AMD Big Navi is about to get bigger in name and nature, as leaked images of its heart, the GPU chip, show a huge slice of silicon.

The alleged photo of the GPU die was spotted by technical analyst Coreteks, who claims that Navi 21, aka Big Navi, will be the GPU at the heart of the Radeon RX 6900 XT. This graphics card is the precursor to the RX 6000 series and looks to challenge the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.

The image should be taken with a grain of salt, as all references to Big Navi and Navi 21 have been removed from the image posted by Coreteks to keep the source anonymous.

However, through some speculative measurements, analysts have noted that the GPU die is 29 mm high and 18.5 mm wide, essentially 536 mm square. Essentially, this is a big GPU and could be the largest consumer graphics chip AMD has ever produced.

Size is not everything, but a larger die at the new 7-nanometer process node means that more transistors can be squeezed into the GPU, which means more power. Coreteks has not been able to find official leaked information, but its own calculations. but expects to realize 26.3 billion transistors

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With this large die and transistor count, Coreteks notes that the leaked images lend credence to the claim that the RDNA 2 architecture on which this Big Navi GPU is based will deliver twice the performance of the older RDNA architecture. However, it is still unclear where Big Navi's performance will settle, given this leak and other leaks that supposedly reveal GPU clock speeds and memory capacity.

Some leaks suggest it will snap at the heels of the RTX 3080, a very powerful graphics card. However, if AMD goes all in on Big Navi, it could even be the graphics card to follow the mighty and very expensive GeForce RTX 3090. We will know more in a few weeks.

However, if AMD can develop a graphics card family that can challenge the performance of Nvidia's new RTX 3000 series graphics cards, but at a more affordable price, it could be a winner. Time will tell on this.