Wednesday, July 28th 2021
AMD Zen 4 and RDNA3 Confirmed for 2022, Zen 3 Refresh
AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su, in the company's Q2-2021 financial results call, confirmed that the company is on-track to launch the Zen 4 CPU microarchitecture and RDNA3 graphics architecture, in 2022. Zen 4 would herald the first major desktop platform change since the original Zen architecture, with the introduction of a new CPU socket, and support for DDR5 memory. The RDNA3 graphics architecture, meanwhile, is expected to nearly triple SIMD resources over the previous generation, and introduce even more fixed-function hardware for raytracing.
In the meantime, AMD is preparing a counter to Intel's 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake-S" processor, in the form of Zen 3 with 3D Vertical Cache, which is also being referred to as the Zen 3+ architecture. These processors feature additional last-level cache, and the company claims a 15% gaming performance uplift, which should help it close the gaming performance gap with Intel, and win on sheer core-count of its big cores. It remains to be seen if Zen 3+ remains on Socket AM4 or if it debuts AM5, as AMD will be under pressure to match "Alder Lake" in platform I/O, which includes DDR5. Dr Su also confirmed that AMD has started shipping the Instinct MI200 "Aldebaran" compute accelerator based on the CDNA2 architecture. AMD's first MCM GPU with two logic dies, "Aldebaran" takes the fight to NVIDIA's top A100 series compute accelerators, and has already scored wins with ongoing HPC/supercomputing projects.
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In the meantime, AMD is preparing a counter to Intel's 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake-S" processor, in the form of Zen 3 with 3D Vertical Cache, which is also being referred to as the Zen 3+ architecture. These processors feature additional last-level cache, and the company claims a 15% gaming performance uplift, which should help it close the gaming performance gap with Intel, and win on sheer core-count of its big cores. It remains to be seen if Zen 3+ remains on Socket AM4 or if it debuts AM5, as AMD will be under pressure to match "Alder Lake" in platform I/O, which includes DDR5. Dr Su also confirmed that AMD has started shipping the Instinct MI200 "Aldebaran" compute accelerator based on the CDNA2 architecture. AMD's first MCM GPU with two logic dies, "Aldebaran" takes the fight to NVIDIA's top A100 series compute accelerators, and has already scored wins with ongoing HPC/supercomputing projects.
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So yeah... now CEO's of companies really need to figure out how to get this stuff into the hands of actual gamers, and I think my idea is the best one... you have a rollout - you start first week of sells to 10+ years or older Steam accounts one per Steam account and that account must have 250+ games on it... then the second week it drops down to 8 year accounts, and so on and so forth until you finally have a full on public release.
I know not every gamer is a Steam gamer, but I'd say at least 51% are at some level or at some point in their past. This is the only way I can see forward. Other then ending online sales of launch day products all together and making them in-store only... that doesn't fix the problem as well imo, but maybe that could be phase 2, anything to minimize the power of the bots helps and least gives locals a chance.
@TheLostSwede Share this info with your friends who work at these tech companies! Save the gamers! Unite them under one banner!
Damn, I really am in the mood to watch Braveheart movie again now... :rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout: