Are you ready for the next generation of AMD processors and graphics? Well, AMD have two events planned in October so it's time to get excited again.
We don't know exactly what they will announce, as they've only just given us the dates. For Zen 3 their new CPU architecture we're getting something on October 8, and for RDNA 2 their new GPU architecture some event is happening on October 28. Quite a while to wait on both counts, which is a little surprising.
Source - AMD Gaming Twitter, teasing that "A new era of leadership performance across computing and graphics is coming. The journey begins on October 8.".
NVIDIA only just recently announced the RTX 30 series, with them due to release this month so AMD are running quite behind here overall. We knew they were both due to be properly announced this year though, and with the pandemic it probably hasn't been easy for any vendor to keep to their schedules.
This is all especially exciting though! On the CPU side, because AMD are continuing to be extremely competitive on both price and performance while Intel are struggling with smaller processing nodes. So AMD coming back again, with another push forwards is going to be fun to see. On the GPU side though, is where things get even more interesting, partly because this will bring Ray Tracing as well. Having all PC GPU vendors with Ray Tracing should bring it forwards, especially with Intel's new Xe-HPG GPUs coming next year too also with Ray Tracing.
What are you hoping for? Are you excited? Let us know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: yokem55Well, they probably will have a card at a power level you want, but it remains to be seen whether that will be at a performance level you want. As long as their silicon can take it and they can slap a big enough heat sink on it, they'll probably have a 300+-ish watt unit at the top end to compete better with the 3080 and not leave performance on the table. So, if you don't want that, you'll have to take a lesser part
For example for Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT, power requirements are listed as 241 W.
https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/pulse-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8g-gddr6#Specification
I'd rather not go much higher than that. So hopefully AMD will have some card that's better than RX 5700 XT but isn't too power hungry. I don't need 4K performance.
Last edited by Shmerl on 10 September 2020 at 6:49 am UTC
Quoting: ShmerlThose new cards are around 100watts and more thirstier than the 20 series those 550 and 650 watt PSUs might not cut it if you go beyond a RTX 3070.Quoting: GuestI hope they will release GPUs that do not need too much power this time.
Yeah, I hope they keep power usage in check and won't go after power creep like Nvidia did with new cards.
Would consider AMD GPU if the figures and power darw stack up, and the Ray Tracing is decent and supported.
Built current rig ready for next CPU gen of Ryzen so that's settled, GPU open to AMD if its competiitive on Price/Performance.
Ironically for Nvidia, as yet AMD is only platform to run the 30 series on PCIE 4, not that it would make much if any difference over PCIE 3 as yet.
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: yokem55Well, they probably will have a card at a power level you want, but it remains to be seen whether that will be at a performance level you want. As long as their silicon can take it and they can slap a big enough heat sink on it, they'll probably have a 300+-ish watt unit at the top end to compete better with the 3080 and not leave performance on the table. So, if you don't want that, you'll have to take a lesser part
For example for Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT, power requirements are listed as 241 W.
https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/pulse-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8g-gddr6#Specification
I'd rather not go much higher than that. So hopefully AMD will have some card that's better than RX 5700 XT but isn't too power hungry. I don't need 4K performance.
1440P seems to be the sweet spot along with the Ultrawides, I find 2560 x 1080 a good compromise as not a huge load over Full HD my RTX2060 Super will do until we see what's coming up, one of my sons asked why was I insisten on 850 watt PSU, told them better to have the capacity, plus running a psu at 50% its usually at its most efficient.
Quoting: The_AquabatQuoting: ShmerlLess hardware bugs and such.I keep hearing about Navi being buggy, I haven't find bugs on my navi. Maybe I hit the silicon lottery? is there any documentation about the bugs? are there any workarounds?
That was the one I suffered most from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/929
Disappeared with 5.7.x but for some it seems to prevail.
For RDNA 2, I just can't get excited. Somehow I feel it won't be any kind of real competitor to Ampere, wait and see I guess. But I don't think there's much hope to have with a 7nm to "7nm+" transition, to get better perf than 5700XT, they will have to raise power like crazy, which will probably bottleneck before they reach the 2080ti equivalent that the 3070 is, or at least not for the same power consumption at all.
Quoting: The_Aquabatwhat a coincidence this post gave the bad Mojo to my 5600xt, I swear it was rock stable for 1 month, now I got a Green Screen Of Death. Searched on google seems a fairly common issue, mostly happening on windows. To be honest I experienced this Green Screen of Death before, but only while overclocking, I thought it was only a normal overclocking issue that every gpu has when pushing clocks and voltages (to be fair polaris also had some issues when overclocking). So the culprit might have something to do with clocks or voltage, but this time I was not overclocking just watching a youtube video.
That means that your framebuffer is full of 00FF00. Another failure mode is when your framebuffer is full of FF00FF (magenta).
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