The new flagship graphics card of AMD Navi (Cassiopeia) architecture, which was previously expected to be integrated, was recently exposed by foreign media! (Wait!) How is this drama a bit familiar? Vega did the same before... ）
According to foreign media Reports, the highest performance of the Navi architecture is only at the level of the RX 580/480 modified version (what about the Previously said more than Vega64 and GTX1080?). ), that is to say, it is almost the target of GTX1070.
The Navi game graphics card known to be a 7nm process will be launched after the new NVIDIA Turing architecture card, that is, until the end of the year, and the NVIDIA GTX11 series is said to be released in June to September.
That is to say, in AMD's planning, flagship graphics cards with stronger performance than the Vega 64/GTX 1080 will not only not be seen in 2018, but will not be available in 2019, and may not appear until 2020.
However, this does not prevent Navi's new card from becoming the main force of the A card in 2019, but it is actually a Polaris architecture for Copy, so the performance may disappoint everyone!
Therefore, the new architecture after Vega in the strict sense should be to adopt a new architecture of 7nm+ in 2020, and the name is still unknown.
Given that Raja, the former head of AMD RTG, has jumped to Intel, and Navi is in charge of it; after this, AMD has introduced Two super bulls, David Wang/Mike Rayfield, to take over the GPU development, so it seems reasonable to have changes in product rhythm and thinking!
Although the postponement to 2020 is to give the new architecture of high-end products sufficient polishing time, but in the past two years, NVIDIA's GTX11 series has been out, AMD lacks competitors to compete with it, so the money of high-end graphics cards must be earned by NV.
Now I only hope that the NV side will not take this opportunity to speculate on the price of high-end cards! After all, it is too expensive to consumers.
(Not to mention that by 2020, the NVIDIA GTX12 series has been issued, and even if the new flagship of the A card is listed, it will probably be inevitably hanged, hey ~)