AMD Announces FSR, Zen 3 APUs, Radeon RX 6000M GPUs, and 3D Chiplet Stacking at Computex 2021

Very last night was AMD’s Computex 2021 keynote and quite a few products and technologies had been announced. Possibly the just one most men and women will be interested in is FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD’s response to NVIDIA’s DLSS that has been extended anticipated. Relatively than get straight to what we know about the technological innovation, it will be supported on RX 6000 sequence, RX 5000 sequence, RX 500 series, RX Vega collection, and all Ryzen Processors with Radeon Graphics, and can run on NVIDIA GeForce 10 series GPUs and more recent. Though AMD does not give technological support for FSR running on other vendor’s graphics playing cards, it confirmed a GTX 1060 utilizing FSR to increase the functionality in Godfall working at 1440p with its Epic preset. It chose that non-AMD GPU to element because it is the most well-known on Steam.

Similarly essential as the hardware assist, FidelityFX Tremendous Resolution will be accessible on June 22, so the to start with patch adding it to a activity is just weeks absent. AMD also shared there are more than 10 sport studios and engines supporting it. If you want to advise a match for it to be included to, you can check out AMD.com/FSR to post its name.

Receiving into the particulars of FSR, it appears the patent released a couple weeks in the past may in simple fact be the fundamental tech driving it. That patent described a purely spatial-centered upscaling system, and that is specially what the GPUOpen page states it is. It does not depend on history buffers or motion vectors, this means it does not make use of temporal info, and it does not want per-game education. It supports DirectX 12, Vulkan, and DirectX 11, will be open up source beneath the MIT license with comprehensive shader source code produced, and supports the two preset and arbitrary scaling.

FidelityFX Tremendous Resolution has 4 quality modes: General performance Well balanced Quality and Ultra Good quality. In accordance to the presentation, Godfall at 4K with its Epic preset and ray tracing enabled on the RX 6800XT, native resolution rendering operates at 49 FPS (20.41 ms) Ultra Excellent runs at 78 FPS (12.82 ms) High-quality at 99 FPS (10.10 ms) Well balanced at 124 FPS (8.06 ms) and Overall performance at 150 FPS (6.67 ms). In FPS those are boosts of 59.2%, 102 %, 153%, and 206%, respectively, which is reasonably remarkable. It will be quite intriguing to see its impact on visible good quality, outdoors of the presentation, and its compressed movie.

There was a different really exciting engineering AMD showed, but I will help save that to the finish as it is unclear when it may well appear to a merchandise. What is coming on August five although are a few Zen 3-primarily based desktop APUs the Ryzen 5 5G00G and Ryzen 7 5700G. The 5600G capabilities 6 CPU cores/12 threads with 7 GPU Compute Units. The foundation CPU clock is three.9 GHz while the boost is 4.4 GHz and the CUs can operate at up to one.nine GHz. The 5700G has eight cores/16 threads jogging at a base clock of three.eight GHz and a strengthen clock of four.six GHz whilst its 8 CUs will have a optimum frequency of 2. GHz. The 5600G will be priced at $259 and the 5700G at $359.

For these intrigued in cellular choices, the RX 6000M sequence was announced with the RX 6800M at the best with 40 CUs, 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a activity clock of 2300 MHz at 145 W, and 96 MB of Infinity Cache. The RX 6700M is a small smaller sized at 36 CUs, 10 GB of GDDR6, and 80 MB of Infinity Cache, but it way too has a activity clock of 2300 MHz, although at 135 W. Finally the RX 6600M has 28 CUs, eight GB of GDDR6, 32 MB of Infinity Cache, and a video game clock at 2177 MHz at 100 W. The RX 6800M is focusing on 1440p at 120 FPS, the RX 6700M is aiming for 1440p at 100 FPS, and the RX 6600M for 1080p at 100 FPS.

Evaluating these versus NVIDIA’s offerings, AMD is proclaiming remarkable effectiveness, especially when power constrained, indicating managing on battery. Naturally unbiased testimonials will will need to examination this claim. If a person does not have to have the greatest frame prices, Radeon Chill can be utilised to limit power use and warmth production by placing reduced and upper general performance boundaries on a for each-activity foundation.

AMD also announced its AMD Gain Design Framework, which appears to AMD’s model of NVIDIA Max-Q and Intel Evo for laptop computer style and design. AMD Edge laptops will merge Ryzen 5000 sequence cellular CPUs with RX 6000M series graphics, FreeSync Quality displays, at least a person NVMe SSD, and Intelligent technologies like SAM and SmartShift. SmartShift is a technologies that permits the electricity budgets for a laptop’s CPU and GPU to be shared, so when the CPU wants a lot less electricity and the GPU much more, it can have it, and vice versa, while SAM or Wise Accessibility Memory applies PCIe’s resizable BAR function to give the CPU improved control more than VRAM. AMD also requires Edge laptops to supply of 100 FPS in lots of online games, at minimum 10 hours of online video playback on batter, the display screen to have a 144 Hz or greater refresh fee, with LFC, a brightness of 300 nits or a lot more, huge gamut guidance, and places selected boundaries on thermals. Precisely it was mentioned the surface area temperature at the WASD keys are unable to go higher than 40 ºC although gaming.

The ASUS ROG Strix G15 with the RX 6800M and HP Omen 16 with RX 6600M are both of those envisioned to launch this month, with much more AMD Edge laptops from Lenovo and MSI to get there afterwards this calendar year.

Other announcements in advance of the other technology reveal had been embedded APUs with RDNA2 graphics remaining employed in the Tesla Design S and Model X for its media center, with the built-in GPU equipped to power AAA games. Also the company’s partnership with Samsung will see RDNA2 coming to the Exynos SOC for Samsung’s following high overall performance mobile phone. It will assistance both equally ray tracing and variable charge shading.

Lastly we have the other technologies expose AMD provided at the stop of the keynote, and it is rather intriguing. Doing the job with TSMC and its 3D Cloth technological know-how, the firm has created a 3D stacking system that will make the most of by way of silicon vias, TSVs, and a hybrid bond method to give around 200 situations the interconnect density of on-package 2nd chiplets and around 15 moments that of micro-bump 3D stacking, resulting in far better than three moments the energy effectiveness.

For the prototype held up through the presentation, AMD positioned 64 MB SRAM caches on prime of the core complexes of a Ryzen 9 5900X, making a CPU with a put together 192 MB of L3 cache in the similar footprint as the standard 5900X. This V-Cache prototype was then revealed jogging Gears 5 at 1080p against a typical 5900X and with both of those CPUs at a fastened 4 GHz frequency, AMD was boasting a 12% performance enhancement, although a 15% normal is documented across other games.

With this becoming a prototype of the engineering, it is difficult to say if we can hope V-Cache to arrive in any goods, or relatively V-Cache in this configuration to arrive in items. On the other hand, it was said AMD will “be ready to start out creation on our highest-end goods with 3D chiplets by the conclusion of this calendar year.” It seems to be like subsequent year could prove pretty exciting for AMD.

 

 

Supply: AMD [1] (Computex 2021), [2] (GPUOpen – FSR), and [3] (Partnerships and 3D Chiplets)