Yeah, saw it this morning and left me puzzled.
One the one hand, that rumored Navi 21 is exactly twice as big as Navi 10 (the 5700XT has 40 CUs, 2560 shaders and 251mm²), which is impressive. From a theoretical (and completely false), point of view, that could give us twice the performance of the current parts at the same power consumption. And that's before taking into account architecture improvements/optimizations... But, for some reason, I have a really hard time believing it. My brain refuses to acept this possibility.
Tho I have to admit that it would honor its "big Navi" nickname.
And on the other hand, the leak also talks about Navi 10 refresh, which makes me wonder if AMD will go back to its bad antics of reusing/rebranding existing parts like they did a few years ago. Don't get me wrong, a RX 6600 (to say something) powered by the same Navi 10 chip that's inside a 5700 would be great, but it's a reused part that won't have any of the improvements nor the ray tracing capabilities of its bigger parts and the Nvidia counterparts.
So yeah, I'm divided, equally excited and worried.
Please excuse my bad English.
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