In general, it was the absence of such leaks that was most embarrassing against the background of NVIDIA’s activity, which increased by the end of August. Now AMD has decided on the timing of the announcement of its new video cards, there is not much time left before it, and informational reasons should arise regularly. The first can be considered a not very clear photograph, which was published this week by a user of the Chinese resource Bilibili.

According to the author, it shows a sample of one of the Big Navi video cards. The scanty data on the labels of the engineering sample indicate that it belongs to revision A0, and the video card model falls into the category of senior (“XT”). The presence of Samsung GDDR6 memory chips is also mentioned, which in this case forms an estimated volume of no more than 16 GB according to the “3 + 3 + 2” scheme. This allows us to say that the video card has a 256-bit bus.

A cooler, more reminiscent of a processor, is quite typical for early engineering samples, as are the many diagnostic indicators and connectors on the printed circuit board itself. A sample video card must be connected to the power supply using two eight-pin connectors, at least. The existing photo does not allow us to judge more.