AMD launching Navi as an RX 3080 XT would be a dangerous game
AMD’s next generation of mainstream graphics cards finally has a release window, and yet we still don’t know what they’re going to be called. But one thing I do know is that if AMD goes with the rumoured RX 3080 XT branding it’s in danger of setting expectations too high, confusing the hell out of people, and setting itself up for a fall.
Dr. Lisa Su herself confirmed that the Navi GPUs would be released in Q3 of this year, something AMD reiterated in a recent investor presentation. That means we’ll have cards on the shelves, and in our test rig, sometime between July and the end of September. AMD has also announced it will be presenting the Next Horizon Gaming event at E3 where most of us are expecting the big Navi pre-release reveal to happen.
Which is all very exciting. New mainstream graphics cards tend to get me rather more hot under the collar than the super-expensive, super-powerful flagship GPUs. Those might as well be multi-million dollar supercomputers given how likely it is that any of us would ever be able to afford one ourselves.
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