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AMD’s next generation of graphics cards to be available from July

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AMD’s Navi architecture is going to be used in Sony’s impending PlayStation 5. It’s not quite available for use in desktop PC’s either, but that’s changing – and it’s changing soon.

AMD revealed the new Navi-based AMD Radeon RX 5700 at its Computex shindig today. The new card will be out in July, bringing Navi to consumer desktop computers for the first time. In their presentation, AMD said that the new chips use a new architecture that they call RDNA (doing away with the GCN nomenclature). According to AMD, the RDNA architecture offers 1.25 times the performance per clock compared to GCN and 1.5 times the performance per watt improvement. The RDNA cards will also be the first to support PCIe 4.0, and will ship with GDDR6. There’s no word on what benefits those bring, but they’re both bigger numbers than found on previous cards, so that can only mean good things.

And to be honest, that’s about all that AMD did reveal. They did pit one of the cards in the RX 5700 against Nvidia’s RTX 2070 in a single game (Strange Brigade), suggesting that their new bit of hardware is 10 per cent faster than Nvidia’s. It’s a bit of a worthless comparison though, as it tells us nothing of the card’s general performance in the real world.

We won’t have to wait too long for that information though, as AMD will have a nice information dump on their own cards and the PS5’s guts at E3 this year.

Last Updated: May 27, 2019

14 Comments

  1. Kromas

    May 27, 2019 at 13:24

    But can it run Crysis?

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    • Yahtzee

      May 27, 2019 at 13:24

      At 100 degrees yes

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      • Kromas

        May 27, 2019 at 13:33

        If it was the AMD of the past I would agree but they have made leaps and strides getting their tdp down. Hell AMD cpus run colder (and faster) than intel ones.

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        • Yahtzee

          May 27, 2019 at 13:34

          This is not how this game works…

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          • Kromas

            May 27, 2019 at 13:34

            Blame AMD.

          • Yahtzee

            May 27, 2019 at 13:42

            Ok now we are back on track.

    • Pariah

      May 27, 2019 at 13:24

      Some jokes are timeless. This one really didn’t age well.

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      • Kromas

        May 27, 2019 at 13:34

        Can it run Star Citizen? 😛

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        • Pariah

          May 27, 2019 at 13:42

          FINE you win. XD

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  2. Llama In The Rift

    May 27, 2019 at 14:23

    Starting to look like the same back and forth game they be playing all these years with Nvidia…not gonna be what people are hyping it up to be….still no word on RTX but AMD did not deny or confirmed it yet. Welp well see…just know disappointment’s coming to the over hyper’s.

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  3. CrAiGiSh

    May 27, 2019 at 15:04

    And here I am just trying to save up for a 2060 … STAP DEVELOPING !!!

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  4. th3SiCn3ss

    May 27, 2019 at 16:02

    Really don’t care if it’s faster, their drivers are shit & temps are atrocious. Had constant driver issues with my last 2 cards as well as heating issues. Eventually gave up & went with Nvidia, never looked back. I doubt that they will ever produce a proper GPU again. They should rather stick to CPUs for the long run… As far as I’m concerned they pulled a Telkom on me… never again Telkom…….. never again….

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  5. G8crasha

    May 27, 2019 at 13:53

    I am less than optimistic that this chip will be a game changer for them, but at least it places them closer to taking back the performance crown from Nvidia.

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  6. Magius

    May 27, 2019 at 14:03

    Given how well they have done on the Ryzen front, I’m excited to see what these cards do when the various reviewers get their hands on them. I really hope that they can compete with Nvidia as that will just start benefiting us as end users.

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