Radeon RX with the second generation rDNA will be presented at CES 2020

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It seems that the next generation of Radeon RX graphics powered by AMD Navi GPUs with rDNA will be present at the next CES 2020 that will take place in Las Vegas at the beginning of January. In addition, there are a number of rumors regarding this upcoming announcement, such as the expected arrival of Ray Tracing to the AMD charts.

The rumors have arisen again from the user of Chiphell Wjm47196, who has already shown to have a great success rate their leaks as it happened with the releases of Polaris 30 (Radeon RX 590) or the Radeon VII, but still as rumors that are and as We always say, we must take them with tweezers until there is official confirmation from the manufacturer.
Radeon RX Navi with the second generation rDNA

According to these leaks, AMD plans to present at the CES 2020 a new family of AMD Radeon RX Navi graphics with the second generation of rDNA chips, and this makes perfect sense considering that CES seems to be AMD's favorite scenario to perform its presentations and by the fact that AMD already said that this second generation would arrive in 2020. It is expected, in fact, that in addition to this new line of AMD GPUs also present Zen 3.

These are some of the characteristics expected from these graphs:

    Manufacturing node optimized at 7 nm +.
    Desktop graphic options for enthusiasts.
    Ray Tracing support at hardware level.
    There would be graphics with GDDR6 memory and with HBM2.
    More efficient than the first generation of Navi GPUs.Unfortunately, there is not much more information related to RDNA 2 apart from rumors, but AMD has officially spoken about the hardware support for Ray Tracing that will arrive in its next generation of graphics cards, which would put those in red at the same level as the NVIDIA RTX.

AMD also wants this rDNA 2 generation to be part of the highest range of desktop graphics. While the first generation GPUs were established in the price range of between $ 300 and $ 500 as the starting price, it is quite likely that in this second generation AMD will place several models in the highest range to compete with the RTX 2080 SUPER / RTX 2080 Ti from NVIDIA, which means we could see AMD charts around 1000 euros in this next generation.

For its part, NVIDIA will logically also move token, and in fact there are also rumors that the company is preparing a model superior to the current RTX 2080 Ti, in addition to of course the new Ampere architecture at 7 nm that is almost around from the corner. It must be recognized that AMD has lagged a little behind in the field of graphics cards with respect to NVIDIA.

Another aspect to consider for this next generation of graphics is memory. Higher-end models are likely to maintain the design with HBM2 memory, while mid-range graphics would feature GDDR6. The possibility that AMD has already taken a step further with HBM2E graphics memory is also being considered.

This new type of memory would come in 8-Hi stacks with 16 Gb capacity chips, agglomerated and with an operating speed of 3.2 Gbps, resulting in a bandwidth of 410 GB / s in a single stack and up to 920 GB / s in double stacks, which is crazy bandwidth. In addition, this type of DRAM has a 1024-bit bus, just like the current HBM2. Samsung says its HBM2E solution in a stack of 4 offers 64 GB of memory with a bandwidth of 1.64 TB / s, although such a configuration seems more intended for servers than for game-oriented graphics cards.
New Navi 10 mid-range, and Navi 14 exclusively for Apple

The thing does not end here. Other rumors suggest that AMD will soon add to its catalog a third grade of Navi 10 graphics, in this case oriented to the mid-range as they will be cropped versions of the current RX 5700 with a price range of between 250 and 300 dollars, of course aimed at competing with the current NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 range.

The AMD Radeon RX 5 700 (not XT) is already 25% more powerful than the GTX 1660 SUPER, which have recently been launched with a starting price of $ 229. If AMD manages to launch a 10-15% more powerful graph than these with a price of between 249 and 269 dollars, it will be a very good point for the company for that price range because, remember, Navi 10 part of the 349 dollars of price.

Finally, it is worth highlighting something that many probably already drew their own conclusions with the launch of the MacBook Pro, and it seems that the fully unlocked Navi 14 chip will be exclusive to Apple, which means that while the RX 5700 XT, which have 22 CUs and 1408 Stream Processors, will only see their full version with 24 CUs and 1536 SPs on Apple computers.