Dr. Lisa Su, the president and CEO of AMD, will be joined by various guests to discuss new computing tech and its applications—from solving world issues to shaping the future of video games, virtual reality, and more. Read on for a rundown of when and where to watch the keynote live.
AMD will hold its CES 2019 keynote on Wednesday, January 9 at 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK (Thursday, January 10 at 4am AET). The event will be streamed live from the Venetian in Las Vegas, and viewable here on IGN.
AMD YouTube stream. Also at AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, and Wccftech.
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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
Denuvo-Free Devil May Cry 5 Reportedly Improves the Game's Performance by Up to 20FPS
It appears that Denuvo's anti-tamper tech has significant impact on Devil May Cry 5's performance, and a Denuvo-free .exe game file has now surfaced online.
The Devil May Cry 5 .exe file was actually released by Capcom following the game's release earlier today, but has now been pulled. However, the file can still be downloaded through the Steam console. Several users are reporting FPS improvements by up to 20FPS while using the Denuvo-free exe file.
Sound familiar? Devil May Cry 5 is the game AMD demoed running on a Radeon VII GPU at its CES 2019 keynote. I wonder if they were running it with DRM.
Average frame rates are only part of the story when it comes to a game's performance. Minimum frame rates, percentiles, etc. can measure frame stuttering. A significant boost in a game's performance can also increase minimum frame rates.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)
InTelAviv BTFO!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:35PM
Peace has cost you your strength, victory has defeated you.
— Dr. Lisa Su to Intel
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:47PM (11 children)
Lets see how much of this insane looking lineup gets confirmed:
http://thinkcomputers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ryzen-3000-series-leak.jpg [thinkcomputers.org]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:53PM (3 children)
No 6-cores on the Reddit leak? I didn't notice that before. I'll place my bet on the AdoredTV leak:
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-3000-specs-prices-leaked-upto-16-cores-5-1ghz-on-am4/ [wccftech.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @06:31PM (2 children)
So no real info?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 09 2019, @06:40PM (1 child)
The first Ryzens were released in March 2017, and Ryzen 2 in April 2018. Maybe they will launch Ryzen 3 in May to coincide with the company's 50th anniversary.
Also, the Ryzen 3 die that Su held up was significant since you could clearly see the empty space where 8 more cores or integrated graphics could be placed.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @06:59PM
Yea, but in terms of verifying/refuting the "leaked" specs, nothing. While somewhat boring, I actually did like to see that they are working with "partners" though, getting mindshare and all that.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:54PM (4 children)
This is blocked by my company firewall for malware??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:00PM
Hm, I dunno. I found it by image searching AMD leaks with startpage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:03PM
From this page: https://thinkcomputers.org/3rd-generation-ryzen-skus-specs-and-pricing-leaked/ [thinkcomputers.org]
"Anon" view:
https://browse.startpage.com/do/show_picture.pl?l=english&rais=1&oiu=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkcomputers.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2Fryzen-3000-series-leak.jpg&sp=588718756af3e546feec316927753529&rl=ow&t=default [startpage.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @08:04PM
Well, your computer does say "Intel Inside", so AMD could be considered malware (or at the very least a threat) ;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @08:04PM
VirusTotal says its clean:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/985cf2419a64cbc90c5d9bb27581e903f2319a95727654e4d0b378ed4b2f313e/detection [virustotal.com]
Is intel paying your company to block good AMD news?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @07:29PM (1 child)
128 threads? Wow, so what's the memory bandwidth then? in MB/s/thread? :D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @08:15PM
Well here is the one with 64 threads at 87.42 GiB/s:
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_threadripper/2990wx#Memory_controller [wikichip.org]
So 1074 MB/s/thread?
The ryzen 3000's will have this multi-core but single IO die design though: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/281810-the-latest-rumors-about-amds-ryzen-3000-series-are-too-good-to-be-true [extremetech.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:12PM (1 child)
"muh diversity" corporate promos with shitty music -- why?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:19PM
It's an industry standard