is it just me or is dr lisa sue turning into the master of dunking on the
competition last time she got on stage she dropped a
ryzen shaped bomb on Intel and now she's
at it again this time taking on jensen leatherman huang
and from what she showed us today jensen might want to keep his oven on so he can
pump out some more gpus before the new Radeon 6000 series hit store shelves on
november 18th that's right get back in the kitchen
it's not sexist anymore cause like she's
telling him to get back in the kitchen
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let's get this out of the way up front we wrote this script before the big
reveal so we didn't know pricing for the new cards yet so however excited i am
right now uh turn it up or down a few
notches depending on how much lower or higher price the new cards are compared
to the rtx 3000 series okay
cool we're going to pin a comment below with the pricing that dr sue announced today
now our dna 2 has been rumored it's been
speculated on heck i've even played on the new architecture in the xbox but now
we finally got the details for the pc
add-in cards and the first thing we know is that AMD is using the same seven
nanometer process as their previous Radeon 5000 series cards now given that
NVIDIA had a performance lead before they moved to their new 8 nanometer node
with ampere and considering the performance they gained by doing so AMD
staying on their old process might not sound like it bodes well for the new
cards but they claim that compared to the Radeon 5000 series they've pulled
off up to 200 better performance and 50
better performance per watt which mostly just means that the power draw is the
same but still considering that the higher end rtx 3000 series from NVIDIA
is chugging down power like it's trying to drain a lake not too shabby had they
accomplished all that well unfortunately AMD didn't go into
much depth but they did say that they tuned their core design for frequency
and power efficiency just like what the hell else would you tune it for you're
not tuning it for crappy clock speeds and crummy power consumption so that's
all marketing speak but they did provide a couple preliminary details if we drill
a touch deeper the pipeline has been completely rebalanced with a focus on
optimizing data paths that could mean another update to the way that work
groups are handled in parallel or it could mean something entirely different
we're going to have to get our hands on them to know for sure all we can say for
now is that AMD assures us that it's been designed for efficiency first
just like our water bottles lttstore.com they keep it ice cold now efficiency is
good but what other goodies do we have with the new architecture for one we're
getting full ray tracing support in the form of ray accelerators built into
every compute unit which not only allows the new gpus to run any standard ray
trace title to date but also enables new functionality with fidelityfx AMD's open
source image processing toolkit including a denoiser for ray traced
content and acceleration for the ambient occlusion and screen space reflection
features that AMD is already using AMD says that their ray accelerators are 10
times faster than ray tracing in software though we don't really have a
baseline for that since AMD never enabled a ray tracing API for rdna1
i have a good feeling about it though from looking at gtx cards running ray
tracing in software those features tie into AMD's overarching support for
directx 12 ultimate which also includes things like variable rate shaders that
dynamically reduce complexity for less frequently updated portions of the
screen mesh shaders that combine multiple shading passes at once and of
course direct storage support which is baked into both of the new rdna 2
powered consoles sort of playstation implementation is
not quite direct storage which is a microsoft tech
as a result then AMD claims that because the consoles will be optimizing for
exactly these features cross-platform pc
games will be tuned for them pretty much by default it's obviously not quite that
simple but my hopes are still pretty high AMD also
offered us a glimpse at a feature they call super resolution which for all
intents and purposes sounds like their version of dlss
except not using quite the same method
now AMD was hesitant to get into the details of it just yet so make sure that
you're subscribed so you don't miss our review with all the dirt
finally there's something that AMD is calling infinity cash which i swear is
not a cryptocurrency it does sound like one though doesn't it instead infinity
cash consists of 128 megabytes of
extremely fast on-die memory that just
like ryzen's cash keeps the GPU fed during memory intensive operations which
AMD specifically says minimizes dram bottlenecks from AMD slides it looks
like this alone accounts for 40 of our
dna 2's overall performance improvement and in theory it should allow rd a2 to
maintain performance at high resolutions despite the 256-bit gddr6
not x memory that AMD is using on all of
its Radeon 6000 gpus and
which gpus are there well got a couple for you the rx 6800 and 6800 xt are the
two gpus that AMD is prepping to try and propel themselves back to enthusiast
status with the rx 6800 completely
dominating tomorrow's you mean yesterdays it launches tomorrow oh right
completely dominating tomorrow's rtx 3070 in performance if AMD slides are to
be believed bearing in mind though that the 3070 is roughly equivalent to an rtx
2080 ti it really is no wonder NVIDIA carpet bombed the new cycle if these
numbers are true and we will of course confirm them before the simultaneous
launch of the 6800 and 6800 xt on november 18th
i am officially telling you dear viewer to wait
for rx 6800 before buying a 3070. and if
you're one of the many waiting on an rtx 3080 the fact that the rx 6800 xt is
expected to trade blows with it while drawing slightly less power may be
enough to give you pause as well but wait what's that the performance
slides say rage mode smart access memory what the heck are
these okay well rage mode is basically an easy mode way to bump up the power
target and fan curves in a single click although AMD did admit that it's
probably only going to net you one to two percent better performance
as for smart memory access well here's where things get really interesting AMD
is leveraging their platform control with ryzen 5000 and 500 series
motherboards by allowing those cpus to
directly address the new Radeon 6000
series is memory all 16 gigs of it now
usually this has to be done in 256 megabyte chunks in the form of the pci
express base address register or bar which means that ryzen plus Radeon
allows for a level of optimization that simply isn't possible on a traditional
system using previous gen ryzen or Intel cpus
now currently this is optimized primarily for games and while not all
games will see a benefit performance uplift according to AMD should be
somewhere between 6 and 10 for those that do just from having a 5th
gen ryzen CPU now i guess we've really got a reason to upgrade the lan center
although i do have some discomfort about proprietary memory sharing nonsense and
whether developers will actually implement it and all that but again
stay tuned for the full review oh yeah and one more thing who could
forget the big boy the rx 6900 xt
nice an 80 compute unit Radeon GPU with
performance that is allegedly on par with the 350 watt rtx 3090 yet with a
total graphics power of 300 watts and a
power supply requirement of just 650 watts that happens to be the same
power requirements as the rx 6800 xt and
the same core clocks clearly this is a really really well-bended piece of
silicon if that is to be believed and maybe that's why AMD is giving
themselves another three weeks to release it hopefully they don't have to
push it back any further to resolve supply shortages
i'm sorry excuse me i guess we won't know any more than this
until we have the cards in our hands and we've seen them on store shelves which
is another three weeks out but at that time we are going to have a very
good idea of how ryzen 5000 and rtx 3070
are gonna perform so we're gonna have plenty of comparison points for our
review just like you're gonna have plenty of
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thanks for watching guys go check our launch reaction video for the ryzen 5000
series to get an idea of what to look forward to before november's out but
dang text hover has not let me down
i mean iphone 12 is pretty boring but like pc stuff yeah we finally got some
cool stuff thanks AMD and NVIDIA did Intel do anything
noteworthy okay