AMD dropped a surprise today with the first image of the Radeon RX 6000 alias Big Navi, which will give Nvidia's Ampere a run for its money for the best gaming graphics card . The chipmaker recently announced a keynote for Big Navi on October 28 at 10 a.m. PT and what better way to build up hype than to drop a small teaser before the event.

Big Navi will exploit AMD's RDNA (Radeon DNA) 2 microarchitecture. If you've been following the console scene, RDNA 2 powers the GPUs that will land inside Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Sony's PlaySation 5 . However, the Radeon RX 6000-series will show RDNA 2's true power.

On an aesthetic level, the Radeon RX 6000, which is probably the reference edition, is definitely easy on the eyes. It would appear that AMD has opted for a black and silver theme with some red highlights. The graphic card's profile reminds us a bit of Nvidia's last-generation Founders Edition look, especially the placement of the dual 8-pin PCIe connectors and the Radeon logo, which could be feature LED backlighting.

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Remaining faithful to its informal codename, the Radeon RX 6000 poses to be a big graphics card, although images can be deceptive. Be that as it may, the graphics card features a triple-fan cooling solution, insinuating that it has hefty cooling requirements. Furthermore, common sense tells that AMD wouldn't implement three fans into the cooling solution unless they were necessarily required.