AMD confirms higher clock speeds on its next-generation RDNA 2 graphics cards

[WYP]

Expect boosted IPC and increased clock speeds. A Win-Win for PC Gamers.



Read more about AMD's confirmation that RDNA 2 will feature enhanced clock speeds.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

From all the rumours so far, it's looking like RDNA2 is going to be the first genuinely competitive high-end range from AMD in a while. It was even rumoured that Nvidia have replaced the original GA104 chip with the GA102-200 chip in the RTX 3080 to be more competitive. Obviously scepticism is pretty much a necessity with Radeon, but if Nvidia are preparing for something other than a washout from AMD, that could mean good things for consumers.

 

[grec]

From all the rumours so far, it's looking like RDNA2 is going to be the first genuinely competitive high-end range from AMD in a while. It was even rumoured that Nvidia have replaced the original GA104 chip with the GA102-200 chip in the RTX 3080 to be more competitive. Obviously scepticism is pretty much a necessity with Radeon, but if Nvidia are preparing for something other than a washout from AMD, that could mean good things for consumers.

Tbh NVidia should call it the 3080 anyway so they don't have to use that Super marketing again when they inevitably refresh it/release a fully unlocked version.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Link goes to the image not the article on my end at least.

RDNA 2 seems like a huge step up if 50% is still being believed on the same node. That would imply Ryzen is being so successful that the R&D paid off wonders for the GPU team if they were able to get this. Just imagine if they had that money 5 years ago

 

[Warchild]

Link goes to the image not the article on my end at least.

RDNA 2 seems like a huge step up if 50% is still being believed on the same node. That would imply Ryzen is being so successful that the R&D paid off wonders for the GPU team if they were able to get this. Just imagine if they had that money 5 years ago

Well if this slideshow is official and from AMD, they have to provide 50% as stated otherwise its a PR nightmare and lawsuit waiting to happen should users purchase a product with lacking results.

 

[grec]

Well if this slideshow is official and from AMD, they have to provide 50% as stated otherwise its a PR nightmare and lawsuit waiting to happen should users purchase a product with lacking results.

Additional perf per watt gains would be easy to "cheat" tbf, they just need one low end SKU that comes kinda under clocked if the arch can't do it already.

 

[WYP]

Well if this slideshow is official and from AMD, they have to provide 50% as stated otherwise its a PR nightmare and lawsuit waiting to happen should users purchase a product with lacking results.

Additional perf per watt gains would be easy to "cheat" tbf, they just need one low end SKU that comes kinda under clocked if the arch can't do it already.

The slides are official and from AMD. That said, what tgrech says is correct, AMD is in the clear so long as they are close to the mark on this. They just need a single SKU that can offer 50% more performance/watt.

Hopefully AMD will be clearer with their proper RDNA 2 reveals. I want to know the games they used, the IPC boosts they saw in these games and how high these things will be clocked.

Based on what I can see here, RDNA 2 looks like AMD's Maxwell, and that's a big deal.

 

[MrBridger]

Nice to see AMD focusing on gaming GPUs again as they were prioritising semi custom work while they built up their CPU business and designed Navi for Sony and Vega for Apple this caused issues at RTG as it took engineers off Vega to work on Navi

AMD and Nvidia spent the last five years working with MS on DX12 Ultimate and its going to be interesting what happens with PC and console unified under DX12 Ultimate and on the GPU same feature set