Graphics Cards - Page 126

Update: Ahhh, the leaker has deleted his tweet... which said "92 TFLOPs" and now is saying that there are toned down specifications of Navi 31 that would radically reduce the FP32 compute power down to around 73 TFLOPs (a 20% reduction).

AMD's next-gen Navi 31 GPU has been shaping up to be a monster so far, but with every rumor the RDNA 3 architecture is looking better and better... to the point where it could topple NVIDIA and its next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture.

In a new tweet, leaker "Greymon55" tweeted something rather simple: "~92T FP32" as a reply to his Navi 31 leaks from November 9, 2021. In that tweet, rumors had Navi 31 at 75T FP32 compute performance, but now the leaker has upped those specs by a considerable 28%.

A wild new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card has appeared, with Japanese pre-built PC-maker introducing the new Sycom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti G-Master Hyrdo graphics card.

The new Sycom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti G-Master Hyrdo graphics card has a triple-fan cooler on its triple-slot design, but also has a dual-fan AIO cooler. Yeah, not one -- but two coolers -- the first of its kind: rocking 5 cooling fans in total, I'm sure it's going to be running pretty chill.

Sycom is using an OEM triple-fan cooler joined by the higher-end Asetek Hybrid GFX 240mm AIO cooler, which is joined by dual 12cm Noctua NF-A12X12 ULN fans. So, you should expect low GPU and GDDR6X memory temperatures, as well as near-silent operation as the fans only make 12.1 dBA of noise. The company says that their RTX 3090 Ti is up to 15C cooler with the AIO cooler.

AMD has been featured considerably in new leaks from Moore's Law is Dead, with Tom providing some more details on AMD's next-gen Instinct MI300 accelerator.

The new AMD Instinct MI300 accelerator will be the next-gen datacenter-focused GPU, where we should see multiple versions of it hitting the market. In the new leaks, the fact is made clear: "the first thing that needs to be made clear is every source tells me (Tom @ MLID) there are many variants of MI300. The one I am detailing today is just one I'm familiar with".

With the most confidence in the leaks, we're being told to expect that each 6nm die has connections for two stacks of HBM3 memory, with 12+ metal layers in total. The 6nm dies were built to "work with multiple products" that can be stacked on top. The MI300 design itself has a bottom layer that should be occupied mostly with a huge interpose (around 2750mm2 which is insane). On top of the interposer is reportedly a "series of rectangular 6nm tiles that house I/O controllers, IP Blocks, "and likely cache" of around 320-360mm2 per 6nm tile according to Tom.

AMD's next-gen Navi 31 GPU isn't too far away now, scheduled to debut later this year in Q4 2022 -- and will be the first consumer-focused MCD (multi-chip die) GPU for gamers and enthusiasts.

The new Navi 31 GPU and its "MCD" die will be made on 6nm, with some serious performance beef against not just the Navi 21 that it will replace (the GPU that powers the Radeon RX 6900 XT and soon-to-be-released Radeon RX 6950 XT) but also NVIDIA's current, and possibly even next-gen GeForce RTX graphics cards.

AMD's new Navi 31 GPU will be a multi-chip die, similar to the chiplet technology used on the Zen CPU architectures by AMD. In his latest leaks, Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead is continuing what I thought was established -- RDNA 3 will deliver twice the performance over RDNA 2, as RDNA 2 was over double the performance of the original RDNA GPUs.

NVIDIA has provided some new optimizations for the most popular 3D applications in its new April Studio Driver suite, with optimizations for Unreal Engine 5, Cinema 4D, and Chaos Vantage.

The company goes a little further, highlighting that its second-fastest GPU -- the GeForce RTX 3090 -- is faster than AMD's fastest consumer CPU, the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, in Maxon Cinema 4D 26 Redshift Renderer... by quite a lot.

The GeForce RTX 3090 screams through the render in just 6 minutes and 51 seconds, while the Zen 3-powered 64-core, 128-thread Ryzen Threadripper 3990X takes much, much longer: 65 minutes. That's a significant difference, but it's also a single piece of rendering software. Still, of course, NVIDIA is going to be screaming from the roof tops that its GPU is faster than its competitors... GPU, and CPU.

AMD will be launching its RDNA 2 refresh GPUs on May 10, with ASRock preparing its new flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Formula graphics card.

ASRock's new custom Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Formula graphics card has been spotted with the ECC (Eurasian Economic Commission) and will rock the tweaked Navi 21 XTXH GPU, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory that we should see clocked at 18Gbps. The current Radeon RX 6900 XT has the same 16GB of GDDR6, but it's clocked at 16Gbps.

GPU frequencies will reportedly hit 2475MHz boost, 10% higher than the reference GPU clocks of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 6950 XT reference specifications. ASRock will be tweaking the hell out of the card like usual, with a fully custom PCB that has 21-phase VRM and 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

NVIDIA is reportedly testing a new board with its new AD102 GPU, powered by the new Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, and this one is a freaking monster.

The new AD102-powered test board rumor is coming from leaker "kopite7kimi" who said that "there is another full-fat AD102 SKU with 900W TGP, 48GB 24Gbps GDDR6X, 2x16pin and higher frequency". So we have an AD102 GPU, 48GB of GDDR6X @ 24Gbps, a very hefty dual 16-pin power setup and an insane 900W of power.

This sounds like a next-gen Ada Lovelace-powered TITAN RTX, especially with 48GB of GDDR6X memory. Even the newest flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti rocks 24GB of GDDR6X, same with the card it replaced: the RTX 3090 also had 24GB of GDDR6X. But dual 16-pin power connectors, 900W of power, and 48GB of VRAM? Yeah, that doesn't sound like a GeForce... at least not yet, maybe in 2024+.

NVIDIA has released its new GeForce Game Ready 512.59 WHQL drivers, which are Game Ready for Dune: Spice Wars, but as usual -- there's much more here.

The new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 512.59 WHQL drivers offer supports for the latest updates to Chernobylite, which now offers ray tracing. JX3 Online has NVIDIA DLSS support now, which is supported inside of the new GeForce Game Ready 512.59 WHQL drivers, while the new drivers also offer support for the early access launch of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt.

You can download the new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 512.59 WHQL drivers here (785MB download).

NVIDIA's new Ada Lovelace GPU architecture will be here later this year, with a fresh rumor from leaker "kopite7kimi" that it will be using PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 5.0 standard... but what about the process node? 4nm... not 5nm, according to the very latest leaks.

In some of the earlier March leaks, Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead said that the highest-end AD102 GPU would have "60-80% higher performance than Ampere" and was "initially designed as a 400-500W card". We're hearing now that it will be using up to 600W in reference form (more with custom RTX 4090 models).

But as for the process node, NVIDIA is reportedly tapping the custom 4N process node for its new Ada Lovelace GPUs... not the N5 process like previous rumors. Tom actually didn't state the process node, but we knew that NVIDIA was running away from Samsung and back into the (very expensive) arms of TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company).

NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card will be using the AD102 GPU based on the new Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, but now we are hearing it will NOT be based on PCIe 5.0... but rather PCIe 4.0 instead.

The new NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture that was revealed in March 2022 has support for the new PCIe 5.0 standard, but the new consumer-focused Ada Lovelace GPUs including the new GeForce RTX 4090, will be using the current PCIe 4.0 standard.

AMD and Intel's new platforms launching this year -- AMD with its "Raphael" Zen 4-powered Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, and Intel with its 13th Gen Core "Rocket Lake" CPUs -- will be supporting the next-gen PCIe 5.0 standard. Intel already has DDR5 + PCIe 5.0 support on its new flagship Z690-based motherboards, remember.

VASTARMOR entered the Radeon GPU market last year, with the Chinese brand entering the lower-end market at first... but now they're entering the high-end Radeon GPU market with a custom Radeon RX 690 XT graphics card.

The first graphics cards released included custom models for the Radeon RX 6600 XT and Radeon RX 6600, which were followed by the Radeon RX 6700 XT, Radeon RX 6500 XT, and the recent low-end Radeon RX 6400. VASTARMOR has introduced not one, but two new custom RX 6900 XT cards: the Alloy and Super Alloy cards.

VASTARMOR's new custom Radeon RX 6900 XT Alloy and Super Alloy GPUs both rock rather large triple-fan, triple-slot designs... but you've got just 2 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. GPU clocks, we're looking at 1950/2135/2365 MHz for Base, Game, and Boost GPU clocks respectively (and that's for both the Alloy, and Super Alloy SKUs).

AMD has just launched its low-power RDNA 2 graphics card without much fanfare, with the introduction of the new Radeon RX 6400.

The new AMD Radeon RX 6400 is powered by the Navi 24 GPU, which is made on TSMC's new 6nm process node. AMD's new Navi 24 GPU has 768 Stream Processors, with a base GPU clock of 1923MHz and boost GPU clock of 2039MHz.

4GB of GDDR6 is used, spread out on a smaller 64-bit memory bus which spits out 112GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Now that the card is out in the wild, reviewers have got their hands-on it and thanks to Expreview and DIYZOL, we see the new Radeon RX 6400 sits nicely between the slightly higher-end Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650 (at least in synthetic tests).

NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, which will be powered by the AD102 "Ada Lovelace" GPU, will have a TBP (typical board power) of 600W... and that's in reference form, not in custom AIB form where 600W+ could be in the rear-view mirror.

The rumors are coming from Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead, who said his sources has confirmed the 600W power consumption news. NVIDIA is going to do a "lot of weird things to not lose this generation" to AMD and its next-gen RDNA 3 architecture.

Tom's sources explained: "It seems the top 6000/8000 Lovelace Professional card could use 320-375W. Right now they are testing prototypes at the limits of an EPS 8-pin (375W), or they are even testing some prototypes with a 16-pin connector. It's still 2-slot, and still a blower cooler. So there are limited to what they can cool". The source added: "But this is an unprecedented increase in power for a standard class of professional card".

AMD delayed the launch of its RDNA 2 refresh GPUs from... well... right now... until May 10. But now it seems that the RDNA 2 refresh GPUs are not a refresh, but a replacement of the current Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.

The news is coming from Hassan Mujtaba at Wccftech, who tweeted: "It seems like AIBs will stop making 6600/6700/6900 XT cards and focus on the new 6650/6750/6950 XT series instead. So RDNA 2 refresh is looking more like a replacement rather than a higher-end alternative to existing models".

There are a heap of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs in the wild right now, so maybe the delay will help AMD get rid of inventory before the new Radoen RX 6950 XT, Radeon RX 6750 XT, and Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics cards hit shelves across the world.

AMD's new Instinct MI210 accelerator is now out in the wild in Japan, with the PCIe version of the GPU that features 64GB of HBM2e memory costing over $15,000.

The new AMD Instinct MI210 accelerator packs the "Aldebaran" MCM (multi-chip module) CDNA 2 GPU, with 1 MCM die (compared to the 2 MCM dies on the Instinct MI250 and MI250X). AMD's new Instinct MI210 accelerator packs a single GCD with 104 CUs out of the possible 128 CUs on the Aldebaran GPU.

64GB of HBM2e memory is on the AMD Instinct MI210 accelerator, on a huge 4096-bit memory bus that pushes out 1.6TB/sec (1638.4GB/sec) of memory bandwidth. AMD is advertising 181 TFLOPs of peak FP16 compute performance, 45.3 TFLOPs of peak FP32 Matrix, and more.

ASRock is preparing its new Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX graphics card, a new Navi 24-powered ITX card that has no PCIe power connector.

The new custom PowerColor Radeon RX 6400 Challenger will use the Navi 24 GPU that's made on TSMC's new 6nm process node, with a dual-slot design, and 4GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit memory interface. There is no PCIe power connector, which means we should see power consumption at 53W, great for HTPC machines.

As for the Navi 23 GPU it has 768 Stream Processors and 12 Ray Accelerators, with the 4GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16Gbps on a 64-bit memory interface. We should see the new Radeon RX 6400 graphics cards released into the DIY market on April 20, but you can already get them through OEMs and system integrators.

Intel's GPU division has missed its Q1 2022 window for the Arc Alchemist desktop GPU launch, but there are things actually happening: Raja Koduri has just been promoted from Senior VP to Executive VP of Intel's GPU division.

In a tweet just a few hours ago, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said: "Congrats, @rajaontheedge, on your promotion to executive vice president! Your leadership in graphics and accelerated computing is key to @intel's strategy for growth. Thank you!".

Raja may have been promoted, but there's no damn GPU launch... I feel as though if I had not launched a product, I wouldn't be promoted... but here we are. Intel's mobile Arc GPU was delayed and its launch was a mess, and now the desktop Arc GPUs are reportedly delayed until the end of Q2, possibly early Q3 2022 making them months away at this point.

PowerColor's new custom Radeon RX 6650 XT Hellhound graphics card has been spotted, with some new information on the GPU and GDDR6 memory.

The new custom PowerColor Radeon RX 6650 XT Hellhound graphics card has a faster Navi 23 GPU, with boost GPU clocks hitting up to 2689MHz on the PowerColor RX 6650 XT Hellhound. The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT reference GPU clocks will have boost clocks of up to 2635MHz, for comparison.

AMD was rumored to have used faster GDDR6 memory at 18Gbps, but it looks like we'll be getting slightly slower clocks with the PowerColor Radeon RX 6650 XT Hellhound to have 8GB of GDDR6 at 17.5Gbps with up to 280GB/sec of bandwidth (this is up from the 256GB/sec on the RX 6600 XT and its 8GB GDDR6 at 16Gbps).

SAPPHIRE's new custom Radeon RX 6400 PULSE graphics card has been leaked, with the new low-profile card to be the lowest-end member of the RDNA 2 family of GPUs.

The new SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6400 PULSE is a low-profile GPU powered by the Navi 24 GPU, 4GB of GDDR6 memory, and a single fan. There's an optional half-height bracket, which makes the card super-small, finishing things off with its two display outputs: 1 x HDMI 2.1 (that's a nice surprise) and 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 connector.

The AMD Navi 24 GPU inside has 768 Stream Processors and 12 Ray Accelerators, with the 4GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16Gbps on a 64-bit memory interface. You will have H.264/H.265 decoding here, and with no PCIe power connectors you've got just 53W power consumption at a maximum... making the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6400 PULSE a mighty-fine GPU for a small HTPC system.

NVIDIA's next-gen Ada Lovelace "AD102" GPU, which will power the next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards, has "started testing" according to leaker "kopite7kimi".

We don't know much else outside of that, other than AD102 "has started testing" but we do know that it will have 24GB of GDDR6X memory at 24Gbps (which is another thing kopite7kimi confirmed). Previous rumors pegged the 24GB of GDDR6X at 24Gbps at first, then recently down to 21Gbps, but now it's back to 24Gbps.

The new GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards should both be powered by the new AD102 GPU, with performance expectations at double the GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080. Power consumption will be high, with rumors of 500-600W of power consumption on the RTX 4090.