AMD Big Navi launching October 28 to take on Nvidia RTX 3080

AMD Large Navi launching October 28 to take on Nvidia RTX 3080

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Now that Nvidia has unleashed its RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 graphics cards onto the world, it's AMD'south turn to burn down back. The visitor just announced a series of October launch events, including i showcase that will run across the reveal of the long awaited AMD Big Navi GPU.

AMD confirmed its upcoming announcement events in a tweet (spotted by TechRadar), noting that the visitor will showcase its Zen 3 CPUs on October 8 before following up with its RDNA 2 graphics cards on October 28.

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A new era of leadership performance across computing and graphics is coming. The journey begins on October 8. picture.twitter.com/58I288iN30September 9, 2020

A series of boosted videos from AMD CEO Lisa Su and the official Radeon RX graphics account provide a small actress tease. The former shows off the Zen 3 logo with the tagline "a new journey begins," while the latter calls RDNA ii "a breakthrough gaming compages."

AMD'southward adjacent graphics card, often chosen "AMD Big Navi" in rumors and leaks, is tipped to be a serious threat to Nvidia that could offer impressive graphics performance for a much lower price than the competition. One leak points to it beingness upward to fifty percent faster than Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti, while other rumors suggest a more pocket-size bump.

The RDNA ii event will come on the heels of terminal calendar week'south reveal of Nvidia'southward Ampere line, which consists of the flagship $699 RTX 3080, the entry-level $499 RTX 3070 and the crazy powerful $1,499 RTX 3090. The RTX 3080 is looking like the carte to get for optimal 4K gaming, while the baking 3090 promises up to 8K performance at a shine 60 fps for those with the right gear (and wallet).

If AMD has a card on the level of the RTX 3080 or 3070 at a lower cost, nosotros could be in for quite the interesting GPU battle this fall. Oh, and AMD's RDNA two architecture volition also be powering the PS5 and Xbox Series Ten consoles due this fall, so fifty-fifty console gamers accept reason to tune in.

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