AMD 7nm Navi GPU Series to Capture Gaming Market as Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Benchmarks Are  Very Disappointing 

AMD Navi is Coming Out Next Year

AMD is going to release the worlds first 7nm gaming GPU in 2019. Thanks to Navi’s 7nm architecture, it’s going to be very power efficient when compared to GPUs available in the gaming market. Another good news for AMD is the fact that Nvidia RTX GPUs haven’t been performing that well. Although RTX only performs around 15% better than last-gen cards around the same price point, gamers were still excited to experience ray tracing. Unfortunately, it seems like ray tracing isn’t going to be that useful as even the RTX 2080TI isn’t able to run a game like Battlefield V at 1080p with ray tracing enabled and run it at 60 FPS.

Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Benchmarks are Disappointing

Nvidia RTX GPUs don’t do that well in ray tracing benchmarks. Even the RTX 2080 TI, a 4k gaming GPU, isn’t able to run a game like Battlefield V at 1080p with ray tracing enabled and still get 60FPS. With Battlefield V running at ultra settings with ray tracing enabled, it ran the game at an average of 55 FPS at 1080p. These benchmarks by Wccftech. This is disappointing as it means you will have to sacrifice 4k and high FPS gaming for ray tracing.

AMD Navi Series Coming Out in 2019

Thanks to recent rumors, we know that AMD is going to release two Navi GPU series. The lower-end cards or Navi 12 is coming out in 1H 2019 and the higher-end versions, Navi 20 is coming out sometime in 2020-2021. AMD Navi 10 has either been dropped or it is going to be released sometime in 2019 or 2020. We also know that Navi 12 will feature 40 CUs. If the CU and stream processor ratio is the same as GCN, Navi 12 is going to feature 2560 stream processors. This means that Navi 12 is going to perform like the Vega 64 but the higher-end models are going to be the real competitors for Nvidia. 

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