AMD Navi based Graphics cards Might Arrive in August 2018




While Vega is barely out of the doors, AMD is already moving forward to NAVI. Graphics cards based on these 7nm fabbed GPUs would be released in August 2018 according to new information.
Website TweakTown stated to have information about Navi, but does not mention a source:
Once again I have an exclusive story that AMD will have Navi ready to go sometime in July-August 2018, with a Navi-based professional card being launched at SIGGRAPH 2018. We're still waiting for AMD to launch Radeon Pro SSG, something they unveiled during SIGGRAPH 2017 that hasn't yet materialized.
I must state that personally I find next Summer a bit early for this part, as 12nm refresh for Vega is far more plausible. Little is actually known about Navi, other then we know it's fabbed at 7nm of course. AMD’s Navi GPUs will be built using GlobalFoundries’ 7nm node using 7LP technology.
“Thanks to additional improvements at both the transistor and process levels, the 7LP technology is exceeding initial performance targets and expected to deliver greater than 40 percent more processing power and twice the area scaling than the previous 14nm FinFET technology,” was stated by GlobalFoundries back in mid-June.
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Global Foundries reports they won't have 7nm LP in volume production until second half of 2018 - and that they are targeting mobile processors for that node. I don't think we're going to see Navi before 2019, similar with whatever Nvidia architecture is post Volta.

Technically Volta is already out in the form of GV100, the consumer parts are reportedly being launched Q1 2018 because GDDR6 won't be available in volume until Q4 this year.
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Here we go again.
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Maybe they will have Navi ready for tape out by then but from all the news so far on the 7nm process, I would be very surprised if they release sooner than end of 2018 at the very earliest. I suspect a 2019 release for Navi.
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If Navi still relies on HBM, at least half a year can be added to any estimation of the product availability date.
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I'm surprised to hear that AMD could be ready that early with Navi, but I reckon if they are ready then they would want to launch it as soon as possible because Vega has been a bit of a disappointment and they could do with winning some more sales & putting more pressure on NVidia.
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I wonder if we might start to see multi-gpu on Navi, much like Ryzen does with cpus.
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amd is a joke ; ) after a long wait for their Vega cards; we saw what happened. lower performance-higher price against green team
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No way. Unless they introduce Navi at worse than 7nm process. Hell, I'm not even sure about Vega refresh by that time...
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Meanwhile can you please rewrite your drivers from scratch? Ty.
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Exactly. Every time the same story.
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Lol. Thought the same thing when I read the title. Don't expect these cards until 2Q 2019 if we're lucky and prepare for disappointment.
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Polaris>Vega>Navi
HBM1>HBM2>HBM3?
Fail 1>Fail 2>Fail 3?
Hype train left the station again: Expect AMD GPU PR stunts featuring no FPS counter while gaming and locked FPS in adaptive sync monitor comparison.
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Oh the useless negativity in this forum.
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I'd say there is a chance 7nm is miles away, and they are going to do a tryout at 12nm.
It probably won't be a large chip, more of a revamped 580.
I would expect it to have 2048-2560 shaders, and be available with a single stack of HBM.
~100-125W.
Makes a good trial run.
75W max on 7nm.
I would also expect the same config on GDDR5/6.
GDDR to go down the product stack, and HBM to go up.
Imagine 4 of them on one card a la Threadripper/EPYC (at 7nm).
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Would be a riot if Navi came out before Volta