance. Among the two anticipated feature additions are VRS (variable rate shading) and possibly ray-tracing. The fabled "big Navi" silicon, a GPU larger than "Navi 10," is also on the cards, according to an earlier statement by Dr Su. More details about these upcoming graphics cards are expected to be put out in March, at the 2020 AMD Investor Day conference.
Second-gen RDNA, or RDNA2, is expected to leverage the new 7 nm+ (EUV) silicon fabrication process at TSMC, to dial up transistor-counts, clock-speeds, and performance. Among the two anticipated feature additions are VRS (variable rate shading) and possibly ray-tracing. The fabled "big Navi" silicon, a GPU larger than "Navi 10," is also on the cards, according to an earlier statement by Dr Su. More details about these upcoming graphics cards are expected to be put out in March, at the 2020 AMD Investor Day conference.
81 Comments on AMD to Debut 2nd Gen RDNA Architecture in 2020
Dies with higher thermal density are also harder to cool. And at some point I believe you will run into issues with the heatpipes to stop working.
300w cards have come and gone through time and not had any worse longevity than others. Plenty of Hawaii cards are still kicking.
But I find it difficult that they throw Navi10 and Navi14 after just one year of life
we'll see
Yes it idles at higher voltage. But I also have yet to crash. Makes me wonder if some vendors are too agressive with their inbios energy savings.
you dont need it.. freesync!
Im able to run The Division 2 @ 144FPS on my Free-sync 27" inch Gaming Panel with our issue.. just use regular V-sync, it works fine on the 5700XT (i have a reference card) but i set the monitors refresh rate in windows display settings and set refresh rate to 144hz ore 120, 75hz or what ever your comfortable with!!!
you dont really need it and this is only till AMD fixes freesync, but it works fine!
its new arch. but AMD has been releasing mass driver updates over the past month..
just last 2- weeks iv updated my Radeon Driver like 3-4 times, and havnt had really any issue> except Overclocking,