AMD's next-gen RDNA 2 cards rumored to have 'Infinity Cache' tech

It has been rumored before, but it appears AMD will have some aces up its sleeve with its next-gen RDNA 2 architecture in the form of Infinity Cache that should appear with the Radeon RX 6900 XT and the rest of the Big Navi GPU family.

What is Infinity Cache? Well, it is reportedly a special cache that is connected to the memory subsystem on the next-gen Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. AMD registered the trademark for Infinity Cache a few days ago, seemingly confirming that it is coming with Big Navi.

Infinity Cache is close to the Infinity Fabric that AMD uses on its Zen CPUs, which is their in-house interconnect system architecture for CPU and GPU cores. We should expect Infinity Cache to be a new technology deployed as a super-fast cache that helps the slow-on-paper 256-bit memory bus and slow-on-paper GDDR6.

Slow-on-paper 256-bit memory bus compared to the huge 384-bit memory bus on the GeForce RTX 3090, and the faster 320-bit memory bus on the GeForce RTX 3080. Slow-on-paper GDDR6 memory, compared to the faster GDDR6X memory used on the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080.

But, the newly-teased Infinity Cache could help AMD super-charge the memory bandwidth and making much, much better use of that 256-bit memory bus and GDDR6 memory.

• More reading: Here's Big Navi in teh flesh, Navi 21 GPU powers Radeon RX 6900 XT -- compared side-by-side against Navi 10 that powers the current-gen Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card. You can read more on that here.
• Even more reading: AMD's new Radeon RX 6900 XT will "challenge" the GeForce RTX 3080, packing 16GB of GDDR6 and a price somewhere between $549 and $699. You can read more on that here.