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.
Last edited by Shmerl on 10 January 2019 at 3:36 am UTC
TheRiddick Jan 10, 2019
by the time games need more than 8GB, u need a new card anyway because even the 2080TI will be to slow
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 soonDefine "winning". I don't see AMD managing to take 50%+ of the market with this, no. But their share is currently pretty low, right? So taking significantly more than they do right now would be "winning" from a lot of perspectives; if this card can sell even 25% as many as the equivalent NVidia card, they'll be feeling good.
Meanwhile, little note about marketing language use:
Quoteup to 42 percent higher performance in Strange Brigade 1"Translation: It's mostly about the same, but there's this one spike 2/3rds of the way through the game . . . :P
TheRiddick Jan 10, 2019
Quoting: mylkabut thats the point
by the time games need more than 8GB, u need a new card anyway because even the 2080TI will be to slow
GTAV uses I think 10GB or so at 4k on max settings, its pretty old. So certainly games use that vram today.
In saying that 8GB would be just fine for AMD if they use their VRAM caching tech whatever it was. Unfortunately they need 4 chips to get the bus speed needed.. HBM2 does not come in 2GB modules, which is quite unfortunate.
I don't remember who said this, but I agree that this new card it a cross over desktop and workstation.
Last edited by Creak on 10 January 2019 at 6:04 am UTC
Quoting: ageres8 GB is fine today, but for FullHD resolution. For 4k and for future games you'll definitely want as much VRAM as possible. I'd rather choose this over Nvidia's 8 GB. Also, raytracing is just another marketing bullshit by Nvidia.
And they used 4K benchmarks. Still I'm hoping that Navi isn't too delayed and that AMD is somehow able to get multi-GPU made standard with this generation as they have used Strange Brigade to show off what they can do with it using Vulkan.
As of Ryzen 3000 series, not much was shown sadly. Some random game benchmark with Radeon VII, where Lisa said it was just 1080p maxed (i guess she made a mistake there, it probably was 4K) and just 100+ FPS without GPU not even being fully utilized, shows like Ryzen was the bottleneck there. Cinebench was pretty impressive though, but AMD CPUs have always been good in multithreading and Cinebench.
I was expecting some teasers to Navi also, but seems there was none atm. And ofc i was hoping for Ryzen 3000 launch date annoucement.
Quite disapointing keynote if you ask me, most was just some idiotic marketing bullshit, but well its what those PR presentations always have been
Duke Takeshi Jan 10, 2019
When I started switching from Windows to linux, I always bought Nvidia GPUs because the AMD drivers were complete rubbish.
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