The arrival of amd navi is expected in August 2018

AMD Navi is AMD's new high-performance graphics architecture that is under development to succeed an unsuccessful Vega. Most characteristic of Navi will be the use of a 7nm manufacturing process to take its energy efficiency and performance to a new level.

AMD Navi at 7nm and with possible multi-chip design

AMD plans to announce Navi in ​​August 2018, a date that coincides with SIGGRAPH 2018 and that makes a lot of sense since it has also been the event used to launch Vega this year 2017. For now the only thing that is known for sure about Navi is It will use the manufacturing process at 7 nm, so its energy efficiency will be much higher than that of Vega at 14 nm.

Rumors suggest that AMD could use a multi-chip design with Navi, the cornerstone of this new design would be the Infinity Fabric bus that is already used in its Ryzen and EPYC processors to communicate their different dies.

This movement would allow AMD to use simpler and cheaper dies to manufacture, the use of simpler dies also allows obtaining a higher success rate in its manufacture so that the cost of its graphics cards would be reduced, which would allow some lower selling prices or higher profits if they keep current prices or raise them.

AMD Navi will be designed for Artificial Intelligence

Before Navi's arrival we will have a new generation of Vega based cards with a 12nm manufacturing process for slightly improved energy efficiency. The arrival of Vega 11 is also expected to succeed Polaris.

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