AMD Navi 23 ‘NVIDIA Killer’ GPU Rumored to Support Hardware Ray Tracing, Coming Next Year

[Satchfanuk]

https://wccftech.com/amd-next-gen-epyc-radeon-instinct-powered-lumi-supercomputer-announced-2021/

LUMI is planned to become fully operational by late 2021 and will be among the top 5 supercomputers that will also include the AMD powered El Capitan and Frontier supercomputers which feature 1.5 - 2.0 Exaflops of computing horsepower.

This is set to make 3 of the top 5 supercomputers all AMD systems, not too shabby

 

[Vince]

Which AIBs use dual bios setups? I can see what looks like a bios switch on there. Could be from a few different AIB partners I guess.

AMD use it on the reference design on most cards. All vega reference bar the 7 have dual bios

 

[humbug]

Which will be the N21XT, the one AIBs now have access to, so the 72CU variant is half way between the 3080 and 3090, leaving the N21XTX, the 80CU variant to take the crown.

So it would seem but lets stay grounded for now, less than 6 days to go.

 

[Grim5]

Which AIBs use dual bios setups? I can see what looks like a bios switch on there. Could be from a few different AIB partners I guess.

ASUS puts dual bios switches on its Strix cards since 2018

 

[gpuerrilla]

So it would seem but lets stay grounded for now, less than 6 days to go.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-choooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[humbug]

Ch-ch-ch-ch-choooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

CHOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Shilz]

 

[Vince]

I would like AMD to fix its graphics division and make the things work right.

I like Radeon Image Sharpening and Radeon Boost but it would also be quite nice if they return Switchable graphics settings to the new driver UI, when you can assign a given GPU to a given app..

They also need to fix their product positioning to be continuous just like the Nvidia's GTX 470 - GTX 570 - GTX 670 - GTX 770 - GTX 970 - GTX 1070 - RTX 2070 - RTX 3070 has been so far.
AMD has no such history of models.

Of course they do. There always used to be sequencing in the models... For example and this is just "high" end going back as far as I can remember...

3850, 4850, 5850, 6850, 7850
3870, 4870, 5870, 6870, 7870

Then they changed it....

270/x, 370/x, rx470, rx570

Then there are the attempted "titan" like cards, designed with compute in mind and pushed to attempt to compete in fury (great 90's throwback ATI name) and two variants of vega as the high end in both 56 and 64 variants - Every top end sku in amd and even going back as far as when they were ATI (9500/pro, 9700/pro and later 9800/pro) all of them had a full die and a cut down die with the exception being Radeon 7 which in itself is a cut down mi60 die.

Edit: realised im pages back and havent caught up yet

What we saw in the 5700xt is really the start of a new sequence for navi.

 

[DDH]

So it would seem but lets stay grounded for now, less than 6 days to go.

We exited the stratosphere a few pages back

 

[Quartz]

Only another week to go before reality - good or ill - hits.

 

[LePhuronn]

I don't think it's me missing the point fella.

But no worries you make your buying decisions based on what name they give a card, I'll carry on looking at the price, performance and power consumption instead.

Your response clearly indicates you missed the point. How can you claim you focus on price and performance and yet do not understand what I'm saying? Are you being wilfully ignorant here, or just attempting to troll me in some fashion? You know what, don't reply, I'm done with the sheer idiocy of people. If you're happy to pay $600+ for a lower mid range card then be my guest, it's your money.

 

[Besty]

Which AIBs use dual bios setups? I can see what looks like a bios switch on there. Could be from a few different AIB partners I guess.

Launch edition 7970 reference PCBs had a bios switch and were built like tanks. It could be a reference card.

 

[Vince]

Launch edition 7970 reference PCBs had a bios switch and were built like tanks. It could be a reference card.

Reference board All AMD reference boards are tanks. Vega is the same, I like it enough to have a bare one on the shelf

 

[JediFragger]

Yup, AMD don't spare a dime when they're building reference

 

[Grim5]

Yup, AMD don't spare a dime when they're building reference

Did the radeon VII not have an issue with the cooler mounting and a $1 washer added to it dropped hot spot temp by 10-15c lol - doesn't seem like "dont spare a dime"

 

[KentMan]

Sapphire use dual bios as well, my 5600xt's Nitro+ have them, i should check my powercolor red devil 5700XT but im fairly certain its not dual bios.

That card shown is supposedly 6800 variant from a partner, and if its dual Bios it could be a Sapphire Model, i tweeted Ed Crisler earlier commenting i would like to see a Tri-X or Toxic Big Navi and he gave that tweet a like. Wonder if we will see a Toxic as thats normally reserved for Sapphire high end GPU.

Pretty sure theyll stick with Nitro and Pulse model's as well for lower tier stuff.

Nice OCd Toxic 6800 would do me

 

[KentMan]

Did the radeon VII not have an issue with the cooler mounting and a $1 washer added to it dropped hot spot temp by 10-15c lol - doesn't seem like "dont spare a dime"

Think youll find that was 5700 models no?

 

[Grim5]

Think youll find that was 5700 models no?

So it is

 

[Aretak]

Did the radeon VII not have an issue with the cooler mounting and a $1 washer added to it dropped hot spot temp by 10-15c lol - doesn't seem like "dont spare a dime"

The subject of discussion was PCBs though, not coolers. Everybody knows that AMD's stock coolers have been garbage, but the PCBs underneath them are usually excellent in terms of things like power delivery and component choice.

 

[Nablaoperator]

it's supposed to be the engineering sample..some headroom there