While these rumours point towards a mid-range graphical architecture, David Wang, senior VP of engineering at RTG, stated AMD were looking to compete with the very best that Nvidia had to offer during a talk last week.
We asked Wang if his goal was to go back to the days of fighting it out at the top end (versus the likes of Nvidia’s GTX 1180 / 2080), and specifically whether that was RTG’s goal with its Navi architecture. To which Wang responded with a very resounding “yes.”
“I remember the ATI / Nvidia days,
this every year," says Wang, alternating one hand ahead of the other. "I think that’s how you make this business so excitement, so interesting. That’s how you make gamers so excited about new hardware every year.
“I think somehow we kind of lost that momentum. Nvidia have been spending all their energy on chasing AI, right? And we haven’t been on that cadence yet. But what I’m trying to say is we are determined to go back to that cadence, to make this business more fun.”