Announced just now during CES 2020, AMD have revealed their Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards aimed at being the "ultimate 1080p gaming experience". During the event, AMD showed some 1080p benchmarks across a bunch Windows games at "max settings", where it showed the Radeon RX 5600 XT beating an NVIDIA 1660Ti. Additionally, there will be a lower Radeon RX 5600 (no XT) model.
Specifications
| Radeon RX 5600 XT | Radeon RX 5600 |
| Architecture: RDNA | Architecture: RDNA |
| Compute Units: 36 | Compute Units: 32 |
| Stream Processors: 2304 | Stream Processors: 2048 |
| Clock "up to" 1375MHz game "up to" 1560MHz boost |
Clock "up to" 1375MHz game "up to" 1560MHz boost |
| 6GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 |
For availability, they're saying the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT will be available January 21st for $279, with the lower AMD Radeon RX 5600 expected within Q1 this year but no price mentioned. On top of that, they also stated that both the 5600M and 5700M mobile graphics chips will also start appearing in the first half of this year. If you value the open source drivers for AMD GPUs, the Radeon RX 5600 XT sounds like quite a tidy unit that would be good for some 1080p gaming.
Just before that though, they talked a bunch about the new AMD Ryzen 4000 U-Series (Zen 2, 7nm), their new mobile processors. The model mentioned on stage was the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U, but there's going to be a lot more in the series. AMD Ryzen 7 4800U specifications:
- 8 cores and 16 threads
- 1.8GHz base with a 4.2GHz boost
- 8 Radeon Cores
- 15W TDP
AMD CEO, Lisa Su, mentioned while on stage that the "8 Radeon Cores" have had a "tremendous amount of optimisation" with them being based on the Vega architecture but they have "59% more performance than the previous generation". Sounds like we're going to be seeing a lot of these mobile Ryzen units too! AMD CEO, Lisa Su, stated on stage across this year "100+" systems will be shipping in various form factors.
After that, the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H was announced with:
- 8 cores and 16 threads.
- 2.9GHz base with 4.2GHz boost clock.
- 45W TDP.
They're claiming it offers desktop-level performance for mobile. They also showed a quick chart of the Ryzen 7 4800H stacked up against an Intel i7 9700k desktop processor, showing it performing better in the 3DMark FireStrike Physics benchmark. It's coming to various notebooks a bit later this year, Q2 was mentioned for at least one of them.
AMD ended it on quite a high note introducing the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X which will be available on February 7 this year. An absolute monster of a CPU, with AMD naturally keen to mention how they're again first at stuffing this many cores into a consumer CPU.
Specifications:
- 64 cores and 128 threads
- 2.9GHz base with 4.3GHz boost
- 288MB total cache
- 280W TDP
You can see the AMD CES 2020 event video here. I believe that covers all the most interesting stuff that AMD announced during their presentation today.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
SirLootALot Jan 6, 2020
How disappointing. Really.
Especially as an announcement doesn't even mean it's around the corner.
Last edited by Janne on 6 January 2020 at 11:53 pm UTC
resuming this 5600 xt (2020 card) show similar performance around gtx 1070 (2016 card) but using possible aroud 20 to 30w more with around 50% reduced node (gtx 1070: 16nm / rx 5600: 7nm)
at simple seek seems very bad product, maybe amd need consider throw gcn for make new gpu arquitecture, especially in tdp related (more notorious with gtx cards because them lack of rt cores and in consequence show less tdp)
^_^
Quoting: subNo big Navi announcement?
How disappointing. Really.
Especially as an announcement doesn't even mean it's around the corner.
They are likely still working on RDNA2. Would be nice to get something more powerful than 5700 XT, but not really at crazy prices that approach $1000. I suspect their immediate "big Navi" is aiming at replacing Radeon VII which is going to be very expensive.
Quoting: mrdeathjrresuming this 5600 xt (2020 card) show similar performance around gtx 1070 (2016 card)
Performance gains are architectural steps. I.e. they can't just make a card with better performance without improving on RDNA. This 5600 XT is using the same microarchitecture as 5700/5700XT, so nothing unexpected here. The performance jump was from the start expected from RDNA2 cards.
Quoting: Janne6GB is plenty enough for gaming.No, it's not. I have GTX 1060, and its VRAM is exceeded by some games at max settings (RE2, Shadow of the TR). And that's at FHD resolution, I don't even mention QHD or 4k. VRAM capasity becomes a bottleneck, and you'll have to lower graphics settings to cope with it. But what's the point in buying a new expensive card if you can't play at max graphics settings?
AMD used to release cards with more VRAM than Nvidia, but now they don't, and I'm kinda disappointed. I'd wait for a card with, like, 12 GB or more.
Quoting: ageresAMD used to release cards with more VRAM than Nvidia, but now they don't, and I'm kinda disappointed. I'd wait for a card with, like, 12 GB or more.
More VRAM is doable, but price will jump as well. Especially if it's HBM. So far GDDR and HBM especially didn't go down in price enough to allow more VRAM easily.
Last edited by Shmerl on 7 January 2020 at 4:36 am UTC
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