A picture posted on the Chinese tech site Bilibili could possibly be our first look at AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card. The posted picture shows an early test board that maybe featuring an RDNA 2 GPU. The mysterious engineering sample photo is said to be the Big Navi graphics card.
Credit: Bilibili
The Bilibili post was first posted by Twitter user @Avery78. According to the Bilibili leaker, the picture is a test board of one of the many AMD RDNA 2 based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics which are set to launch on 28th October after AMD announced its launch roadmap for Zen 3 CPUs and Radeon 6000 series Graphic cards.
According to the leaks, the card in the picture is allegedly using 16 GB GDDR6 memory that is featured along a 256-bit bus interface. There would be a total of 8 GDDR6 dies at the front of the PCB in a 3+3+2 layout. Before there were rumors that AMD may utilize HBM2e for their Radeon 6000 series cards but may have dumped the idea due to high manufacturing costs.
On the Bilibili post, it is mentioned that this particular PCB features the Big Navi “RDNA 2” GPU. The particular SKU is not mentioned but the board has the “XT” label on it. If the capacity is 16 GB and bus speed is 256 bit, then the memory speed will most probably be 16 Gbps which would result in 512 GB/s of total bandwidth capabilities.
AMD has announced that Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture will be released in the coming month of October. Wednesday, October 28 at 12:00 pm ET, AMD will reveal their long-awaited Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards which will directly compete with NVIDIA’s new RTX 3000 series Turing cards.
We will have to wait and see what AMD can do to match NVIDIA’s 3000 series cards.
