AMD Navi release date, GPU specs, rumours, and performance
The AMD Navi graphics card rumour mill is grinding away, even more so now the launch is surely just a few months away - potentially with a July/August release window. These new GPUs will be our first genuinely new Radeon chip design since Vega limped onto our desktops a year and a half ago. Though that architecture has at least been given a fresh lick of paint with the AMD Radeon VII gaming GPU.
The latest rumours, admittedly from a 4chan user claiming to be an AMD employee, is promising the flagship Navi graphics card delivering sometimes GTX 1080-beating performance for just $259. Not only that but it will offer real-time ray tracing too. Given that Sony has just effectively announced ray tracing support for Navi with its latest PS5 reveal, that lends a little credence to the salty new rumours. Though honestly, everything it says could have been extrapolated from months of previous rumours.
Despite claims of GTX 1080 performance, the next-gen 7nm Navi GPUs will most likely be specced to dominate the mid-range market, taking on the GTX 1660 Ti et al, rather than trying to outpace the old Vega cards or go toe-to-toe with Nvidia's top Turing GPUs at the high end.
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