“It’s always how we integrate the components at the right time. Certainly the Vega architecture is well known, very well optimized. It was always planned that this would be Zen 2 + Vega. But just to be clear, you will see Navi in our APUs, and those will be coming,” Dr. Su said.
Dr. Su touched on this during AMD’s press event at CES, claiming Vega has been heavily optimized to deliver a much higher level of performance than previous versions of the GPU architecture. Nevertheless, there will come a time when Navi will be featured on AMD’s APUs, though Dr. Su stopped short of saying exactly when that will happen.
What’s not as clear is when it will arrive for PC. Our hunch is we will see graphics cards based on Navi 20 with ray tracing support by the end of the year as well, though Dr. Lisa Su conceded “it is still very early,” and “we need more games and more software and more applications to take advantage” of ray tracing.
It is a bit of a cagey response, though Dr. Lisa Su did also say there will be a high end version of Navi when asked if AMD will have a high end competitor in the discrete graphics market.
“I know those on Reddit want a high end Navi! You should expect that we will have a high-end Navi, and that it is important to have it. The discrete graphics market, especially at the high end, is very important to us. So you should expect that we will have a high-end Navi, although I don’t usually comment on unannounced products,” Dr. Lisa Su said.
AMD Confirms Zen 3 CPUs Will Launch In 2020
The bigger challenge for AMD will be ensuring there is enough inventory to meet demand. Dr. Lisa Su admitted that “wafer supply is tight” at TSMC, which makes it extra important to accurately predict demand.
“When we first launched 3rd Gen Ryzen, there were some areas where we were out of stock at the high-end, particularly on the 3900X and 3950X. Now you’ll see that those CPUs are readily available, through the retailers. So it’s just a matter of when you are early in the cycle, making sure that you can call it correctly,” Dr. Lisa Su said.
Dr. Lisa Su had plenty more to say, and if you have a free moment, it’s worth hitting the link in the Via field below.
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