AMD’S NEW RDNA 2 graphics cards—unofficially known as “Big Navi”—are finally ready. At the heart is a whole new 7nm GPU architecture. AMD has been playing second fiddle to Nvidia for a while now, but the company is confident that this is the chip to change that.
Initially we will get three new cards using the new GPU: The Radeon RX 6900 XT and 6800 XT using Navi 21 chip, and the 6700 XT using Navi 22. As we write this, the official release is a few days away, but, as usual, there have been numerous leaks. The new cards will carry 5,120, 3,840, and 2,560 Stream processors respectively (80, 60 and 40 Compute Units), backed by 16GB, 12GB, and 6GB of GDDR6 memory. Power consumption is 300W, 200W, and…
