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AMD already developing Zen 5 architecture, could be on 5nm
AMD is forging ahead with its next-next-gen Zen CPU architecture, with lead Zen architect Mike Clark confirming that AMD is now working on the "Zen 5" CPU microarchitecture.
The news comes directly from a one-year-later video from AMD about their Ryzen CPU, right before the new Ryzen 2000 series processors launch on April 19. AMD hosted a panel with the top brass behind Ryzen, with people from both their CPU engineering and marketing departments.
VideoCardz reports that "manufacturers often skip 4 due to its meaning in Chinese culture. It's an unlucky number because it's homophonous to the word 'death'. Something that AMD surely does not want to be associated with Zen architecture". Interesting.
Continue reading: AMD already developing Zen 5 architecture, could be on 5nm (full post)
ASUS AREZ: Radeon loses ROG branding because of NVIDIA GPP?
It looks like ASUS is preparing a new brand of graphics cards, completely separate to their gaming-focused Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand, exclusive for AMD and their Radeon family of cards.
VideoCardz reports that ASUS is preparing a new AREZ brand for Radeon graphics cards, where they might not even be branded as ASUS at all. There will not be an AREZ ROG STRIX graphics card, it would simply be AREZ STRIX, we should also see other sub series including the AREZ branding including Phoenix and Expedition.
It's an interesting move, but if NVIDIA is forging ahead with its GeForce Partner Program, I'm sure one of their biggest AIBs (ASUS) would want to stay in NVIDIA's good graces and continue pumping out GeForce GTX series graphics cards under its strong ROG brand.
Continue reading: ASUS AREZ: Radeon loses ROG branding because of NVIDIA GPP? (full post)
Radeon/GeForce cards are 25% cheaper, mining boom settles
An interesting set of data was compiled by WCCFTech today, with the site keeping a "very close eye" on the graphics card market over the last year or so. The site has looked at prices over the last month and noticed a huge drop on Amazon's price of both GeForce and Radeon graphics cards.
It was only back in January that an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was $1600 and AMD's Radeon RX Vega 64 was $2100, but prices have been coming down slowly through February, and much faster into March with sharp declines between March 27 leading into today.
Starting out on March 5, the price of an XFX Radeon RX Vega 64 was $1400 and has dropped drastically back to down $945 on March 27.
Continue reading: Radeon/GeForce cards are 25% cheaper, mining boom settles (full post)
AMD partners with Adobe for Radeon Pro SSG support
Just over 8 months after announcing the AMD Radeon Pro SSG based on the "Vega" GPU architecture, Adobe has announced native support within Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
As some may recall, the AMD Radeon Pro SSG was the first card on the market to have 2TB of NVMe storage integrated onto the graphics card. This card is specifically targeted to users who have high demand workflows such as high-resolution video, VR, and 360 video stitching. The announcement by Adobe is the first major partnership to be publicly shown by AMD to harness the unique design of the card.
The soon to be shipping version (April 3, 2018) of Adobe Premiere Pro CC allows for high-resolution video production, supporting 4K and 8K footage in popular native camera formats, including ARRI AMIRA, Canon XF and RAW, Panasonic AVC and P2, REDCODE RAW, and Sony XDCAM, XAVC, and RAW. The Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Radeon Pro SSG workflow should reduce the CPU and memory bottlenecks traditionally encountered, which will allow editors to increase their productivity.
Continue reading: AMD partners with Adobe for Radeon Pro SSG support (full post)
ASUS launch new Radeon RX 570 Expedition graphics card
ASUS has just unveiled their new Radeon RX 570 Expedition graphics card, and as you might notice this is a mid-range offering and not in the ROG Strix family of products, that could slide into that GPP from NVIDIA.
The new ASUS RX 570 Expedition features a dual-slot cooler, with GPU clocks of up to 1256MHz and its 8GB of GDDR5 sitting at 7Gbps.
ASUS has used a custom-designed unit with aluminum fin-stack cooler with two 8mm thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes that are cooled by a pair of 80mm fans.
Continue reading: ASUS launch new Radeon RX 570 Expedition graphics card (full post)
AMD rumored to release Radeon RX 500X series in Q3 2018
This year will be a much quieter one for new graphics card releases, with NVIDIA leading the charge and continuing to dominate with the GTX 11 series that will usher in GDDR6, but what about AMD?
According to industry sources of mine, AMD will be releasing a new Radeon RX 500X series family, which should be around 5-6% faster than the RX 500 series. A new 'X' series makes more sense than a full push into the RX 600 series, as the RX 500X series won't be offering anything new.
AMD will reportedly be releasing the Radeon RX 500X series sometime in June-July, which should be able to counter the lower/mid-range graphics card market once NVIDIA stamps down again on the higher-end GTX 1170/1180 markets.
Continue reading: AMD rumored to release Radeon RX 500X series in Q3 2018 (full post)
NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce GTX 11 series will rock GDDR6 RAM
NVIDIA is expected to launch the GeForce GTX 11 series later this year, with GDDR6 to go into mass production in the coming months, and will be used in future GeForce GTX graphics cards.
According to Gamers Nexus, SK Hynix will be pushing their GDDR6 into mass production in the coming months with a "timeline of July-July for GDDR6 from SK Hynix". But remember that I reported back November 2017 that Samsung was teasing GDDR6 at up to 16Gbps, something that went into production in January 2018.
We should expect NVIDIA to use the fastest GDDR6 that I'm sure will come from Samsung, for their next-gen GTX 1180 graphics cards at up to 18Gbps on offer. SK Hynix has up to 16Gbps of bandwidth with their GDDR6 chips, the same as Samsung from late last year, and this could go into the GTX 1170.
Continue reading: NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce GTX 11 series will rock GDDR6 RAM (full post)
NVIDIA's next-gen: Turing this year, followed by Ampere
TweakTown was the main source of the news that NVIDIA would unveil a new GeForce GTX graphics card at GTC 2018, but my source was wrong - so I fully admit fault for that. Unfortunately it didn't happen, but that didn't stop us from hearing things from sources while I was there.
That's where we were told that NVIDIA would name their next-gen GPUs with the GTX 11 series family, and not the GTX 20 series like what was previously reported. But the bigger news is that we found out what's coming with NVIDIA's next-gen GPU roadmap and it makes sense.
NVIDIA's next-gen GPU architecture, according to our sources, will be Turing. Turing will be NVIDIA's new GPU architecture that will power the GTX 11 series, while the Ampere GPU architecture will succeed Turing sometime in the future.
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Supermicro show off LIQUID COOLED 4-way Tesla V100 rig
GTC 2018 - Walking through the show floor of the GPU Technology Conference is always fun, with one of the stand out things that was there being Supermicro's SYS-1029GQ-TVRT, it might not sound like much, but it is a beast. Supermicro makes the SYS-1029GQ-TVRT for machine learning, deep learning and AI development.
Supermicro's SYS-1029GQ-TVRT is a dual CPU system that rocks socket P (LGA 3647) and supports Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, with up to 1.5TB of ECC 3DS LRDIMMs with 12 DIMMs in total supporting DDR4-2666MHz. There are 4 x PCIe 3.0 x15 slots, 1 x PCIe 3.0 x8 (LP) slot, and 2 x 10GbE ports.
But the coolest thing would have to be the 4 x NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs that are fully liquid cooled, and it's an interesting liquid cooler to boot.
Continue reading: Supermicro show off LIQUID COOLED 4-way Tesla V100 rig (full post)
NVIDIA reveals Quadro GV100, packs Volta GPU and 32GB HBM2
GTC 2018 - NVIDIA has just unveiled its new Quadro GV100 workstation graphics card, which is now powered by the Volta GPU architecture and sees the combination of HBM2 as well.
The new Quadro GV100 is the first Quadro graphics card to feature the Volta GPU architecture, and it's also the first to feature HBM2 technology. NVIDIA's current Tesla V100 is virtually identical to the Quadro GV100, with its Volta GPU architecture and HBM2 memory technology.
NVIDIA's refreshed Quadro GV100 features the same specs as the Tesla V100, with new AI-dedicated Tensor cores that help out with AI models, alongside the faster NVLink bandwidth that scales far higher and faster in multi-GPU rigs.
Continue reading: NVIDIA reveals Quadro GV100, packs Volta GPU and 32GB HBM2 (full post)