Well, a lot for ready till June for the reveal of AMD’s Navi GPUs at their massive E3 occasion, as the most recent rumours recommend we might see two Navi GPUs announce themselves to the world in lower than every week – principally seemingly when AMD take to the stage at this 12 months’s massive Computex tech present over in Taiwan.
Codenamed the Navi XT and Navi Pro (but additionally allegedly referred to as the Radeon RX 3070 and Radeon RX 3080), these two graphics playing cards will apparently be revealed on Monday May 27, which simply occurs to be the identical day as AMD head woman Dr Lisa Su’s key observe speech. Handy that, eh?
Personally, I’m a little bit sceptical concerning the info given how a lot emphasis AMD have been placed on E3 versus Computex thus far, however based on the rumourmongers over at WccfTech, it was really a spokesperson from graphics card maker Sapphire who allegedly spilled the beans to Chinese media in an article that’s since been taken down. That lends it a little bit extra credibility, you would possibly say, versus merely being pulled out of skinny air, however how legit these supposedly leaked deets are may be very a lot up for debate given they’ve now vanished from existence.
Still, based on this most tenuous of tenuous leaks, the Navi XT will apparently supply barely higher speeds than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2070 and can price $499 – which is roughly what you at the moment must spend to get a lower-end RTX 2070. If true, then, this might be a reasonably candy worth certainly if the Navi XT goes to be a bit sooner.
The Navi Pro, then again, will price $399 and be extra of a midway home between the RTX 2070 and Nvidia’s subsequent card down, the RTX 2060. This might be a barely more durable promote, given how RTX 2060 playing cards price round $349 at time of writing, however once more, could be price the additional expense if the Navi Pro’s efficiency is nearer to the RTX 2070 finish of the dimensions than the RTX 2060.
Admittedly, we gained’t know for certain whether or not that is all only a load of hogwash till AMD’s Computex keynote really takes place subsequent Monday – which begins at 10am Taipei time, which is 7pm PT on the Sunday night, and 2am on Monday UK time (pleasure of joys). I imply, it might occur. After all, AMD used their CES 2019 keynote speech to unveil the Radeon 7, so they might nicely do the identical once more for his or her two Navi playing cards at Computex with an even bigger, extra detailed and extra public-facing occasion subsequent month at E3. It’s simply unattainable to say come what may proper now.
Either means, although, no less than we gained’t have to attend too lengthy to see if it’s all true. In the imply time, you possibly can make amends for all the opposite Navi shenanigans over on our AMD Navi hub web page.
