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Pemalite on 15 July 2020
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hinch said:

True we've been let down a lot from the red camp.. but we've seen a glimpses of RDNA 2 in action. In January we've seen an unknown AMD card 17% faster than 2080Ti in OpenVR spotted on there. Given time to mature to drivers on what seems top be a possible engineering sample, it would most likely have lower clock speeds as well. Then you have the 36 CU Xbox Series X GPU offering similar performance to RTX 2080 in Gears 5 (from Digital Foundry) its not too far fetched to believe some of the rumours.

I've not been following AMD GPU news up until recently but logically they are shooting for high end this time and with 72-80 CU's I can see more competitive GPU from them this time round. If we go by the increased power efficiency, higher clocks and improved IPC, its certainly possible we can get a 40% perf boost over a current gen..

It honestly doesn't make sense for them to launch another mid range card only when the new consoles are out in a few months. With Navi 2X, I can see them going all in. When they have a product that's not only as competitive but potentially disruptive, its time to strike while the iron is hot.

Could be looking at a die-size north of 500mm2 though... She isn't going to be cheap considering it's on 7nm and that big.

The RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Super are 545mm2... But that is built at a very cheap and mature 12nm process which is a refined 16nm process which is an enhanced 20nm process with Finfet. nVidia could afford to make them big.

Not to mention nVidia priced them high anyway.

Also the 2080Ti is 2 years old at this point, Ampere is rumored to offer a 20% IPC uplift per SM and 4x the RT performance of Turing as well... Plus a 25% increase in SM counts alone.

That could mean that Big Navi @ 545mm2 is competing against nVidia's 3070 @267mm2, maybe the 3080 in a best case scenario at 367mm2, nVidia could apply some serious cost advantages.

Mind you, all these numbers could be way off, just what I have been seeing floating around the enthusiast hardware circles... Either way a "high-end" GPU dropping in 2020 competing with a "high-end" GPU released 2 years ago doesn't really rock my world, not sure what anyone else thinks?



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