Amongst a whole lot of technobabble about AI AI and more AI, AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. For any normal consumer, their event was a hard boring watch with business people patting each-other on the back about AI advancements but here's the gist of what was actually revealed today.
Firstly of all they announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU with 16GB GDDR6 for 1080p gaming, starting at $329 releasing January 24th. Nothing really special here, it's a slight bump over the RX 7600 with more RAM, slightly boosted clock speeds and a higher typical board power at 190 W.
Now onto the processors, starting with the new AMD Ryzen 8000G Series desktop processors for the AM5 platform, which bring forth AMD's new dedicated AI neural processing unit (NPU) to desktop PC processors, built on top of Zen 4. All of the 8000G Series processors include a Radeon 700M series graphics too.
Here's the models available starting January 31st for SI partners and for OEMs in "Q2 2024":
| Model | Cores/Threads | Boost / Base Frequency | Total Cache | TDP | NPU | SEP | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 8700G + Radeon 780M |
8C/16T | Up to 5.1GHz / 4.2GHz | 24MB | 65W | Yes | $329 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 8600G + Radeon 760M |
6C/12T | Up to 5.0GHz / 4.3GHz | 22MB | 65W | Yes | $229 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 8500G + Radeon 740M |
6C/12T | Up to 5.0GHz / 3.5GHz | 22MB | 65W | N/A | $179 | |
| AMD Ryzen 3 8300G + Radeon 740M |
4C/8T | Up to 4.9GHz / 3.4GHz | 12MB | 65W | N/A | N/A | |
Here's the new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 series CPUs for socket AM4 announced that will become available from January 31st:
| Model | Cores/Threads | Boost / Base Frequency | Total Cache | TDP | SEP | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D | 8C/16T | Up to 4.1GHz / 3.0GHz | 100MB | 105W | $249 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5700 | 8C/16T | Up to 4.6GHz / 3.7GHz | 20MB | 65W | $175 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT | 6C/12T | Up to 4.6GHz / 3.6GHz | 19MB | 65W | $140 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT | 6C/12T | Up to 4.4GHz / 3.6GHz | 19MB | 65W | $125 | |
Full event can be viewed below:
Direct Link
All details can be found on AMD.com.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: NasraRX 7600 XT is probably a good card, but in 128bits, the memory bandwidth will be a problem for its 16GB VRAM...
Not quite sure about this. There are interesting benchmarks regarding nVidia's own 4060 Ti 16Gb and while there is no tangible difference in framerate, the frametime is a lot better, which is the very reason for this model to exist. The problem with nVidia's card isn't the end result, it's the price.
To be honest, I am pretty interested in this RX 7600 XT, but I am really worried about power efficiency...
I think they shouldn't have overclocked it, the market was in need of an aptly priced sub-200W GPU with 16Gb of VRAM, but now its consumption is pretty much on par with the 1440p segment, which kind of defeats its purpose in the first place.
So let's wait and see, there may be surprising results at hand, but I am not very confident about these.
michaldybczak Jan 17
Laptops with older Nvidia cards are in a decent shape and Wayland works fine there, but with newer Nvidia cards, there are numerous problems. Switching from old laptop where all runs fine to a newer, more powerful laptop with a lot of Nvidia issues makes no sense.
That is why I bought TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1, which is fully AMD (CPU, GPU, WiFi), so this should be a nice upgrade from my old Alienware R17 with Nvidia GTX 970M. I'm still waiting for the assembly being finished.
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