AMD 7 nm gaming GPUs Are Coming | Codename for first 7 nm GPUs (Probably Not NAVI)

Navi is most likely going to be AMD’s answer to the new Turing GPUs, Arcturus is.

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.

Nvidia just launched a controversial RTX 2000-series of gaming GPUs and everybody is now waiting to see AMD’s next move to bring up something as strong as touring platform. It is already known that the 7 nm Instinct GPUs are not going to target the gaming market, so 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.

According to an AMD Linux driver development employee on the Phoronix forums, the gaming GPUs coming after Navi is internally codenamed Arcturus and will probably launch in 2020. The employee is suggesting that AMD is likely to return to distinct codenames for upcoming architectures, since the current scheme is not. While the Polaris 30 GPUs are going to compete with already “previous gen” Pascal GPUs from Nvidia, Navi is most likely going to be AMD’s answer to the new Turing GPUs, which are quite expensive now. Arcturus, on the other hand, is too far away to speculate on when Instinct is not even launched yet.

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