Although it was Ryzen 3000 and Zen 2 taking the center stage at AMD’s Computex 2019 keynote, CEO Lisa Su was generous enough to reveal new details about their next generation GPU.
AMD is debuting a new “RDNA” gaming-first architecture with the Radeon RX 5700 optimized for performance per clock and high clock speeds. AMD is calling RDNA the “future of gaming” as it will power upcoming 7nm Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards, Sony’s next generation Playstation, and possibly Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform. On the PC, RX 5700 cards will feature high-speed GDDR6 memory and support for the PCIe 4.0 interface.
- It sounds like Navi is now going to attempt to be better publicly known as “RDNA,” as that’s what the company’s calling the architecture here.
- AMD says the new architecture can provide up to 1.25x performance per clock and 1.5x performance per watt compared to the previous Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture that powered its previous Polaris and Vega GPUs (which is vague but sounds pretty good!)
- The Radeon RX 5700 series will have GDDR6 memory and support PCIe 4.0 (it’s unclear if either of those will make a big difference but newer versions are always nice)
- During the event, the company showed one of the RX 5700 series GPUs beating an Nvidia RX 2070 by 10 percent in a single game, Strange Brigade, which really doesn’t tell us much since we don’t know which RX 5700 GPU was used nor how the family performs on average across other software titles.
AMD Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards are set for release this July with finalized details on pricing and more expected to be revealed at the AMD E3 event on June 10.
