AMD Big Navi won't kill RX 5700 — here's the proof

AMD Big Navi won't kill RX 5700 — hither's the proof

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With Big Navi – AMD's rival to the Nvidia RTX 3000 series – just around the corner, every bit well as GPUs for the Xbox Series X and PlayStation v to produce, the company is certainly busy. As a upshot, rumors accept been growing that AMD's current meridian line of PC GPUs are not long for this earth.

It turns out that's not true, and AMD has no immediate plans to pull the plug on the RX 5700 cards. "Nosotros are standing to produce the Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, which deliver exceptional 1440p gaming experiences," an AMD spokesperson told our sister site Tom'south Hardware. "We volition continue to reply to market demand."

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Market demand will, in part, depend on how AMD prices its upcoming Large Navi cards. Much of the appeal of AMD's existing graphics cards is that they offering similar — and in some cases, better — performance than Nvidia'southward RTX 2000 series, at a more competitive cost.

While Nvidia has beaten AMD to the punch with its new RTX 3000 serial cards, the one matter they well-nigh certainly are not is inexpensive. The RTX 3070 starts at $499, with the 3080 costing $699 and RTX 3090 coming in at $1,499. If AMD'south Big Navi is able to significantly undercut the price while offering solid performance, it's hard to see likewise much demand for the existing RX 5700, unless it'due south also significantly reduced in price..

Expectations are already at fever pitch for Big Navi, with i leak revealing that the GPU has the potential to be forty to 50% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, with two clusters of compute units for a total of 72. That should interpret to impressive performance, though of course a lot depends on how well optimized the drivers end up existence when information technology comes down to bodily existent-world gameplay.

All will be revealed on Oct 28 when AMD says information technology volition officially unveil all the details of its new GPU, with its Zen 3 CPUs beingness introduced 20 days earlier. Despite maintaining product of the RX 5700 cards and working on components for next-generation consoles, AMD is evidently non anticipating the aforementioned kind of stock shortages that have plagued Nvidia. Nosotros shall see.

Freelance correspondent Alan has been writing most tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are institute all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When non weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably notice him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more than probable, playing Spelunky for the millionth fourth dimension.