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Announced just now during CES 2020, AMD have revealed their Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards aimed at being the "ultimate 1080p gaming experience". During the event, AMD showed some 1080p benchmarks across a bunch Windows games at "max settings", where it showed the Radeon RX 5600 XT beating an NVIDIA 1660Ti. Additionally, there will be a lower Radeon RX 5600 (no XT) model.

Specifications

Radeon RX 5600 XT Radeon RX 5600
Architecture: RDNA Architecture: RDNA
Compute Units: 36 Compute Units: 32
Stream Processors: 2304 Stream Processors: 2048
Clock
"up to" 1375MHz game
"up to" 1560MHz boost
Clock
"up to" 1375MHz game
"up to" 1560MHz boost
6GB GDDR6 6GB GDDR6

For availability, they're saying the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT will be available January 21st for $279, with the lower AMD Radeon RX 5600 expected within Q1 this year but no price mentioned. On top of that, they also stated that both the 5600M and 5700M mobile graphics chips will also start appearing in the first half of this year. If you value the open source drivers for AMD GPUs, the Radeon RX 5600 XT sounds like quite a tidy unit that would be good for some 1080p gaming.

Just before that though, they talked a bunch about the new AMD Ryzen 4000 U-Series (Zen 2, 7nm), their new mobile processors. The model mentioned on stage was the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U, but there's going to be a lot more in the series. AMD Ryzen 7 4800U specifications:

  • 8 cores and 16 threads
  • 1.8GHz base with a 4.2GHz boost
  • 8 Radeon Cores
  • 15W TDP

AMD CEO, Lisa Su, mentioned while on stage that the "8 Radeon Cores" have had a "tremendous amount of optimisation" with them being based on the Vega architecture but they have "59% more performance than the previous generation". Sounds like we're going to be seeing a lot of these mobile Ryzen units too! AMD CEO, Lisa Su, stated on stage across this year "100+" systems will be shipping in various form factors.

After that, the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H was announced with:

  • 8 cores and 16 threads.
  • 2.9GHz base with 4.2GHz boost clock.
  • 45W TDP.

They're claiming it offers desktop-level performance for mobile. They also showed a quick chart of the Ryzen 7 4800H stacked up against an Intel i7 9700k desktop processor, showing it performing better in the 3DMark FireStrike Physics benchmark. It's coming to various notebooks a bit later this year, Q2 was mentioned for at least one of them.

AMD ended it on quite a high note introducing the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X which will be available on February 7 this year. An absolute monster of a CPU, with AMD naturally keen to mention how they're again first at stuffing this many cores into a consumer CPU.

Specifications:

  • 64 cores and 128 threads
  • 2.9GHz base with 4.3GHz boost
  • 288MB total cache
  • 280W TDP

You can see the AMD CES 2020 event video here. I believe that covers all the most interesting stuff that AMD announced during their presentation today.

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ageres Jan 7, 2020
Quoting: Janne6GB is plenty enough for gaming.
No, it's not. I have GTX 1060, and its VRAM is exceeded by some games at max settings (RE2, Shadow of the TR). And that's at FHD resolution, I don't even mention QHD or 4k. VRAM capasity becomes a bottleneck, and you'll have to lower graphics settings to cope with it. But what's the point in buying a new expensive card if you can't play at max graphics settings?

AMD used to release cards with more VRAM than Nvidia, but now they don't, and I'm kinda disappointed. I'd wait for a card with, like, 12 GB or more.
Shmerl Jan 7, 2020
Quoting: ageresAMD used to release cards with more VRAM than Nvidia, but now they don't, and I'm kinda disappointed. I'd wait for a card with, like, 12 GB or more.

More VRAM is doable, but price will jump as well. Especially if it's HBM. So far GDDR and HBM especially didn't go down in price enough to allow more VRAM easily.


Last edited by Shmerl on 7 January 2020 at 4:36 am UTC
Pikolo Jan 7, 2020
The big news from this CES are the Radeon Mobile GPUs: 5600M and 5700M - AMD GPUs are comming back into midrange gaming laptops! And they have their own Optimus-like approach, which Mesa might hopefully be able to support
Shmerl Jan 7, 2020
Quoting: PikoloAnd they have their own Optimus-like approach, which Mesa might hopefully be able to support

Are they using 2 GPUs there? Why would they need something Optimus-like? And if anything, they are supporting PRIME, so you won't need anything special to use it in multi-GPU setup.
sub Jan 7, 2020
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: subNo big Navi announcement?
How disappointing. Really.
Especially as an announcement doesn't even mean it's around the corner.

They are likely still working on RDNA2. Would be nice to get something more powerful than 5700 XT, but not really at crazy prices that approach $1000. I suspect their immediate "big Navi" is aiming at replacing Radeon VII which is going to be very expensive.

I don't think RDNA2 for the next product lineup is not done yet.
Maybe it still needs tweaking on the driver side because of RT or whatever.
It's a pity...
Sounds like we won't get big Navi before autumn.
Pikolo Jan 7, 2020
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: PikoloAnd they have their own Optimus-like approach, which Mesa might hopefully be able to support

Are they using 2 GPUs there? Why would they need something Optimus-like? And if anything, they are supporting PRIME, so you won't need anything special to use it in multi-GPU setup.

They're trying to give their gaming laptops more power by making it use both the integrated and dedicated GPU, at the same time if I understand. They call it "Smart Shift" and it's the part I'm curious if Mesa can support it. Prime within Mesa obviously works.

Source: https://adoredtv.com/amd-ces-presentation-live-blog/
Arehandoro Jan 7, 2020
I'm usually in and out of the GPU news/market, usually only checking when I want to buy a new card or at big events. Some people mention in the comments RDNA2 as the big jump in performance... but that is exactly what people said about Navi.

Don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy with my 5700, but it seems we are always hoping for the next big thing due to unfulfilled expectations of current generation over and over.
Grimfist Jan 7, 2020
Quote"ultimate 1080p gaming experience"

* laughs in 1440p *

What are they thinking? 1080p is from 5 years ago, why infest in old stuff? Why no new cards for ultimate 2k or 4k experience? In this sector NVidia is still the way to go sadly
ageres Jan 7, 2020
Quoting: GrimfistWhat are they thinking? 1080p is from 5 years ago, why infest in old stuff?
Steam stats:
Quote1280 x 1024 1.23%
1360 x 768 1.29%
1366 x 768 8.60%
1920 x 1080 69.27% +4.64%
2560 x 1440 6.74% +1.25%
3840 x 2160 1.51% -0.33%
Any questions?
tuubi Jan 7, 2020
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Quoting: Grimfist
Quote"ultimate 1080p gaming experience"

* laughs in 1440p *

What are they thinking? 1080p is from 5 years ago, why infest in old stuff? Why no new cards for ultimate 2k or 4k experience? In this sector NVidia is still the way to go sadly
The 5700 (XT) they brought out months ago was aimed at 1440p.

And I'm happily using one for 1080p gaming BTW.
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