AMD’s future generation of graphics cards are in the foreseeable future with a name already that is basically all we know about the GPU’s themselves until now… ‘Navi’ will also be featuring AI Acceleration Hardware.
Navi will be focusing on the power efficiency of the GPU and it is said to be believed that Navi will be the first microarchitecture GPU designed and conceived under Radeon Technologies Group Raja Koduri.
Fudzilla has released some information regarding the future of what Navi will be featuring. Something that is called ‘AI acceleration circuitry’ will be on board this new GPU but this is quite vague as there is no way to know what that actually means. This could mean anything from on-chip fabric, new ISA capabilities or perhaps even a new a separate AI acceleration engine.
Navi will be the first graphics card architecture built on GlobalFoundaries 7nm FinFET process. It is expected at the current time of writing this that Navi should drop between 2018/2019 but that is a long time away so who knows the delays AMD could face between then and now.
Source: WCCFtech
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More like 2021 :
miner will buy all and we will not get it till 2023 :p
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I don’t even want to hear about these gpus. We still don’t have RX gaming Vega…
The NDA is lifted on the 14th no?
I don’t care about an NDA. I’m talking about the actual product itself. You cannot buy one right now and put it in your system.
The Vega hype (which I didn’t take part in) has overripen. You can tease people for only so much time.
Might just beat a 1080ti
I was being facetious 😉
Even 18months on average , it can be a bit longer but if you look at each generation release it’s about that.
@kirankara:disqus I have a source that tells me that Vega cannot beat the 1080Ti but is more compared to a 1080 which is quite even in some testing.
I know vega won’t beat a 1080ti mate. I’ve said it for last twelve months.
I was joking that Navi might just finally be an Amd gpu to beat a 1080ti.
miner will buy all and we will not get it till 2023 :p
i see the Vega already been abandoned by AMD…
In terms of R&D they have almost certainly abandoned Vega but new GPUs take a long time to be engineered, taped out and manufactured in quantities to assure supply channels will be adequately stocked to prevent retailers from gouging due to shortages. Navi is probably a year away and a half away and I expect AMD will launch a GPU before that to compete with Volta but that’s just my speculation. In any case, they haven’t abandoned Vega as far as marketing and sales for probably a year so they will probably attempt to market and sell improved Vegas for a while going forward.
but can they finally win a major with Zeus?
They shouldn’t be flouting Navi performance with RX Vega on the horizon. Makes me want to wait for Navi.
Most people who buy a new card right now and for about the next year will be buying because they really need an upgrade from what they have. Enthusiasts will probably upgrade if they can’t play the games they want to without the highest settings and acceptable FPS. In short, customers will be buying a new card over the next year by the hundreds of thousands and waiting isn’t an option but if you are happy with the performance of your present card for a while then it would be a really good idea to have a look at Volta next year. I expect Volta to be a leap in performance over Pascal with the improved architecture and lower process node for increased performance per watt.
I’ve got a 980Ti right now and am building a new VR PC for a Vive I’m buying for Xmas. I want to support AMD but the worst case scenario is that I go with a Ryzen CPU but a 1080Ti for the GPU.
That’s some expensive hardware. $800 for the Vive and another $750 for the 1080 Ti but I’ve seen quite a few people willing to pay for the best VR experience possible right now. Most people wouldn’t understand paying so much but I do. PC gaming is a never ending series of upgrades to stay on top and have the best gaming experience possible. There’s no telling how many tens of thousands of dollars I’ve spent on this hobby since 1980 starting with an Atari 2600 console and later a C-64 and then a string of PCs starting with a 8088 XT with CGA graphics.
We’ve come a long, long ways in gaming since those days and I have zero regret for the money I’ve spent. Really, when it comes down to it gaming is one of the least expensive forms of entertainment around if you look at the hours and hours of fun you get from games, assuming you buy quality games that are worth replaying later on.
I don’t play standard PC games as much anymore because I work a lot. I buy tons of games for my kids all the time.
For me, I see VR as a sensible gateway back into interactive entertainment because, 1.) I’ve always wanted VR and 2.) VR is extremely beneficial to your health in terms of exercise.
I had a Vive for a few months and used it several hours a day playing sports games like table tennis or home run derby baseball. It was a workout! So, for me, I can make a valid excuse to “play games” because in VR it’s the equivalent of going to the gym. Playing standard games you’re sitting there clicking buttons. Nowadays, since I have teenage kids and I work so much, there needs to be some kind of legitimate benefit for me to play a “video game”. If not, I’m just wasting time.
I almost want to wait for generation 2 of VR since the headsets are looking to be EXTREME upgrades from the current ones. We’re talking 4K screens, expanded field of view, foveated rendering, eye tracking, hand tracking, inside-out tracking, better ergonomics, lower hardware requirements(some headsets will even have built-in computing). However, I’m impatient lol so the goal is to buy back in for Xmas.
Originally Navi was intended to be more about efficiency than performance. AMD wanted a bigger slice of the laptop pie and to appease the customers who have been turning away from AMD because of the higher power draw versus a similar Nvidia GPU but now I think the playing field will be a little different. AMD has Ryzen which will probably be a thing for 4 or 5 years with slight improvements now and then and they can, if they choose to, redirect a good bit of their R&D budget to competition for Volta next year. They may not call it Navi but I think they might roll out some impressive GPU hardware next year sometime. It’s my understanding that AMD makes most of their money from their CPU division though. So that’s their priority concern.
They shouldn’t be flouting Navi performance with RX Vega on the horizon. Makes me want to wait for Navi.
Are you a digital echo?
If you’re waiting on AMD better mark 2020 on your calendar well after the NVidia tesla comes out. Only to be trumped by a tesla TI..
I don’t care about an NDA. I’m talking about the actual product itself. You cannot buy one right now and put it in your system.
Coming soon. 2020.