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

Accepted submission by takyon at 2019-05-27 04:30:32
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At Computex 2019 in Taipei, AMD CEO Lisa Su gave a keynote presentation announcing the first "7nm" Navi GPU and Ryzen 3000-series CPUs. All of the products will support PCI Express 4.0 [anandtech.com].

Contrary to recent [pcgamesn.com] reports [wccftech.com], AMD says that the Navi microarchitecture is not based on Graphics Core Next (GCN), but rather a new "RDNA" macroarchitecture [wccftech.com] ('R' for Radeon), although the extent of the difference is not clear. There is also no conflict with Nvidia's naming scheme [soylentnews.org]; the 5000-series naming is a reference to the company's 50th anniversary.

AMD claims [anandtech.com] that Navi GPUs will have 25% better performance/clock and 50% better performance/Watt vs. Vega GPUs. AMD Radeon RX 5700 is the first "7nm" Navi GPU to be announced. It was compared with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2070, with the RX 5700 outperforming the RTX 2070 by 10% in the AMD-favorable game Strange Brigade. Pricing and other launch details will be revealed on June 10.

AMD also announced [anandtech.com] the first five Ryzen 3000-series CPUs, all of which will be released on July 7:

[make table]

Ryzen 9 3900X / 12c, 24t / 3.8 - 4.6 GHz / 105 W / $499
Ryzen 7 3800X / 8c, 16t / 3.9 - 4.5 GHz / 105 W / $399
Ryzen 7 3700X / 8c, 16t / 3.6 - 4.4 GHz / 65 W / $329
Ryzen 5 3600X / 6c, 12t / 3.8 - 4.4 GHz / 95 W / $249
Ryzen 5 3600 / 6c, 12t / 3.6 - 4.2 GHz / 65 W / $199

The Ryzen 9 3900X is the only CPU in the list using two core chiplets, each with 6 of 8 cores enabled. AMD has held back on releasing a 16-core monster for now. AMD compared the Ryzen 9 3900X to the $1,189 Intel Core i9-9920X, the Ryzen 7 3800X to the $499 Intel Core i9-9900K, and the Ryzen 7 3700X to the Intel Core i7-9700K, with the AMD chips outperforming the Intel chips in certain single and multi-threaded benchmarks (wait for the reviews before drawing any definitive conclusions). The Ryzen 9 3900X will come with a bundled cooler (the other CPUs might as well [tomshardware.com], more details will be known closer to launch).

Not to be outdone, Intel has announced the Intel Core i9-9900KS [anandtech.com], a selectively binned 8-core processor that can boost to 5.0 GHz on all cores. The catch? TDP and pricing are currently unknown (i9-9900K launched at $488, 95W TDP), and Tom's Hardware reports [tomshardware.com] that the higher clock speed does not apply to AVX workloads (although they will get a boost). The CPU does not come with a bundled cooler.

Intel also teased Gen11 integrated graphics performance [anandtech.com], which will be included with "10nm" Ice Lake-U APUs. Their comparison shows a significant improvement over Gen9 graphics (there is no "Gen10") and a slight edge over AMD's top mobile processor, the Ryzen 7 3700U.

Previously: "Review" of AMD's 3rd Gen Ryzen Rumors Ahead of Launch [soylentnews.org]

Related: Intel Announces "Sunny Cove", Gen11 Graphics, Discrete Graphics Brand Name, 3D Packaging, and More [soylentnews.org]
Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More [soylentnews.org]
Intel Details Lakefield CPU SoC With 3D Packaging and Big/Small Core Configuration [soylentnews.org]
Intel's Comet Lake Could Boost Mainstream Core Count to 10 to Compete with AMD's Ryzen 3000-Series [soylentnews.org]


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