Finally, we have the first picture of one of the future AMD Radeon RX 6000 “Big Navi”. Specifically, this is the filtration of images that belong to a very preliminary technical sample, so it will look very bad of course, but it helps us to get some details. Let’s have a look.
A prototype of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory is photographed
Specifically, the image was filtered on a Chinese website and obviously it doesn’t give us much information about the graphics card itself, as it is certainly one of the first patterns that come to the eyes. We can even see that the cooling of the chip is done by a normal CPU cooler that is turned upside down, which is common for both AMD and NVIDIA prototypes.
It also indicates that it uses a 256-bit memory interface. Therefore, the prototype would have up to 8 chips giving it the 16 GB (gigabytes) that we talked about earlier.
Will it compete with the Nvidia RTX 3070 or RTX 3080?
The big doubt is whether the final models will have this configuration since we must take into account that 256 bits are equivalent to the RTX 3070, and not the superior models with which AMD must compete (at least with the 3080). Unfortunately, there is not enough information to know if this will be the top configuration.
In any case, the AMD Big Navi will be launched on October 28th, a date that is intuitively very late, and the reason why we qualify is simple: many people will see the launch from their PC with an RTX 30 mounted. Until then the RTX 3090 and 3080 will be already for more than one month on the market, and also the 3070 will already have been brought on the market.
The delay could be due to a wrong strategy of AMD, to the fact that they did not let polish the drafts before properly, or that they will not reach the expected achievements finally. Let’s hope it is one of the first two.
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