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Title    AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU
Date    Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:59AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the more-and-faster-and-cheaper...how'd-they-do-that? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/14/214229

takyon writes:

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

Original Submission

Links
  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "revealed the Radeon VII" - https://www.anandtech.com/show/13832/amd-radeon-vii-high-end-7nm-february-7th-for-699
  3. "RTX 2080" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/21/0148251
  4. "trashed his competitor's new GPU" - https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-ceo-trashes-amds-new-gpu-the-performance-is-lou-1831621038
  5. "it will support Adaptive Sync" - https://wccftech.com/amd-ceo-ray-tracing-important-technology/
  6. "FreeSync" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSync
  7. "showed off a third-generation Ryzen CPU" - https://www.anandtech.com/show/13829/amd-ryzen-3rd-generation-zen-2-pcie-4-eight-core
  8. "second generation of Epyc server CPUs" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/11/06/2342256
  9. "PCIe 4.0" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_4.0
  10. "denied that there will be a variant with integrated graphics" - https://www.anandtech.com/show/13852/amd-no-chiplet-apu-variant-on-matisse-cpu-tdp-range-same-as-ryzen2000
  11. "left the door open for 12- or 16-core versions of Ryzen" - https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/09/amd-ceo-cto-radeon-vii-ray-tracing/
  12. ""that package"" - https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13829/cpu44.jpg
  13. "The Verge" - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18176820/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-amd-radeon-vii-performance-lousy-comments-ces-2019
  14. "Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/09/1550201
  15. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31136
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