It seems like only yesterday when AMD President and CEO Dr.
Lisa Su promised that high-end 7nm Navi-powered graphics cards are on the way.
Now, signs of such premium graphics cards are starting to pop up.As reported by Toms Hardware, 3DCenter forum member Berniyh recently spotted Navi 22 and Navi 23 graphics cards (GPUs) show up for the first time, and in a Linux driver.
So naturally, people are speculating that they may be the premium GPUs that Dr.
Lisa Su was talking about back in August.We dont know much about these high-end graphics cards just yet, and we cant say for sure if these are what she referring to specifically.
After all, she also said that we have a rich 7nm portfolio beyond the products that we have currently announced in the upcoming quarters.
And, Twitter user KOMACHI_ENSAKA did leak a Eurasian Economic Commission(EEC) registration document, published in June, that proves this.However, if they are, AMD might just be poising them to rival Nvidias premium cards like the GeForceRTX 2080 SuperorRTX 2080 Ti, which are currently dominating the high-end gaming GPU market.
As you know, AMD is currently focusing on the budget to mid-range sphere in which the AMD Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT cards are king.
While both deliver mind-blowing performance, they still cant quite compare to Nvidias most powerful RTX cards.The current word on the street is that both Navi 22 and 23, as well as Navi 21, might possibly use the Radeon DNA and be based on an even better 7nm+ process node.In addition, people are speculating that AMD could put them inside the RX 5800 and RX 5900 series, which Navi 21 showing up inside the Radeon RX 5800 series and Navi 22 inside the Radeon RX 5900 cards.Theres no word yet, however, on when these cards will hit the streets.
If we were to go by AMDs recent roadmap, which shows that the manufacturer is in the design phase of its RDNA 2.0 architecture, we wont likely see these cards until the later half of 2020 at the earliest.