AMD is Really Back. #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and CES this

year Andy has some surprisingly cool

stuff so first of all we have Radeon 7

no this is the first high end GPU from

AMD in quite a while

it is aiming directly at the r-tx 2080

the reason it's called Radeon 7 is it

basically brings the Vega GPU

architecture down to a seven nanometer

process now there are a ton of technical

reasons why this is cool but the main

thing is is that this really gets them

much more into the competitive landscape

especially considering that RT X is kind

of far and away the fastest graphics

that you can get right now you should be

able to expect about 30% more

performance than Vega 64 which does put

this very much in the ballpark of RT X

2080

and importantly it should be able to

play games at a full 4k 60 in a lot of

cases it's also backed out by a pretty

impressive 16 gigabytes of HBM to memory

double what you're finding on the RT x

2080 and on top of that because this is

the very first graphics card that's

built on seven nanometer they're really

able to push the clocks it goes on sale

on February 7th and I gotta say even if

it's not quite as good as the Arctic's

2080 I am so excited to see AMD really

playing in this space and bring some

proper graphics performance even though

700 hours is still a lot what's even

more exciting this year is third

generation Rison now rice has been

really impressive to me because they

keep iterating and keep making it better

it's such a quick rate and rise and

third gen might just be the biggest jump

yet like Radeon 7 this is the first

seven nanometer AMD CPU and what's cool

about it is it actually is a hybrid

design so the actual CPU itself is

modular kind of like how thread rippers

for example so in theory even though

eight cores is the limit right now we

could see go even higher what's most

impressive about this is that it seems

to have a similar level of performance

to the quarry 9 all you have to take

that with a massive grain of salt but if

it's able to do that in what they're

showing is that a significantly lower

level of power

Rison 3 could be super super impressive

now will not be out until the middle of

this year but from what they've shown so

far it is incredibly impressive if

that's not enough Verizon for you

there's also these second generation

rise in mobile now this is a very

similar level of performance than what

we're seeing to the first generation it

does come down to a 12 nanometers

process and it is a little bit faster

what's cool is is that they're now a lot

more options available what we're seeing

is rising coming into proper gaming

laptops so there's the asou stuff FX 505

behind me which is a fully AMD 7

as a freesync display that goes up to

120 Hertz it does have the new

second-generation rise in mobile and it

even has a Radeon 560 X GPU okay so I'm

just gonna get close to the camera

because I can't step backward

what's cool about rising 2nd gen on the

mobile side is that you do have that 35

watt TDP option so essentially normal

rising Mobile is mostly meant for

ultrabooks but if you want to put it in

a thicker chassis which has better

cooling you can get much higher boost

clocks which is especially important for

gaming going way down the stack that are

also now AMD powered Chromebooks with

their a 6 & a 4 processors now these

aren't exactly super high tech it's

actually from the pre rise in actual

architecture so it means it's not going

to be blazing fast because something

that usually Chromebooks are in the to

$300 category this should give you more

performance and importantly better

graphics than which you will find an are

more Intel but that I'm very curious to

see later because a lot these

Chromebooks are actually shipping very

very soon

look what's impressive about CES for me

this year is how AMD is continuing to

step it up right the stronger AMD is it

means the harder Intel has to work to

make better chips you know that push

they're like more cores higher clock

speeds just to push things and push the

envelope same thing on the graphic side

right nvidia obviously has had their

stumbles with the art CX side of things

and well yes Radeon is maybe not quite

up to that same level of performance in

a lot of aspects but the fact that AMD

is still trying with stuff like the

Radeon 7 is a really really good sign

the more that there's competition the PC

space the better everyone is I can't

stress that enough it's so easy to think

that oh cool there's this new GPU its

fibrous a pastor it's a new CPU its 7%

faster

oh it's 200 ollars more what that's just

not good right that's not good for

anybody so the fact that AMD is out here

and doing such a good job specifically

with Rison and even with Radeon is good

for absolutely everyone