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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:
I really, really doubt Big Navi will be that powerful. Now don't get me wrong, I hope they do, but it would be stupidly big improvement gen over gen only from a new architecture because 7nm+ can't be much better than 7mn.

I was actually expecting it to be roughly in that ballpark.

AMD was touting over a year ago already that their aim was increase the performance per watt by 50% over Navi/RDNA, and the same is true for RDNA over GCN. Since the RX 580 and RX 5700 are consuming a very similar amount of energy at their nominal clocks (so without factory overclocking) yet the 5700 having over 50% higher performance, I was expecting AMD to do this again just as planned.

In fact, I think the bigger question will be how AMD's Raytracing implementation will look like and what it's performance will be compared to NVidias implementation, as in raw performance and efficiency AMD will be back - they already mostly are in that regard with Navi anyway.

Just because they want to increase their efficiency by 50%, that doesn't mean that they'll reach their desired goal. Even more, they could still achieve that but launch cards that aren't 50% more powerful, cutting their higher power consumption a bit... although if the rumors about Ampere and its high powe consumption are true, they could cut those savings and use everything to get more performance.

But we'll see. If they manage to achieve that I'll be truly impressed.