AMD Navi RX 5000: Rumors, Price, Release Date, and Performance
AMD’s latest RX 5000 Navi graphics cards are great. Here’s why
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Chuong Nguyen
After releasing its high-end Radeon VII in February 2019, AMD turned its (and our) attention to the midrange market with its 7nm Navi graphics cards, now officially named the RX 5000 series. Navi plays to AMD’s strength: Making high-end graphical power more affordable than ever.
Contents
- Pricing and availability
- Architecture and performance
- Image sharpening
- Cinematic visuals
- No ray tracing for now
AMD initially debuted the Navi-based Radeon RX 5000 series at Computex, before releasing the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT in July alongside its stellar Ryzen 3000 CPUs. It later announced the Radeon RX 5500, but expanded that to include an OEM option, as well as a 4GB and 8GB version of the card for DIY enthusiasts, and a 5500m GPU for laptops.
Whereas Nvidia is playing up the strength of ray tracing on its RTX and GTX 16-series graphics cards, AMD’s focus this generation has been on raw power and affordability. The RX Navi 5000 graphics cards offer fantastic value for money.
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Pricing and availability
AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT officially launched on July 7, a date chosen to celebrate the 7nm architecture for which these chips are based upon. AMD initially played some pricing games with Nvidia, announcing one price and then correcting it down after Nvidia announced its RTX Super cards. After some further fluctuation since launch, AMD’s RX 5700 is now priced at $330, where the 5700 XT starts at $400 and ranges up to $500 depending on the version you opt for. The RX 5700 XT anniversary edition is still available directly from AMD for $450.
All new cards also come with free Xbox Game Pass for PC for three months, and copies of Borderlands 3 and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
The RX 5500 was announced in October with no clear release date. It’s expected before the end of the year, though, with a price around $150.
AMD is also thought to be working on a “big Navi” graphics card with more stream processors than the 5700 XT and potentially more memory too. Such a card could rival Nvidia RTX 2080 or 2080 Ti performance, but isn’t expected to make an appearance until sometime in 2020. At that point it may need to face off against Nvidia’s next-generation Ampere GPUs.
Architecture and performance
AMD CEO Lisa Su with an RX 5000 GPU core.
All three graphics cards in the Radeon RX 5700 family are based on AMD’s 7nm process. The new architecture built on that, known as RDNA, moves beyond AMD’s aging Graphics Core Next architecture. It will form the basis for AMD graphics cards for the next 10 years.
RDNA is said to offer major architectural improvements over GCN and the Vega chips that came before. It features an entirely new “compute unit design” for improved efficiency and instructions per clock (IPC).
It also features a multilevel cache hierarchy, which reduces latency and allows for greater bandwidth and a reduction in power draw. There have also been optimizations that help boost clock speed.
With 36 compute units on the standard RX 5700, this GPU delivers up to 7.95 teraflops of raw graphical power. The XT model goes even further, managing nearly two more teraflops with 40 compute units, and both models take advantage of speedy 8GB GDDR6 memory. The standard RX 5700 has a clock speed of 1,465MHx that can go as high as 1,725MHz, while the XT model starts at 1,605MHz and goes up to 1,905MHz when boosted, temperature depending.
At Computex, AMD’s demo showed that the RX 5700 performed by as much as 10% better than the competing RTX 2070. That would make it around 25% to 30% quicker than an AMD Vega 64 and only a few percentage points less capable than a Radeon VII. It wasn’t quite that capable in our testing, but it was still a strong performer. We saw the 5700 XT compete favorably with the Radeon VII and Nvidia’s RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070.
The 5700 was closer to the RTX 2060, but at a lower price.
The Navi architecture won’t be limited to just PC gamers. AMD announced that custom variants of its RDNA-based graphics will also be headed to consoles made by Sony and Microsoft. In April 2019, Sony’s lead PlayStation architect, Mark Cerny confirmed that the next-generation PlayStation console would use a custom Navi graphics core alongside an AMD Ryzen 3000 CPU based on its Zen 2 architecture. During an interview, Cerny stated that the new PlayStation will support 8K graphics with ray tracing capabilities along with 3D audio.
The PS4 and PS4 Pro used an APU design and that looks likely to be the case with the PS5, also.
Like Sony’s next-generation console, Microsoft announced at E3 that its next-generation Xbox console will utilize a custom AMD solution based on the 7nm Zen 2 processor and Navi graphics too. The system is currently known as the Xbox Series X, although Microsoft has said it will just be called “Xbox.
” The APU inside it has been co-designed and co-engineered by the two companies to bring 8K graphics and ray tracing into the living room. Like the Radeon RX 5700, Microsoft confirmed that its custom solution will also use fast GDDR6 memory, and this chip will be capable of supporting up to 120 FPS games with variable refresh rates.
Image sharpening
Despite the strong performance of the RX 5700 graphics, some features found on rival architectures are noticeably absent from the Navi architecture, like variable rate shading, or VRS, and foveated rendering. But AMD does boast its own sharpening tool called Radeon Image Sharpening, which helps upscale elements of an image to make it look sharper.
With Radeon Image Sharpening enabled, the software will increase the sharpness and details in a game in an effort to boost image quality. Taking a jab at Nvidia, AMD claimed that it’s not launching a feature to hurt a game’s performance and do trickery to boost the resolution that ends up only making scenes appear blurry.
Radeon Image Sharpening has a similar performance impact to sharpening post-processing with the likes of ReShade or SweetFX.
Radeon Image Sharpening works by examining high contrast areas of a scene, pulling out highlights from dark shadows without affecting any anti-aliasing softening in the image’s brighter areas. The result of this sharpening makes 1080p images look closer to 1440p, and the feature’s ability to upscale an image is competitive with deep learning supersampling, or DLSS, on Nvidia’s chips. Radeon Image Sharpening is currently available for DirectX 9, DirectX 12, and Vulkan, with DirectX 11 support missing right now. It works on RX 5700 cards, as well as some Polaris cards, like the RX 500-series, as well as Vega 56 and 64 GPUs.
Cinematic visuals
AMD is pushing for more realism when it comes to gaming, and it wants to bring cinematic rendering quality to gaming. With the RX 5700 GPU, AMD also announced the Radeon Media Engine, which supports 4K encode and decode, as well as precinct HDR (PHDR) support.
Game developers also have access to AMD’s FidelityFX APIs, which adds more details and increased sharpness to low contrast areas in a game. The feature works in a similar way to Radeon Image Sharpening, but gives developers more control. Whereas Radeon Image Sharpening can be enabled with just a switch as an all-or-nothing solution, FidelityFX must be implemented within the game.
The feature was demonstrated at E3 on Borderlands 3, showing more details to the honeycomb pattern in the license plate on a car.
Another feature that is supported on the RX 5700 is Radeon Anti-Lag, which is designed for eSports and competitive gaming. This feature helps reduce the input lag between a gamer’s actions and them manifesting in-game.
Known more formally as motion-to-photon latency, this lag is typically four frames — or about 60 milliseconds from the time you press a button to when the action is registered onscreen — on a game played at 60 fps. When the Anti-Lag feature is enabled, the lag is reduced to about 44 milliseconds on the RX 5700 XT./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/16331665/amd_radeon_5700_012.jpg)
Latency is reduced by 31% across popular eSports titles, according to AMD, and by as much as 35% in Fortnite.
No ray tracing for now
Ray tracing ultra
AMD originally stated that it wouldn’t be supporting ray tracing, which has been a hallmark of Nvidia’s RTX series; At least, not yet. “Utilization of ray tracing games will not proceed unless we can offer ray tracing in all product ranges from low end to high end,” David Wang, AMD’s senior vice president of engineering at the Radeon Technologies Group, told 4Gamer in an interview at the end of 2018. At the end of 2019, we still don’t have a firm grasp of AMD’s ray tracing plans.
For now, AMD claims to be focusing its efforts on features that developers want, like better image quality through tools like FidelityFX. Though AMD is publicly not announcing its support for ray tracing, we do know that the company’s custom Navi cards for the next-generation XBox and PlayStation consoles, due in 2020, will support this feature.
At CES 2019, CEO Lisa Su did state that AMD was “deep in development” on ray tracing technology. Given the performance hit on games that support this Nvidia-exclusive feature so far, AMD is likely waiting until it can make ray tracing less taxing on the GPU. AMD could also be waiting for more games to support ray tracing before making this feature available on its GPUs.
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What you need to know
- AMD previewed its next-generation graphics chips, based on its «Navi» architecture at Computex 2019.
- Called the Radeon RX5000 series, the graphics card lineup is named for AMD’s 50th anniversary.
- The Radeon RX5000 series includes a ton of performance improvements over the previous Vega generation and even beat out NVIDIA’s RTX 2070 in a head-to-head benchmark shown on stage.
- The Radeon RX5000 series is set to launch in July, but pricing remains a mystery for now.
Hitting the stage at Computex 2019, AMD let out some of the first official details about its best graphics cards for the next generation, based on its new Navi architecture. The new graphics cards will fall under the Radeon RX5000 series, which is named for AMD’s fiftieth anniversary. And along with the new architecture comes plenty of enhancements when compared to the last-generation Vega architecture.
The Radeon RX5000 series will be based on a 7nm chip powered by a gaming engine dubbed Radeon DNA (RDNA).
The engine is tweaked specifically for graphics performance and efficiency – something which AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su touched on on stage. When compared to Vega, the Navi architecture with RDNA features, on average, 1.25 times the performance per clock and 1.5 times higher performance per watt.
Radeon RX5000 series GPUs will also be the first gaming graphics cards to ship with PCIe Gen 4 enabled.
In a head-to-head benchmark against NVIDIA’s RTX 2070 using the game Strange Brigade, AMD showed a Radeon RX5000 series card hitting around 10 percent better performance than NVIDIA’s card. It’s still early days for Navi, and real-world performance will tell the full story of how AMD stacks up to NVIDIA, but that’s a solid increase if AMD can hit the right price point.
The Radeon RX5000 series is expected to launch in July, but pricing remains a mystery for now.
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3DNews Technologies and IT market. AMD Radeon RX 5000 Navi Rumors Will Keep G. The most interesting in the reviews
06/02/2019 [19:20], Konstantin Khodakovsky In its Computex keynote, AMD announced the new Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards based on the 7nm Navi chip. The company announced that the accelerators use a completely new RDNA (Radeon DNA) architecture, which will be the basis of the next generation of GPUs. But it looks like the new chip design still has some, albeit small, legacy of the GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture.
At the time of the announcement, AMD reported that Navi achieved a 25% increase in specific performance per clock and a 50% increase in performance per watt compared to Vega. Some key updates to Navi will include:
AMD has confirmed that the number of stream processors has remained at 64 shaders per CU, but each CU in Navi will run faster due to the increase in the number of instructions executed per clock and the overall increase in efficiency. And although Navi is described by the manufacturer from the very beginning as a completely new architecture, the Sweclockers resource reports that a lot of computing units in it have migrated from GCN. According to them, the GCN architecture has been around for almost a decade, and AMD has done a great job of optimizing a lot of games for GCN, which in the case of a completely new architecture simply will not work. As a result, Navi accelerators are supposedly hybrids between RDNA and GCN. But AMD is really preparing to launch the next enthusiast GPUs (rumored to be Navi 20), which will rely fully on RDNA. The upcoming AMD Radeon RX 5700 accelerators (let’s call them Navi 10) are aimed at the most massive segment of video cards costing less than $500, while the Navi 20 is intended for enthusiasts and will replace the Radeon VII in this capacity.
Meanwhile, companies like ASRock are already showing off the looks of their upcoming Radeon RX 5700 Navi-based accelerators. According to AMD internal tests, the Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards will be able to beat the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070. They will come out in at least two options: 225W for $499 and 180W for $399. Sources:
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05/27/2019 [07:45], Ilya Gavrichenkov Today at the opening of Computex 2019, AMD previewed the highly anticipated Navi family of gaming graphics cards. A series of new products received the marketing name Radeon RX 5000.
It is worth recalling that the branding issue was one of the main intrigues when introducing Navi gaming options. Although AMD was originally supposed to use numbers from the 3000 series, the company ended up betting on the name Radeon RX 5000. The idea behind the name is that it plays on the theme of the 50th anniversary that AMD is celebrating this year. In addition, another intriguing detail came to light. At the heart of the Radeon RX 5000 graphics cards is a new GPU architecture called Radeon DNA (RDNA), which is a further development of the Graphics Core Next (GCN) that appeared seven years ago. The RDNA architecture appears to offer a new design for the GPU’s base unit, the compute unit, resulting in improvements in power efficiency and performance per clock. In addition, AMD has implemented a new multi-level cache hierarchy in RDNA, which should reduce latency, increase throughput, and improve power consumption. The optimized RDNA graphics pipeline, meanwhile, allows the new graphics cards to run at higher clock speeds than before, and ultimately provide higher levels of performance. In addition, compared to chips with the GCN architecture, Navi has a more compact semiconductor chip size, but so far the manufacturer has not disclosed details by how much.
In sum, the RDNA architecture provides better performance and lower latency with better economy. Compared to the Vega card architecture, AMD promised a 25% increase in specific performance per clock and a 50% increase in specific performance per watt. As announced at the presentation, the first point of application of the new RDNA architecture will be the Radeon RX 5000 series of graphics cards, in which video cards called the Radeon RX 5700 will be the first to appear. A very remarkable feature of the representatives of the Radeon RX 5000 series will be their support for the PCI Express 4.0 bus. AMD is actively pushing the idea of moving to a new version of the interface with increased bandwidth, and the Radeon RX 5000 will fit perfectly into the ecosystem offered by the company along with third-generation Ryzen processors and motherboards based on the X570 chipset. In her speech, AMD CEO Lisa Su gave a brief demonstration of the Navi-based gaming graphics card. The Radeon RX 5700 graphics card has been benchmarked against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 in Strange Brigade. At the same time, the expected novelty of AMD turned out to be about 10% faster. AMD intends to start selling video cards Radeon RX 5700 in July, but a specific date has not yet been announced. However, AMD has promised to reveal more details about Navi’s specs, pricing, and performance at the Next Horizon Gaming special event during E3 on June 10, 2019. 
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