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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 bobthecimmerian on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:28PM (2 children)
My current Linux gaming rig - ha, ha, ha - has an AMD FX-8320. I've thought about getting a Ryzen 7 2700X, but I think I'll hold out for these chips in the summer. I wouldn't be surprised if the 15% boost in single-threaded performance is an exaggeration or only applies on a few key benchmarks. But at this point waiting has become its own kind of game for me. The longer I wait, the bigger jump I get. Maybe if Zen 2 underwhelms, I'll wait for Zen 3. :D
Gentoo/Funtoo, eh? I stick with Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Ubuntu MATE so when a friend asks for a Linux recommendation or needs help, I have up to date information and can walk through the steps they need on my own machine.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:46PM (1 child)
15% might be underselling it. I've also heard that we can expect a roughly 13% IPC increase (compared to Zen+) combined with clock speed increases. Even going up from 3.5 GHz to 3.6 GHz (~1.029) multiplied by 1.13 surpasses 1.15.
Combine that with well-binned 16-core parts, and maybe you could see 2.5x the total performance in some cases (compared to 8-core).
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:07PM
Yeah, it could be awesome. One thing I am tempted to do is pick a motherboard that should be Zen 2 compatible and just buy something like a Ryzen 3 or maybe lower end Ryzen 5 for now, and then see if I can upgrade in the fall after the initial price spike on the Zen 2 parts ends. Though if they're good enough, the prices may stay high into 2020 - that would be great for AMD, not so great for my budget.