Wednesday, September 9th 2020
AMD Announces a Red October: Zen 3 on October 8, RDNA2 on October 28
AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su on Twitter just announced AMD's next-generation Ryzen processors based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, and next-generation Radeon RX graphics cards based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture. AMD is promising a "red" October, with next-generation Ryzen "Zen 3" launch on October 8, and next-generation Radeon RDNA2 launch on October 28. We know for sure that AMD is referring to Ryzen and not EPYC, looking at the Socket AM4 MCM animation being used. The teaser picture for Radeon RDNA2 also hints at a new reference cooling solution with large axial fans.
Update 16:54 UTC: In a separate Tweet, AMD announced the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, based on the "breakthrough" RDNA2 graphics architecture.
Sources:
Dr Lisa Su (Twitter), Radeon RX (Twitter)
Update 16:54 UTC: In a separate Tweet, AMD announced the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, based on the "breakthrough" RDNA2 graphics architecture.
141 Comments on AMD Announces a Red October: Zen 3 on October 8, RDNA2 on October 28
Like NOW, So I can finally know what to expect and how much it's gonna cost me for my next build ......
Red October, yea, I really liked that movie too !
When they flinch, just blow them (nVidiya) to friggin mars Lisa ..:clap:..:D..:peace:
if they raise power limits to 350W and use hbm they'll take on even 3090 unless there are fundamental scaling issues (which there seems to be no evidence for )
or they just won't do that.. time will tell.
It seems like Raja was the hype machine. All of that pre-hype is now happening for Intel Xe instead of Radeon stuffs.
I am very much interested in Zen 3. Zen 2 got my attention and based on what Intel plan is, zen 3 looks more interesting to me. I seek a cpu with a decent amount of cores and good gaming performance. That is where amd delivers a better solution than Intel does.
Totally unimpressed with Xe so far.
AMD has the advantage of a large L3 cache. I think as long as AMD is "close enough" to Intel, the extra cores make more sense for the general purpose customer (since those extra cores mean big wins in Server, 3d modeling, video editing, and other harder compute problems).
I don't think the AMD chip needs to be the best at everything, it should be the best at what it is best at, and just "keep pace" with the Intel chips with regards to single-threaded performance. The XBox Series X / PS5 marketing slides have been pretty nice for RDNA2 so far. The question is how much of that translates to the desktop graphics cards. Raytracing + VRS seem to be big features worth hyping (even if NVidia had them on Turing already).
Guess AMD doesn't want my money. I sold my 2080 Ti a month ago and I'm ready to buy today.