Halfway through last year, AMD launched the Navi 10, at the heart of the Radeon RX 5700 XT, as the first sample of its new RDNA architecture, and even though not much time passed, the company is already producing its successor: Navi 21.
What AMD Navi 21 will offer?
According to rumors, Navi 21 is already being produced by TSMC under the 7nm EUV or 7nm+ process, and we might even see a sample at CES 2020. The most important innovation is that it is twice as big as Navi 10, which could mean twice as many cores, and thanks to the improved process, in addition to the higher frequency, it would offer almost twice as much power as a Radeon RX 5700 XT.
On average, a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 4K performs about 50% more than the Radeon RX 5700 XT, so this new GPU could compete not only with the current but also with the future generation of Nvidia. It is not known whether this new chip also supports hardware ray tracing, but probably not at this time.