- They've got chips stacked on chips.
They've got low end GPU's.
they've got a completely revamped mobile platform.
Is there anything more satisfying than competition?
Because that's what this looks like.
AMD CES announcements are all responses to the competition.
Be it defending the crown that they just took from Intel
or matching Nvidia card for card.
But the question remains can AMD
maintain their dominant position,
or in 2022 are we witnessing
early stage Intel level desperation?
One thing is certain, things are getting very interesting.
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- You could call what AMD is doing
with the Ryzen 7 5800X 3D a stop gap,
and you'd be right to do so.
But it's a preview of what's to come.
Let me explain.
The 5800 X 3D is mostly the same chip
as 2022's Ryzen 7 5800X.
It's got eight cores, 16 threads,
and actually slightly lower core clocks,
but it's got double the cash at 64 megs
thanks to AMDs 3D V cash technology,
which they first showed off at Computex 2021.
AMD claims this makes it the world's fastest gaming CPU,
which is a claim we'll have to verify for ourselves.
Right now, It seems more like a proof of concept
in response to Intel's recent successes,
more than anything else,
but at the end of the day,
that's what competition looks like. Isn't it?
Remember when Intel released the core, i9 9900 KS
to compete with Ryzen's first true overtake with Ryzen 3000?
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in order to get the best performance out of it.
- AMD may not be as desperate as team blue was back then,
but little moves like this are a way to stay competitive
while their real response is in the oven.
But why is AMD only launching one 3D V cash chip?
Two words, Zen 4 baby?
Get it, cause it's two words and a number?
Anyway, due out in the second half of 2022,
Zen 4 is AMD is true next gen
complete with a new socket, AM5,
and not much is known about
what Zen 4 looks like just yet.
Aside from that, it has a very interesting IHS design
and that it's confirmed
to be manufactured on five nanometers,
but we do know the new socket will be using a land grid
array like Intel has for so long.
And the platform will support PCI express gen five and DDR5
So, AMD will be right up there with Intel just in time for
DDR5 to hopefully it'd be worth buying.
We're not sure whether AMD is planning to split their CPU's
up into efficiency, cores,
and performance cores like Intel has been doing,
but chances are they're going to bed big on 3D V cash.
But as much as desktop Ryzen
is what everyone's excited about.
Mobile Ryzen is receiving a lot more updates.
I'll be it with a familiar problem.
On laptops, Ryzen 6000 is to be Zen 3+
Zen 3 with 50 new and enhanced
power management features added onto it.
AMD, please name desktop Zen for Ryzen 7000.
Don't make the Ryzen 3000 mistake again,
and buy a water bottle of milk TD store.com.
It doesn't matter what size, you just make weird decisions
when you're dehydrated. Ryzen 6000 mobile,
shouldn't be defined by potential naming conflicts though.
The integrated graphics has been updated from Radeon Vega
to RDNA 2 compute units that are, according to AMD,
double the performance of Ryzen 5000 mobile,
and even NVIDIA's MX450 supposedly falls behind the new APU.
I can believe that.
The Xbox series S runs 20 RDNA 2 compute units after all,
and from what AMD has shown 1080p low on AAA titles runs
around 40 FPS average on thin and light notebooks,
but it's not just about performance.
If you recall, Vega wasn't exactly a
power efficient architecture,
and AMD is claiming 30% lower power consumption
for video conferencing and a
whopping 40% improvement in streaming Netflix.
That equates to what AMD claims is a three hour battery
life improvement for up to 24 hours.
Couple that with DDR5 HTMI 2.1 USB4,
and even Microsoft's Pluton security silicon.
And you've got basically everything you'd want in a modern
laptop, at least on paper.
We'll see, starting in February,
also launching in February, are gaming laptops
with new Radeon dedicated mobile GPU's.
The new RX 6000S series tuned for power efficiency
and an updated RX 6000M lineup running with
higher clock speeds and faster memory
for what AMD is claiming a 14% or so performance
improvement on average,
look for the fifties in the mid range and high end
and look for the RX 6500M and 6300M on the low end.
The latter of which is supposedly
twice as fast as NVIDIA's G-Force MX 450.
That's not too surprising considering the RDNA 2 APUs
are already supposed to be as fast or faster than those,
So there you go. NVIDIA is on notice.
It's not the GPS themselves that are super exciting though.
It's how they integrate with
AMD's updated advantage platform,
which now stipulates the new Radeon graphics,
Ryzen 6000 processors and FreeSync premium
with 144 Hertz or faster full HD
and 120 Hertz or faster QHD in 4k displays.
So the refresh GPS will be connected
to some quality hardware, not only that,
but there's new smart technologies in the mix to.
Smartshift max, which is basically just version two of AMD's
dynamic power balancing feature for Ryzen
and Radeon mobile chips now works in more games,
and thanks to tweaks to it's, algorithm,
AMD claims that provides better results in the games
that it already did work with.
They say it's about twice as efficient as the original
version, which isn't bad for a 2.0,
they've paired this with
what they're calling Smartshift Eco,
which effectively forces games to run on the RDNA 2 APU
instead of the dedicated graphics
if the AC adapter is unplugged.
You can turn this on or off yourself,
but this streamlines the process of making sure that your
power settings are enforced.
When you launch a game on battery to improve endurance.
The final new smart technology is smart access graphics.
As we know, by now,
a MUX chip on a gaming laptop
is a must for best performance.
It switches the display between the integrated graphics
and dedicated graphics,
so they don't have to work through each other,
which improves performance and responsiveness in gaming
by up to around 15%.
And when you're not gaming,
connecting directly to the integrated graphics
improves power efficiency.
Saying then is basically an easy marketing
way to say that the laptops got one of these chips
automatically routing the display signal,
which is great because nobody else is doing that right now.
Some of the first laptops out of the new advantage program
with all of these new features will be Alienware M17 R5
and the ROG Zephyrus G14,
the latter of which now features a webcam.
And I believe we have a hands-on coming later this week.
So make sure you get subscribed so you don't miss it.
The final noteworthy announcement is AMD's next entry-level
GPU, the RX 6500 XT.
It's got a spicy 2.6 gigahertz game clock and a modest 16
compute units and 16 megs of infinity cash.
So you can expect 1080p
medium or high depending on the game.
And whether you want to use AMD's fidelity effect,
super resolution scaling algorithm,
which by the way,
will soon have a universal toggle in the driver in the
form of Radeon Super Resolution.
AMD claims about 20 to 60% more performance
compared to the GTX 1650,
and they say they're targeting people with
multi-generational old GPU's.
Emphasizing that it's priced aggressively
and being manufactured in high volumes.
We will see...
The release date is two weeks away on
January 19th with a suggested e-tailer price of $199,
which assuming you can actually buy one, might actually be
low enough to persuade many desperate gamers at this point.
That about wraps it up for AMD CES announcements.
I don't know about you,
but I cannot wait to get my hands on the 5800X 3D,
and then Zen 4 later this year.
Anything you're excited for?
Any bets on Intel's response, and pat Gelsinger?
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