AMD reitrerates Big Navi is coming to PC gamers in 'late 2020'

AMD says Big Navi is a 'Halo product', and will have Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs by late 2020.

@anthony256

Published Jun 3, 2020 10:09 PM CDT
Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:43 PM CST

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We know that AMD is coming later this year, and that the company wants its next-gen Big Navi GPU to disrupt 4K gaming with NVIDIA like it did with Ryzen CPUs to Intel -- but with coronavirus, and now the George Floyd protests across the US -- how is Big Navi looking?

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During the recent Bank of America Securities Global Technology Conferece, AMD CFO Devinder Kumar confirmed that Big Navi is indeed AMD's first RDNA 2 product. There were some that thought the next-gen Microsoft Xbox Series X and Sony PlayStation 5 consoles would be the first to drop with RDNA 2-based hardware, but that's not the case: PC will be first.

Kumar said: "there's a lot of excitement for Navi 2, or what our fans have dubbed as the Big Navi". He added that "Big Navi is a halo product" and that "enthusiasts love to buy the best, and we are certainly working on giving them the best".

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Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.