This is How AMD’s Upcoming Radeon RX 6000 ‘Big Navi’ GPU Looks Like
Sep. 15, 2020Just days after announcing anOctober 28th launch datefor its upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs,AMDhas started teasing its upcoming GPU lineup on social media (and in Fortnite!?). The company, on Monday, shared thefirst official render of its ‘Big Navi’ graphics card, showing a massive dual-slot reference design cooled by a triple fan setup.
According toTweakTown, the design, which shows 2x DisplayPort, 1x HDMI, and 1x USB Type-C port, is likely to be that of theRadeon RX 6700 XT or the RX 6900 XT. Beyond that, there’s very little info about it but we believe that AMD will keep posting the occasional teaser about its upcoming Big Navi GPU and Zen 3 CPU lineup in the run-up to their launch next month, so we can expect plenty more information in the coming days.
AMD last week announced that it will unveil its next-gen Zen 3-basedRyzen Desktop CPUs(codenamed ‘Vermeer’) on October 8, followed by the Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture on October 28. While the former is expected to take on Intel’s‘Tiger Lake’processor lineup, the latter is now expected to compete against Nvidia’sGeForce RTX 3000-seriescards.
Meanwhile, one interesting aspect of the Big Navi cards is that they might power both Sony’s and Microsoft’s upcoming gaming consoles. According to a teaser video released last week by the AMD, the graphic cards will support both PC and consoles, seemingly confirming persistent rumors that theXbox Series XandPlayStation 5will both ship with these chips.
There’s no confirmation for the aforementioned from either of the three companies but let’s hope that we get more information on that sooner rather than later.
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