** The AMD Navi Thread **

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The RX5700XT was called the RX690:
https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1141713222829006848

 

[Zernath]

The RX5700XT was called the RX690:
https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1141713222829006848

That name would have made more sense, where did they get 5700 from?

 

[Martini1991]

The RX5700XT was called the RX690:
https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1141713222829006848

RX 690 would make sense product stack wise if it's a replacement for Polaris.
It's just a mid range part at higher tier pricing.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

I find it weird you'd hope AMD are releasing a flawed product lol.

For an enthusiast it's only a minor flaw with poor stock voltage settings. Not that you'd want to see it repeated. The biggest flaw that's currently obvious with the 5700 series is the damned blower cooler. I'm interested to see if a good cooler will allow 2GHz and what performance that would entail.

 

[JediFragger]

nobody cares about RTX

Joe Bloggs will, esp when he starts to drool over Cyberpunk.

 

[Zernath]

Joe Bloggs will, esp when he starts to drool over Cyberpunk.

Joe Bloggs will eventually be priced out of this hobby. I wonder if these companies can survive purely on enthusiast whales?

 

[JediFragger]

IMO no... £450 for a 10-20% bump over a tweaked v56

Yup, and the Sapphire/Powercolour custom cards are gonna be £500+ easy (and the crap Asus £650+ )

Also as an aside, if nVidia are doing a little refresh of their line-up I'm personally not expecting their 7nm cards til Aug/Sept next year easily. Just zero need for them to do it! Turing will be a full 2yr architecture.

 

[Grim5]

So on the anniversary $500usd card, AMD forgot to change the name on the fan shroud - and now we know that before the switch - this card was called the RX690 and the 5700 called the RX680

The RX590 was $279usd on launch
The RX690 *cough* 5700 xt is up to $500usd on launch

I think AMD changed the name to avoid the backlash. How does that make you feel?

 

[BigBANGtheory]

R7 would have been a great option.... 3yrs ago. In 2019 its just new money for old rope sorry but it is coming from an AMD GPU owner many times over

 

[Scougar]

So on the anniversary $500usd card, AMD forgot to change the name on the fan shroud - and now we know that before the switch - this card was called the RX690 and the 5700 called the RX680

The RX590 was $279usd on launch
The RX690 *cough* 5700 xt is up to $500usd on launch

I think AMD changed the name to avoid the backlash. How does that make you feel?

People would be battering down the doors to get them had that actually been priced that way with that perf.

I just bought a new king size mattress instead of Navi lol. Something that wasn't overpriced.

 

[Martini1991]

People would be battering down the doors to get them had that actually been processed that way with that perf.

The only thing wrong with the 5700XT is its price really.

The 5700XT's a mid range part. If they'd priced it as such they'd be selling them hand over fist.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That name would have made more sense, where did they get 5700 from?

7NM and the 50th anniversary of AMD apparently.

RX 690 would make sense product stack wise if it's a replacement for Polaris.
It's just a mid range part at higher tier pricing.

If you look at the GPU size,its close to Polaris.

 

[FoxEye]

I think AMD changed the name to avoid the backlash. How does that make you feel?

Resigned?

Doesn't change anything, I wasn't going to buy it (at these prices) and so how I feel is really neither here nor there.

I will only feel like buying one if they drop the price... a lot. Like to mid-range prices where they belong. £250 ish. I mean heck it's not much faster than a Vega 56 so £250 is pretty generous!

 

[Troezar]

Resigned?

Doesn't change anything, I wasn't going to buy it (at these prices) and so how I feel is really neither here nor there.

I will only feel like buying one if they drop the price... a lot. Like to mid-range prices where they belong. £250 ish. I mean heck it's not much faster than a Vega 56 so £250 is pretty generous!

I would buy Navi if cheaper but even then, as you say, it's not really much faster than older tech.

 

[Panos]

I would buy Navi if cheaper but even then, as you say, it's not really much faster than older tech.

Yet we do not know how fast it is either, until July 7th......

 

[willhub]

If I can do another 24 month balance transfer my savings going on ray tracing as opposed to paying off credit cards now. I can't see any point in releasing a card with no new tech.

 

[bru]

Yet we do not know how fast it is either, until July 7th......

This is very true, so far we have based all of our assumptions off of AMD's own slides and although they wont of flat out lied about the performance, their slides might very well be a generous estimation of overall performance.
Of course their slides must be fairly close due to Nvidia supposedly bringing us the super editions of the 2060,2070 and 2080, so they at least know where performance lies, or thereabouts.

Anyway as Panos quite rightly said we will find out on the 7th July.

 

[subbytna]

Do people care about Dacia being slower than Ferrari? Is it to be expected yes?
Genuine question? My angle for asking will be apparent

 

[Zeed]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-rx-5700-xt-690-graphics-card-e3

 

[Grim5]

Did AMD hire Linus? The Navi shroud looks like Linus dropped it again and the designers thought it was supposed to look that way lmao