For their event today, CEO Dr. Lisa Su took the stage. Affirming their stance as a global partner by providing their technology in everyday graphics technology. Being part of the next-gen PlayStation solution by providing a custom AMD Ryzen Zen 2 CPU and the Navi graphics architecture. Providing graphics technology for Google’s upcoming Stadia service.
Dr. Su announced AMD Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors and AMD Radeon 5700 series graphics cards. With AMD Ryzen 3000 coming in three versions. Priced between $199 to $499 to compete directly with Intel’s i9 processors. The cheapest offering being Ryzen 5 3600 and highest offering being Ryzen 9 3900X. Stating an improvement in gaming performance over Intel’s offerings. These processors will be coming out on July 7th. Which AMD has been struggling over the years despite quite good punches. It appears that they have finally caught up.
The Radeon 5700 series is focused primarily on gaming, hoping to best nVidia’s RTX series. Using their new 7nm RDNA architecture being the successor of the GCN architecture. Which focuses on faster clock speed, lower power draw and introducing the first PCIe 4 GPU. RDNA will bring 25% performance-per-clock and 50% performance-per-watt compared to the previous Vega GPUs. With that being said, the card using the new technology is the Radeon RX 5700 XT. Coming with an aluminum shroud and 1x8ping and 1×6 pin connector. Priced at $449 and launching on July 7th. The RTX 2070 competitor’s specifications:
- 40 Compute Units
- 9.75 Teraflops
- 8 GB GDDR6 Memory
- 1905 MHz Boost Clock
- 1755 MHz Game Clock
- 1605 MHz Base Clock
On top of the 5700 XT, a smaller version designed to compete against the nVidia RTX 2060. Priced at $379 and launching on July 7th as well. Both cards will be launched with Gears 5 and 3 month trial subscription for Xbox Game Pass. In comparison to the XT version, the 5700 comes with:
- 36 Compute Units
- 8 GB GDDR6 Memory
- 1725 MHz Boost Clock
- 1625 MHz Game Clock
Furthermore into the Navi GPU based on the RDNA architecture. It comes with a 7nm process, supporting PCIe 4.0 and improvements in AMD’s graphics libraries. Bringing in FidelityFX as an open-source toolkit that improves image quality. Another feature is AMD Radeon Image Sharpening that’ll be a post-processing shader to improve quality. Radeon Anti-Lag is another feature being introduced that’ll reduce input lag. Using that feature to help the eSports scene improving in low latency input. Further their presentation, they displayed these new technology on upcoming video games. With a reveal of a 50th anniversary edition of a Radeon RX 5700 XT and priced at $499. With it coming in better specs:
- 40 Compute Units
- 10.14 Teraflops
- 8 GB GDDR6 Memory
- 1980 MHz Boost Clock
- 1830 MHz Game Clock
- 1680 MHz Base Clock
Finally, AMD’s last announcement is a gaming focused processor. Ryzen 3950X which is a 16-core gaming processor. Clock at 3.5 GHz and boosting up to 4.7 GHz at 105W TDP. That processor will be available this September for $749.
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