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At AMD's CES 2019 keynote, CEO Lisa Su revealed the Radeon VII, a $700 GPU built on TSMC's "7nm" process. The GPU should have around the same performance and price as Nvidia's already-released RTX 2080. While it does not have any dedicated ray-tracing capabilities, it includes 16 GB of High Bandwidth Memory.
Nvidia's CEO has trashed his competitor's new GPU, calling it "underwhelming" and "lousy". Meanwhile, Nvidia has announced that it will support Adaptive Sync, the standardized version of AMD's FreeSync dynamic refresh rate and anti-screen tearing technology. Lisa Su also says that AMD is working on supporting ray tracing in future GPUs, but that the ecosystem is not ready yet.
Su also showed off a third-generation Ryzen CPU at the CES keynote, but did not announce a release date or lineup details. Like the second generation of Epyc server CPUs, the new Ryzen CPUs will be primarily built on TSMC's "7nm" process, but will include a "14nm" GlobalFoundries I/O part that includes the memory controllers and PCIe lanes. The CPUs will support PCIe 4.0.
The Ryzen 3000-series ("Matisse") should provide a roughly 15% single-threaded performance increase while significantly lowering power consumption. However, it has been speculated that the chips could include up to 16 cores or 8 cores with a separate graphics chiplet. AMD has denied that there will be a variant with integrated graphics, but Lisa Su has left the door open for 12- or 16-core versions of Ryzen, saying that "There is some extra room on that package, and I think you might expect we'll have more than eight cores". Here's "that package".
Also at The Verge.
Previously: Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:09PM (3 children)
Assuming, I had the funds to do so, this is the kind of build I would go for:
Case: Antec Nine Hundred - $101.40 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021 [newegg.com]
Blu-Ray Drive: LG Electronics 14x Blu-ray burner OEM - $59.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16827136250 [newegg.com]
Motherboard: ASRock AB350 Pro4 AM4 - $82.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157761 [newegg.com]
RAM: G.SKILL Flare X (for AMD) 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 - $174.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232520 [newegg.com]
GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB 2048-Bit HBM2 - $399.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202326 [newegg.com]
CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core 3.0 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W - $169.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113428 [newegg.com]
PSU: SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold (SS-650KM Active PFC F3) 650W - $90.75 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088 [newegg.com]
SSD: Mushkin Enhanced Pilot M.2 2280 1TB PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe - $194.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226886 [newegg.com]
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Pro OEM - $139.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?reviews=all&Item=N82E16832588491 [newegg.com]
Total Cost: $1,415.08 + Shipping + Tax
Total cost could be reduced some by going with a normal size 2.5" SSD that has 1/2 to 1/4 the speed (That one I chose has 2,710 MBps Read / 1,775 MBps Write) -$90 or so, the obvious use of linux instead of windows -$139.99, 16GB instead of 32GB of RAM about -$80, a cheaper case about -$50.
Slightly cheaper options total: $1,195.08 + Shipping + Tax
Slightly cheaper options total on Linux: $1,055.09 + Shipping + Tax
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:16PM
As it is, I would only need the Vega 64 and the SSD to upgrade my current machine. That would still cost me $594.98 + Shipping + Tax. Considering, I'm doing just fine with my current VR setup, I'm going to be saving up my pennies for a year or two and hopefully be able to afford a new machine at that time.
Current VR setup is similar to that build, but I have a "standard ssd" at about 500MBps read/write, and an RX480 GPU. The only VR game I've had to really tone down the graphics for was a random tomb demo. I.E. A tourist like view of I think the tomb of Nefertari.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:30PM
Check out https://pcpartpicker.com/ [pcpartpicker.com]
I would say spring for the cheaper SSD ($100 / 1 TB). Sure, you get less sustained read/write, but that should almost never be an issue since a 1 Gbps internet connection would be the bottleneck or you would not be copying large amounts of data onto the drive often (secondary storage is the place for that).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @12:44AM
32 Gb of ram and 8c/16t cpu is only 2 gb of ram per thread... you probably want at least 4 gb/thread.