AMD Navi 21 Lite, Navi 22, and Navi 23 spotted in Linux driver patch, expected to offer tough competition to NVIDIA Ampere

[Redaktion]

References to upcoming Navi 20-series GPUs, the Navi 21 Lite, Navi 22, and Navi 23, have surfaced in new Linux driver patches confirming that AMD's RDNA 2 development is on track. Not much information can be gleaned from the driver code itself apart from speculation that Navi 21 could shape-up to be a viable competitor to NVIDIA's upcoming Ampere offerings.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Navi-21-Lite-Navi-22-and-Navi-23-spotted-in-Linux-driver-patch-expected-to-offer-tough-competition-to-NVIDIA-Ampere.441224.0.html

[fasddsadasdas]

Weak chances given Turing on an old process is already better than Navi on 7nm.

[Spunjji]

That's not really true though. Competitive? Sure, more than it has any right to be. Better? Not in any clear way whatsoever.

If Ampere improves over Turing by a similar amount they managed from Pascal to Turing, with the benefits of a node shrink on top, then they'll likely come out ahead. Unfortunately there's no guarantees that Nvidia's 7nm transition will be smooth; unlike AMD they don't even have any experience porting an existing architecture to that node, let alone building a brand new one on it.

Expecting a radical change in architecture alongside the new node might be a bit much, so the more likely outcome is a closer fight than we've had in years with Nvidia still in pole position.

[NickKING]

Why can't AMD do on their GPU side what they do on their CPU side? They beat Intel by essentially adding more cores and increasing IPC. Change the GPU architecture to increase performance, and put 3 GPU's on a single card if that's what it takes!