New rumors about AMD's next graphics card releases have been doing the rounds, with some light info dumps of what we can expect from upcoming Navi graphics cards. Reportedly, AMD is working on Navi 12 and 14 cards, with the former slated to be an RX 5800-type, high-end card, with the latter a more conservative RX 5600 GPU, targeting the more entry-level section of the market.
Discovered by 3DCenter and translated by WCCFTech, these new rumors highlight that the Navi 14 chip will have a memory bus of 128-bit, making it a more limited GPU. It's also expected to have 1,536 steam processors, around 1,000 less than that of the 5700. While clock speed bumps may cover some of the performance gap such a disparity will lead to, there's no denying that the 5600 will be a more modest GPU.
But hopefully with a far more modest price. Maybe around the $200 mark.
The higher-end RX 5800, however, is an intriguing proposition. It would, by nature of its branding, need to be more capable than a 5700 XT. That would suggest it would approach Nvidia RTX 2070 Super or even 2080 performance. That's within throwing distance of some of Nvidia's most powerful graphics cards. If AMD is working on such a card and can release it before the end of the year, we could well be looking at an AMD card with 2080 Ti-level performance sometime in 2020.
WCCFTech suggests that the new high-end Navi cards may offer GDDR6 or HBM2, so there is some scope for what the eventual capabilities will be. If it is HBM2 though, expect a higher cost overall.
