AMD Radeon ‘RDNA 3’ video cards, specs change: 12288 stream processor for Navi 31?

The rumors that precede the debut of a product are often changeable and therefore to always be taken with due caution. From experience, this is even more true when it comes to video cards.

Yet another example comes from the rumors about the power of Navi 31, AMD’s future high-end GPU, apparently based on an innovative MCM project. Just a few hours ago there was talk of a power of about 92 TFLOPs, but it seems that this will not be the case. Or maybe yes, but for now the leakers have momentarily lost their granite certainties.

Not only the leaker (Greymon55) who spoke about it deleted the tweet in question, but it also looks like the GPU non conter 15360 stream processor as has been rumored for over a year.

The new rumors speak of 12288 stream processors, a reduction of 20% compared to the previous rumors but still a sharp increase compared to the Navi 21 chip of the 6900 XT which stops at 5120 stream processors. The power could therefore touch about 73 TFLOPs and not 92 TFLOPs as indicated in the past few hours, as long as the frequency is kept unchanged, which could be about 3 GHz.

Not only that: also Navi 32a chip predicted to offer 10240 cores, would actually 8192 unit. Navi 33, on the other hand, would have 4096 cores instead of 5192 as rumored by some. These would be to be understood as maximum technical specifications of the GPUs and not the configurations that we will see on board the various cards that AMD has in store, even if in the case of Navi 31 it cannot be excluded that the 12288 SP roof will be fictitious (i.e. the chip will have more units but they will be deactivated) and only useful to have higher production yields.

In this regard, the leaker Kepler has tried not only to imagine how AMD could segment these GPUs, but also to derive from the data the possible specifications of future video cards:

Obviously this is an exercise in style, albeit considered, so to be taken even more with a grain of salt. Other “twists” with regards to the specifications of the future AMD GPUs are not to be excluded: there are still several months to go until the debut of the new GPUs, however expected within the year. Told us, this update of the alleged specifications is the first in over a year of “rumor”, a sign that perhaps the circle around the final specifications is closing.