Amd navi is not a high-end architecture, it will succeed polaris
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We have new information about AMD Navi, the next graphic architecture of the Sunnyvale company, although it will not be what many users expected, since this architecture will be the successor to Polaris and not Vega.
AMD Navi will succeed Polaris and not Vega
This implies that AMD Navi will not be a high-end architecture, but rather a low-end and mid-range solution to replace the current Polaris-based Radeon RX 500. Navi will be manufactured at 7nm, so its size would be very small and very energy efficient. If we take into account the great advances of 7nm, it would be possible that AMD Navi offers a similar performance to Vega and the GeForce GTX 1080, with a very adjusted power consumption, at least compared to current AMD cards, since Nvidia it is several steps ahead.
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The Radeon RX 580/570 are in need of an upgrade, as this Polaris-based architecture is simply a slight upgrade over the Radeon RX 480 generation. The new Navi 7nm chip would provide what is necessary to remain competitive, and add some Ray Tracing acceleration elements.
This means that AMD would not launch anything faster than Vega before the end of 2019 or even 2020, therefore, Nvidia will continue to be alone in the high range for a long time, something that is not a good thing for users in this sector, since lack of competition will mean high prices from Nvidia. We will have to wait long to know the details of Vega's successor architecture. This is great news for the team of Jeff Fishers, the head of Geforce at Nvidia, but a sad day for the competition.
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