Navi to be AMD’s answer to Nvidia Turing GPUs, & Arcturus to be the 7nm+ in 2020, Rumors say

AMD is planning to launch a 7 nm gaming GPU codenamed Arcturus as soon as 2020, but before that, they have to come up with something to compete with the Nvidia’s new Turing GPUs first. Rumor has it the Navi GPUs scheduled for next year are still on the pascal gpus level, but for now the RTX 2000-series is overpriced and AMD might have enough time to fine-tune the Navi cards and even push for more aggressive prices.

AMD is allegedly returning to the old GPU naming schema as they did prior to Vega series. This means we won’t be seeing the same codenames used for GPU architecture and actual retail products. The use of Vega for both graphics cards and GPU codenames has led to some confusion, as the name was used for discrete and integrated graphics at the same time, while still featuring Vega for their GPU names. Videocardz

The next gen gaming GPUs from AMD are still shrouded in mystery. Previous rumors claimed that Navi should be the codename for the 7 nm gaming GPUs scheduled for 2019, but these might not end up faster than the Pascal GPUs from Nvidia. The red team is also preparing to launch the Polaris 30 GPUs that should bridge the gap between the Vega 10 and the older Polaris 20.

The next architecture, which is Navi, should still use the old scheme (the confusing one), but the architecture past Navi will take a different route by separating codenames for graphics processors and actual products. At Phoronix forums, AMD employee responsible for Linux driver development confirmed that in the future AMD will go back to the old naming model. So yes, we are likely talking about Radeon 700 series here (sources say). Phoronix:

Arcturus is a large red star and the brightest of the constellation of Boötes.

Source: Phoronix via TechPowerUP

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