AMD Discloses RDNA 2 Graphics, CDNA Data Center GPUs, Next-Gen Zen

"At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD disclosed additional details regarding its next generation CPU and GPU architectures," writes Slashdot reader MojoKid: - While the company isn't ready to disclose concrete details yet, AMD is promising that Navi 2X will arrive this year and deliver "enthusiast-class" performance, excellent power efficiency, and "top-of-stack" GPUs with "uncompromising 4K gaming".

- While AMD has RDNA for its gaming-centric consumer GPUs, the company is shifting to a new GPU compute architecture, dubbed CDNA, for its High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Machine Learning (ML) accelerators. CDNA has been designed from the ground-up for ML/HPC applications, and will leverage what AMD calls its second-generation Infinity Architecture interconnects.

- AMD also reiterated that its first Zen 3-based products will be rolling out later this year. On the server side, this means EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors, but the company also revealed that Zen 3 client processors would also arrive by the end of 2020.

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[An0nYm0u5c0wArD]

Why? What game(s) can't you play now?

I decided long ago to never upgrade until I hit a performance bottleneck where I can't play a game I want to play. Even then, I look at the realistic benchmarks to see if the upgrade is really going to make a significant difference.

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[Z80a]

Unlike with intel chips, AMD tends to use the same socket for a while.

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[Osgeld]

yea you know they are not even going to have engineering samples until like the end of this year, whew close call dodged a bullet by a couple years

Will it come with the tools?

[guruevi]

The primary reason we are still on nVidia's with Tesla cards is the toolset is a lot more complete and as a result much more things have been integrated.

AMD's GPU although better from a pure cost/performance simply points at OpenCL and says: well you figure it out. Their community support even if you buy several thousands worth of hardware.

And OpenCL is not for the faint-hearted, almost entirely designed by committee, it requires a deep understanding of C whereas CUDA integrations and examples with MATLAB, Python abound and if you're stuck, nVidia has data scientists you can ask for help.

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[account_deleted]

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Sounds like you need a LLVM compiler...

[BAReFO0t]

... from script kiddie to competent programmer.

Granted, if nVidia provides that, you got a point ... in your world at least.

But C isn't exactly a big and complex language anyway. It is very simple and basic and neat for low-level stuff, and easier to learn than many scripting languages.
(The libraries are a different story.)

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[fazig]

Yeah, I'm in a similar position with an AMD CPU, but still on an nVidia GPU. And that likely won't change.
I need those things for work on the side. There I simply don't have the time to bother with driver issues and OpenCL support and fix it myself while nVidia can throw tons of money for CUDA or their OptiX support in various applications that I use. What nVidia provides saves me money and a lot of frustration in the long run despite lower cost/raw-performance of their actual graphics card.

It's a shame

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[Tough Love]

AMD's GPU although better from a pure cost/performance...

Better cost/performance sounds good to me.

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[thegarbz]

That's the primary reason? AMD has nothing that touches NVIDIA on the top end. Fantastic tools won't change that. Maybe RDNA2 will but I'm skeptical of their claims on the GPU side.

CPUs are a different story though.

Small devices need love too

[majorme]

I bought a couple of 3700x, a 2500u, and soon at least one mobile APU when they finally hit the market later this year. But as much as I love beefy CPUs, I also love my Raspberry Pi. It would great if AMD decides to release a nice toy in this segment. There have been a few industrial NUC like devices using whatever they named their embedded Ryzens but these are unreasonably expensive (for my toying) and very hard to find. AMD has so much to offer but they're not big enough to bother with each and every l

Fuck AMD

[Billly Gates]

They can take their shitty hot hardware with their basement grade drivers and shove it up where my former 5700xt doesn't shine. If you love constant black screens, fps drops, fans not turning on until it overheats at 110c, bsods then Navi is right for you.

Nvidia is well worth the $140 to $200 premium for their excellent drivers

The 5x0 & 4x0 lines are perfectly stable

[rsilvergun]

and they've had 2 new driver releases that fix most of the black screen issues.

AMD does have some partner board quality problems though. Asus put out a completely broken cooler solution for their high end 5700 XT. They used cheap mounting hardware and the heat sink didn't stay on board. The fix (besides buying XFX, Powercolor or Saphire) was some washers to make the connection tighter.

All that said, AMD just did a new architecture. This kind of thing happens whenever anyone does that, including nVid

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[Billly Gates]

Funny my 2070Super that replaced doesn't have these problems. It's AMDs fault if after 6 months they can't even produce a stable product. I now on team green and WILL NEVER buy an AMD GPU again after this 5700xt fiasco. Gamers only use Intel/Nvidia for a reason even if they are greedy assholes. I used AMD products since they were ATI. Yes Catalyst was just bad but this doesn't even work. It's unacceptable and should be recalled.

That's fine

[rsilvergun]

Like I said, nVidia fixes things faster than AMD because they've got more market share, leading to faster turn around on fixes since they've got more reports to work off of.

That said, I buy last years tech at best. I bought my 580 after the bubble burst on the bitcoin mining market. If you're behind the curve like me then you still end up with pretty stable drivers. I spent 60 hours on Far Cry 4 with zero crashes. I've got 8 hours in Star Ocean 4, a pretty obscure game, and again, no crashes. But then I

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[Osgeld]

oh sounds like someone is a complete dipshit

I have am announcement too!

[BAReFO0t]

I announce that somewhere in the future, I will make an announcement!
In which I will announce how much I hate announcements of future announcements!

stop auto refresh on Firefox Android

[aRTeeNLCH]

Whilst trying to read that story, the hot hardware site insisted to reload about 5 times. No way to shut that off, I already added the accessibility.blockautorefresh true parameter to the about:config settings to no avail.

It's really shitty when I load up a bunch of pages on fast WiFi, then move about and find my reading material just disappeared... But even just reading it normally, it's really annoying to wait for the reloading and rendering of the exact same page.

On topic, wish I had kept the shares