AMD RDNA 3 GPU Unveil "together we advance_gaming” Live Blog (1pm PT/20:00 UTC)

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03:52PM EDT - Hello and welcome to our live blog of AMD's together we advance_gaming event

03:53PM EDT - The event should be starting very soon, where we can expect AMD to unveil its RDNA 3 based graphics card/cards

03:58PM EDT - And we are about to begin within the next couple of minutes

03:59PM EDT - Now we begin, thanks for joining us

04:00PM EDT - Opening with a video highlighting different titles such as Sonic

04:01PM EDT - Opening up with AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su

04:01PM EDT - AMD is all about high performance and adaptive computing

04:01PM EDT - AMD technology is everywhere, very busy for AMD. Recapping Ryzen 7000's launch

04:02PM EDT - ncredibly busy time for AMD. In the midst of launching 4 new architecture (Genoa, Navi 3x, Bergamo, next-gen adaptive SoC XDNA)

04:02PM EDT - Expecting 3.5 billion gamers by 2025

04:03PM EDT - Touching on multiple avenues AMD are involved in, Steam Deck, notebooks, PC

04:03PM EDT - "we love the DIY market"

04:03PM EDT - Pushing the envelope on innovation - AMD's key message

04:04PM EDT - Lisa is recapping the Ryzen 7000 launch as well as the new AM5 platform

04:04PM EDT - Welcome RDNA 3

04:05PM EDT - Looking to innovate around performance per watt performance

04:05PM EDT - Raising the bar on performance for 4K gaming, next-gen gaming experiences

04:05PM EDT - AMD RDNA 3, the world's first chipset gaming graphics card

04:06PM EDT - Mixing and matching 5nm GPU compute die, 6nm memory cache die

04:06PM EDT - Up to 96 MB of infinity cache

04:06PM EDT - 61 TFLOPs of GPU compute power

04:07PM EDT - 24 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, up to 58 billion transistors

04:07PM EDT - And RDNA 3 in the flesh

04:08PM EDT - Exceeding our goals, a 54% gen on gen improvement in PPW

04:09PM EDT - Radeon RX 7900 XTX, 24 GB GDDR6 VRAM. Radeon RX 7900 XT with 20 GB

04:09PM EDT - Now Sam Naffziger takes the stage, SVP and Product Technology Architect

04:09PM EDT - Talking about chiplet design, the benefits and why

04:10PM EDT - GCD 300mm2, MCD 37mm2 (x6), 522mm2 total

04:10PM EDT - New memory cache die

04:10PM EDT - Second generation infinity Cache

04:11PM EDT - Peak bandwidth is 5.3TB/sec for Infinity Cache

04:11PM EDT - New unified RDNA 3 compute unit

04:11PM EDT - "Tightly integrated unit that shares resources"

04:12PM EDT - RDNA has 165% more transistors per mm2 than RDNA 2

04:12PM EDT - 2X in AI acceleration, 1.5X VGPR

04:13PM EDT - Dual issue SPs, 2 x 2 x 32 Stream Processes

04:13PM EDT - 2x instructions per core

04:14PM EDT - Next gen Ray Tracing

04:14PM EDT - 1.5 x more rays in flight, new dedicated instructions, new ray box sorting and traversal

04:15PM EDT - AMD Radiance Display Engine, DisplayPort 2.1. Up to 480 Hz

04:15PM EDT - Display link bandwidth of up to 54Gbps (double the bandwidth per port over RDNA2)

04:16PM EDT - New dual media engine

04:16PM EDT - 2x simultaneous encode/decode

04:16PM EDT - 1.8x engine frequency versus RDNA 2

04:17PM EDT - New RDNA decoupled clocks, 2.3 GHz shader clock speed, 2.5 GHz front-end clock speed

04:17PM EDT - 61 TFLOPS in RNDA, very impressive

04:18PM EDT - Recapping RDNA 3, world's first chiplet GPU, better perf per watt over RNDA 2

04:18PM EDT - Now Scott Herkelman SVP & GM, Graphics Business Unit heads to the stage

04:19PM EDT - RDNA 3 is 3-years in the making

04:19PM EDT - Touching on performance of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX

04:19PM EDT - 7900 XTX up to 1.7x faster in pure rendering

04:20PM EDT - "spent a lot of time optimizing this card"

04:20PM EDT - 96 CUs at 2.3 GHz, 24 GB of GDDR6

04:21PM EDT - DisplayPort 2.1, AV1 encode and decode, at 355 W board power

04:21PM EDT - Radeon RX 7900 XT

04:21PM EDT - 84 CUs, 2 GHz clockspeed, 20 GB 320-bit GDDR6, 300 W total board power

04:22PM EDT - Slight dig to NVIDIA's issues with RTX 4090 power connector issues

04:23PM EDT - Partnered with companies such as Samsung with the Odyssey Neo G9, 8K ultra wide monitor

04:23PM EDT - Expecting new generation of DP displays in early 2023

04:23PM EDT - A quick recap on FSR

04:24PM EDT - Available in 216 games, that's a lot of titles

04:24PM EDT - Coming to Forza Horizon 4 soon (FSR)

04:24PM EDT - RX 7900 XTX is hitting the fps caps in Apex Legends and Overwatch 2 at 1440p (300fps)

04:25PM EDT - Radeon RX 7900 XTX designed for 4K gaming

04:25PM EDT - Looking forward towards 8K gaming with FSR, 96 fps in Assassins Creed Valhalla

04:25PM EDT - Still need FSR for reasonable framerates at 4K with RT, be warned

04:26PM EDT - DXR support being added to Halo Infinite

04:27PM EDT - Talking about The Callisto Protocol,a new technical partnership

04:28PM EDT - Now onto Forspoken, another technical partnership

04:28PM EDT - Partnering with Ubisoft on its Snowdrop engine

04:29PM EDT - Improved blur reflections with Snowdrop

04:29PM EDT - Above 80 fps at 4K with FSR

04:30PM EDT - Introducting FSR 3, temporal super resolution and fluid motion.

04:30PM EDT - Note: Is this interpolation or projection?

04:31PM EDT - Rolling a promo for Reckoning on Unreal Engine 5

04:32PM EDT - Edit, Beckoning is the name of the game

04:33PM EDT - Coming to PCs in 2023 (more of a paper launch of FS3 versus NVIDIA, who had it ready for launch

04:33PM EDT - Frank Azor, chief Architect makes his way to the stage

04:33PM EDT - Focusing on Software, Streaming, and Solutions

04:34PM EDT - A quick AMD Adrenaline software recap

04:35PM EDT - Frank is talking up the fact that AMD's software has never required an account like GeForce Experience does

04:36PM EDT - New feature with Adrenaline, AMD HYPR-RX mode (Hyper RX)

04:36PM EDT - One click for faster frame rates and lower latencies

04:37PM EDT - Dying Light 2, improvements of up to 85% with 1/3rd the latency

04:37PM EDT - Coming H1 2023

04:37PM EDT - AMD RDNA 3 Media Engine

04:37PM EDT - AV1 encoding and decoding

04:38PM EDT - Trained filtering to better recognize and handle small text, AI learning behind the scenes

04:38PM EDT - Hardware encoding up to 7x faster than software

04:39PM EDT - Support will be available in OBS, Handbreak, and more

04:40PM EDT - AMD SmartAccess Video, distributes encode and decoding across Ryzen 7000 and Radeon hardware

04:40PM EDT - Recapping AMD Advantage Laptops

04:40PM EDT - "nothing compares to building your own desktop"

04:41PM EDT - AMD Advantage for Desktops

04:41PM EDT - Partnered with several leading system integrators to offer turnkey solutions

04:41PM EDT - Not much in the way of details being shared which is disappointing

04:42PM EDT - Rigorously tested, but by who exactly? Who knows!

04:42PM EDT - Liquid CPU cooling

04:42PM EDT - 2TB+ NVMe storage

04:42PM EDT - 32GB+ EXPO memory

04:43PM EDT - Welcome back Scott

04:43PM EDT - AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX - $999

04:43PM EDT - AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, $899

04:44PM EDT - Available December 13th

04:44PM EDT - Absolutely zero performance showcases against NVIDIA RTX 4000 series

04:45PM EDT - And that is the end of AMD's "together we advance_gaming" RDNA 3 reveal. Ending on a video recap

04:45PM EDT - To note, AMD said the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the fastest gaming graphics card, all for under $1000

04:45PM EDT - Thanks for joining us. Until next time