1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,440 AMD, I need you to try harder. I mean, it's not like you're actively antagonizing your partner's customers in the media. 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:16,960 That's more NVIDIA's jam. It's just that if you want to have your Ryzen moment in GPUs, now is the time to find 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:22,920 the hunger that turned you from A player in the CPU space to the A player that you've 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,160 become. I mean, don't get me wrong. 5 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:33,000 The new Radeon 9060XT looks pretty good compared to NVIDIA's lukewarm 5060 series, and that 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,760 might win you some sales, but I want you to look at the big picture. 7 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,440 This is an opportunity while your main competitor is distracted by their rapidly growing AI 8 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:50,760 business to change the perception of Radeon from that brand for scrub gamers to that brand 9 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,080 that I never knew how much I liked until I tried it. 10 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:59,400 It's an opportunity to build an army of loyal Radeon customers who, through their sheer 11 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,600 numbers, will incentivize your board partners to build exciting solutions and incentivize 12 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,720 developers to focus on Radeon when they're optimizing their games and software. 13 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:16,360 But I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit. Adam just walked out of the keynote and he's got the details on everything from the new 14 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,800 Radeon cards to AMD's fastest thread rippers ever. 15 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,560 He's also got a segue to our sponsor. 16 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,400 The RX 9060XT is AMD's attempt to appeal to gamers who reject NVIDIA's lackluster 8 17 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:37,640 Gigabyte cards while also offering a profit margin-friendly 8 Gigabyte option for shareholders. 18 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,920 To their credit, unlike Team Green, who has a history of quietly downgrading their lower 19 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:47,720 VRAM variants in other ways, AMD has built both of these new cards using the same Navi 20 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:55,240 44 GPU, with 32 compute units, up to 3.1 GHz boost clocks, and up to 821 AI tops running 21 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,240 through a 16-lane PCIe Gen 5 interface. 22 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:04,720 Thank you, AMD, for understanding that budget cards often end up in budget systems with 23 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:11,080 older Gen PCIe slots, and having those extra lanes makes a big difference in compensating 24 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:18,800 for those lower speeds. Power targets are 150 and 180 watts for the 8 Gigabyte and 16 Gigabyte cards, respectively, 25 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:27,680 and according to AMD, the 9060XT 16 Gigabyte will be the world's best GPU under $350. 26 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,960 And I'd like to believe them because s*** is pretty dire for budget gamers right now, 27 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:37,960 but there's a couple of red flags that I want to point out. AMD hasn't presented a clear path to ensure that the 9060XTs will be actually available 28 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:43,640 at their MSRPs. And for another, I couldn't help but noting the way that AMD focused on comparisons between 29 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:47,720 their 16 Gigabyte card and NVIDIA's 5060 Ti 8 Gigabyte. 30 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,920 It's a valid comparison, and the numbers do look impressive, with AMD claiming a roughly 31 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:58,000 15% better performance per dollar in raster and in ray tracing at 1440p, but how much 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,400 of that margin comes from VRAM issues that will pop up on the 9060XT 8 Gigabyte as well? 33 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,760 Also, what is that? Enhance. 34 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:18,120 Is that just three display outputs? AMD at least did confirm during the press briefing that these are DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5 35 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:25,720 and HDMI 2.1b. So at least you'll be able to natively drive all but the highest bandwidth displays. 36 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:31,120 And I guess if you really need more monitors, there's always DisplayPort multi-stream transport, 37 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,640 but it just feels like a bit of a weird spot for them to cut costs. 38 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:41,040 Although if it helped contribute to their competitive pricing, then maybe that's a good thing? 39 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:50,240 Well, sort of. See the 9060XT 16 gig is looking pretty good, undercutting the MSRP of the 5060 Ti 16 gig 40 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,840 and even the 8 gig by $80 and $30 respectively. 41 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:00,760 But the 8 gig version of the 9060XT is stunningly non-competitive. 42 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,640 Something that AMD tacitly acknowledges when they gave it approximately two seconds of 43 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,080 screen time during their announcement. 44 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:20,880 Yikes. I mean sure, they price match NVIDIA's 5060, but this is exactly what I was getting at 45 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:27,720 during the intro. Price matching the guy that everyone hates for overcharging is not enough. 46 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,800 And it doesn't seem like they're even trying to compete with Intel's B series GPUs. 47 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:38,360 The whole thing even just feels like backwards progress compared to AMD's own lineup, with 48 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:45,600 gamers expected to pay $30 more than last gen's disappointing 8 gig card, the RX 7600. 49 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:50,360 Anyway, these cards will be launching on June 5th, so keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming 50 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:56,120 coverage. While we don't know for sure if their prices will be fake, what we do know for sure is 51 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,840 there will be fake frames. The latest version of FSR, AMD's AI upskating tech, brought massive improvements earlier 52 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,320 this year and AMD plans to keep mining for extra performance with FSR Redstone, which 53 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:14,080 focuses on improving path tracing workloads specifically. To demonstrate this, they showed off this unflattering demo that looks like it was ripped 54 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:19,480 out of a Project Gotham Racing from Xbox 360 era, like, what is this? 55 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:28,280 Why does it look like this? I thought it was a tech demo. Anyways, the updates are, one, neural radiance caching, which learns how light bounces within 56 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:31,680 a scene to try and predict ray intersections before they happen. 57 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,080 Two, ray regeneration, which is NVIDIA's ray reconstruction, but more AMD ear. 58 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:41,200 Three, super resolution, which is super resolution. And four, frame gen, which is frame gen. 59 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:46,400 Sounds cool. What would be cooler is having more games supporting the tech. 60 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,200 Oh, uh, okay, what next? We've got AI, AI. 61 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,120 Oh, right, a new Threadripper. The king is back, baby. 62 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,680 And the new Threadripper 9000 lineup looks wild. 63 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,920 While AMD isn't packing any more cores than last year, Shimada peak seems to squeeze a 64 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:08,120 lot of juice out of the move to AMD's more efficient Zen 5 architecture, starting with 65 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:14,600 a 300 megahertz higher boost clock, which doesn't sound like much, but when it's across 66 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,080 this many cores, it adds up to a lot. 67 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:23,040 Now, if you were hoping for 3DV cash on these models, though, unless we real, we were all 68 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,440 hoping for 3DV cash, you're going to have to keep waiting. 69 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:32,600 But despite the minor changes to the on paper specs, AMD showed off a pretty decent performance 70 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:38,320 uplift over their last gen and Cinebench before they pivoted to shaming Intel for a while. 71 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,320 You know what? Fair enough, AMD. Enjoy your victory lap. 72 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:47,400 Now naturally, given that these are workstation chips, AMD is also emphasizing how improved 73 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,000 CPU performance will allow for improved AI performance when you're working with large 74 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,320 models that require multiple GPUs, which is becoming more and more relevant as larger 75 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:04,800 local models are gaining popularity. The best part, though, is these new chips are drop in compatible with existing 7000 76 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,360 series motherboards with just a BIOS update. 77 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,960 Good guy AMD, finally delivering on a Threadripper upgrade path. 78 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,560 Just like we delivered these great cargo pants, available in two inseam lengths for shorter 79 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,680 and for taller kings. lttstore.com. 80 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:26,600 There is bad news, though. If you want to get your fingers on a 96-core Threadripper pro when they arrive in July, 81 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,100 they will only be available through partners like Lenovo, meaning that enthusiasts are 82 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:36,040 going to be stuck with the non-pro lineup that caps out at just 64 cores with fewer 83 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:41,560 PCIe lanes, half the number of memory channels, and far less supported memory capacity. 84 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,640 AMD has well and truly forgotten the Threadripper enthusiasts who supported them in the 85 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,640 early days of Ryzen. Cool. 86 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:58,520 Also, there's no pricing information today. It really is amazing how much AMD acts like Intel and NVIDIA when they are the top dog. 87 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,000 Also coming to the workstation is some new AMD GPU tech. 88 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,160 Earlier this week we did a video on Intel's B60 GPU and we talked about why it was their 89 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:13,520 most important GPU yet. Making an affordable option for entry-level workstations that required certified drivers 90 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,400 and creating a low-cost platform for running pretty large AI models locally. 91 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,960 Meanwhile, AMD is hoping to wriggle their way into the pro GPU market by throwing a 92 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:30,560 whopping 32GB of VRAM on their new Radeon AI Pro R9700, a GPU name optimized for shareholder 93 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,760 value. AMD is also making big strides to improve their software, bringing improved ROK-M support 94 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,520 to Windows and Linux alike, which enables developers to bring their AI and HPC applications 95 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,520 to Radeon. Get it away from CUDA is what they say. 96 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:49,320 They say, please, please no CUDA, sir. They didn't say how much this GPU would cost, but they did spend a fair amount of time 97 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,200 comparing it to the 5080, so a thousand? 98 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,400 Probably not. It's probably not going to be a thousand. 99 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:03,440 AMD's announcements this year then were a mixed bag of exciting and also underwhelming. 100 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:08,400 I mean, compared to the NVIDIA keynote, at least there was something worth talking about. 101 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,760 And we took this incredible GPU and we shrunk it in here. 102 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:21,520 Does that make any sense? And AMD is clearly busting their buns to catch up to NVIDIA and the workstation and data 103 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,600 center spheres, but like the rest of the industry, they seem to have forgotten about 104 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:31,040 their customers who don't have six, seven, or eight-figure annual budgets. 105 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:36,000 I guess we're all just chopped liver. You know what isn't chopped liver, though? 106 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,640 Our sponsor. 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