Another quarterly earnings report is out from AMD, along with the usual conference call and it seems all is going well over in camp AMD.
In a somewhat stark contrast to the recent Intel announcements, that 10nm is still some ways off and 7nm based CPUs have been delayed further, AMD are showing off how confident they are in their own tech. In their Q1 earnings report, AMD confirmed that RDNA 2 and Zen 3 on track for this year and they've pretty much just reiterated that for the Q2 report that went up on July 28. During the Q2 report, AMD CEO Lisa Su said:
While there continues to be some macroeconomic uncertainty and pockets of demand softness, our product portfolio is very strong, and our markets are resilient. We are on track to deliver strong growth in the second half of the year driven by our current product portfolio and initial shipments of our next-generation Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs that are on track to launch in late 2020.
Zen 4 was also mentioned, although only very briefly on that they're 'in development' on it.
You can see the AMD revenue report here, and the conference call here which remains up for ~12 months.
As for what's next for AMD? They previously confirmed that we'll be seeing Zen 4 CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs before 2022 so there's a huge amount of hardware coming up in the next few years to be excited about.
In related AMD news, a System76 engineer is currently porting over coreboot to newer Zen CPUs and Valve has contracted another developer to work on open source AMD GPU drivers.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Koopacabras Jul 30, 2020
Quoting: MohandevirProbably what will replace the actual RX 5600 XT
the 5600 xt is quite nice, half the power of a rx 570, and double the frames!! I believe it's 30-40% faster than a 580, not bad. Probably the next iteration will be like having two 580.
Quoting: MohandevirIt seems there are brands specialized in Nvidia and brands specialized in AMD... From what I get, MSI is in the Nvidia camp.
Yes, Sapphire is the primary AMD partner.
Quoting: Duke TakeshiCan't buy an AMD GPU as I'm doing machine learning and Nvidia cards are much better at that. So I'm waiting for the new Nvidia GPU series. For CPUs it's getting more interesting. I want to buy a complete new PC setup and since I guess a lot of gamers will upgrade their PCs for Cyberpunk 2077, I'd like to buy stuff sooner rather than later, but I think I will at least wait for the Zen 3 CPUs to release (and buy all the other stuff like mainboard, RAM etc. soon).
Yes, this is very annoying. Their whole ROCm stack for machine learning and GPU Computing is not intuitive at all, and still suffers from a lot of issues. It's painful to install (it also installs to the /opt/ folder even when using the package manager), you get no guarantees it will work on anything that isn't the exact distro they want, it's only partially open source (apparently), it's not compatible with all their GPUs that have compute (because they prioritize the needs of specific customers), there's little documentation on how to get it to work (and it doesn't seem to be up to date), and most tools don't support it directly.
I wanted to use it to accelerate one of my machine learning projects and I just couldn't get it to work at all.
I just don't get how they expect it to ever be successful if it's this annoying to get it to work. A tool devs can't play with beforehand is a tool no one will use.
And even if people point out that NVIDIA's stack isn't exactly easy to use, if I have to choose between the user hostile but well supported stack and the user hostile AND poorly supported stack, then it's kind of an easy choice.
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