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AMD RDNA3 GPUs get new toned down specifications, Navi 31 with up to 12288 Stream Processors
Not 15360 Stream Processor but 12288 for Navi 31 GPU, the flagship processor of the upcoming RDNA3 series. This means that the 92 TFLOPS claim from a few days ago is either wrong, or there is something else that we do not know about yet.
One should remember that we are still months away from the launch of new 3rd Gen Navi GPUs.
Leak/Rumor/Speculation has changed downward for the flagship AMD RX 7000 series GPUs. We won't know the true facts until close to release time. And, performance awaits 3'd party testing.
The lack of certainty is one of the reasons I felt OK about going custom RX 6900 XT now at $50 under reference model MSRP. I will probably eventually buy an RX 7000 series card -- but, with the RX6900XT, I can wait a year or two now. Buying/assembling PC stuff is a hobby.
I just grabbed a GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING OC Video Card, GV-R69XTGAMING OC-16GD for $950 on special sale for a day or two ($50 under RX 6900 XT reference card MSRP). Today the price is back up to $1350 -- wow, lucky me.
You'll really enjoy the 6900 XT. It's a true beast of a card at the higher resolutions and even handles ray tracing quite well. I've got the XFX Limited Black Edition, with higher clocks.
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You'll really enjoy the 6900 XT. It's a true beast of a card at the higher resolutions and even handles ray tracing quite well. I've got the XFX Limited Black Edition, with higher clocks.
So far, so good. Wanted 2.0X the performance of my RX5700XT. The RX6900XT gives 2.14X in TimeSpy Extreme and 2.08X in Firestrike Ultra -- success
For some odd reason, the games all seem sharper to my eyes -- but, the settings are unchanged from the RX5700XT (basically all ultra settings at 4K) -- unexpected success
There is a "quiet setting". I've not tried it -- but, as is, I don't notice the fans -- during non-gaming PC operations, the fans often don't even come on -- success
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AMD confirms Zen4 & Ryzen 7000 series lineup: Raphael in 2022, Dragon Range and Phoenix in 2023
The Raphael desktop CPUs based on Zen4 microarchitecture will launch by the end of this year, featuring 65W+ designs. Those will be based on LGA1718 (AM5) socket and will include support for PCIe Gen5 as well as DDR5 memory technology. AMD is not confirming any other information at this time.
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Intel in the water for lack of promised driver updates and GPUs for ARC Graphics
The company's initial plans were to offer an updated driver by the last part of April, including the capability to deactivate optimizations focused on benchmarking. Including this update with the option to activate or deactivate the optimization would allow users to achieve more validity in their UL 3D mark benchmark test scores. With it currently missing, any UL 3D Mark tests processed with included optimization would be considered invalid due to UL's policies.
Apparently, Intel optimized GPU drivers to perform extra well in some "benchmark tests". They aren't the first to do such a thing.
But, as of now, one should be skeptical of Intel GPU benchmark scores when comparing GPUs for purchase. Wait for 3'd party tests on games (I'd say the same for AMD and Nvidia).
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Intel's First Arc Alchemist Gaming Graphics Cards Reportedly Delayed Till Mid Summer 2022, Drivers Cited As The Cause of Delay Once Again
Overall, this isn't looking good at all but hopefully, Intel can put forward a better launch timeframe at its upcoming 'VISION' event followed by more detailed specs and pricing disclosures at Computex 2022 at the end of this month.
Driver problems are not new for Intel. And, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of Computer games -- many needing special driver code adjustments.
AMD and Nvidia have been writing those changes in for years They are mostly up to date; so, there is less work per month to stay current.
Long term, I honestly question Intel's ability to keep drivers up to date -- and, thus, GPU performance up to date over the months and years as the gaming situation changes.
For competitions sake, I hope Intel gets it figured out.
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AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs With Next-Gen Zen 4 Cores And The AM5 Platform To Release As Early As September 2022
The AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs and the AM5 platform are hotly anticipated by many as it's a completely new ecosystem designed for the next generation of gamers and content creators.
the launch can happen within the next four months but with that said, AMD is also expected to reveal more details at Computex 2022 which will be a major showcase event for Zen 4.
AMD Ryzen 'Zen 4' Desktop CPU Expected Features:
Brand New Zen 4 CPU Cores (IPC / Architectural Improvements) Brand New TSMC 5nm process node with 6nm IOD Support on AM5 Platform With LGA1718 Socket Dual-Channel DDR5 Memory Support 28 PCIe Lanes (CPU Exclusive) 65-120W TDPs (Upper Bound Range ~170W)
My current system does all I need. But, given my hobby, I'll probably go "all in" -- if the performance is as rumored, and prices are MSRP.
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AMD launches Radeon RX 6950XT, 6750XT and 6650XT graphics cards
The company is quite clear with their marketing materials that RX 6950XT is to compete with RTX 3090 non-Ti model. However, we managed to obtain some comparisons with RTX 3090 Ti as well. AMD RX 6950XT is to retail at 1099 USD, which is 100 USD more than RX 6900XT at launch.
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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 is ‘just as good’ as NVIDIA DLSS 2.0, according to the first review
We are just hours from official launch of FSR2, easily the most anticipated AMD software release this year. The company promised a new super-resolution technology that does not rely on AI algorithm and therefore does not require any special acceleration like NVIDIA DLSS with Tensor Cores.
AMD claims that for games that already support competing technology – NVIDIA DLSS – the implementation time for FSR2 is just days
AMD FSR2 will be an open source alternative to DLSS and will also work on GeForce hardware. In fact, the review from TPU is based on GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, not AMD
The reviewer claims that FSR2 is “looks amazing, just as good as DLSS 2.0” [using an RTX 3060]. With image quality sometimes being even better than DLSS, but all this applies to the Quality mode.
As "just released" software, AMD FSR2 no doubt has "kinks" to work out over time. But, its interesting that AMD FSR2 may already be competitive with DLSS 2.0.
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AMD Software May Preview Update Improves RSR, Boosts DirectX 11 Games Up to 30 Percent
Following yesterday’s launch of AMD’s latest lineup of RX 6000-series graphics cards, a new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver has also been released, which largely focuses on improvements for Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) and DirectX 11 performance boosts. For those unfamiliar, RSR differs from FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) in that it’s software-based and doesn’t require any special implementation on the part of developers. It should just automatically work on a large chunk of your library, although, of course, the effects aren’t as dramatic as FSR.
[Examples] Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – up to 28%, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands – up to 30% Grand Theft Auto V – up to 11% Total War Saga: Troy – at 17% gains Total War Hammer 3 – at 5% gains The Witcher 3 – at 3% gains
On average, AMD says you can expect around a 10 percent boost with DirectX 11 games, and the above-listed titles are really just the tip of the iceberg. For instance, independent testers have found significant boosts for games like Crysis Remastered and God of War.
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The unthinkable has happened: Nvidia has finally embraced open-source GPU drivers
No, hell hasn't frozen over, and April Fools Day has long since passed. Nvidia has indeed announced it's moving over to an open-source Linux GPU kernel for its latest and greatest graphics cards. Previously open-source GPU anything was the sole preserve of AMD, but as of right now you can go to GitHub and download the source code for Nvidia's kernel modules on the Nvidia Open GPU Kernel Modules repo.
The green team is calling this "a significant step toward improving the experience of using NVIDIA GPUs in Linux, for tighter integration with the OS and for developers to debug, integrate, and contribute back."
Not quite "embraced". This is only a "fly speck" in Linux -- unlike AMD who "open sources" many Windows drivers, etc.
For example full up AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 works on Nvidia GPUs -- as noted in a post above.
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AMD Zen4 rumored to feature up to 24% better IPC than Zen3, updated Ryzen 7000 launch schedule emerges
an engineering sample of Raphael desktop CPU with 8-core/16-threads is clocked at 5.2 GHz, which already represents a 10% increase over 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X. But the claims can go even higher, up to 14%
As a result of higher IPC and clocks, the single-thread performance would increase by 28 to 37% and so would multi-threaded
AMD Zen4 MLID claims
15-24% IPC Increase (Over Zen 3) 8-14% Clock Increase (Over Zen 3) 28-37% ST Perf Increase (Over Zen 3) ST-Like or Higher MT Perf Increase (Over Zen 3) 1 MB L2 / 4 MB L3 Per Core (vs 512 KB / 4 MB L3 per Zen 3 Core) PCIe 5.0 Support (Increased Lanes) DDR5/LPDDR5 Memory Support (DDR5-5200+)
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Dolmen Q&A – The Sci-Fi Soulslike Will Be the First Game to Support FSR, DLSS, and XeSS
The burgeoning Soulslike genre is about to grow even bigger thanks to Dolmen, an upcoming sci-fi/cosmic horror action RPG
Dolmen will be the first game to support all three upscaling technologies on PC: AMD FSR (though only version 1.0 at first), NVIDIA DLSS, and Intel XeSS.
Dolmen will ship with FSR 1.0, but we have the intention to upgrade to 2.0
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[Rumor] NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with 16128 CUDA cores and 450W TDP is allegedly twice as fast as RTX 3090
[Rumor] NVIDIA Ada flagship RTX 4090 to be announced mid-July
It is very likely that in the first wave, RTX 40 series are to include RTX 4090, 4080 and 4070 SKUs. Just remember that those are still rumored specs, and clearly there is a lot changing each week.
Rumor does not say when they go on sale.
Similar rumors say that the fastest AMD GPU will be twice as fast as the RX6900XT.
The fact that high end GPU prices are falling below Reference Model MSRP gives credence to the rumor of 2X the speed later this year. But, at what MSRP??
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AMD Zen4 “Raphael” 8-core CPU with 5.2 GHz clock speed and “GFX1036” RDNA2 graphics spotted
we now have the ID of the Zen4 desktop CPU’s integrated graphics. Here’s a reminder that Raphael will be the first mainstream Ryzen platform to feature integrated graphics.
AMD Ryzen 7000 desktop series are now believed to launch around September. The company will soon hold a Computex 2022 keynote where one would expect an update on Zen4 consumer CPUs
On the whole, Intel CPUs outsell AMD CPUs. One of the reasons has been that Intel provides "integrated graphics" on many Intel mainstream CPUs (AMD only provides a couple weaker APUs for PCs). So, Intel CPUs have been more suited to basic cheap consumer PCs not using separate GPU cards.
That's going to change this year when the AMD 7000 series hits the market with some gaming-powerful CPUs having strong integrated GPUs. Gamers will still want/need separate GPUs. But, these 7000 series CPUs will provide competition across the board -- where virtually none existed before. Competition is good
