Amd navi adds to hwinfo as they prepare to launch

The launch of the new AMD Navi graphics cards appears to be very close to completion. Before the release of any major silicon product, device IDs are generated and preliminary support is added to the testing and detection tools, as is the case with the well-known HWINFO .

AMD Navi is added to HWINFO and its launch would be very close

In a recent changelog, the tool has added preliminary support for AMD Navi, an indicator that the GPU is finally ready for launch and that its IDs have been finalized.

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The Navi GPU is slated to be the first AMD graphics card not to be built with the GCN macroarchitecture. While we have no idea what specs AMD will go with, we do know that it will be the first GPU architecture capable of exceeding the 4096 Stream Processors limit imposed by the GCN architecture.

What is rumored is that the first models based on the Navi GPU are for the middle segment. Sources claim that the first models will have only 40 CUs, which translates to about 2, 560 SP, if the CU to SP ratio is the same as in the GCN architecture (for which there is no confirmation yet). If that's the case, the early models would compete fiercely in the GTX1660 Ti segment at RTX 2070, which is where the most volume is sold.

Those future buyers of a GTX 1660 Ti or RX 480/580 may want to wait a bit to see what AMD has to say in the coming weeks.

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