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AMD had a great start to 2020, simply ane product gamers had hoped to see — so-called "Big" Navi — was only briefly mentioned by CEO Dr. Lisa Su. We know that Big Navi is absolutely in the works, but not much more that. Here's Lisa Su on the topic:

I know those on Reddit want a high end Navi! You should look that nosotros will accept a high-stop Navi, and that information technology is important to have it. The discrete graphics market, especially at the high end, is very of import to us. So you should expect that we will have a high-end Navi, although I don't usually annotate on unannounced products.

Now nosotros've got benchmarks tipping up showing an unknown Radeon beating the RTX 2080 Ti in OpenVR'south benchmark at a resolution of 1512×1680. AMD's unknown Radeon comes in 2d place, with a score of 103.32, while the fastest RTX 2080 TiSEEAMAZON_ET_135 See Amazon ET commerce checks in at 88.one. Result? AMD wins by roughly 17 pct.

What does this fundamentally mean for AMD's upcoming "Big Navi?" Nothing. We don't know how optimized the drivers are, or whether the unknown Radeon really rendered all of the scenes correctly. We don't know the clock or memory configuration on the GPU. Contempo rumors have suggested that Big Navi is twice the size of Navi, with up to 80 CUs and 5120 cores. The problem with these kinds of leaks, yet, is that they but stand for functioning in a single moment of time (and with a GPU that may non be anywhere near production-ready).

Merely in that location's a split upshot hither, common to any situation where one benchmark is used to claim authorization. In the slideshow below, I've clipped off most of the graphs and focused solely on the RTX 2070 versus the 5700 XT. Picket how the performance narrative changes depending on which game I test:

I picked these graphs because they demonstrate how much comparative operation tin alter from title to title. Winning the OpenVR criterion by 17 percent over the 2080 Ti is good, inasmuch as it demonstrates AMD is edifice a competitive GPU.SEEAMAZON_ET_135 See Amazon ET commerce But — as the slideshow higher up illustrates — GPUs tin be fabulous in some workloads and struggle with others. RDNA has proven to accept chops equally a rendering and compute GPU and I expect Big Navi will deliver in that regard.

If I had to guess, based on the data publicly available, I'd approximate that Big Navi will be solidly faster than Turing. I don't know how information technology will compare confronting Ampere. Nvidia has historically had good luck with node shifts. There are claims that Ampere could be up to 50 percent faster than Turing. Those claims should be taken with a large grain of salt, merely we do wait Big Navi to face up real competition from Nvidia'south first 7nm GPUs in 2020.

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