As a part of in the present day’s Zen Three desktop CPU announcement from AMD, the corporate additionally threw in a fast teaser from the GPU aspect of the corporate as a way to showcase the mixed energy of their CPUs and GPUs. The different half of AMD is getting ready for their very own announcement in a number of weeks, the place they’ll be holding a keynote for his or her forthcoming Radeon RX 6000 video playing cards.
With the latest launch of NVIDIA’s Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 collection elements clearly on their minds, AMD briefly teased the efficiency of a forthcoming high-end RX 6000 video card. The firm isn’t disclosing any specification particulars of the unnamed card – wanting course that it’s an RDNA2-based RX 6000 half – however the firm did disclose a number of alternative benchmark numbers from their labs.
Dialing issues as much as 4K at most high quality, AMD benchmarked Borderlands 3, Gears of War 5, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019). And whereas these are unverified outcomes being launched for advertising and marketing functions – that means they need to be taken with a grain or two of salt – the implied message from AMD is obvious: they’re aiming for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 with this half.
Assuming these numbers are correct, AMD’s Borderlands Three efficiency are virtually in lockstep with the 3080. However the Gears 5 outcomes are a bit extra modest, and 73fps would have AMD trailing by a number of %. Finally, Call of Duty doesn’t have a standardized benchmark, so though 88fps at 4K appears spectacular, it’s unattainable to say the way it compares to different {hardware}.
Meanwhile, it’s value noting that as with all vendor efficiency teases, we’re doubtless AMD’s finest numbers. And in fact, anticipate to see a whole lot of ongoing positive tuning from each AMD and NVIDIA over the approaching weeks and months as they jostle for place, particularly if AMD’s card is constantly this shut.
Otherwise, the largest query that is still for an additional day is which video card these efficiency numbers are for. It’s a really secure guess that that is AMD’s flagship GPU (anticipated to be “Big Navi”, Navi 21), nonetheless AMD is purposely making it unclear if that is their lead configuration, or their second-tier configuration. Reaching parity with the 3080 could be a giant deal by itself; nonetheless if it’s AMD’s second tier-card, then that will considerably alter the aggressive panorama.
Expect to seek out out the solutions to this and extra on October 28th, when AMD hosts their Radeon RX 6000 keynote.
