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AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019

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Something that could be rather exciting for AMD enthusiasts, AMD has officially revealed the AMD Radeon VII at CES 2019. On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming.

Getting ahead of the curve a little here, the Radeon VII is built on 7nm which makes it the first consumer-level GPU to be built with it which is interesting. AMD say it's built on an "enhanced second-generation AMD ‘Vega’ architecture" and it seems it will be a decent boost over the current Radeon RX Vega 64.

When compared directly with the RX Vega 64, AMD said it performed up to 27% higher in Blender, up to 27% higher in DaVinci Resolve and they saw up to 62% higher performance in the OpenCL LuxMark compute benchmark.

Some more specs:

  • 60 compute units
  • 3840 stream processors running at up to 1.8GHz
  • 16GB of HBM2 memory (second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory)
  • 1 TB/s memory bandwidth
  • 4,096-bit memory interface

When it comes to gaming, that was also mentioned as well of course. It's nice to see Vulkan mentioned along side DirectX too! Naturally, they're only going for big Windows games right now but they did say it offered "35 percent higher performance in Battlefield V, and up to 42 percent higher performance in Strange Brigade 1" over the Vega 64 which is quite impressive.

The Radeon VII will be available February 7, 2019 for around $699 USD.

Additionally, they've teamed up with Google to power Project Stream, Googles new cloud gaming service using their Radeon Pro GPUs.

On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming. They will also be built on 7nm tech, based on the Zen 2 core architecture and AMD say it's the "world's first" to support PCIe 4.0 connectivity. Sounds like it's going to be a beast, as they did a preview of it against an Intel i9 9900k where the Ryzen processor came out on top while also using around 30% less power.

They're launching the AMD Ryzen 3000 series sometime in the middle of 2019.

For notebook/laptop users, they also revealed the 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Mobile processor with Radeon Vega Graphics coming to a range of devices from companies like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Huawei, Lenovo and Samsung throughout 2019.

You can see their CES 2019 video here.

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Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
Quoting: GuestFirst generation Ryzens processors are stable with correct Bios settings. Most motherboard vendors have updated AGESA.

It was for me and I replaced it anyway, since it eats more power with those "fixes". But for some even latest AGESA and UEFI didn't help. So my general advise is to avoid broken hardware. Second generation Ryzens already don't have that problem.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 January 2019 at 2:06 am UTC
Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
Ryzen 2 is fine. But I'd recommend avoiding Asus motherboards indeed. They aren't a very good option.
Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
Quoting: GuestAsus makes the best quality PC components.

Quite mediocre motherboards if you ask me. If you want something better for AMD, try Asrock (which split off from Asus).


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 January 2019 at 7:03 am UTC
Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
Quoting: Guest2 years warranty here, no thanks.

Warranty doesn't mean much, when they stop updating their firmware way too early.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 January 2019 at 7:07 am UTC
Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
That's because AMD pushed them to do it. Asus are known for dropping support way too early.
Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
That doesn't change the the fact, that others offer longer support.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 January 2019 at 7:20 am UTC
Shmerl Jan 15, 2019
I'm done here, you aren't listening anyway.
Creak Jan 17, 2019
Maybe try sourcing what you're saying. We wouldn't have this kind of "yes. no. yes. no. yes. no" conversation that is quite useless for us, other readers receiving the notifications.

You're fighting on your beliefs, so you'll never agree for sure.
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