AMD Navi: Everything we know so far about “Big Navi”, from ray tracing to release date

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AMD’s Navi GPUs have been making quite the splash since they first came out last July. The RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT quickly established themselves as worthy rivals to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 graphics cards, and their entry-level RX 5500 XT and RX 5600 XT cards are currently my top best graphics card recommendations for those after something a bit cheaper.

The only piece of the graphics card pie that’s currently missing is AMD’s 4K graphics cards – the “Big Navi” GPUs, so to speak, which AMD are also calling Navi 2X. We don’t know much about them yet, such as how much they’ll cost, or exactly when they’re coming out, but AMD’s recent financial analyst day did reveal some telling clues about what we can expect. Here’s everything we know about Big Navi so far.

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Katharine Castle