AMD RDNA2 Graphics cards set for release in September 2020

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/21/2020 01:30 PM | source: digitimes | 22 comment(s)

It kind of is expected as well, after the summer everybody is going to release everything. however in regards to Big NAVI aka AMD RDNA2 Based Radeon RX Graphics Cards, the newly set launch would be September. And likely with NVIDIA in that same timeframe.

it is Taiwanese media outlet DigiTimes that mentions that AMD and NVIDIA both are expected to launch their next-gen GPUs and thus graphics cards fro consumers in September.

– DigiTimes -

first half of a year has been usually the slow season for graphics cards, but this year the coronavirus pandemic-triggeed stay-at-home needs has shored up demand. With AMD and Nvidia set to launch their next-generation GPUs in September, graphics cards vendors are expected to cut prices for older-generation products, stimulating demand further in third-quarter 2020. The pandemic-fueled demand for notebooks is also expected keep NAND flash memory prices stable in the third quarter. And the fresh US trade sanctions on Huawei is not deterring the Chinese tech giant from making building 5G networks around China. For semiconductor, Digitimes has an exclusive interview with TSMC's R&D senior VP Cliff Hou, who reveals the principles and issues concerning the foundry's recruitement and R&D.

Graphics card makers see shipments boom: Graphics card manufacturers including Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology are expected to see their shipments continue ramping up and grow through the fourth quarter of 2020, according to industry sources.

Well, if Digitimes says it, who are we to argue. Well, bring it on we'd say!

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JamesSneed
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#5790860 Posted on: 05/21/2020 02:59 PM

This is going to be the best year to upgrade GPU's in a long time. Pretty exciting.

Petr V
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#5790869 Posted on: 05/21/2020 03:23 PM

Probably the best Amd gpu comes.
Good to have something to pair with ryzen.

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#5790875 Posted on: 05/21/2020 03:40 PM

I hope along with the new cards AMD has another look at the drivers. Three of my friends recently built new Ryzen PCs, just like I did, but they also got 5700s or XTs. One of them has no problems, but two have had driver woes (or at least I assume it was the driver from their talks, not a bad card).

Switch to Linux - the drivers there are great today. Linux also had a rough launch but to my knowledge it's pretty stable now (I don't own one of these GPUs). Meanwhile, the drivers are only a few dozen MB, and yet they offer pretty much the same level of performance, despite the fact there are no application-specific optimizations (except a handful for multi-threaded rendering support, since that is still an experimental feature).

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#5790877 Posted on: 05/21/2020 03:48 PM

Drivers stability improved a lot lately. I had many problems at first but the last version so far is pretty stable.

Yeah, but the situation with the new cards might repeat again, and AMD might need another 6 months or so to provide some decent drivers... I'd definetaly wait for the first results regarding driver quality

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#5790908 Posted on: 05/21/2020 04:56 PM

Haven't AMD been spouting their "new" fast card before RDNA 2 was ever in the public know how?
The amount of time it has taken them to even release a 5800XT - never emerged.
5700XT was and always has been their top card, and although it's half decent, the lies of a better card coming out never materialised.

Just seems a lot of hot air floating around AMD's GPU division right now (and for the last 6 months+)

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