- Here lies Intel, brutally murdered,
the culprit, one Dr. Lisa Su.
- It's so good to see you all here today.
- Could there be a more beloved CEO
in the tech space right now?
(screaming softly)
Sit down, techno king.
Dr. Su was not merely content to save AMD from bankruptcy,
she just got onstage at Computex 2021 to deliver a flurry
of body blows to both Intel and Nvidia
with a single simple message.
AMD is back, and AMD won't wait
for them to pick up the pace.
And then there was also a bunch
of more complicated messages.
And if I'm going to get to all of it,
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Perhaps the most interesting announcement
Dr. Su made was AMD's plans for the "non-X" series
of Zen 3 Ryzen 5,000 desktop CPUs.
I mean, remember that guys?
When we used to have X and then we used to have non-X
which was pretty much the same thing, but cheaper
and could usually be overclocked?
That went away with Ryzen 5000, except,
it's almost funny how recently we made this video
begging AMD to release Zen 3 APUs
only to have them show up right now.
So not only are the Ryzen 5 5600 G, and Ryzen 7 5700 G APUs
with very comparable specs
to the already existing 5600 and 5700,
they're going to have respectable Vega 8 Graphics
and they seem to be officially taking over the role
that non-X skews had in the product lineup
making them an even better value
thanks to the onboard graphics.
Freaking a, man like man, if I'm Intel right now
I have got to be desperately trying to clear warehouse space
by unloading CPUs so I have room
for all the pallets of deodorant that I'm going to need
after watching this keynote.
By the way, get subscribed because we have a video coming
on just such a weird backdoor fire sale
that Intel seems to be running right now.
So at this point, AMD has thoroughly beaten Intel
in the server space, the high end desktop workstation space,
and now the consumer desktop gaming and mobile spaces.
But now they're threatening one of the last little niches
Intel held onto, you know?
High-end CPU with onboard graphics that you can use
while you try to find a real graphics card.
Now we'll need to see for ourselves
what the benchmarks look like,
but given these specs aren't significantly lower tier
than the X series skews, this looks like a great option
for basically everybody given the current market conditions.
Zen 3 CPU performance now, GPU upgrade path later.
One area it looks like Intel will still only be competing
against itself though is the low-end APU market.
When pressed about the lack of Ryzen 3 APUs,
AMD hinted that the current reality of supply and demand
for desktop processors means that they have no plans
to roll out anything like that anytime soon.
That really sucks for budget conscious gamers,
but, I also understand that
if you can only get so many wafers
it's better to launch a few products you can actually supply
than a whole whack load of products that you can't.
Oh, though, there might be one way to get a Ryzen 3 APU
if you really want.
AMD is dropping new Ryzen Pro products.
They didn't announce them during the keynote
but they said we could talk about them anyway
in case anyone is interested.
I'm not sure that they're that interesting,
but hey, here they are.
Yep, those are business CPU's all right, for business.
Now, moving on from business,
we have a separate companion video
about AMD's new RDNA 2-Based Radeon mobile GPU's
with performance testing and first impressions.
But the short version for you guys here
is that AMD is claiming up to 43% lower power consumption
for a given performance level
versus previous gen architecture.
And while RDNA1 isn't amazing by today's standards,
that's still nothing to sneeze at.
Three skews are coming, the Radeon on RX 6800M
with 40 compute units and 12 gigs of GDDR6 that AMD claims
easily beats and RTX 3070 Mobile
and is actually competitive with an RTX 3080 Mobile.
Then we've got the Radeon RX 6700M with 36 compute units
and 10 gigs around aiming at Mobile RTX 3070,
and the RX 6600M.
The first Navi 23-based GPU
with 28 compute units and eight gigs of RAM
to take on the Mobile RTX 3060.
The RX 6800M and 6600M will be shipping in laptops
starting in early June, while the 6700M
will begin shipping "soon", TM.
That's not all the graphics news though,
we finally got a preview of FidelityFX Super Resolution,
AMD's long awaited answer to Nvidia DLSS,
or Deep Learning Super Sampling.
We only really got a short glimpse of what it looks like
and if I had to guess, I'd say that's because
AMD didn't really want us looking too closely at it.
I wish I could say it's competitive
but it's a lot softer than I would have expected
and I honestly have my doubts being competitive
with DLSS 2.0, which even then
doesn't quite match native rendering
but at least it's close enough
that you probably won't notice
while you're popping off head shots.
As for why it looks the way it does, according to AMD,
the algorithm they're using is a spatial upscaling algorithm
that happens at the end of the graphics pipeline
when the scene has already been rendered, which...
Oh, well, that kind of explains it, doesn't it?
That is a much less sophisticated approach
to the point where it seems like it's basically
a post-processing effect
with some additional smoothing applied at the end
presumably to mask errors.
Up to four modes can be selected though
depending on the implementation in game
with AMD claiming FPS improvements of up to 300%
with the performance mode.
That seems a bit ambitious
so we're going to have to wait and see.
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and then imagine your face on my body.
(X-Files theme song)
AMD wasn't done with the middle fingers to Intel though,
remember Ultra books?
Intel's proprietary specification
for thin and light notebooks?
Well, now AMD is trying their hand at something similar
but for gaming laptops called AMD Advantage.
They've stopped short of calling it a certification program
so it's more like pirate code then, but essentially,
if you see AMD Advantage on a laptop,
you know that AMD helped directly with the design process
and you can count on there being a minimum spec.
AMD specifically calls out Ryzen and Radeon Mobile,
144 Hertz or better, IPS or OLED displays
with FreeSync Premium, and NVME SSD and AMD Smartshift
and Smart Access Memory both supported
and enabled out of the box.
And aside from the hardware alone,
AMD also says that it's about the experience.
So they're targeting over a hundred FPS gaming at 1080P
less than three milliseconds of display lag,
and over 10 hours of video playback on battery
at 300 nits brightness.
Oh, and this is a fun one, the WASD cluster
also needs to be cooler than 40 degrees for now
with lower targets coming in the future.
The first two laptops with AMD Advantage,
Asus' Strix G513 Advantage edition and HP's Omen 16
will be rolling out later this month
with more to come from other partners like Lenovo and MSI.
Man, I'd say it's been so long
since AMD has had a compelling top-end mobile solution
but, it's so long I don't even think that covers it.
I don't think they've ever had both the CPU
and GPU aligned like this.
It's both beautiful and scary all at once.
I hope Intel's new CEO has a strong stomach
because it is going to be a heck of a ride from here.
Now, AMD pre-briefed us on some of the keynote
because they understand that making videos
requires scripting time and editing time and export time,
but then they left part of it as a
"make sure to watch it all" kind of thing
which demonstrates that they don't understand
that you need time to script, edit and export.
So this section is reserved for anything we felt
needed to be hastily edited in.
Thanks a lot, AMD.
- AMD is going to be in cars?
Yeah, their APUs and dedicated GPUs in Tesla model S and X.
I'm not sure why.
Pat, get it, fine.
I believe there's also more hazing
about the Samsung and Radeon collab with no firm details.
Confirmation that FidelityFX Super Resolution
will be available to all GPU's, including NVIDIA's
back as far as Vega and the RX 500 series.
And then there's the big news,
AMD's is new 3D triplets.
They're basically what it sounds like, 3D stack triplets,
which means for example, a dedicated cache die
could be added on top of each compute complex
for significantly higher density.
The example I gave was a Ryzen 9 5900X
with 192 megabytes of cache, that's a lot of cache,
which ran a full 12% faster in gaming
than the stock 5900X dose in the same package.
They're claiming that the 3D stacking tech
doesn't use micro-bumps as Intel's (indistinct) does.
And as a result, it can achieve up to 15 times the density
while being three times more energy efficient.
That's bad news for Intel, but for AMD
it represents a 200 times density increase
over the current 2D layout.
Oh, and even worse news for Intel,
AMD says they're going to have it out
probably by the end of the year.
- All in all then,
AMD is riding on a meteoric high right now.
I bet Dr. Su feels pretty good
about the direction she's managed to steer a company
that we all thought was done for a decade ago.
And all of AMD's engineers and support staff
should feel extremely proud
of what they've been able to accomplish as well.
I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg though
because let's face it, beyond the fanboyism,
beyond the buyer's remorse, beyond even the tech industry,
everybody likes an underdog story
and AMD has been an ultimate underdog comeback story.
Though, it's not looking like AMD is going to be
much of an underdog story for long at this pace.
So, maybe one day soon, we'll get a story
of fire and vengeance from an Intel scorn.
Though by the look of things
we're going to have to wait awhile.
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Thanks for watching guys,
normally here, I'd send you to watch a not too recent video
that maybe you missed,
but what you should really go check out
is our companion piece on Radeon Mobile.
We got hands-on with a Asus' AMD Advantage laptop
and it is a lot more interesting than you might think
which is really saying something.