AMD Big Navi leak teases a monstrous GPU — Nvidia should be worried

AMD Big Navi leak teases a monstrous GPU — Nvidia should exist worried

(Image credit: Coreteks)

AMD Big Navi is going to exist big in proper name and in nature, equally a leaked image of the GPU scrap at its heart shows a huge slice of silicon.

The declared film of the GPU die was spotted by technology analyst Coreteks, who claimed that Navi 21, aka Large Navi, will be the GPU at the eye of the Radeon RX 6900 XT. That graphics card is set to spearhead the RX 6000 series and looks to challenge the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.

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All mentions of Big Navi and Navi 21 were scrubbed from the image Coreteks posted to help continue their sources bearding, so we need to take this picture show with a compression of table salt.

But the analyst noted that through some speculative measurements, the GPU die comes in at 29mm loftier and 18.5mm wide, substantially 536mm squared. Basically, this is a big GPU and potentially the largest consumer graphics scrap AMD has ever made.

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Now size isn't everything, but a bigger die with the new 7-nanometer process node ways more transistors can be squeezed into the GPU and thus deliver more than power. Coreteks reckons that information technology will evangelize 26.three billion transistors, albeit past their ain calculations rather than official leaked information.

With this big dice and transistor count, Coreteks noted that the leaked image lends credence to the claim that the RDNA 2 compages this Big Navi GPU is based on volition evangelize ii times the performance of the older RDNA architecture. Still, with this leak and other leaks, such every bit those that have supposedly revealed the clock speed of the GPU and how much retentiveness it has, information technology'due south withal unclear where Big Navi'southward operation volition land.

Some leaks suggest it volition snap at the heels of the RTX 3080, which is a hugely powerful graphics carte. Merely if AMD goes all out with Large Navi, we could fifty-fifty be looking at a graphics carte du jour that chases the mighty and very expensive GeForce RTX 3090. Large Navi and the Radeon RX 6000 series is set to be revealed on Oct 28, and so we'll know more than in a matter of weeks.

Merely if AMD tin can come with a family of graphics cards that tin challenge the performance of Nvidia'south new RTX 3000-series graphics cards, simply deliver them at more than affordable prices, then it could exist onto a winner. Fourth dimension will tell on this i.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion manufactures. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other $.25 of hardware; he'due south also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be plant wandering around London, often with a look of marvel on his face.