AMD Radeon RDNA3 Graphics Launch Event Live-blog: RX 7000 Series, Next-Generation Performance

[btarunr]

AMD today is expected to launch its next-generation RDNA3 graphics architecture and next-generation Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards, along with new gaming technologies as part of the company's "together we advance_gaming" event, unfurled by CEO Dr Lisa Su. In this live-blog we track the various announcements made in the event.



20:01 UTC: AMD's roadmap is supremely busy:


20:02 UTC: "today it's all about gaming"

20:03 UTC: AMD covers practically every gaming form-factor right now.


20:04 UTC: Lisa named 5800X3D, the company is definitely manufacturing more.

20:05 UTC: RDNA3: World's first chiplet gaming GPU:


20:06 UTC: Graphics Compute Die on 5 nm, Memory Controller Dies on 6 nm

20:07 UTC: 61 TFLOP/s compute power. That's nearly 3x over the 23 TFLOP's of the predecessor


20:08 UTC: here it its, the Navi 31:


20:08 UTC: 54% perf/W gain, similar to that of RDNA2 vs RDNA


20:09 UTC: Here they are, the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT:


20:09 UTC: 300 mm2 GCD, 6x 37 mm2 MCDs, graphics-relevant Infinity Fabric


20:11 UTC: Each MCD has 16 MB of Infinity Cache, and 64-bit memory path. Together, the Navi 31 has 384-bit GDDR6 memory I/O. Peak bandwidth to 5.3 TB/s

20:12 UTC: This is the all-new compute unit, with 64 dual-pumped stream processors, AI accelerators, and new-gen RT accelerator (50% RT performance)


20:13 UTC: 2.7X AI performance uplift with the AI accelerators.

20:15 UTC: Radiance Display Engine: The GPU gets DisplayPort 2.1 native support: 4K @ 480 Hz possible, 8K at 165 Hz possible, with a single cable.

20:16 UTC: Dual Media Accelerator Engines


20:17 UTC: RDNA3 reintroduces decoupled clock domains, with shaders running at a different frequency than the front-end:


20:18 UTC: 61.6 TFLOPs peak throughput

20:18 UTC: Architecture design goals met:


20:19 UTC: RX 7900 XTX is designed for 4K

20:20 UTC: 70% performance uplift over RX 6950 XT!


20:21 UTC: The card is surprisingly compact.


20:21 UTC: 355 W board power, just two 8-pin


20:22 UTC: RX 7900 XT


20:22 UTC: DisplayPort 2.1 allows you to actually play at 4K @ 480 Hz


20:24 UTC: Samsung unveils an 8K Ultrawide for CES


20:24 UTC: 8K @ 165 Hz possible


20:26 UTC: 96 FPS AC: Valhalla at 8K!

20:27 UTC: Halo Infinite to get Ray Tracing


20:27 UTC: Ray Tracing Performance is +60% over the previous generation:


20:28 UTC: Oh joy, a tech demo:


20:30 UTC: AMD FSR3 with Fluid Motion Frames announced: DLSS 3-like frame generation: Coming in 2023


20:32 UTC: In summary:


20:37 UTC: Hyper-RX unifies Boost and Anti-Lag into a single one-click feature:


20:41 UTC: SmartAccess Video leverages video-acceleration of both the GPU and the Ryzen 7000-series iGPU:


20:34 UTC: AMD Advantage coming to pre-built desktops, combine RX 7000-series with Ryzen 7000-series processors:


20:42 UTC: AMD is aggressively pricing the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at $999, and RX 7900 XT at $899, both available from December 13


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[Space Lynx]

give me the sweet sweet updates baby!

 

[AnotherReader]

Massive off-chip bandwidth

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

It's too slow in FP32, it's well below leaked Specs.

 

[Space Lynx]

Massive off-chip bandwidth

as a single player gamer, i doubt i will even notice this.

 

[ZoneDymo]

It's too slow in FP32, it's well below leaked Specs.

Hence never ever put any trust in "leaked specs".
Idk how many years you been active in the space but this crap has been going on for forever.

Its the reason im always against "news" being posted here about it, especially when the true source is something like MLID or so.
Its a complete waste of time and energy and is just unintelligent.

 

[revanoctis]

Yea let me just go out and buy that 4K 240hz display. I just wanna see game performance.

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

Hence never ever put any trust in "leaked specs".
Idk how many years you been active in the space but this crap has been going on for forever.

Its the reason im always against "news" being posted here about it, especially when the true source is something like MLID or so.
Its a complete waste of time and energy and is just unintelligent.

That's not my issuse, the issues is that the leakes already had it behind by 15-25% in RT of RTX 4090. This would put it behind by 40-50% in RT of a RTX 4090. I wouldn't pay more than $799 or less for this.

 

[ZoneDymo]

the guy talking right now is boring as fuck. im about to fall asleep, Lisa should have hired me to present this. holy shit my dudes, id have that crowd fucking screaming with excitement. lmao

man I was just going to comment on the unintelligent "zzzz" remarks in the youtube chat, but then add to that that youtube chat's a known cesspool of idiots.
but apparently we got it here as well....

I mean I agree he could do with some enthusiasm but man he has to remember so much, and I LOVE how into the nitty gritty they get with this, as an enthusiast I love this stuff and I would assume more members on this forum would.

but I guess we have people here as well that just dont care how it works, the tech behind, maybe its too difficult, idk they just want to know the endresult FPS

 

[AnotherReader]

as a single player gamer, i doubt i will even notice this.

It could enable multiple graphics dies to present as a single chip to applications so it'll be relevant for SP gamers in the future.

Raytracing performance claims don't seem very high.

Who could have predicted that AMD would have lower clock speeds than Nvidia.

 

[ZoneDymo]

That's not my issuse, the issues is that the leakes already had it behind by 15-25% in RT of RTX 4090. This would put it behind by 40-50% in RT of a RTX 4090. I wouldn't pay more than $799 or less for this.

shall we wait and see before making odd conclusions based on very very little?
The remarks right now with the 1.7x etc is annoying though, I want actually numbers, fps comparisons, does not fill me with confidence they dont show those yet.

 

[revanoctis]

man I was just going to comment on the unintelligent "zzzz" remarks in the youtube chat, but then add to that that youtube chat's a known cesspool of idiots.
but apparently we got it here as well....

I mean I agree he could do with some enthusiasm but man he has to remember so much, and I LOVE how into the nitty gritty they get with this, as an enthusiast I love this stuff and I would assume more members on this forum would.

but I guess we have people here as well that just dont care how it works, the tech behind, maybe its too difficult, idk they just want to know the endresult FPS

All the tech advancement is moot if it can't compete with Nvidia in both performance and price.

 

[Space Lynx]

thank god scott is talking now.

man I was just going to comment on the unintelligent "zzzz" remarks in the youtube chat, but then add to that that youtube chat's a known cesspool of idiots.
but apparently we got it here as well....

I mean I agree he could do with some enthusiasm but man he has to remember so much, and I LOVE how into the nitty gritty they get with this, as an enthusiast I love this stuff and I would assume more members on this forum would.

but I guess we have people here as well that just dont care how it works, the tech behind, maybe its too difficult, idk they just want to know the endresult FPS

Scott is talking now, and isn't boring. i guess your saying he couldn't make the nitty gritty more interesting to listen to?

hear the inflection points he is using in his speech patterns? he is making boring stuff sound decent.

im just surprised lisa had the other guy up there is all. usually you want someone who has taken public speaking 101 in college to do this stuff.

 

[john_]

Well, seeing Lisa Su in the beginning I knew that something wasn't right. Her enthusiasm was fake and when see was talking about Ryzen 7000 see was really uneasy. The next guy with the blue shirt? he was as enthusiastic as a close to retiring university teacher. Scott is the only one until now who can fake enthusiasm.

 

[Space Lynx]

LMAO SCOTT JUST SMOKED NVIDIA. that was fucking brilliant

 

[AnotherReader]

70% performance increase over 6950 XT means it will be very close to the 4090 in rasterization.

 

[revanoctis]

Lol Scott's dig at Nvidia. Savage.

 

[Xuper]

Av1 decode and encode? need more detail

 

[jesdals]

Uhh 20mm it has to fit

Its going to be a tight fit

 

[john_]

FSR 2.2

 

[ZoneDymo]

LMAO SCOTT JUST SMOKED NVIDIA. that was fucking brilliant

I think those are very dangerous remarks because it will be very easy to make fun of that in the near future.
If the benefits of 2.1 dont realistically show themselves on current tech....yeah people are just going to make fun of these disses as well they should

 

[jesdals]

Did he say 699 for the 7900 XTX or was that wishfull thinking -- 999 thats ok

 

[AnotherReader]

Raytracing performance doesn't seem impressive compared to Nvidia.

 

[john_]

From 42 to 62 fps in Ray Tracing WITH FSR?
They should have understood by now that RT is THE MAIN FEATURE TODAY TO FOCUS.

 

[Space Lynx]

From 42 to 62 fps in Ray Tracing WITH FSR?
They should have understood by now that RT is THE MAIN FEATURE TODAY TO FOCUS.

lmao wtf are you smoking bud