Monday, September 30th 2019
AMD "Raise the Game" Bundle Makes a Comeback
AMD announced the 2019 edition of its "Raise the Game" game-bundle offer that goes with purchase of its Ryzen desktop processors and Radeon RX graphics cards. The bundle extends the 3-month Xbox Game Pass to a much larger part of AMD's product lineup, and not just the Radeon RX 5700-series. The bundle introduces three new AAA games to the mix - Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon: Breakpoint," "The Outer Worlds," and "Borderlands 3," including AMD-exclusive in-game content. Depending on what AMD product you buy, you either get both games, or get to choose between the two. The 3-month Xbox Game Pass stays included.
AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 series and Ryzen 7 3800X includes both games - "The Outer Worlds" and "Borderlands 3," - and the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. The Ryzen 7 3700X, 3600X, 2700X, and 2700 include one of the two games - "The Outer Worlds" or "Borderlands 3," and the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. The Ryzen 5 3600, 3400G, and Ryzen 5 2000-series include just the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. Over in the GPU front, buyers of Radeon RX 5700-series, RX 590, RX 580, and RX 570, get to choose one of the two games - Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon: Breakpoint" or "Borderlands 3," and also receive the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. The Radeon VII, Radeon RX Vega series, and Radeon RX 560 stocks include 3-month Xbox Game Pass. You also get to choose either of the two games when you buy a qualifying pre-built desktop or notebook powered by AMD Ryzen or Radeon products.
AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 series and Ryzen 7 3800X includes both games - "The Outer Worlds" and "Borderlands 3," - and the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. The Ryzen 7 3700X, 3600X, 2700X, and 2700 include one of the two games - "The Outer Worlds" or "Borderlands 3," and the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. The Ryzen 5 3600, 3400G, and Ryzen 5 2000-series include just the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. Over in the GPU front, buyers of Radeon RX 5700-series, RX 590, RX 580, and RX 570, get to choose one of the two games - Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon: Breakpoint" or "Borderlands 3," and also receive the 3-month Xbox Game Pass. The Radeon VII, Radeon RX Vega series, and Radeon RX 560 stocks include 3-month Xbox Game Pass. You also get to choose either of the two games when you buy a qualifying pre-built desktop or notebook powered by AMD Ryzen or Radeon products.
44 Comments on AMD "Raise the Game" Bundle Makes a Comeback
The No Man's Sky style graphics and UI don't help it, for one.
You're in part right about the negativism... I'm a sinner too... but at the same time, a lot of it is also justified. Its a sign of the times I think, and has a weird relation to Moore's Law being well, in a coma.
If anything, the lack of B550 is the slap in the face. But I digress.
If you were/are planning to buy then you get a bonus of.. something that you didn't even plan on having beforehand, or best case scenario, something you were planning to buy separately (like Outer Worlds for me).
Nothing about this is bad or wrong for anyone.
And Amd didn't up the price, they're just pushing chips out the door soon and want the channel empty, it's textbook and i should have waited but it is also done by everyone Except Intel who gouge more each year for the SAME shit Still ,without any perks besides epean points.
Nvidia are also giving games away with GPU but i bet you have to spend more to get any.
Looks to me like you still pay the same amount for 3900x and you still get the games on top now.. kinda... like.. free!! huh
It's a better deal than getting just the CPU though (unless you only get the limited Xbox pass).
Right now we use much more die space, even on 7nm to add a lot of cores. Is that Moore awake or just scaling up what we already had?
And what about GPU? Performance per mm2 has been pretty stagnant too.
Personally I see the Gpu stagnation being Nvidias fault ironically, they chased performance With die space for years and now will struggle to maintain that lead on smaller nodes whereas AMD have kept to the same doubling of performance every three ish years within a manageable die space allowing easier progression.
Intel and arm might shake up the Gpu space too since they truly have the most opportunity to innovate.
Your just being pessimistic im the opposite , and tsmc provided proof anyway the nodes are still providing gains in density.
So I think we're actually all in agreement here. You just translate it differently.Spot on, yes, I'm being pessimistic. Let's see what happens :) Reason for pessimism: we've had a lot of 'this is going to reinforce Moore's Law' developments that turned out completely not feasible. In Zen's case, the biggest pitfall is latencies, so far so good, but at the same time, not flawless while the IPC / freq uplift isn't there at all - in fact - it seems to become increasingly difficult to keep higher frequencies below boiling point due to thermal density. Its getting increasingly hard to get more stuff done with the same amount of silicon. And just 'more silicon' is not Moore's Law, that's just more silicon.
In the end my reasoning is economy: if you need more chiplets or larger chips per CPU, you get less (good) CPUs per wafer, which kinda diminishes the cost advantage per wafer from shrinks.