Navi Dicussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/31...ystation-5

AMD is still doubling down on the idea that RDNA2 will be a 1.5x uplift over RDNA. AMD’s promises of GPU performance improvements haven’t always materialized as well as their CPU improvements have, but RDNA delivered the improvement it promised relative to the RX500 family, and a 1.5x improvement in performance-per-watt would help Navi 2 compete with expected GPUs from Nvidia’s Ampere family. A 2.25x improvement in performance per watt over GCN (1.5x * 1.5x) would be a substantial overall gain for a single node transition, even if it took several years to deliver the improvement.