The latest AMD Navi rumours have pegged the next-generation of Radeon GPUs to an unveiling in June and a full release the following month in July. This is pretty much along the lines of what we’d come to expect from talking with AMD and its board partners about the release of its new architecture, but hey, it’s always nice have corroboration from another source.

We had been told AMD itself wanted an early 2019 launch for the new mainstream cards, but AIBs told us at Computex last year that was unrealistically ambitious and that a mid-year release was far more likely. Given the imminent release of the Radeon VII GPU at the high-end of the red team’s graphics card range, backfilling with the mainstream silicon in the summer makes sense.

AMD’s Mark Papermaster, the company’s CTO, effectively said as much when he spoke about rounding out the whole Radeon roadmap. “We’re really excited to start at the high-end with our 7nm Radeon VII here,” he says, “and you’ll see the announcements over the course of the year as we refresh across our Radeon roadmap.”