Sunday, October 18th 2020
AMD Navi 21 XT Seemingly Confirmed to Run at ~2.3, 2.4 GHz Clock, 250 W+
AMD's RDNA2-based cards are just around the corner, with the company's full debut of the secrecy-shrouded cards being set for October 28th. Rumors of high clocks on AMD's new architecture - which were nothing more than unsubstantiated rumors up to now - have seemingly been confirmed, with Patrick Schur posting on Twitter some specifications for upcoming RNDA2-based Navi 21 XT. Navi 21 XT falls under the big Navi chip, but likely isn't the top performer from AMD - the company is allegedly working on a Navi 21 XTX solution, which ought to be exclusive to their reference designs, with higher clocks and possibly more CUs.
The specs outed by Patrick are promising, to say the least; that AMD's Big Navi can reach clocks in excess of 2.4 GHz with a 250 W+ TGP (quoted at around 255 W) is certainly good news. The 2.4 GHz (game clock) speeds are being associated with AIB cards; AMD's own reference designs should be running at a more conservative 2.3 GHz. A memory pool of 16 GB GDDR6 has also been confirmed. AMD's assault on the NVIDIA 30-series lineup should embody three models carved from the Navi 21 chip - the higher performance, AMD-exclusive XTX, XT, and the lower performance Navi 21 XL. All of these are expected to ship with the same 256 bit bus and 16 GB GDDR6 memory, whilst taking advantage of AMD's (rumored, for now) Infinity Cache to make up for the lower memory speeds and bus. Hold on to your hats; the hype train is going full speed ahead, luckily stopping in a smooth manner come October 28th.
Sources:
Patrick Schur @ Twitter, via Videocardz
The specs outed by Patrick are promising, to say the least; that AMD's Big Navi can reach clocks in excess of 2.4 GHz with a 250 W+ TGP (quoted at around 255 W) is certainly good news. The 2.4 GHz (game clock) speeds are being associated with AIB cards; AMD's own reference designs should be running at a more conservative 2.3 GHz. A memory pool of 16 GB GDDR6 has also been confirmed. AMD's assault on the NVIDIA 30-series lineup should embody three models carved from the Navi 21 chip - the higher performance, AMD-exclusive XTX, XT, and the lower performance Navi 21 XL. All of these are expected to ship with the same 256 bit bus and 16 GB GDDR6 memory, whilst taking advantage of AMD's (rumored, for now) Infinity Cache to make up for the lower memory speeds and bus. Hold on to your hats; the hype train is going full speed ahead, luckily stopping in a smooth manner come October 28th.
229 Comments on AMD Navi 21 XT Seemingly Confirmed to Run at ~2.3, 2.4 GHz Clock, 250 W+
Oh well you can live with the illusion that FidelityFX is equal to DLSS, kinda hard to argue with AMD fans.
AMD driver were flawless right ? right ?
:roll:
I must say the image quality and deep saturated colours on the AMD graphic cards are just great this is why I real like these cards. The only issue for me is after no driver issues at all since 2009 there is definitely is a driver issue with the 5700XT. The black screen reboot (multi-monitor?) issue can be seen when running the Heaven Benchmark (using DirectX11) where the worst is the latest driver (20.9.2) at about a 2 to 15 mins before a black screen reboot and the best driver is from February 2020 (20.2.2) about 1 to 2 hours before a black screen reboot. Using OpenGL the 5700XT is absolutely completely stable with the Heaven Benchmark (tested for over a week).
The only game I have had an issue with is Rust with driver 20.5.1 through to 20.9.2 where after about 8 to 12 hours of play in 1 in 4 days you may have a single black screen reboot. With 20.2.2 there are no issues at all of after playing and testing for months.
So there is a driver issue with games however it may take days of paying the game with the worst driver to show any problems at all.
This is only for the 200-Giga-IQ-image-comparisons-of-compressed-screenshots-from-compressed-videos-not-in-sync ™ aficionados.
Anyway, I find it comforting that at least I am not the only one visually impaired : arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/why-this-months-pc-port-of-death-stranding-is-the-definitive-version/
I found the most stable drivers for me to be 20.4.2 (IIRC).
The black screen/freeze bug is very subtle: I can play the same game for weeks (literally) without any issue and then ... bang ! Three crashes in a row on the same day !
It is driving me crazy ... :cry:
The situation was terrible in december/march, when the freezes were quite frequent, but now it is much better (it happens mostly in Warzone, but not very often).
I'm afraid to upgrade to the latest 20.9.2: I read about big performance improvements but also about some crashes.
Many rumors are leaked on purpose...
The only problem with the reviews is they can't say anything about reliability.
Comparing IQ in a pre-released state of the game.
I can do cherry picking paragraph too, this time it's the official release of Death Stranding
www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/death-stranding-native-4k-vs-fidelityfx-upscaling-vs-dlss-2-0/
And you would be lying if you don't see that one is much blurrier than the other :).
Oh well so Arstechnica vs DSOgaming vs Digital Foundry
DLSS vs FidelityFX 2 to 1
But hey if you like to quote reviewer then go ahead.
The difference is that the former was sold in much higher number.
That being said, I expect AMD to up it's QA for this kind of shit not to happen again.
NV is forced to go bananas OC with Ampere, AMD is not.
The point is how much faster it will be and how it will compare with the offering from Nvidia in the same classAs they did with 5700XT... and 5600XT
Edit: The 9800 Pro is what brought me here so long ago and I became the Pro to XT flash guru here and I’ve been here ever since.