Graphics Cards - Page 93

AMD will never make high-end GPUs again? There's been some panic and chatter on the grapevine recently that Team Red could be abandoning top-end graphics cards for good, but this isn't the case.

Even though that may be true for RDNA 4, as recently rumored - but there are nuances in that speculation, too.

Moore's Law is Dead (MLID), a well-known YouTube leaker, has been setting the record straight regarding the recent rumors about the top-of-the-tree Radeon graphics cards.

With AMD partnered with Bethesda for the upcoming release of Starfield on PC, where in addition to the game launching with optimizations for Radeon and Ryzen hardware - there's also going to be a limited edition run of special Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards and Ryzen 7 7800X3D processors.

Apart from specialized packaging, there's very little visual customization to a CPU, whereas the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX - Starfield Limited Edition Graphics Card looks stunning. Sporting the white and primary color accents, it presents a new look for AMD's stylish and sturdy reference design - with several nods to Bethesda's sci-fi RPG.

The downside is that AMD and Bethesda only create a limited run of these stylish GPUs and CPUs - as in 500. As a limited production, expect these to be given away through competition and other promotions, as they won't be hitting retail. The Starfield Radeon and Ryzen combo was announced at QuakeCon 2023, so be sure to follow AMD and Bethesda's social channels to find out how you can go into the running to pick one up.

With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti available in two flavors, 8GB and 16GB of VRAM, a lot of coverage around the latter's SKU launch has pointed to there not being much difference in in-game performance. This makes sense for titles where additional VRAM isn't a big issue because both RTX 4060 Ti models share the same Ada Lovelace GPU and architecture - the only difference being memory capacity.

A new deep dive by YouTube tech reviewer Daniel Owen offers a closer look at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to showcase relative performance in some of the latest memory-hungry titles. Kicking things off with Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart, we see a pretty sizable difference between the two RTX 4060 Ti models.

With the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB version delivering 44 fps at 1080p using Very High RT settings, the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB delivers 59 fps - a 34% improvement. This applies to the 1% lows too, so in this specific example, the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB gives you a generational improvement in performance. Bumping up the resolution to 1440p and the performance bump increases to a massive 43%.

At SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA announced that a suite of powerful new NVIDIA RTX workstations are coming from global manufacturers like BOXX, Dell Technologies, HP, and Lenovo. Featuring NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software, the company also announced that it was expanding its workstation GPU line-up with three new models.

With the current demand for all things AI and real-time graphics, it's a move that makes a lot of sense - and similar to the desktop gaming space in that there are now multiple NVIDIA RTX workstation GPUs to suit users' needs. The three models are the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Graphics Card, the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation Graphics Card, and the single-slot NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Graphics Card.

NVIDIA describes the new NVIDIA RTX 4000 as "the most powerful single-slot GPU for professionals," with Single-Precision Performance of 26.7 TFLOPS, RT Core Performance of 61.8 TFLOPS, Tensor Performance of 427.6 TFLOPS, and 20GB of graphics memory. And with that, you've got a 1.7X increase in rendering performance compared to the NVIDIA RTX A4000, alongside a 1.2X increase in generative AI performance.

AMD is all set to unveil its new mid-range and enthusiast RDNA 3 GPUs later this month, with the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT set to fill the gap between the mainstream Radeon RX 7600 and the flagship Radeon RX 7900 Series. Sources indicate that the reveal is expected at the upcoming Gamescom event in Germany, with the launch soon after that.

Although AMD has yet to confirm these GPUs' existence officially, we're now at the stage where product info and specs are popping up online. Last week PowerColor inadvertently posted the full product page for its newPowerColor Radeon RX 7800 XT Red Devil graphics card, and today we've got info on new Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT models coming from ASRock.

Not a leak per se, but a filing (via @momomo_us) for new products that confirm that the Radeon RX 7800 XT will indeed feature 16GB of VRAM while confirming that the Radeon RX 7700 XT will feature 12GB of VRAM. With the Radeon RX 7700 XT set to feature a cutdown 'Navi 32' GPU, 12GB of GDDR6 memory implies it will have a 192-bit memory bus.

The latest Intel Graphics Drivers for Arc and other Intel products include a new telemetry and data collection 'feature' called the Compute Improvement Program enabled by default. You can probably guess the community response to this revelation (first spotted by TechPowerUp).

It's not just about collecting information about hardware configurations and system specs in your PC but also about devices across your local network, including Smart TVs and even the categories of websites you visit. Like all data collection, it sounds nefarious while raising questions like "Why would you need to know that?" however, this sort of telemetry has been a part of NVIDIA and AMD driver installations for quite some time.

Intel, like AMD, offers the option to opt out of its new Compute Improvement Program during installation, something not available for GeForce GPUs. That said, listing the component as the 'Compute Improvement Program' doesn't fully explain that it's all about data collection.

The new Colorful iGame RTX 4060 Ti Mini is the sort of release we love seeing, taking a power-efficient GPU like NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and shrinking it down to the basics. With a length of only 199.5mm and a single fan attached to the cooler, it more than lives up to the Mini naming while sporting a look that's a mix of white with brushed metal.

We reported on the announcement of the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti MINI OC a few weeks ago; per a new report at Videocardz.com citing Colorful's product page (which no longer looks to be live), we've got word that the company is planning to release a 16GB variant sporting a darker brushed metal look alongside the white color scheme.

This would make it one of the world's smallest GPUs with 16GB of VRAM, with a small 5W bump in TDP to 165W from 160W and an expanded VRM design to 6+2. Elsewhere this is the same GPU, with the same RTX 4060 Ti AD106 chipset with 4352 CUDA Cores and GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus.

A Zotac GeForce RTX 4080 briefly dropped to a price of $999 before going straight out of stock, we're told - showing that there is demand for high-end current-gen GPUs.

The crux of the matter is that these graphics cards have to be priced right to shift, and that's something which hasn't happened with Lovelace (or RDNA 3) cards until more recently.

VideoCardz reports that Wccftech picked up on a deal whereby B&H Photo offered a Zotac GeForce RTX 4080 at $999 - which is $200 less than the recommended price of $1,199 in the US - but that the GPU sold out very quickly at this level.

The low-profile GPU is not something we see much of anymore, at least not in the mainstream space where the GeForce RTX 4060 lives. With the GeForce RTX 40 Series' impressive power efficiency, the GeForce RTX 4060 can deliver impressive results using just over 100W when gaming. This is just over the power a PCIe slot can provide, hence the requirement for a single 8-pin power connector.

And with the lower power requirement, you've also got the added benefit of not having to go all out with cooling and heatsinks, which is why it's always great to see GeForce RTX 4060 designs playing with the form like the new GeForce RTX 4060 OC Low Profile 8G from GIGABYTE.

Measuring just 182mm in length and with a width of 40mm, even though it features a triple-fan cooling setup, it's still a very small GPU that even ships with a low-profile bracket to support different builds. It's one of the smallest GeForce RTX 4060 GPUs available and even features a small out-of-the-box OC boost.

AMD's range of RDNA 4 graphics cards may not have any high-end boards, we've heard from the ever-spinning rumor mill.

We doubtless don't need to tell you that this is a rumor to be particularly skeptical about, as not only are these next-gen GPUs still a long way off - they're set to arrive next year - but it's a real eye-opener. In short, it would be a big move for AMD to dispense with making a Navi 31 equivalent for the next generation (and as the leaker Kepler points out, it harks back to RDNA 1 days).

VideoCardz immediately chipped in to tweet a question about how credible this information is, to which Kepler replied that they've heard it from three separate sources.

Yesterday we looked at AMD's new budget-friendly entry-level and mainstream workstation GPUs, the new Radeon PRO W7600 and Radeon PRO W7500. But, as is the case with many shiny new things in the world of tech, all of that info was gleaned from leaks and documents making its way online before official details were officially announced.

And that's what we've got today, with AMD announcing two new additions to the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series graphics product line; the AMD Radeon PRO W7600 and AMD Radeon PRO W7500 workstation graphics cards. They join the existing AMD Radeon PRO W7900 and W7800. Per the announcement, these new cards are designed to "tackle mainstream workloads across a range of professional industries."

The announcement confirms that the AMD Radeon PRO W7600 is priced at USD 599, and the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 is priced at USD 429 - with the cards available today and set to be featured at SIGGRAPH 2023 next week.

With AMD set to unveil the new Radeon RX 7800 XT later this month, with the launch shortly after that, today comes our first look at one of the partner cards - courtesy of PowerColor. The company inadvertently leaked the info by posting the full product page for the upcoming PowerColor Radeon RX 7800 XT Red Devil graphics card.

Naturally, the page has since been taken offline, but only after everyone got a full look at the specs - and it paints an interesting picture for the upcoming GPU. With 3840 Stream Processors, the Radeon RX 7800 XT shares the same core count as the previous generation's Radeon RX 6800 (non-XT) but fewer cores than the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Of course, we're talking about RDNA 2 versus the new RDNA 3 architecture, so there's a lot more to it than this. The full specs for the PowerColor Radeon RX 7800 XT Red Devil also confirm the clock speeds for the new GPU, 2255 MHz for gaming and 2565 MHz for boost which represents a slight overclock over the reference 2210 MHz and 2520 MHz speeds.

This is a bit of an odd one: Intel announced a mid-range Arc A580 GPU last year, but since then, we've heard nothing about it - though this very A580 has just appeared in a leak.

As VideoCardz spotted, Benchleaks on Twitter uncovered a Geekbench result for an Arc A580 graphics card (apply all the usual caveats for leaks and rumors, of course - it might just be a falsified entry somehow).

The GPU scored 82992 points in the OpenCL test, which puts it pretty much bang-on level with AMD's Radeon RX 7600 (which is also around the 83000 mark). For the benchmark, the Intel graphics card was paired with one of the firm's Alder Lake processors, a Core i7-12700.

According to a new report (over at VideoCardz), AMD is preparing to launch a new pair of single-slot budget-friendly workstation GPUs with the AMD Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500. Graphics cards with an entry-level price tag, the USD 599 AMD Radeon Pro W600 is set to feature the full Navi 33 GPU with 32 Compute Units and 20 TFLOPS of peak single precision FP32 performance.

With a power rating of 130W via a 6-Pin connecter and 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus (18 Gbps), the specs for the Radeon Pro W600 line up with the desktop Radeon RX 7600 that AMD launched earlier this year - albeit using 35W less energy.

AMD Radeon Pro W7500 is even more efficient, with a 70W power rating, a cutdown of 28 Compute Units, and 12 TFLOPS of peak single precision FP32 performance. With an entry-level price tag of USD 429, the hardware could be similar to what ends up in a Radeon RX 7500 desktop graphics card - if Team Red chooses to release an entry-level option in the near future.

AMD's RX 7900 XTX has been out for a long time now, and yet this GPU has only just appeared on the Steam hardware survey - and it's the only RDNA 3 graphics card to achieve this feat.

In Valve's latest survey for July, the RX 7900 XTX sneaks onto the rankings at the bottom of the table, gaining a 0.17% share in terms of all the GPUs used by Steam gamers. In other words, roughly 1 in 500 gaming rigs have the RDNA 3 flagship.

As noted, no other RX 7000 graphics cards have managed to creep onto the GPU rankings in the survey. Mind you, there aren't many others - just the 7900 XT, and the RX 7600, although the latter is a very new release. Whereas the 7900 XTX and XT have been out since December 2022, so have been around for over seven months now.

With a global pandemic, chip shortages, and a crypto mining boom driving up prices, it was a dark time for PC gaming - and something we were hoping was in the rear-view mirror. We know how hard it was to try and find a GeForce RTX 3080 when the card debuted in 2020, let alone one at a reasonable price. This makes some of the reporting we see in the tech landscape a little concerning.

Our friends over at Tom's Hardware and Wccftech cited a Tweet from Comma AI CEO and entrepreneur George Hotz saying, "7.38 PFLOPS of computing was delivered today" alongside an image of several boxes filled with AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs - specifically XFX MERC 310 variants.

In conclusion, AI companies could be snapping up gaming GPUs to meet the insane demand for AI chips.

The rumors surrounding AMD launching new RDNA 3 graphics cards in September 2023, specifically the new Radeon RX 7800 and Radeon RX 7700, have been picking up steam of late. Reports pointing to a reveal at the massive Gamescom event in Germany later this month and a planned launch shortly after that are now looking more likely than ever, with AMD CEO Lisa Su confirming that more cards are coming this quarter.

During AMD's recent quarterly earnings call, Lisa Su said, "In gaming graphics, we expanded our Radeon 7000 GPU series in the second quarter, with the launch of our mainstream RX 7600 cards pertaining to gaming. We're on track to further expand our RDNA 3 GPU offerings with the launch of new enthusiast class Radeon 7000-series cards in the third quarter."

With the Radeon RX 7600 priced at USD 269, it's every bit the mainstream GPU for the RDNA 3 generation of hardware, so the mention of "enthusiast-class" and "cards" plural could only mean the addition of multiple GPUs to sit between the Radeon RX 7600 and the Radeon RX 7900 XT.

The recent release of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC brought the previously PlayStation 5-only game to the platform with improved visuals, expanded ray-tracing effects, DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, and even the brand-new RTX IO for faster loading when using a high-speed SSD. But, when the game debuted, there were reports of crashing when trying to run its ray-tracing effects on a Radeon GPU like the flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

Based on this issue, ray-tracing in Ratchet & Clank on AMD GPUs was disabled by the developer - but AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 23.10.23.03, released specifically for the game, should see support reinstated soon.

The known issue that has been resolved with this update is as follows, "Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with Ray-Tracing and Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX."

INNO3D has announced a new pair of liquid-cooled GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards for custom closed-loop systems, with the new iCHILL Frostbite Pro featuring a "compact, one-slot space-saving design." A far cry from the three to four-slot air-cooled behemoths available, the 23mm thickness of the GPU makes it one of the smallest and sleekest high-end options available.

Assuming, of course, you're in the market for a high-end liquid-cooled option and need a GeForce RTX 4090. INNO3D has outlined the physical design of the iCHILL Frostbite Pro, confirming that the nickel-plated full copper waterblock covers the GPU, memory, and power components to deliver "better performance than a standard AIO cooler."

Throw in a reinforced carbon fiber backplate and a 24+4 phase configuration, and the INNO3D iCHILL Frostbite Pro is sleek - with the company noting that its compatibility with closed-looped systems is "comprehensive." There's no out-of-the-box OC here, per the official specs for the GPU, but being a liquid-cooled GPU, no doubt that'll be up to the user to configure.

AMD's Radeon drivers have a long and troubled history regarding reliability and performance issues. However, that has become less frequent, with mature and stable driver releases seemingly becoming the norm for Team Red. The idea of bad AMD drivers is more of a misconception than an actual one.

Driver releases don't always go to play, though, as seen with the recent release of Adrenalin Software version 23.7.2. A user (@carygolomb over on Twitter/X) with a Ryzen 7 7840U reported that the driver update incorrectly changed the internal GPU from a Radeon 780M to a slower Radeon 760M - dropping performance to that level, plus causing havoc with their system.

To the point where internal and external devices stopped working entirely - from their Xbox controller to the sound card. Yikes. As a single example, it's not indicative of the bigger picture, at least until tech-focused outlet Digital Foundry responded to confirm that the Ryzen 7 7840U inside its AYANEO PC gaming handheld saw a massive performance hit with the latest driver.