Navi is the Radeon RX 5700
Published in Graphics
Monday, 27 May 2019 09:42

Navi is the Radeon RX 5700


Computex 19: Ray Tracing and shipping in July

Scott Herkelman, VP & GM Radeon Business Unit and Lisa Su have just announced Navi, Radeon RX 5000 series with the 5700 being the first to launch. It can do Ray Tracing and, as Fudzilla suggested thirteen months ago ago, it is a mainstream card first and high performance later.

Intel beats AMD in notebook graphics
Published in PC Hardware
Sunday, 26 May 2019 16:52

Intel beats AMD in notebook graphics


Computex 19: Hell froze over

Intel is serious about getting back on track and competing in every single sector of the market and managed to beat the best of AMD notebook offering in graphics. The Gen 11 graphics inside  Ice Lake-U 10nm notebooks that are scheduled to ship in holiday season 2019 beat the AMD Picasso 12nm Ryzen 7 3700U in 25W in graphics.

Biostar confirms Ryzen 3000 support
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 17 May 2019 10:04

Biostar confirms Ryzen 3000 support


For older boards

Motherboard maker Biostar has confirmed Ryzen 3000 support for previous 300 (X370, B350, A320) and 400 (X470) series motherboards.

AMD confirms Q3 2019 launch for Zen 2 and Navi
Published in PC Hardware

 
3rd Gen Ryzen, EPYC, and Radeon VII+Navi, all in Q3

During its annual shareholder meeting, AMD has confirmed that its 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs, 2nd Gen EPYC, and Navi-based graphics cards, will all launch in Q3 2019.

AMD to stream "Next Horizon Gaming" event at E3 2019
Published in PC Hardware

 
As well as the Computex 2019 keynote

AMD has announced its new "Next Horizon Gaming" event that will take place at the E3 2019 show on June 10th, which will be live-streamed. It has also announced that the Computex 2019 keynote on May 27th will be live-streamed as well.

AMD releases Radeon Software 19.5.1 driver
Published in Graphics

 
One to have for RAGE 2

AMD has released its latest Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.5.1 driver which brings optimizations for RAGE 2 game as well as adds support for Windows 10 May 2019 Update, Instruction Tracing for Radeon GPU Profiler, and brings several bug fixes.

AMD might release new Polaris based Radeons
Published in Graphics


Radeon RX 640 and Radeon RX 630

AMD might have a surprise release of a new series of Radeon graphics cards based on Polaris in the works.

AMD Zen 2-based 3rd gen Ryzen ES chip spotted
Published in PC Hardware


A 16-core chip running at 4.2GHz Boost clock

An engineering sample of AMD's Zen 2-based 3rd generation Ryzen CPU has been spotted online, showing a 16-core chip with 3.3GHz base and 4.2GHz Boost clocks, and running on AM4 X570 motherboard.

Raja Koduri announces OneAPI launch in Q4 19
Published in PC Hardware


28X improvement in deep leering 

It is easy to forget about the software behind the hardware that everyone gets excited about, but without drivers, OS, and general API support, there would not be any platform.

Raja points out Nvidia and AMD datacenter weakness
Published in AI


GPU only strategy, or tiny software ecosystem

As a part of its software update and a One API strategy announcement Raja Koduri, the SVP of Intel architecture, graphics and software took time to mention two main competitors and used green for the company that has a GPU centric strategy and red for the company that has both a CPU and GPU.