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Submission + - AMD Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs Launched: Ryzen 9 7950X3D Offers Big Gains And Efficiency (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: At CES 2023, AMD unveiled an array of Ryzen 7000 series Zen 4 processors, including new gaming-targeted X3D models that featured integrated 3D V-Cache, similar to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The processors go on sale tomorrow, but review embargos for AMD's latest socket AM5 flagship, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, lifted today. As its name implies, the new Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a similar core configuration to the existing Ryzen 9 7950X (16-cores/32-threads), but this specialized CPU also packs an additional 64MB of 3D V-Cache, fused to one of its 8-core compute core dies (CCD). The CCD without 3D V-Cache operates like a standard AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, while the 3D V-Cache enabled CCD will have a more conservative voltage and frequency curve. Gaming performance received a massive boost with this new CPU, while multi-threaded content creation tests are roughly in-line with the standard 7950X. Power efficiency also shows a large, measurable improvement due to the chip relying less often on system memory.

Submission + - AMD Unveils RDNA 3-Based Radeon RX 7900 XTX And 7900 XT Graphics Cards (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: At its Together We Advance_Gaming launch event today, AMD took the wraps off two new high-end PC gaming graphics cards called Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT. Priced at $999 and $899 respectively and available in December this year, the new Radeon cards are expected to go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090. AMD states that its goals for RDNA 3 are to accelerate performance-per-watt leadership and to raise the bar for high resolution and high framerate gaming. AMD has turned to a chiplet architecture to accomplish these goals, a first for gaming GPUs. The chiplet complexes consist of a 5nm graphics compute die (GCD), which is flanked top and bottom by up to six 6nm memory and cache dice (MCD). The RX 7900 XTX uses the full complement of 6 MCDs which aggregates as a 384-bit memory bus (64-bit per die) with GDDR6 memory offering 20Gbps of throughput. The RX 7900 XT uses 5 MCDs with a corresponding 320-bit bus. All of this increased bandwidth and resources translates to what AMD claims is up to a 1.7X uplift in performance for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX versus its previous gen Radeon RX 6950 XT card in high resolution gaming. This could put the card within striking distance of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 possibly, but it's hard to say until cards ship to independent reviewers for testing. Regardless, gamers will appreciate the RX 7900 XTX's price point versus NVIDIA's $1600 top-end beast.

Submission + - Intel Arc A770 And A750 Lifted For Independent Reviews And Benchmarks (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: After years of leaks and official disclosures, independent review publishers were finally able to put Intel's first discrete desktop GPUs for PC gamers, the Arc A750 and A770, to the test. With Arc A770 Limited Edition, Intel's ACM-G10 GPU is fully enabled, with all 8 render slices, featuring 32 Xe cores, 32 Ray Tracing Units, and 512 XMX Engines (for AI workloads). The GPU is linked to 16GB of GDDR6 memory running at 17.5Gbps, over a 256-bit interface, for 560GB/s of peak bandwidth. Arc A750 is fundamentally similar to the A770, but its GPU has one render slice disabled, bringing its Xe Cores down to 28, with 28 Ray Tracing Units, and 448 XMX Engines. It too has a 256-bit memory interface, but with only 8GB of 16Gbps GDDR6 attached, memory bandwidth equates to 512GB/s peak. The cards do look great, with premium build quality and RGB lighting on board. In the benchmarks, Intel's Arc cards struggled in DX11 tests relative to the competition, but with DX12 titles and with ray tracing enabled, the Intel Arc A750 and A770 compete favorably with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 and AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT. Arc A750 and A770 LE cards will be ready at retail in the coming week, starting at $289 and $329, respectively.

Submission + - AMD Details RDNA 3 Graphics, Zen 4 Performance And Phoenix Point Laptop Products (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD unveiled new details of its technology roadmap yesterday at its 2022 Financial Analyst Day. Chief among them were disclosures on the company's next-gen RDNA 3 GPU architecture, Zen 4 CPU architecture and Phoenix Point laptop SoC. AMD's new RDNA 3 GPU architecture for Radeon graphic cards and mobile will be a chiplet-based design, much like the company's Ryzen CPU offering. AMD also confirmed that RDNA 3 GPUs would be fabricated on a 5nm process, likely TSMC N5. The company continued to note that an "optimized graphics pipeline" will enable yet higher clock rates, while the GPU's "rearchitected compute unit" will have ray-tracing performance improvements over RDNA 2 as well. AMD says that RDNA 3 GPUs are coming later this year, with RDNA 4 arriving likely in late 2023. Meanwhile, AMD's Zen 4 is set to be the "world's first 5nm CPU," arriving later this year with a 10 percent IPC lift and greater than 15 percent single-threaded performance gain. Zen 4 will also support DDR5, AVX-512 extensions for AI workloads and a massive 125 percent increase in memory bandwidth. AMD is claiming a 35% multithreaded performance lift for Zen 4, and its Phoenix Point laptop platform SoC will be both Zen 4 and RNDA 3 infused. This is a first for AMD, since typically its laptop product's integrated graphics trail the company's current-gen GPU architecture by at least a generation. Phoenix point is set to arrive likely in the first half of 2023.

Comment Re:What kind of demo is this? (Score 1) 59

by MojoKid (#62560000) Attached to: AMD Ryzen 7000 Smokes Alder Lake In Computex Keynote Zen 4 Tease
It's basically the fastest desktop CPU Intel has to offer currently versus AMD's next gen Ryzen 7000. The Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU is a 8+6 configuration with 14 cores, 8 Performance cores (P-Cores) that support Hyperthreading and 6 Efficiency cores (E-Cores) that are single threaded, for 24 threads of throughput. In short, AMD is comparing the performance versus Intel's current fastest desktop CPU. Well almost the fastest except for the 12900KS, which just a few clock ticks up and a specialty chip of sorts, currently.

Submission + - Intel Enters Discrete GPU Market With Launch Of Arc A-Series For Laptops (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Today Intel finally launched its first major foray into discrete GPUs for gamers and creators. Dubbed Intel Arc A-Series and comprised of 5 different chips built on two different Arc Alchemist SoCs, the company announced its entry level Arc 3 Graphics is shipping in market now with laptop OEMs delivering new all-Intel products shortly. The two SoCs set the foundation across three performance tiers, including Arc 3, Arc 5, and Arc 7. For example, Arc A370M arrives today with 8 Xe cores, 8 ray tracing units, 4GB of GDDR6 memory linked to a 64-bit memory bus, and a 1,550MHz graphics clock. Graphics power is rated at 35-50W. However, Arc A770M, Intel's highest-end mobile GPU will come with 32 Xe cores, 32 ray tracing units, 16GB of GDDR 6 memory over a 256-bit interface and with a 1650MHz graphics clock. Doing the math, Arc A770M could be up to 4X more powerful than Arc 370M. In terms of performance, Intel showcased benchmarks from a laptop outfitted with a Core i7-12700H processor and Arc A370M GPU that can top the 60 FPS threshold at 1080p in many games where integrated graphics could come up far short. Examples included Doom Eternal (63 fps) at high quality settings, and Hitman 3 (62 fps), and Destiny 2 (66 fps) at medium settings. Intel is also showcasing new innovations for content creators as well, with its Deep Link, Hyper Encode and AV1 video compression support offering big gains in video upscaling, encoding and streaming. Finally, Intel Arc Control software will offer unique features like Smooth Sync that blends tearing artifacts when V-Synch is turned off, as well as Creator Studio with background blur, frame tracking and broadcast features for direct game streaming services support.

Submission + - Intel Alder Lake-H Mobile CPU Performance Impresses, Handily Bests Ryzen Mobile (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Intel lifted its performance embargo today on its new line of Alder Lake 12th Gen Core mobile processors for laptops. Reviews are hitting the web specifically with Intel's higher-end Alder Lake-H processor SKU. Alder Lake is intended to be a single, scalable CPU architecture, designed to address PC client platforms from ultra-mobile solutions down to 9 watts, up to high-performance 125 Watt+ desktop solutions. Alder Lake-H, the foundation of the Core i9-12900HK 14-core/20-thread chip in this review at HotHardware has a 45W power envelope, but it will boost to much higher levels when power and thermal headroom is available. Coupled with NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti mobile GPU, the machine put up some of the gaming and content creation benchmark numbers ever recorded on a laptop. Alder Lake-H CPU derivatives will scale back to 8-core chips with a mix of Performance cores and Efficiency cores consistent with Intel's new hybrid architecture. Additional benchmarks and performance recorded on the new Alienware x17 R2 with an identical hardware config were equally as impressive. Intel 12th Gen-powered laptops are starting to become available in market now, with lower power Alder Lake-U SKUs for thin and light machines arriving later this year.

Submission + - Intel's Alder Lake Reviewed: 12th Gen Core Processors Bring Fight Back To AMD (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: After months of speculation and early look teases, Intel's 12th Gen Core processors are finally ready for prime time. Today marks the embargo lift for independent reviews of Alder Lake and it's clear Chipzilla is back and bringing the fight again versus chief rival AMD. Intel 12th Gen Core processors incorporate two new CPU core designs, dubbed Efficiency (E-core) and Performance (P-core). In addition to this new hybrid core architecture, 12th Gen Core processors and the Z690 motherboard chipset platform also feature support for the latest memory and IO technologies, including PCI Express Gen 5, DDR5, Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E. The new Core i9-12900K features a monolithic, 16-core (24-thread) die with 8 Performance cores and 8 Efficiency cores, while the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores / 16-threads, comprised of 6 P-cores and 4 E-cores. Alder Lake E-cores don't support HyperThreading but P-cores can process two threads simultaneously while E-cores can manage only one, hence the asymmetric core counts. In the benchmarks, the 16-core Core i9-12900K doesn't sweep AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X across the board in multi-threaded tests, but it certainly competes very well and notches plenty of victories. In the lightly-threaded tests though, it's a much clearer win for Intel and gaming is an obvious strong point as well. Alder Lake's performance cores are as fast as they come. The $589 (MSRP) 16-core Core i9-12900K competes well with the $750 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X, and the $289 10-core Core i5-12600K has a lower MSRP than a $299 6-core Ryzen 5 5600X. The new Core i5's power and performance look great too, especially when you consider this $289 chip outruns Intel's previous-gen flagship Core i9-11900K more often than not, and it smokes a Ryzen 5 5600X.

Submission + - Intel Unveils Alder Lake 12th Gen Core Series With Big Performance Claims Vs AMD (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: At its inaugural InnovatiON event, which kicked off this morning, Intel revealed a number of additional details regarding its upcoming 12th Gen Core processors, codenamed Alder Lake, including new feature and platform details, and the entire 12th Gen Core processor lineup -– complete with pricing. Intel's 12th Gen Core processor platform, spearheaded by the flagship Core i9-12900K, will include support for new technologies, like Dynamic Memory Boost (which is essentially turbo boost for memory) and XMP 3.0, for more robust, user-friendly memory tuning. An array of new overclocking related features were disclosed as well. Some expected performance versus competitive AMD offerings and previous-gen Intel Core processors was also shown, and it paints an interesting picture. Single-threaded performance, especially on the new Performance cores, looks strong and multi-threaded performance appears to be competitive as well, across an array of workloads, especially gaming, where Intel claims Alder Lake will be fastest CPU on the market.

Submission + - Intel Details Ambitious Product Execution And Roadmaps At Architecture Day 2021 (hothardware.com) 1

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Earlier this week, Intel held its Architecture Day 2021. During the event, Raja Koduri and a bevy of Intel engineers and architects disclosed significant new details regarding Alder Lake, two new x86 core architectures — Performance-core and Efficiency-core, its new Thread Director workload scheduler, next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable Processors, new infrastructure processing units (IPU), and upcoming graphics architectures, including the Xe HPG and Xe HPC microarchitectures, that will power the Alchemist Intel Arc GPUs and Ponte Vecchio SoCs. There is a host of information in this deep dive, which includes future product and microarchitecture details, expected performance for a number of products, and new feature disclosures like XeSS, which is Intel's answer to NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR. The company seems to be back on track with better product execution overall, and an aggressive roadmap in its key markets.

Submission + - SPAM: AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT Launched To Compete Versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD officially unveiled the Radeon RX 6600 XT in late July but the cards have officially launched today, aimed at 1080p gaming. In a review at HotHardware, PowerColor is offering both a high-end Radeon RX 6600 XT Red Devil and its somewhat more mainstream "Fighter" branded counterpart, for example. Whereas AMD's reference Radeon RX 6600 XT offers a Game clock up to 2359MHz and a Boost clock of 25895MHz, the PowerColor Red Devil peaks at 2428MHz (Game) and 2607MHz (Boost). Those higher GPU clocks result in higher compute performance and fillrate, etc., but the memory configuration and frequency are the same — so in memory bandwidth constrained situations, performance won't be all that much different. Performance-wise, with most game titles that use traditional rasterization, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is clearly faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 and previous-gen cards like the Radeon RX 5700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060 Super. However, when you factor ray tracing into the equation, NVIDIA has a distinct and significant advantage still. The Radeon RX 6600 XT Fighter should sell for at or close to its $379 MSRP and PowerColor says that they should be readily available for gamers to purchase today.
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Submission + - AMD Ryzen 5000G Series Launches With Integrated Graphics At Value Price Points (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD is taking the wraps off of its latest integrated processors known as Ryzen 7 5700G and the Ryzen 5 5600G. As their branding suggests, these new products are based on the same excellent AMD Zen 3 core architecture, but with integrated graphics capabilities on board as well, hence the "G" designation. AMD is targeting more mainstream applications with these chips. The Ryzen 7 5700G is an 8-core / 16-thread CPU with 4MB of L2 cache and 16MB of L3. Those CPU cores are mated to an 8 CU (Compute Unit) Radeon Vega graphics engine, and it has 24 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 connectivity. The 5700G's base CPU clock is 3.8GHz, with a maximum boost clock of 4.6GHz. The on-chip GPU can boost up to 2GHz, which is a massive uptick from the 1.4GHz of previous-gen 3000-series APUs. The Ryzen 5 5600G takes things down a notch with 6 CPU cores (12 threads) and a smaller 3MB L2 cache while L3 cache size remains unchanged. The 5600G's iGPU is scaled down slightly as well with only 7 CUs. At 3.9GHz, the 5600G's base CPU clock is 100MHz higher than the 5700G's, but its max boost lands at 4.4GHz with a slightly lower GPU boost clock of 1.9GHz. In the benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 7 5700G both offer enough multi-threaded muscle for the vast majority of users, often besting similar Intel 11th Gen Core series chips, with highly competitive single-thread performance as well.

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