(Edit: updated) More Navi GPUs spotted in Linux drivers

[williamcll]

35 minutes ago, OlympicAssEater said:

AMD right now need to come back to GPU department too to face NVIDIA.

Fortunately for you there is still some news about potentially new cards that could put a foot within the 2080 Ti's performance range, as new information from videocardz.com found in a linux driver shown above:

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As you probably already know Radeon RX 5700 series features three different GPU variants: XTX, XT, and XL. The XTX variant was not publicly advertised (even after the reviews went live). However, we confirmed that XTX is reserved for 5700 XT 50th Anniversary SKU.

The latest entry in the Linux repo also lists the XTX variant for Navi 14, but at this point, it makes no sense to expect a 50th anniversary SKU for the RX 5500 SKU. We also know that the XT variant is already in the RX 5500.

That said, an educated guess would be to expect Navi 14 XTX with Radeon RX 5500 XT, which was already spotted in some places, such as EEC entries:

GV-R55XTOC-8GD,GV-R55XTGAMING-8GD,GV-R55XTWF2-8GD,GV-R55XTD6-8GD

As you can see, the GPU variant naming schema is a bit of a mess. These are usually not used for marketing (for obvious reasons), but they are very useful for decoding the purpose of the GPU. Please do not treat this chart as a guideline, this is just an illustration of the most popular ones.

It is also worth noting that Navi 14 XTX could be equipped with more cores, as only 22 CUs are enabled on the XT variant. The full silicon has 24 CUs:

Elsewhere, what could possibly be the next generation of navi cards has also appeared soon after the above drivers:

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References to Navi 22 and Navi 23 silicon have been spotted inside a Linux driver by a 3DCenter forum veteran known as Berniyh (you can find them here and here). Could these be the high-end Navi parts Lisa Su was referring to in August?

Nvidia has been sitting peacefully alone in the premium graphics card market. Although AMD has already launched its Navi-based graphics cards (AMD Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT) the chipmaker still doesn't have an answer for Nvidia's high-end offerings, such as the GeForce RTX 2080 Super or RTX 2080 Ti. Berniyh's discovery doesn't mean big Navi is landing tomorrow, but it is coming.

 

*Specifications for Navi 23, 22, 21 and 12 are unconfirmed.

 

The current buzz inside the hardware circles is that Navi 21, 22 and 23 are likely to utilize AMD's second-generation RDNA (Radeon DNA) and, as a result, are also likely based on an improved 7nm+ process node. However, there's no hard evidence to back this up.

It's too early speculate on Navi 23 specifications, considering we don't even know which graphics card will leverage it. We suspect the Navi 22 die might crawl into the Radeon RX 5900-series, since the Navi 21 die is already rumored to work its way into the Radeon RX 5800-series.

The most recent AMD graphics card roadmap shows it in the design phase for the next-generation RDNA 2.0 architecture. It's safe to assume that the corresponding products won't land until 2020, which is the same year that Nvidia is expected to roll out its Ampere graphics cards, which will also come out of the 7nm furnace.

Source: https://videocardz.com/82538/five-variants-of-amds-navi-14-gpu-spotted

https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=12124009#post12124009

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-navi-22-23-linux-driver-graphics-cards

Thoughts: It seems like there won't be any announcement regarding a new flagship Radeon GPU within this year, so that's a bummer, the mid range market is going to be over-saturated by December at this rate.

[Flying Sausages]

2 minutes ago, williamcll said:

Unfortunately for you there is still little news about any new cards that could put a foot within the 2080 Ti's performance range, as new information from videocardz.com found in a linux driver shown above:

Source: https://videocardz.com/82538/five-variants-of-amds-navi-14-gpu-spotted

Thoughts: It seems like there won't be any announcement regarding a new flagship Radeon GPU, so that's a bummer, the mid range market is going to be over-saturated by December at this rate.

The RX 5700 series is doing fine atm but AMD needs something to take down the RTX 2080 and TI. AMD also need to solve their RX 5700 driver issues because right now the driver is buggy as hell.

[williamcll]

17 minutes ago, OlympicAssEater said:

The RX 5700 series is doing fine atm but AMD needs something to take down the RTX 2080 and TI. AMD also need to solve their RX 5700 driver issues because right now the driver is buggy as hell.

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[Doobeedoo]

Compared to RX 5700 XT looking at die aize and SPs their future flagship could be at least twice as fast I'd expect. We'll see.