AMD: Navi Speculation, Rumours and Discussion [2019-2020]

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That being said, at this stage, we have nowhere near enough information about Navi to determine whether it's any good, let alone great.
 
That being said, at this stage, we have nowhere near enough information about Navi to determine whether it's any good, let alone great.
Genuinely, yeah.
A lot of "rumors" on prices and performance, and exactly zero "rumors" on what the actual uArch is.
 
None of the translations done so far on the source actually say that, though, the reddit post that had the apparently working translation said "maybe wait for next arcthitecture, though it's not finalized yet"

This one clearly states "Sapphire also confirmed that AMD's Navi does not have specialized ray-tracing hardware on the silicon".

https://www.techpowerup.com/255768/sapphire-reps-leak-juicy-details-on-amd-radeon-navi

Regardless of that, I don't see how having or not having DXR-acceleration defines if product is great or not.

Intel has stated they will have specialized ray-tracing hardware on the silicon. If AMD does not they will be behind both Nvidia and Intel.
 
This one clearly states "Sapphire also confirmed that AMD's Navi does not have specialized ray-tracing hardware on the silicon".

https://www.techpowerup.com/255768/sapphire-reps-leak-juicy-details-on-amd-radeon-navi
Yes, but is it based on machine translation (which at least some of fail miserably and we don't really know how good the chrome translation used for that reddit post was either) or actual translation? Of course can't be 100 % sure, but I'm pretty positive none of the TPU staff actually speaks chinese.
 
Genuinely, yeah.
A lot of "rumors" on prices and performance, and exactly zero "rumors" on what the actual uArch is.
It's new iteration of GCN with new ISA. No need for rumors when it's all over AMDs drivers (unless you suggest they suddenly changed the way they mark their achitectures and their capabilities just to confuse others)
 
That's super-vague.

There's barely anything.
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Well, the big question when we first heard about Navi was "is it still GCN, or not ?". The answer is, it's still GCN. Granted it doesn't mean that they can't have a very nice gpu, but they didn't reinvented the wheel, so they have to work with some limitations of this architecture.
 
Lisa's keynote is unrelated to Navi session.

Are you assuming she won't be talking about Navi during the keynote?

From medicine to the frontiers of scientific research, manufacturing and entertainment – the demand for computing and graphics technologies continues growing.
(...)
AMD CEO Lisa Su will discuss new techniques in system architecture, silicon design and software that will enable future generations of computing and graphics products to deliver more performance with greater efficiency.

Why would Navi be absent from a keynote that deliberately mentions new graphics products?
 
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