During its financial analyst day 2020, AMD shared some new details about its RDNA 2 GPUs. Similarly to RDNA, AMD targets a 50% performance per watt improvement. Although it’s unknown at this point whether the red team will be able to deliver, its current plan is to hit that huge performance increase.
With RDNA 2, AMD promises to improve performance per clock (also known as IPC). Furthermore, the red team will bring logic enhancements by reducing complexity and switching power. Naturally, there will also be physical optimizations that will result in increased clock speeds.
Regarding Ray Tracing, AMD confirmed that its RDNA 2 graphics cards will support hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing. AMD also re-confirmed that its RDNA 2 GPUs will have a similar architecture on both consoles and PCs. AMD hopes that this will simplify development and speed adoption. Moreover, RDNA 2 GPUs will support low-level APIs for improved performance. This low-level API will be the DXR 1.1 API.
As AMD’s David Wang said:
“We have developed all-new hardware-accelerated ray tracing as part of RDNA 2. It is a common architecture used in next-generation game consoles. With that, you will greatly simplify the content development that developers can develop for one platform and easily port it to the other.
We also provide lower-level API support that gives more control to the developers so that they can extract more performance from the underlying hardware platform. This will help mitigate the performance concerns of ray tracing.”
Last but not least, AMD has re-confirmed that its RDNA 2 GPUs will come out later this year!
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I hope they’re right. They already gave Intel much-needed competition, now it’s time for nvidia to feel some heat in the high-end GPU market
nvidia have always have high expectation of AMD. if there is a need they can even speed up their next next gen deployment to counter the threat. take example of volta. the GPU was supposed not to coming out in 2018 but nvidia end up releasing it in mid 2017 to replace GP100 at the time that only one years old on the market. volta coming out so soon because at the time nvdia try to neutralize google Tensor processing unit (TPU) which google release at the end of 2016.
nvidia have always have high expectation of AMD. if there is a need they can even speed up their next next gen deployment to counter the threat. take example of volta. the GPU was supposed not to coming out in 2018 but nvidia end up releasing it in mid 2017 to replace GP100 at the time that only one years old on the market. volta coming out so soon because at the time nvdia try to neutralize google Tensor processing unit (TPU) which google release at the end of 2016.
I’d happily jump ship to AMD, should they deliver. Already dumped Intel for CPU, make me dump Nvidia.
Zero brand loyalty here. Just make something better than the competition.
Same here, but recent amd drivers arent giving me hope
With their latest drivers they did amazing job. My 5700xt is like a new card.
I’ll take your word for it
Yeah they fixed a sh*t-ton of issues, I just installed the new driver 10mins ago, so I can’t really say yet.
I hope you’re right.
Yea yea yea i’ll believe it when i’ll see it.
Yea yea yea i’ll believe it when i’ll see it.
It seems a future dual-fan RDNA graphics card was also teased. BIG NAVI or some other future high-end RDNA 2 card I presume ?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fcb7e9525474d1fd06339ae57779d0e638e1b728e33ed333530d99b8ee00fd4e.jpg
Apart from that, AMD also confirmed that Zen 3 will release in 2020, that Zen 4 will be built on a 5nm process and that RDNA 3 arch is also in the works.
“AMD also re-confirmed that its RDNA 2 GPUs will have a similar architecture on both consoles and PCs. AMD hopes that this will simplify development and speed adoption.”
this is the direct benefit of having GPU on console. but it can be a disadvantage as well when AMD is locked into one architecture for the entire console generation like GCN. in the end nvidia beat AMD purely using brute force (faster raw performance) because nvidia have more freedom in making drastic changes to their architecture while AMD cannot do big changes because it will negate the benefit from console.
DLSS is not part of direct x. RTX is different. RTX is fully compliant with DXR. when game developer use DXR then it will utilize nvidia RTX. there is no need for nvidia to pay game developer to use their RTX since DXR took care all that hassle for them.
also nvidia support their cards just fine. people often are confusing about hardware feature and support.
“AMD also re-confirmed that its RDNA 2 GPUs will have a similar architecture on both consoles and PCs. AMD hopes that this will simplify development and speed adoption.”
this is the direct benefit of having GPU on console. but it can be a disadvantage as well when AMD is locked into one architecture for the entire console generation like GCN. in the end nvidia beat AMD purely using brute force (faster raw performance) because nvidia have more freedom in making drastic changes to their architecture while AMD cannot do big changes because it will negate the benefit from console.
They must have something magic up their sleeves if the Xbox X series can do 12 teraflops on an APU.
Next-gen consoles likely use multi-chip modules instead of APUs.
I just wish they’d have a good recorder, Shadowplay is literally a hardware seller…amd’s screen recorder doesn’t work half the time.
Shadowplay is nice for sure, just a heads up you can get bandicam for like $30 and it’s pretty awesome. Yes I know it’s not free but in case AMD turns out to have an insane GPU it is easy to get this software if your into that sort of thing.
I have a 1080 Ti and plan to get a 3080 Ti but if AMD hits it out of the park you can easily use this software if you need it. The only reason I know about it is because I used it a long time before Shadowplay was a thing.
Hardware seller? You can use MSI Afterburner to record gameplay videos just fine.
John I think you meant adoption speed not “speed adoption”.
or maybe “speed up it’s adoption”
I’ll only jump ship when they deliver me a high end GPU, that’s better than the entire RTX series, better than my 1080ti (which already beats half the RTX series), competes with Nvidia’s 3000 series, but obviously costs less than Nvidia, because we all know Nvidia like to over charge for what is actually worth something.
I don’t see that happening though.
Also improved software. GFE has actually grown on me, and I wanna see AMD really catch up to that sooner, rather than later.
AMD’s problem isn’t performance, or at least it’s not even remotely the main one…
Seems like it to me, going via their supposed “high end” cards.
Performance is there, instability and driver problems too, those are their main problem.
So if their drivers are there, they’ll cripple Nvidia tenfold?.
because it’s either they take over or nada for me. I want to see better performance metrics.
No they won’t do anything better than nvidia probably, but at least be competitive, unlike now.
Then I guess I’ll likely ,be waiting for the Nv 3000 series then.
What a jumbled, incoherent mess of an argument.
What a jumbled, incoherent mess of an argument.
Title is misleading.
It’s perf-per-watt
https://wccftech.com/amd-xbox-series-x-ps5-rdna-2-ray-tracing-revealed/
Hello JOHN,
Some fresh news..Slightly OFF Topic…Even though it’s posted by WCCF, but this leak/rumor seems legit. WCCF’s has inside sources in the TECH industry…
So they have been correct in the past as we..
AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Zen 3 Vermeer’ Desktop CPU & Radeon RX Navi 2X ‘RDNA 2’ Graphics Cards Expected To Launch in October 2020.
AMD announced its brand new Zen 3 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU architectures which would end up powering its next-generation desktop Ryzen 4000 processors and Radeon RX Navi 2X graphics cards at FAD 2020. Now reports from one of our sources suggest that both the desktop CPU & graphics cards are scheduled for launch in October of 2020.
AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Zen 3 Vermeer’ CPUs & Radeon RX Navi 2X ‘RDNA 2’ GPUs Expected For Desktop Launch in October 2020
According to the source, the announcement for the Zen 3 based Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ CPUs and the RDNA 2 based Radeon RX Navi 2x graphics cards would be held prior to their release so we’re looking at either an August or September as an announcement platform but the most surprising thing to hear is both the CPU & GPUs would launch simultaneously.
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-4000-zen-3-cpu-and-radeon-rx-navi-2x-gpu-launch-october-2020/
It looks like AMD wants to have both high-end CPU/GPU platforms available on the same day so that people building new PCs can go all-AMD based on the performance of its next-generation product lineup. That would be very impressive for AMD if they can pull it off on the GPU side which might be true given the latest reports which suggest that AMD’s RDNA 2 flagship GPUs are going to be super competitive in the high-end 4K department. There’s still some time till Q3/Q4 2020 so we will be given more information along the way by AMD on its next-generation products but the info we have till now is mentioned below.
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-4000-zen-3-cpu-and-radeon-rx-navi-2x-gpu-launch-october-2020/
Okay JOHN,,
This is some interesting stuff on AMD RDNA2. Give it a read….It seems RDNA2 for AMD Radeon GPUs is not same as next-gen consoles ‘custom RDNA2’
A source intimately familiar with the matter tells WCCFTECH that AMD’s RDNA2 implementation for its upcoming graphics cards is not comparable to the next generation console’s at all.
Extract taken from WCCFTECH’s article.:
RDNA2 for AMD Radeon graphics cards not the same as next-gen consoles ‘custom RDNA2’
There is a very good reason why both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have listed the architecture used as “custom RDNA2” instead of just “RDNA2”. This is a point that AMD wanted to drive home and specifically insisted on. They do not want gamers confusing the RDNA2 used in the XSX and PS5 with that of the upcoming Radeon cards, therefore the “custom” prefix. To be clear, the source did not say how it would be different, but it did feel the implication was that AMD’s RDNA2 implementation for Radeon GPUs will be superior.
https://wccftech.com/amds-rdna2-next-generation-architecture-is-not-identical-to-xbox-series-x-or-ps5/
Here is what WCCTECH knows
AMD’s RDNA 2 Next-Generation GPU architecture for Radeon is not the same as the XSX or the Sony PS5. The semi-custom implementation is a different architecture as the one soon to be featured in the upcoming Radeon GPUs.
https://wccftech.com/amds-rdna2-next-generation-architecture-is-not-identical-to-xbox-series-x-or-ps5