AMD Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards with Navi GPU and PCI-e 4.0 coming in July in
AMD will release its video cards with Navi GPU in July. The cards come in the new Radeon RX 5000 series and support pci-e 4.0. AMD showed a demo of an RX 5700 video card that is 10 percent faster in the game Strange Brigade than the GeForce RTX 2070.
During its Computex keynote, AMD gave the first details about the upcoming Navi graphics cards. In a short demo, AMD showed that an RX 5700 video card in the game Strange Brigade is 10 percent faster than a GeForce RTX 2070. It is not clear what resolution the game was at and what the settings were. It is not yet known what the proportions are in other games.
The cards in the RX 5000 series are based on the new Navi architecture and are made on the 7nm process of TSMC. AMD has not yet disclosed technical details about the architecture, but according to the manufacturer, the performance per clock tick is 1.25x better than the GCN architecture and the performance per watt has increased by 1.5x. That’s thanks to a redesign of the compute units and an updated multi-level cache design.
Ray tracing was not discussed during the presentation and the Navi cards therefore seem to have no hardware support for it. Ray tracing is possible via software. AMD did not mention which memory type the Navi cards will receive at the presentation, but a press release states that it is gddr6. This became apparent earlier when images of a printed circuit board of a Navi video card appeared.
According to AMD, the Navi architecture will serve as the foundation for video cards for gamers in the coming years. In addition, GCN designs with Vega GPU will continue to appear for use in data centers.
AMD has not yet disclosed specifications or prices for the RX 5000 series cards. The manufacturer will do this during the E3 game fair, via a previously announced livestream. In it, AMD promises to announce multiple video cards. The Navi video cards will be on the market in July, but exactly on which day is not yet known.