In a Q&A session during AMD’s Q2 earnings conference, AMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su was asked regarding high-end Navi GPUs. Dr. Su responded by saying “I would say they are coming. You should expect that our execution on those area on track and we have a rich 7nm portfolio beyond the products that we have already announced in the upcoming quarters.”
While Dr. Su doesn’t explicitly disclose a date, it does answer the question if we’re getting a possible RX 5800 or RX 5900 down the line, possibly by year end. AMD has countered NVIDIA’s mid-range RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 but NVIDIA fired back with the Super release. AMD currently doesn’t have raytracing technology or anything revolutionary but the performance and process improvement have been more than enough to satisfy the current market. Higher end RX 5800 and RX 5900 and their XT variants are being anticipated to offset NVIDIA’s RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, with AMD’s age-old strategy of filling in price points in-between NVIDIA’s stack.
The RX 5800 is expected to utilize the Navi 12 GPU core while the RX 5900 is still to be revealed.