AMD Navi release date, GPU specs, rumours, and performance

The AMD Navi GPU architecture is the company's great Radeon hope for its next-generation of graphics cards. And the new silicon will be on its way later this year, with the latest speculation suggesting a July release. These new GPUs, based on the new AMD Navi architecture, 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 been given a fresh lick of paint with the AMD Radeon VII gaming GPU.

There have been new reports that a Navi engineering sample has been put through the CompuBench tests, showing graphics performance alongside the Vega 56 and Vega 64 cards, but behind when it comes to compute. The 66AF:F1 PCIe ID is marked as unknown, which is what's leading the speculation that it's an AMD Navi GPU. But that seems unlikely given that Linux drivers have already been released with a 66AF GPU designated as a Vega 20 chip, and 66AF:C1 has reportedly been seen as the Radeon VII ID.

The next-gen 7nm Navi GPUs, however, 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, going toe-to-toe with Nvidia's top Turing GPUs at the high end.

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