Using a 7nm manufacturing process and based on the company’s new ‘Zen 2’ x86 core architecture that they use for their server-grade Epyc processors, AMD said their 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs will “absolutely set the bar on performance, technology and power efficiency".
AMD held a live demo of the Cinebench R15 benchmark to show it in action, pitting their unnamed 8-core / 16-thread 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU against Intel’s Core i9-9900K at its stock frequency of 3.6GHz (which is still a 14nm CPU). The results were pretty impressive. As well as completing the benchmark faster, resulting in a score of 2057 compared to Intel’s 2040, the Ryzen also did it using far less power – 133W vs 180W, which is around 30% lower.
Dr. Lisa Su also showed the CPU itself, and discussed how it was different from any other AMD chips you may have seen. It consists of a larger and a smaller die, with the smaller die actually containing the eight 7-nanometer 8 cores (with 16 threads), and the larger die being the input/output module. That allowed the company to make the chip compatible with current AM4 motherboards, so to upgrade, you'll just need to swap out the chip.
The Radeon VII is the consumer incarnation of AMD’s previously teased 7nm Vega GPU variant, now rebranded to show off the new process technology. The chip contains 60 compute units, putting it between the counts of the Radeon Vega 56 and Vega 64, with 25 % more performance at the same power.
The memory has been dramatically increased as well, with 16 GB of integrated memory, 1 terabyte of memory bandwidth and 30 % more performance in content creation. This card should scream in GPU compute tasks.
Naturally, gaming performance will significantly improve as well. AMD showed Radeon VII easily surpassing 60 frames per second in Devil May Cry 5, although that game hasn’t been released yet, so it’s hard to draw comparisons.
AMD also provided some slides with harder performance numbers. Radeon VII looks to be significantly faster than the original Vega 64. Su also showed the new Radeon trading blows with Nvidia’s $700 GeForce RTX 2080 in Battlefield V in DirectX 12 and Far Cry 5 in DX11, and blowing past it in Strange Brigade’s Vulkan modes.
The Radeon VII will cost $699 when it launches on February 7, and will includes three free games—The Division 2, Devil May Cry 5, and Resident Evil 2.
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