Something that could be rather exciting for AMD enthusiasts, AMD has officially revealed the AMD Radeon VII at CES 2019. On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming.
Getting ahead of the curve a little here, the Radeon VII is built on 7nm which makes it the first consumer-level GPU to be built with it which is interesting. AMD say it's built on an "enhanced second-generation AMD ‘Vega’ architecture" and it seems it will be a decent boost over the current Radeon RX Vega 64.
When compared directly with the RX Vega 64, AMD said it performed up to 27% higher in Blender, up to 27% higher in DaVinci Resolve and they saw up to 62% higher performance in the OpenCL LuxMark compute benchmark.
Some more specs:
- 60 compute units
- 3840 stream processors running at up to 1.8GHz
- 16GB of HBM2 memory (second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory)
- 1 TB/s memory bandwidth
- 4,096-bit memory interface
When it comes to gaming, that was also mentioned as well of course. It's nice to see Vulkan mentioned along side DirectX too! Naturally, they're only going for big Windows games right now but they did say it offered "35 percent higher performance in Battlefield V, and up to 42 percent higher performance in Strange Brigade 1" over the Vega 64 which is quite impressive.
The Radeon VII will be available February 7, 2019 for around $699 USD.
Additionally, they've teamed up with Google to power Project Stream, Googles new cloud gaming service using their Radeon Pro GPUs.
On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming. They will also be built on 7nm tech, based on the Zen 2 core architecture and AMD say it's the "world's first" to support PCIe 4.0 connectivity. Sounds like it's going to be a beast, as they did a preview of it against an Intel i9 9900k where the Ryzen processor came out on top while also using around 30% less power.
They're launching the AMD Ryzen 3000 series sometime in the middle of 2019.
For notebook/laptop users, they also revealed the 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Mobile processor with Radeon Vega Graphics coming to a range of devices from companies like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Huawei, Lenovo and Samsung throughout 2019.
You can see their CES 2019 video here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
TheRiddick Jan 10, 2019
AMD's 16GB HBM2 is $385 by itself, they can't budge, it will likely be expensive long after the 2080RTX drops in price!!!
Quoting: mylkai dont see AMD winning here. at least nvidia has a competitor again and i hope both lower the prices for the new generation soon* Works on Linux out-of-the-box
* 16 GB is good when you use 3D modeling software
* 16 GB + high bandwidth is future proof
* FreeSync displays are cheaper
Quoting: ShmerlI don't think you need to worry about ray tracing. It's an overhyped topic.Well ray tracing is damn impressive in Battlefield 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLLvOFSHCU
Is it a gimmick right now? Yes. But the actual results are very promising, so I wouldn't say it's overhyped.
Last edited by Creak on 10 January 2019 at 2:43 am UTC
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Last edited by TheRiddick on 10 January 2019 at 3:07 am UTC
Quoting: CreakQuoting: mylkai dont see AMD winning here. at least nvidia has a competitor again and i hope both lower the prices for the new generation soon* Works on Linux out-of-the-box
* 16 GB is good when you use 3D modeling software
* 16 GB + high bandwidth is future proof
* FreeSync displays are cheaper
linux users are not AMDs target group. even i would take nvidia (if i had the money) and i always had and have AMD except 1 time a geforce 6600
make a 3D modeling cards then
future proof? hmmmm steam says VRAM
1024 MB 15.44%
2047 MB 21.19%
3071 MB 7.91%
4095 MB 18.85%
2/3 have 4GB and below. i guess it takes a while until game developers can make games with 8GB minimum system requirements, or else they wont sell much
ok freesync is a + for all AMD cards
lets stick with steam statistics. (vega cards are not even listed) most of the steam users buy cheap cards. best price-performance.
Last edited by mylka on 10 January 2019 at 3:15 am UTC
Quoting: mylkalets stick with steam statistics. (vega cards are not even listed) most of the steam users buy cheap cards. best price-performance.
And Polaris is perfect for this if you are using Linux.
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: mylkalets stick with steam statistics. (vega cards are not even listed) most of the steam users buy cheap cards. best price-performance.
And Polaris is perfect for this if you are using Linux.
i bought a 1 year old RX580 8GB recently for only 150€. it is nice to have 8GB vram, but not even assassins creed needs it
Quoting: mylkai bought a 1 year old RX580 8GB recently for only 150€. it is nice to have 8GB vram, but not even assassins creed needs it
dxvk quite clearly benefits from more VRAM. Not all games use it fully, but it can be used to avoid extra RAM to VRAM copying.
Last edited by Shmerl on 10 January 2019 at 3:27 am UTC
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: mylkai bought a 1 year old RX580 8GB recently for only 150€. it is nice to have 8GB vram, but not even assassins creed needs it
dxvk quite clearly benefits from more VRAM. Not all games use it fully, but it can be used to avoid extra RAM to VRAM copying.
but still: 8GB are very future proof
new tomb raider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeQG9AMmj2E
4,5GB with DXVK
hitman 2 not even 4GB with DXVK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFTM2ZYxU0w
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