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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 11 2019, @04:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the Good-Fast-AND-Cheap[er-than-Intel] dept.

At AMD's keynote at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), AMD CEO Lisa Su announced three new "7nm" Navi GPUs and a new CPU.

The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT will have 2560 stream processors (40 compute units) capable of 9.75 TFLOPs of FP32 performance, with 8 GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM. The price is $449. The AMD RX 5700 cuts that down to 2304 SPs (36 CUs), 7.9 TFLOPs, at $379. There is a higher clocked "50th anniversary" version of the 5700 XT that offers up to 10.14 teraflops for $499. A teraflop on one of these new cards supposedly means better graphics performance than older Polaris-based GPUs:

Looking at these clockspeed values then, in terms of raw throughput the new card is expected to get between 9 TFLOPs and 9.75 TFLOPs of FP32 compute/shading throughput. This is a decent jump over the Polaris cards, but on the surface it doesn't look like a huge, generational jump, and this is where AMD's RDNA architecture comes in. AMD has made numerous optimizations to improve their GPU utilization – that is, how well they put those FLOPs to good use – so a teraflop on a 5700 card means more than it does on preceding AMD cards. Overall, AMD says that they're getting around 25% more work done per clock on the whole in gaming workloads. So raw specs can be deceiving.

The GPUs do not include real-time raytracing or variable rate pixel shading support. These may appear on a future generation of GPUs. Instead, AMD talked about support for DisplayPort 1.4 with Display Stream Compression, a contrast-enhancing post-processing filter, AMD Radeon Image Sharpening, and a Radeon Anti-lag feature to reduce input lag.

Towards the end of the presentation, AMD revealed the 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, the company's fully-fledged Ryzen CPU with two 8-core "7nm" Zen 2 chiplets. Compared to the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X CPU, the 3950X has a slightly higher boost clock and L2 cache, with the same 105 Watt TDP, for $749. This is the full lineup so far:

CPUCores / ThreadsFrequencyTDPPrice
Ryzen 9 3950X16 / 323.5 - 4.7 GHz105 W$749
Ryzen 9 3900X12 / 243.8 - 4.6 GHz105 W$499
Ryzen 7 3800X8 / 163.9 - 4.5 GHz105 W$399
Ryzen 7 3700X8 / 163.6 - 4.4 GHz65 W$329
Ryzen 5 3600X6 / 123.8 - 4.4 GHz95 W$249
Ryzen 5 36006 / 123.6 - 4.2 GHz65 W$199

Previously: AMD and Intel at Computex 2019: First Ryzen 3000-Series CPUs and Navi GPU Announced


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday June 13 2019, @12:29PM (1 child)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Thursday June 13 2019, @12:29PM (#855092)

    It was typical intimidation crap, they received a letter with the lawsuit information and an outrageous number because the film was downloaded through bittorrent. So technically they were being sued for redistribution because of the way bittorrent works, even though the brother didn't post the torrent himself. Then a lawyer from the company contacted them and said they could settle out of court for $1500 provided they signed an agreement not to disclose the details, including the settlement fee. They paid it.

    I suspect if they fought it in court they could have won, or at least gotten their legal fees plus penalty down to a total of less than $1500. But they figured a $1500 sure thing with no court dates was better. I didn't find out about the whole thing until a year or two later, so I had no chance to research their options before they made their decision.

    Of course I'm violating the agreement by posting about it here, but I don't even remember what the movie was and I never got the name of the law firm the publisher was using the extort people. So it's a useless disclosure.

    I figure this kind of thing is a rare occurrence, or else piracy in the US would be less common. Everyone has a giant pirated film collection or knows someone else that does. But I was spooked anyway. I thought about getting an international VPN to get around it, but I haven't bothered.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @12:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @12:51AM (#855830)

    Another to avoid it is to just ignore recent releases, as the studios seem to focus their energy on busting people for recent films, especially anything still in the theater. Since there's very little that interests me coming out nowadays, that is pretty easy.

    Of course, there's no reason they couldn't try to extort you for anything in their nearly 100 year old back catalogue, so YMMV.